Half Moon Run, Billie Marten

Wed Oct 25 2023

8:00 PM (Doors 7:00 PM)

August Hall

420 Mason St San Francisco, CA 94102

August Hall

420 Mason St San Francisco, CA 94102

$26.00

All Ages

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Half Moon Run, Billie Marten

  • Half Moon Run

    Half Moon Run

    Indie Rock

    Half Moon Run’s three multi-instrumentalist-slash-vocalists are Devon Portielje, Conner Molander, and Dylan Phillips. The trio’s origin story involves a 2009 Craigslist ad and adingy jam spacein Montreal’s Mile End, where they spent their formative years creating the restless, six-armed entity that composes and performs their intricate, kaleidoscopic songs—as well as writing their platinum debut album, Dark Eyes (Indica, 2012). Their sophomore effort, Sun Leads Me On, dropped in 2015 with Glassnote in the US and Communion in the UK. It was followed by A Blemish in the Great Light (2019), Seasons Of Change (2020) and Inwards and Onwards (2021)—two of which won a Junos for Adult Alternative Album of the Year. Half Moon Run’s newest single, “You Can Let Go,” is out worldwide with BMG out now.
  • Billie Marten

    Billie Marten

    Folk

    Billie –born Isabella Sophie Tweddle – got her early start in music thanks to parents who surrounded her with the music of Nick Drake, John Martyn, Joni Mitchell, Joan Armatrading, Kate Bush, Loudon Wainwright III and northern folk artist Chris Wood (who once told a nine-year-old Billie to "go for it!"). The family lived in the cathedral city Ripon, North Yorkshire, where Billie grew up in and around the Dales. "I feel a lot of emotion [in nature]," she says. "Like this extreme form of empathy. I find it a very comforting blanket. It cradles you, it's always there. It's not going away." 

    Billie was then signed to Chess Club Records, an imprint of Sony, "the day before my Maths GCSE”. I was revising and then signing in this big glass boardroom." Not long afterwards, she was nominated for the BBC Sound of 2016, making fans out of Radio 1 tastemakers like Annie Mac and Huw Stephens. Her critically acclaimed debut album, Writing of Blues and Yellows, was a diarist, open-hearted collection of quietly beautiful songs released in 2016, when she was still just 17. The following year, she moved to London, where she worked on her 2019 follow-up, Feeding Seahorses ByHand, which The Line of Best Fit declared a "gentle and reserved masterpiece".

    Towards the end of 2019, Billie underwent a total overhaul, leaving Sony and choosing a new management team. She signed to Fiction records, a division of Universal, in lockdown via zoom. She then went back into the studio and reunited with producer Rich Cooper – whom she worked with on Blues and Yellows – Billie felt empowered to experiment andrediscover herself. "I picked up the bass instead of the guitar – which made all my rhythms different, because I can't play bass," she laughs. "That made everything a lot punchier and more direct." With Rich adding drums to the songs as they were being written, the sound they developed together was one with a rapid pulse and rich instrumentation. The list of inspirations Billie brought to the studio roamed from krautrockers Can – "their rhythms are just bizarre, and don't make any sense" – to Broadcast, Arthur Russell, and Fiona Apple. "It was such freedom to play, and just be, and explore different corners of me that I hadn't before."

    Since then, she has toured frequently throughout the UK and US, returning home to record her fourth record, soon to be released in early 2023. Her writing themes explore social commentary, the struggle with modernity vs tradition, nature, mental health, relationships, and a general voyeurism on the world as she sees it.

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August Hall Presents

Half Moon Run, Billie Marten

Wed Oct 25 2023 8:00 PM

(Doors 7:00 PM)

August Hall San Francisco CA
Half Moon Run, Billie Marten

$26.00 All Ages

Half Moon Run’s three multi-instrumentalist-slash-vocalists are Devon Portielje, Conner Molander, and Dylan Phillips. The trio’s origin story involves a 2009 Craigslist ad and adingy jam spacein Montreal’s Mile End, where they spent their formative years creating the restless, six-armed entity that composes and performs their intricate, kaleidoscopic songs—as well as writing their platinum debut album, Dark Eyes (Indica, 2012). Their sophomore effort, Sun Leads Me On, dropped in 2015 with Glassnote in the US and Communion in the UK. It was followed by A Blemish in the Great Light (2019), Seasons Of Change (2020) and Inwards and Onwards (2021)—two of which won a Junos for Adult Alternative Album of the Year. Half Moon Run’s newest single, “You Can Let Go,” is out worldwide with BMG out now.

Billie –born Isabella Sophie Tweddle – got her early start in music thanks to parents who surrounded her with the music of Nick Drake, John Martyn, Joni Mitchell, Joan Armatrading, Kate Bush, Loudon Wainwright III and northern folk artist Chris Wood (who once told a nine-year-old Billie to "go for it!"). The family lived in the cathedral city Ripon, North Yorkshire, where Billie grew up in and around the Dales. "I feel a lot of emotion [in nature]," she says. "Like this extreme form of empathy. I find it a very comforting blanket. It cradles you, it's always there. It's not going away." 

Billie was then signed to Chess Club Records, an imprint of Sony, "the day before my Maths GCSE”. I was revising and then signing in this big glass boardroom." Not long afterwards, she was nominated for the BBC Sound of 2016, making fans out of Radio 1 tastemakers like Annie Mac and Huw Stephens. Her critically acclaimed debut album, Writing of Blues and Yellows, was a diarist, open-hearted collection of quietly beautiful songs released in 2016, when she was still just 17. The following year, she moved to London, where she worked on her 2019 follow-up, Feeding Seahorses ByHand, which The Line of Best Fit declared a "gentle and reserved masterpiece".

Towards the end of 2019, Billie underwent a total overhaul, leaving Sony and choosing a new management team. She signed to Fiction records, a division of Universal, in lockdown via zoom. She then went back into the studio and reunited with producer Rich Cooper – whom she worked with on Blues and Yellows – Billie felt empowered to experiment andrediscover herself. "I picked up the bass instead of the guitar – which made all my rhythms different, because I can't play bass," she laughs. "That made everything a lot punchier and more direct." With Rich adding drums to the songs as they were being written, the sound they developed together was one with a rapid pulse and rich instrumentation. The list of inspirations Billie brought to the studio roamed from krautrockers Can – "their rhythms are just bizarre, and don't make any sense" – to Broadcast, Arthur Russell, and Fiona Apple. "It was such freedom to play, and just be, and explore different corners of me that I hadn't before."

Since then, she has toured frequently throughout the UK and US, returning home to record her fourth record, soon to be released in early 2023. Her writing themes explore social commentary, the struggle with modernity vs tradition, nature, mental health, relationships, and a general voyeurism on the world as she sees it.

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All Ages
limit 4 per person
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$26.00

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Terms & Conditions

Attendee takes full responsibility, and assumes the risk, for, and hereby agrees to indemnify, release and hold AH, LLC (dba August Hall) and its affiliates harmless from and against any and all damage, loss, costs, fines, demands, actions, claims, causes of action and/or other liability (including court costs and attorneys' fees) that may be suffered or incurred by or asserted against AH, LLC arising out of Attendee's attending of an event, to the fullest extent allowed by law.

Attendee further RELEASES, WAIVES, DISCHARGES AND COVENANTS NOT SUE OR MAKE ANY CLAIM AGAINST AH, LLC for damages, expenses, losses, or other liability whatsoever that may be sustained or suffered by Client as a direct or indirect result of Attendee's attending of an event WHETHER ARISING UNDER A THEORY OF CONTRACT, WARRANTY, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, PRODUCT LIABILITY, COVID-19 or OTHER TRANSMISSIBLE ILLNESS OR DISEASE OR ANY OTHER THEORY, KNOWN OR UNKNOWN, SUSPECTED OR UNSUSPECTED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LIABILITY CAUSED IN PART BY THE NEGLIGENCE OR FAULT OF AH, LLC, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. CLIENT SPECIFICALLY UNDERSTANDS AND AGREES THAT THIS RELEASE WILL PREVENT CLIENT AND ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS FROM BRINGING A LAWSUIT, CLAIM OR OTHER ACTION AGAINST AH, LLC AND FROM RECOVERING ANY MONEY DAMAGES OR OTHER LEGAL RELIEF FROM AH, LLC IN CONNECTION WITH ANY OF THE LIABILITY RELEASED ABOVE.

By attending an event, the attendee also expressly agrees to comply with any and all laws, rules and policies of the event organizers. The event organizers reserve the right to refuse service to any person who does not comply.