Hope London

Hope London started life as an artist in a studio squat under the elevated train in Jamaica, New York and never had great expectations. An unconscious objector to career planning, Hope worked in a deli in Brooklyn, was a lawyer (still recovering) and cartoon animator in LA and director of an art gallery in Manchester before settling down in rural Scotland. After just a few evenings of live music in the pub and too much whiskey, she was playing piano and singing for the first time since dimly remembered days in a high school rock band belting out Janis Joplin covers. Hope released her debut album 'Aim Low' in 2013. Her new EP 'Could Do Better', a collaborative project with electronic producer Dean Munch, will be released on 26 April 2024 through Queer Theory records. "There’s some Amanda Palmer, some Tom Waits, Kafka is name checked, there’s jazz, torch songs being touched on, there’s the New Orleans barfly communing with the New York bartender at 3 am. There are the ghosts of beat poets, the ring stain of a Bukowski memory" Alex Main, New Hellfire Club