16/07/2024 — One-off Hamburg show!
Will play a one-off show in Hamburg on a lovely little boat (MS Frau Hedi), supporting Crabber — see you there!
02/04/2024 — One-off London show this June!
Excited to announce that we will play a one-off show in London this June! By For the Sake of Tapes and with our lovely friends Fightmilk joining us — June 11th at The Ivy House in Nunhead, a beautiful community-owned pub in South London.
01/11/2022 — THE ALBUM REVIEWS ARE IN!
“Calling to mind Liz Fraser … Wersing reminds us as what a master she is at creating an atmosphere” (5/5) NARC MAGAZINE, UK
“A captivating-unsettling fever dream” (7/10) ROLLING STONE, DE
“A reflective lushly layered nostalgic joy of an album” LOUD WOMEN MAGAZINE, UK
“Pensive and celebratory” AUSTIN TOWN HALL, US
“For fans of: Kim Deal, Jesus & Mary Chain and the Raincoats” VISIONS MAGAZINE, DE
“Self-assured Indiepop queen in DIY mode” GAESTELISTE, DE
“It’s a special skill for any artist to approach a serious lyrical subject with such a sense of fun” MOTHS & GIRAFFES, UK
“a record thriving in the face of no longer trying to play the game by anyone’s rules but your own” FOR THE RABBITS, UK
“Oscillating somewhere between the spikiness of the Slits, the insidious gaze pop of early Lush and a sprinkle of C86 charm” GOD IS IN THE TV ZINE, UK (Track of the Week)
“Propelled by a shimmering splendour and glistening celestial charm, it’s a beautiful slice of jangly dream-pop” GET IN HER EARS, UK (Track of the Day)
And Top Ten in the BYTE FM Charts, Featured and Track of the Day on BYTE FM, and supported by AMAZING RADIO and Mickey Bradley’s (The Undertones) BBC show.
——> https://chorusgirl.bandcamp.com/album/colapso-calypso
26/10/2022 — Top Ten Baby
14/10/2022 — OUT TODAY: new album COLAPSO CALYPSO
14/09/2022 — OUT TODAY: IN THE BUSINESS OF DREAMS
17/08/2022 — OUT TODAY: HEART OF GLUE
11/08/2022 — Long interview with Grrls Like Us podcast
I’m on the August episode of the Grrls Like Us podcast and we had a lovely long chat! My two song choices here were by Jetstream Pony and Penfriend and we chatted about the background to this album (David Lynch, subverting nostalgia, 50s Hollywood, grief, mental health, being a carer and so much more).
28/07/2022 — Track of the Day on Byte FM
27/07/2022 — New music surprise!
‘DON’T GO BACK TO ’89’ is the first single from my new album ‘COLAPSO CALYPSO’ (out 14 Oct on Reckless Yes, UK), which chronicles two upside down years of crisis & recovery.
Pre-orders are now open at: https://chorusgirl.bandcamp.com
This video was made by mega-talented Lucy Anne Watkins. This song is about being caught in an infinite time travel loop of wanting to save someone who cannot be saved. Hope you enjoy the video; pls share far & wide!
25/07/2022 — With the radio ooonnnnnnn…
A new song will premiere tonight on the German radio show Zündfunk (BR2) from 7pm CEST onwards; listen in here (works from abroad too I think): https://www.br.de/radio/bayern2/sendungen/zuendfunk
Love Zündfunk — they’re one of the most supportive public radio shows for indie artists in Germany.
If you have a radio show or podcast and like Chorusgirl things, feel free to get in touch (via the Contact page here).
10/07/2022 — PR call
Hello, if you write about music & are interested in Chorusgirl things, please get in touch! I’ve emailed a bunch of you this week, but in case I’ve left you out and you’re interested, lemme know (contact via the contact page here).
21/06/2022 — Home home
The countryside where I grew up. Didn’t think I’d be living here again as an adult, but here we are. It’s actually rather beautiful, and the most beautiful in June. Wheat fields forever…
17/06/2022 — CHORUSGIRL GOING SOLO
23/08/2020 — AT THE EDGE OF THE SOFA FESTIVAL
The Wedding Present’s At the Edge of the Sofa Festival last weekend was such a fun and heartwarming watch with a stellar line-up and great chat in between the songs. I greatly enjoyed taking part.You can re-watch the Saturday at: https://youtu.be/8LEPv1UlNzk
If you missed it, you can watch me sing acoustic versions of two Chorusgirl songs at: https://youtu.be/jpl-esQRC8o
07/04/2019 — LONDON SHOW
We’re excited to announce that we’ll be main support for our label mates LIINES at their LONDON headline show at Thousand Island MAY 30th!!
Liines are currently touring the UK with Sleaford Mods, and we’re really happy that we’ll be doing a show together. They were so supportive when we became label mates. Tickets
24/02/2019 — CROCROLAND FESTIVAL
Our next gig will be at the inaugural Crocroland Festival, 6th April in Croydon with lots of excellent bands!!
Tickets –> https://www.crocroland.co.uk
Check out this interview with the festival organisers Angela & Julia with Get In Her Ears: https://getinherears.com/…/interview-cro-cro-land-founders…/
11/01/19: GERMANY TOUR
04/11/18: Thank you to Steve Lamacq for including us in his BBC6 playlists in such big company this week!!
18/10/18: The video for ‘IN DREAMS’, our 2nd single from the NEW ALBUM, was premiered by God is in the TV zine as their ‘VIDEO OF THE WEEK’!!!
Filmed by animator Ruth Barrett, “The handmade stop-motion video for ‘In Dreams’ consists of an impressive 2500 manually cut out paper prints”.
11/09/18: First single ‘No Goodbye’ from the NEW ALBUM is out now!
“A catchy earworm that retains it lyrical secrets until repeated listens, it’s a sign that this new Chorusgirl LP will be worth investigating.”
Clash Magazine have premiered the first single ‘No Goodbye’ from our NEW ALBUM ‘Shimmer and Spin’ out on Reckless Yes on 16th November, 2018!!!
And you can PRE-ORDER THE ALBUM at our Bandcamp
04/08/18: DEBUT LP SOLD OUT now
We’ve just sold our last copy of the debut LP, and very pleased to say that it has gone to a good home
We’re getting ready for the release of album II now…
06/06/18: ALBUM PREPARATIONS
We’re taking a break from gigging over the summer while Faith is away. But no rest for the wicked, as we’re in the process of preparing for our album release later in the year.
We’re pretty excited to have started working with fantastic animation and video artist Emily Scaife! You may have already seen the two beautiful videos she did recently for Lost Map band Firestations. If not, check out her work at http://emilyscaife.com
For the result of our collaboration, you’re going to have to be patient, but here we are doing our first green screen shoot together…
06/05/18: BIG NEWS: We are very excited to announce that we have signed with one of the loveliest indie labels in the UK: RECKLESS YES !!!
Very happy to be joining the likes of Liines, Grawlix and Lorna and more on their expanding roster. Much like Fortuna Pop, Reckless Yes is a community and a family. And we’re stoked that they’ve welcomed us into the fold to release our second album!!!
To celebrate, we’re doing a couple of shows up North at the end of May: