Name: Mary Ocher + special guests
Start: 2025-02-12T19:00:00+00:00
Location: The Rose Hill

Mary Ocher + special guests play The Rose Hill on Wednesday 12th February.
Doors 7pm / Start 8pm
£15 + booking fee / £19 on the door
Standing
Age restrictions - +16, under 16's to be accompanied.
Following shows all over Europe and North America in the past 12 months, Berlin-based Experimental pop artist Mary Ocher returns to the UK armed with two vastly celebrated records released only months apart: "Your Guide to Revolution" and "Approaching Singularity: Music for The End of Time".
The recordings were mixed with Mike Lindsay of Tunng and LUMP and feature collaborations with Mogwai, Red Axes, composer Roberto Cacciapaglia, harpist Serafina Steer (Bas Jan/Jarvis Cocker), Mary's drummer duo Your Government, pieces by Dorothy Ashby/Omar Khayyam, a homage to electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire and much more.
The pieces range from cumbia, post-punk, folk and field recordings, to cosmic synth compositions and deconstructed techno.
The albums were quickly embraced by the press, including "Album of The Week" by The Quietus, "Best Releases of spring 2024" by Bandcamp, and featured in The Wire, Flood Mag, The Fader and many others.
"Approaching Singularity" is accompanied by an essay that explores authoritarianism, unruly technology, and the diverse political and ethical implications of the impending changes for humankind. While "Your Guide to Revolution" is released with "A Guide to Radical Living: A no nonsense guide to living comfortably with just enough: Why wealth needs poverty and how not to play along" - a survival guide for artists and other non-conformists.
Mary toured in 40 countries with previous releases, recorded and produced with Canadian Psych guru King Khan and Hans Joachim Irmler of Krautrock pioneers Faust, and feature collaborations with avant-garde legends Felix Kubin, Die Tödliche Doris and Julia Kent, among others.
"There is no artist quite like Mary Ocher. Her music is like an organism, evolving with each project, adapting to the world around it. " - Dan Cole, The Berliner
"Her experimental pop sits in its own space. At moments, her torchier songs have hints of Nico – John Cale might be in there too, and perhaps Seventies art-rockers Slapp Happy as well – but the dramatic melodic arcs have an immediacy which ensures an instant bond with the audience. Lyrically, she forthrightly decries inequality and pointless frictions. Above all, Mary Ocher connects." - Kieron Tyler, The Art Desk
"...Ocher handily walks the line between avant-garde and arty pop on Your Guide to Revolution, a delightful record that feels punker than punk because it is so optimistic, filled with anthemic songs joy wrapped in layers of skewed electronics, orchestral strings, shimmering harps, and oddball production... In a music culture where everyone is very quick to point out problems but offer no solutions... Ocher’s pragmatic approach is refreshing and really quite radical in its refusal to be subsumed by dominant narratives of doom and gloom—much like the record itself. A guide to revolution, indeed." - Mariana Timony, Bandcamp