Name: Ma Polaine's Great Decline
Start: 2025-09-21T19:30:00+01:00
Location: 3 St Pauls Hill, SO22 5AE Winchester, United Kingdom

Ma Polaine’s Great Decline are an award-winning band praised by MOJO Magazine for their unique blend of pop, folk, blues, and Americana.
Ma Polaine’s music resonates as both comfortably familiar and refreshingly innovative, creating a truly engaging experience.
With airplay on BBC 6 and BBC Radio 2, and the support of Cerys Matthews, the band’s genre-defying charm unfolds through songs that explore the intricacies of human connections, weaving tales of light and dark with uplifting melodies and heartfelt storytelling.
Based in Somerset, UK, Ma Polaine have a sound that is their own. Beth and Clinton both grew up with jazz, blues and soul, using those influences and a love for individuality to write songs that are simultaneously dark and light, featuring Beth’s effortlessly distinctive vocals and evocative lyrics, coupled with Clinton’s understated guitar style.
Their recent live album release drew this comparison from Fatea magazine: “a cocktail that is one part Beth Gibbons from Portishead, a measure of Holiday edge and one part Rockabilly growl”.
MOJO – 4 stars – “Ma Polaine’s Great Decline have evolved a pop-folk-blues-americana style that is warmly familiar, yet is sufficiently unhinged to keep you guessing…”
Supporting on the night will be
Siobhán & The Sunset Haze
Hailing from the South Coast, Siobhán began her career as a solo singer-songwriter telling her honest tales of love, loss, and lessons learned, through her storytelling of real-life events with powerful vocals and leaving no stone left unturned.
She’s now backed by her band ‘The Sunset Haze’, formed in 2019, they’ve spent the last 4 years honing their sound, and perfecting their unique image, and style as a collective.
After having released their debut EP “Playing the Part” back in 2022, they have played all along the South Coast at iconic venues and multiple festivals such as Teddy Rocks and Fuelled By Cider events. Now having released their latest spooky single ‘Witching Hour’, they are back and standing tall with their melodic folk-rock fusion, and high energy, wild-hearted live shows, ready to make their mark in 2024.
Red Swan
Red Swan are a 4-piece experimental band located in Winchester, Hampshire. Since forming this band, Bexx Austin (vocals), Hayden Kearney (Guitar & vocals), Daniel Hornbuckle (bass) and Zoey Orchard (drums) have already begun to make a name for themselves within their local community. If you like grunge, rock and pop-punk with a theatrical flare, they’re the band for you.