THE WAEVE

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a b Trendell, Andrew (20 April 2022). "Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall team up to form the Waeve". NME . Retrieved 5 February 2023.

Their first explorations opened up a sonic universe neither had expected to find. Initially drawing on a shared love of English folk music, storytelling and the associated landscapes of their beleaguered island, they discovered a shared need to shed themselves of poisons, heartbreaks and defeats through music. Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall Add Extra London Date for New Band the Waeve". The List . Retrieved 30 March 2023. Pearis, Bill (3 February 2023). "Graham Coxon & Rose Elinor discuss the inspirations behind The Waeve's debut LP". BrooklynVegan . Retrieved 3 February 2023.a b c d Campbell, Lee (25 January 2023). "The Waeve are drawing out the blood and guts of their influences". The Line of Best Fit . Retrieved 5 February 2023. Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge.

On 6 September 2022, The Waeve shared details of their upcoming self-titled debut album while also releasing the first single from it, "Can I Call You". [2] The second single "Drowning" followed on 24 October, along with an announcement of a U.K. tour scheduled for March 2023. [6] The Waeve then released third single "Kill Me Again" on 24 November 2022, [7] and on 19 January 2023 they put out "Over and Over Again", the fourth and final single leading up to the release of the album. [1] Green, Thomas H (2 February 2023). "Album: The Waeve - The Waeve". The Arts Desk . Retrieved 3 February 2023. Kelly, Mark (1 April 2023). "Blur's Graham Coxon & Rose Elinor Dougall offer up "Something Pretty" ". Brighton and Hove News . Retrieved 22 July 2023. Redfern, Mark (6 September 2022). "The Waeve (Rose Elinor Dougall + Graham Coxon) Announce Album, Share New Song "Can I Call You" ". Under the Radar . Retrieved 5 February 2023. Writing sessions involved the two playing whatever instruments they had around, focusing on physical instruments to avoid getting lost in the possibilities of their digital audio workstation's "vast library of synths". [3] While Dougall said "it just wouldn't be right" if the album didn't contain Coxon's guitar playing, it was his work on the saxophone, an instrument he is classically trained in, which "really helped to shape the multi-angled outline" of the album. Coxon engineered most of the album before the duo brought on James Ford to finish the record. Ford made significant changes such as replacing the duo's synthesiser recordings with real string instruments and adding other sounds including a flute. Other instruments on the record include a cittern and a six string bass once owned by Sly and the Family Stone's Larry Graham. Dougall took vocal inspiration from singers such as Anne Briggs, Sandy Denny and Karen Dalton. [2] Release [ edit ]As both Dougall and Coxon are Pisceans and their complicated feelings towards Britain inspired their music with numerous references in the lyrics to water and sea, they decided to call themselves The Waeve using the old English spelling. [4] Going public and releasing The Waeve (2022–present) [ edit ] The WAEVE - composed of Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall – release their eponymous debut album, out 3rd February 2023 on Transgressive Records. Broadcast purists might be annoyed by how much the WAEVE borrow from the much-lamented Birmingham experimentalists, down to Dougall’s delivery of the word “surrender” on “Undine,” which comes straight from the Trish Keenan school of detached seduction. But Dougall has the songwriting talent to pull it off: Her 2017 solo album Stellular joined lovelorn synth-pop with Broadcast-esque dreaminess to enchanting effect. Add the saxophone and Coxon’s naively charming vocals, which share the limelight with Dougall’s Keenan-ian tone, and the WAEVE become a far more intriguing beast: a band with its own distinct musical palette.

Coxon and Dougall combine forces, in other words, willing one another to take risks, basking in the ensuing, revelatory freedom, and studiously avoiding the temptations of what Lee Hazlewood called “girl boy songs”, with their narratives, double entendres and subversive stereotypes. There’s certainly no “Leather And Lace” here, and only one ‘traditional’ duet, the polished, doo-wop flavoured, out-of-character closer, “You’re All I Want To Know”, whose “ I ain’t letting you go-woah-woah-woah” motif is as likely to draw comparisons with John Travolta and Olivia Newton John as Patsy Cline. To be fair, neither’s terribly close. Within a week we were recording. Our work was exploratory. Two people asked questions of each other, and as a consequence the void became less yawning. Music was created, and these two voices in the songs became two people: Rose and I.” The Waeve have cited Sandy Denny, John and Beverley Martyn, Kevin Ayers and Van der Graaf Generator as reference points for their debut album. [1] Band members [ edit ]Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall first met in 2004 during a gig at Islington's the Buffalo Bar, in which Coxon was an attendee and Dougall was performing with the Pipettes. However, a brief chat and Dougall convincing Coxon to buy her a quadruple brandy and coke was the extent of that encounter. [2] On 20 April 2022, the duo announced their first show as the Waeve at the Lexington in Islington, London on 4 May. [13] They later added a second show at the Lexington on 6 May. [14] On 21 April, The Great Escape Festival announced their lineup which included the Waeve playing on 12 May along with fellow Transgressive Records acts including Mykki Blanco and Let's Eat Grandma. [15] The duo were joined by the Electric Soft Parade drummer Thomas White, bassist Joe Chilton, and multi-instrumentalist Charlotte Glasson who played violin, keyboard, and a saxophone duet with Coxon during the song "Big Idea". [16] [17] Their set was the best-attended of the night and was reviewed positively by The Arts Desk 's Thomas H. Green. [16] On 24 October, the band announced their first tour of the UK for March 2023, including shows at Manchester's Band on the Wall and Leeds' Brudenell Social Club. [18] The band also played Primavera Sound in May and June and Vieilles Charrues Festival in July. [19] [20] Style [ edit ]

Here Comes the Waeve" - Single by the Waeve". Apple Music. 20 April 2022 . Retrieved 5 February 2023. A deluxe version of the album was released on 27 March which includes four new songs. [12] Live [ edit ]a b c d e f Seaman, Duncan (23 February 2023). "The Waeve: 'Some of the songs went on forever and are still probably going somewhere' ". The Yorkshire Post . Retrieved 30 March 2023. if the mood’s often ‘tasteful’ – a pejorative word previously used flippantly by Coxon to describe Dougall’s tastes – that’s never such that refined classiness can’t accommodate more mischievous tendencies. On 20 April 2022, The Waeve officially went public by announcing that they would be playing their first live show and releasing their debut single, "Something Pretty", the following month. [5] I’m not interested in the twee side of folk,” Dougall told NME. “We’re dealing with life and death and all that kind of thing. There’s a brutality to nature. It’s not all pastoral. Those are the visual things I feel that our music summons up.” Redfern, Mark (3 February 2023). "The Waeve — Stream the Debut Album From Rose Elinor Dougall and Graham Coxon's New Band". Under the Radar . Retrieved 30 March 2023.