Vogues

Vogues marks their return with No Songbirds, an ethereal, alt pop dreamscape with spiralling piano lines and warm, electronic textures. Exploring personal grief alongside the more universal themes of ecological destruction, the single is the first in a collection of songs written and recorded over the last two years with Benjamin Woods (the Golden Dregs) and Ted Mair (Sculpture).

“For No Songbirds I sent Ted a compositional cue and he came back with a truly unhinged electronic freak out, which I then cut up and crafted into the basis of the finished song, which we then went back and forth on, with Ben adding the guitar line that he came up with when we began to play it live. I always say it but I love collaboration because it’s 1+1=3, you achieve something you could never achieve alone.”

Although the project finds its extra layers through collaboration, Vogues is very much the vision and creation of London based Davy Roderick. Playing in bands from an early age, they coupled their love of music with a love of acting, spending two years studying outside of Paris before returning to London and joining the Golden Dregs.

“What I love about playing as Vogues is I feel like I can bring everything I know about performance and storytelling from acting to the music. But also music is a space beyond binaries and the stage is a safe place where you can be and wear what you want without questions. It’s through performing as Vogues and with the Dregs that I first began to explore my nonbinary identity.”

With a yet to be announced EP set for release early next year via Nothing Fancy, Vogues returns to the stage 7th December at the Servant Jazz Quarters in London, their first performance since End of the Road 2022.