St Michael's Church, Manchester.

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Toria Wooff

St Michael's Church · Manchester

Lancashire’s woman in black Toria Wooff returns to Manchester to haunt the stage of Hallé at St Michael’s on Halloween night. Following the success of her eponymous debut album (championed by the likes of Uncut, Clash, Shindig, Record Collector, 6 Music and Radio X) and last year’s sold out show at YES, Toria will be joined by her full band playing songs from both her first record and her yet-to-be-released sophomore record. Containing tales of love, loss, hope, relationships and womanhood, the eponymous debut album is both an exorcism of torment and an invitation to feeling only what is good and as the record takes listeners deeper into her bittersweet world, it’s only a matter of time before countless others will fall under her spell.. Tugging at the cloaks of contemporary folk souls Jake Xerxes Fussell or Richard Dawson, it offers a contemporary twist on the Anglo folk tradition through a bloody cocktail of classic rock origins and transcends time as it nods to the lyrical narratives of Led Zeppelin, Fairport Convention and Townes Van Zandt – all the while infused with inspiration from her collection of gothic literature and historical texts. ‘The self-reflection in...

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