Performers
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Girli
When 24-year-old Amelia Toomey, aka girli, was in her teens, the emerging North London-based artist found herself on the cusp of a hit career. More recently, she’s found herself in an identity crisis: “Who am I? That's a question I've been asked since I was 17,” she says. “I don't have that answer and no one does, which is okay.”
After graduating from EP projects (Ex Talk, Damsel in Distress – “I really needed to release some sh*t and get it out of my system”), girli has been facing the “multitudes” of who she is head-on. girli’s biggest single to date ‘More Than a Friend’ swirls around emotions of sexual frustration, while ‘I Really F**ked It Up’ surveys the reality of spinning out of control. Drawing on the literary inspiration of American poet Walt Whitman’s ‘Song of Myself’, girli hopes her forthcoming EP captures the same notion of self — “I contain multitudes too. I'm so many things at once and that’s the energy I want people to feel when they listen to my music.” Given the vibrant, hook-filled stylings yet to come, girli won’t be waiting long to be heard again.
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Yaro MilaYaro Mila is avant-garde pop, making loud, rebellious, fierce and at the same time sugary sweet hyperpop music. Fusing together punk guitars with hammering beats and digital synths as a means of escape to an empowering pixelated new age land. In Yaro’s musical candy store, you can taste the unapologetic sweet of Britney Spears, the sourness of mother Gaga, and Dorian Electra’s dirty and confusing aftertaste. Catch her on stage accompanied by two doll-like dancers from dance crew ‘Trevoga’ and two rocking band members.
