Woodpecker Wooliams

'A stunning find.’ - SUNDAY TIMES "Musically and emotionally, it’s belting." – BBC.CO.UK ‘Enchanting solo masterpieces are laced with lo-fi murder folk and droning harps which are more like P J Harvey’s foray into the autoharp than Joanna Newsom’s twee fixations.’ - THE INDEPENDENT Woodpecker Wooliams is the musical project of Brighton-based Gemma Williams. After leaving her midwifery training due to a bought of serious illness in 2009, Gemma retreated to the Devonshire countryside to recuperate and taught herself to play a hired harp. The following few years saw Woodpecker touring all over Europe, The Baltics and Russia, and playing festivals such as The Big Chill, Positivus, and The Alternative Escape as well as releasing a string of cassette and EP releases around the world. Her latest offering, 'The Bird School of Being Human', realeased via Robot Elephant Records in September 2012 caught the attention of critics and led to her being named as The Guardian's 'New Band of The Day', as one of The Independent's 'Ones To Watch'. Gemma has lent guest vocals to Mercury-nominated Ghostpoet's hit single 'Meltdown', which was released on 6th May 2013, and remixed by Squarepusher. Woodpecker Wooliams will perform this year at several festivals including- Sound Tracks, Wilderness, How The Light Gets In, Supernormal, Serraleves Em Festa, Woolfe Music, End Of The Road and Bestival. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.