Sivu
Hannah Grave
Daniel Glover

£8 + booking
Wed 4th – Clwb Ifor bach

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/302066
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/sivu-tickets/156077

First Day promotions are very excited to announce that Sivu will be coming to Cardiff in 2015. James will be playing a solo set featuring tracks from his debut album ‘Something on High’. Local support comes in the form of Hannah Grave and Daniel Glover, two of Wales most promising acoustic acts!

Born in the sleepy town of St.Ives, Cambridgeshire, but moving to London to pursue music, 24-year-old James Page struggled to adapt to the capital. He worked as an administrator for a bailiff company, played a crash-course of depressing open mic nights, and then took up a permanent fixture in a call centre in Waterloo – the latter of which strengthened his work ethic, and the songwriting process itself.

Sivu’s luck began to change when, whilst playing bass for a friend’s band, he struck up a relationship with Charlie Andrew, who had just finished producing Alt J’s then to be Mercury winning ‘An Awesome Wave’. Charlie encouraged him to keep pursuing his own material, as James began to build strange sounds and textures around these dark yet ultimately hopeful songs. The MRI-machine video for ‘Better Man Than He’ went viral, and even more people began to take notice. At the end of 2013, after delaying the process for as long as humanly possible, Sivu finally handed in his notice at the call centre, signed a record deal with Atlantic Records and finished up his debut album, Something On High which was release in October 2014.

“Heartswelling acoustic dexterity and glittering electronics…irresistible” NME Radar
“Heavenly…like one-man Wild Beasts” Guardian
“Insistent hooks and intricate soundscapes…a huge promise” Sunday Times Breaking Act
“One of the most prominent new artists of the last twelve months” Line of Best Fit
“Off kilter, introspective, yet beautiful” Noisey
“Ethereal, haunting pop…vulnerable and distinctive” Telegraph New Faces
“One of the country’s finest new singer-songwriters” Time Out
“A precocious talent…the results are quite inspiring” Clash
“Yearning, off-kilter pop anthems” Dummy
“Brooding and anthemic…the dark imaginings of 24-year-old Sivu” The Fly
“Exemplary songwriting…dark and delicious” Notion
“Sivu reasserts his uncanny, genre-defying sound…a welcome surprise” The Sun