Billy Nomates live in Manchester, April 2023 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
Billy Nomates was in Manchester on April 20th.
Billy Nomates will conclude her UK tour this week with gigs in Newcastle, Birmingham, London, Brighton and Bristol supporting the 2023 second studio album CACTI.
“Despair, it’s revealed, isn’t exactly in the rearview mirror and its sources are many – be it Britain’s political dissonance, music industry stooges or a lack of underlying self-belief. The singer has even admitted that co-producer James Trevascus salvaged parts of CACTI she herself had little confidence in,” our review reads.
Of course, it’s hard to tell anybody that it’ll be OK with sincerity, but there are moments here which any artist would be proud of, reclaimed from the scrap heap or not.
“Already a single, the punky rake of ‘spite’, with its glorious first person refrain of, ‘Don’t you act like I ain’t the fucking man’, throws down all comers, whilst the ‘weird organ thing’ of ’roundabout sadness’ could register big on PJ Harvey’s strange-o-meter and ‘fawner’ does broken down west country like Angel Olsen.”
