MAMA Ft ANTONELLA
North Road Social, Wolverhampton.
nineteenth April 2025
Dwell picture by Simon Wainwright
With embers nonetheless simmering from their 1st two singles, adorned with rave opinions from worldwide critics and each nationwide (RadioX – John Kennedy) and regional radio successes, in addition to a serious US journal operating a function about Antonella within the autumn. MAMA Ft Antonella entered the stage to an ever rising crowd for his or her inaugural Really feel The Noise Competition headline debut stay efficiency at North Road Social, Wolverhampton.
MAMA Ft Antonella are a duo: Antonella Gambotto-Burke, who famously rejected Alan McGee’s provide to sing for the Jesus and Mary Chain, and Gavin Monaghan, multi-platinum Magic Backyard Studio producer, musical mastermind and, it’s rumoured, George Martin’s lengthy misplaced son.
Opening with their debut single ‘A River Working Wild’, a tune about home violence, abuse and the value of freedom (“even white women may be black and blue”). They hit the bottom operating. A stomping guitar lick that accelerates in direction of infinity. MAMA makes the ache of what Antonella sings about, sound in some way, stunning.
‘Industrial Highway’. A road in Wolverhampton. A narrative of the ability of connection in a world of misplaced souls. Oblivious on the sting of oblivion. After which got here a saviour. Sprinkles of a agency poke within the abdomen by Johnny Money and immediately there’s gentle on the finish of the burrow.
The majestic and considerably mystical Scandinavian trying snow queen behind the mic, carrying an outsized stuffed black Rundholz coat, melted the mesmerised crowd along with her hypnotic and hurricane splitting vocal vary, which BIMM Music Institute Professor Jonathan Day, after seeing the gig, likened to that of Robert Plant!
It licks, It kisses,
It whispers, It yelps,
It strangles you till you submit.
It’s an eternal hug,
It’s a raging butterfly.
It pauses time, and it’s a viper in lingerie.That accompanied with Monaghan’s capacity to ship a raucously intricate choreographed guitar model; a sound that wraps round you with the dramatic affect of a Hitchcock flick, is sufficient to create one formidable creature.
Each observe carried out tonight, all being the epitome of wonderful diary occasions, will function on the upcoming debut album ‘Apex Predators’ launched by way of Magic Backyard Recordings (x Revolver x Warner Music) on twenty first Might 2025.
The final observe and newest single ‘Morning’ is a euphoric golden sun-filled area of sound. Echos in vocals reinforce the mystically enchanted qualities that layer the character that’s MAMA. Smiles, love and happiness fill the air because the now tightly crammed viewers roar their approval. Goosebumps galore.
I used to be requested what I believed the longer term held for MAMA. I replied “After tonights efficiency, I can solely predict that they are going to train folks to develop wings”.
SETLIST
1. A River Working Wild
2. Ghost
3. Industrial Highway
4. Some Love
5. If You Like
6. If I Can’t Have You
7. (Further Observe) Morning
They play their subsequent gig at Newhampton Artwork Centre, Wolverhampton on seventh June 2025 – ‘Group’.
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