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Wandering Oak brings you:Naima Bock
at The Common Room Of The Great North
• Naima Bock • (Fire Talk / Breakfast Records)
'Rocks' is the new single from Naima Bock, to be released on the 11th November via Breakfast Records/Fire Talk. Her first music since the highly acclaimed Below A Massive Dark Land (2024) and standalone single Rolling (2025), it's a close and intimate preview into the new material she's been debuting across recent tours with Neil Young, Dinosaur Jr. and Jake Xerxes Fussell. These have seen her experimenting with stripped back two and three-piece setups, often rearranging the detailed arrangements and percussive flourishes that so often graced previous records, and embracing a more direct approach to songwriting.
Possessing an almost breathless urgency from the first second, 'Rocks' is the perfect introduction to this new direction. Led initially by finger-picked guitar and Naima's unwaveringly resonant voice, it soon swells and surges, with the small additions of melodica, mouth trumpet and choral BVs bringing an almost ethereal intensity to its final moments. Yet, for all these shifts, 'Rocks' also never quite finds resolution, lingering on the listless feeling of being everywhere and nowhere at the same time. As Naima states:
“Rocks is a very personal song, the story of which I'll leave to the listener to interpret. It came to me on a rainy autumn night as my flight was ascending to somewhere less cold. I'd been listening to Palace Music non-stop for a month. Writing it saved me from my chronic oscillation between to-be home and not-to-be home, that is when I decided I would do both.”
It's these ambiguities, these hidden spaces that have long endeared audiences to Naima's work, and led to an ever rising profile in both the UK and US. Her previous records Giant Palm (2022) and Below A Massive Dark Land (2024) received extensive praise, including glowing reviews from Pitchfork, Stereogum, Uncut and Mojo, as well as support from Lauren Laverne, Marc Riley, Gideon Coe on 6Music. Giant Palm and Below were also mainstays on KEXP, with Naima performing two sessions in 2023 and 2024, and she more recently played at the 6Music Festival in early 2026. The release of 'Rocks' is also accompanied by the announcement of UK and EU and headline tours in Spring 2027. Tickets will be on-sale for all shows on the 13th November.
FFO Marina Allen / Pentangle / Dana Margolin
https://www.naimabock.com/
Advance tickets available Friday 13th November, via See Tickets:
https://www.seetickets.com/event/naima-bock/the-common-room-of-the-great-north/3753406
via DICE:
https://link.dice.fm/Sbe847dc1eb1
and in person from Reflex CD Vinyl Newcastle.
The Common Room Of The Great North
North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers
Neville Hall
Westgate Rd
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 1SE
For ages 16+ (accompanied) / 18+ only, from 7:00pm
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The Common Room of the Great North, The Common Room, Neville Hall, Westgate Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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