Hailey Beavis
Edinburgh indie-folk artist Hailey Beavis announces debut album, I’ll Put You Where The Trombone Slides due for release 4th November via OK Pal Records and shares new single Crow.
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Discussing new single ‘Crow’, Beavis explains: “Looking back at my life, I could suddenly see the pattern, and I felt like the wrong type of animal, always trying to fit the mould and be something for somebody else. But at some point you have to accept your own true nature instead of trying to make it small and hidden. You have to be uncompromising and you have to walk away from things.”
Having been a regular on the Edinburgh music scene since being in her early 20’s. It was during this time she accepted an offer of help to launch her career. “I was wide eyed and careless because I was young,” she says. Over the years, Beavis would come to understand a darker side to the music industry. “The more time I invested with them, the more I felt I had to see things through, but there was never an end in sight”.
Eventually, things between them reached breaking point and Beavis left, cutting her losses, which included all the material they had recorded together. “Rebuilding my life was difficult. I had been so focussed on just keeping going in the hope that my music would be released. I suddenly found myself lost, believing that was the end of my musical career”, she says.
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Rebuilding herself Beavis began reworking with children and started up a regular live music night along with co-founding OK Pal Records with Faith Eliott meaning her creative output was back in her own hands, commenting: "I don't want these stories to define me anymore but I also can't see how to move on without addressing them within myself. Experiences such as these are commonplace and widely reported, and I believe that the overarching themes in the album represent struggles faced by many women and non-men in creative industries and wider society, still so dominated by patriarchal influences. Learning how to trust yourself and holding onto your dream is crucial, even when it feels like moving against the current.”
Wrestling with the past and it’s subsequent influence on ‘I'll Put You Where The Trombone Slides’, Beavis explains: “I want to throw a rope around every feeling, every moment and haul it around with me just as much as I want to set it all on fire and be free”, she says. “Making an album seems like the perfect compromise. A place to put it all. I like the idea of all of this abstract emotion perpetually suspended in the act of the trombone being played. It’s quite a surreal thought, yet it’s comforting to me”.
ALBUM LAUNCH EVENTS:
Edinburgh: Saturday November 5th at The Gallery Bar, Summerhall
Glasgow: Saturday November 12th, Mono
PREORDER:
‘I'll Put You Where The Trombone Slides’
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