After a successful season last year, O&U returns on Sept 3rd. Check out our guest artists and then grab yourself a pair of tickets here, for you and a friend. Bring somebody new! O&U takes place at Horse Bar, 122-124 Westminster Bridge Road, SE1 7RW. Doors open 7.30. Showtime: 8pm.

A recent graduate of the BRIT School for Performing Arts and winner of Croydon’s Best Unsigned Music Act 2009 De’borah is set for great things. With nods towards Joni Mitchell, The Police and John Mayer, De’Borah’s songs are filled with sincerity, warmth and a vulnerability that allows her to remarkably inspire and engage with an audience.
http://www.myspace.com/deborahsdelight

Journeys. Mercy is uniquely qualified to take you on an artistic one, her day to day life imbued with sojourns that in 2010 have taken her to Canada, Singapore and Northern Ireland.   Having worked for London’s transport authorities for several years, toured internationally  with gospel troupes, laid vocals for everyone from underground alternative artist [verb]swish to global soulful funky house imprint, Dance4Daddy, Mercy is still on the move.

Recently graduating from Goldsmith University (Popular Music), Mercy is forging a new path as an artist and producer in her own right.  Keen to arrive at her own musical destinations via quirk filled adventures that extend from her time at  the university’s experimental collective.

Half Ghanaian, half Welsh singer-songwriter Juliyaa (yaa meaning Thursday born) was born and raised in North London to a Ghanaian mother and a Welsh father, Juliyaa grew up on hymns of praise, listening to traditional Ghanaian twi, hi-life and hip-life music, as well as her father’s legendary vinyl collection – from Bob Marley, Al Green to Helen Baylor and Ron Kenoly. Inspired by two volunteer trips to Ghana and Kenya, Juliyaa’s song writing grapples not only with social issues, and relationships, but gives a twist to the way in which we usually view the world. Trespassing pop music to create something lasting and real, her sultry vocals have been showcased at the Roundhouse Camden, Love Music Hate Racism Sheffield, Troy bar, Universities around London, and at the Southbank Centre.

www.myspace.com/juliyaamusic

Sh’maya is a London based poet, storyteller and musician. His stage brings a unique creativity to spoken word with looped soundscapes bedrocking rhythmical wordplay and spit-fire passion.

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Hey there,

I’ve not published an update since September ‘09. I know, terrible.

So, what’s been happening since then?

• I’ve moved out of the urbane surroundings I wrote and recorded my, as yet unreleased, album in
• moved out to relative surburbia,
• quit my day job teaching some great kids
• switched from PC to Mac (well almost) typing this on a sponsored laptop.
• Caught and recovered from Pneumonia, thank God
• Built a new website

Needless to say, it’s been a context-expanding season.  At no point in my life have I’ve ever said goodbye and hello to so many people at once. Handshakes and waves, hugs and shrugs.
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