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ESNS (Eurosonic Noorderslag) is the Music Conference and Showcase Festival (15-18) January 2024 in Groningen, The Netherlands) With 4000 delegates, showcases by more than 300 artists and a conference with panels, keynote speakers, interviews and meetings, ESNS is the key exchange and networking platform for European music, European artists, international music industry professionals and organisations. This is the VERA program for today:
20:10

Maella (CZ)

Maella is a Czech alt-pop artist based in London. Blending her Slavic roots with the multicultural London scene, she started by playing underground venues and became BBC Introducing London's featured artist. Her 2022 EP Slow Burn earned her placement on Times Square as an ambassador of the month for Spotify Equal. Last single ‘Losing Game’ appeared on UK tv shows Love is Blind and Temptation Island and her track ‘Tudu Tudu Tu’ is in the Netflix show Geek Girl. Maella’s second EP will be released via AWAL in 2025. Maella is nominated for the Music Moves Europe Awards 2025.
21:30

The Pill (UK)

Spending their time on the Isle of Wight, The Pill have been creating iconic ‘jank’ punk music since 2019, and writing tunes that talk about the big issues with a fun sprinkle of satire, drawing inspiration from dire situations, like your scaffolder seeing you naked, and the woes of your hair being too blonde. The Pill consists of Lily and Lottie on vocals, guitar, and bass, and Rufus on drums.
22:50

Woomb (BG)

Woomb is a duo based between Sofia and London, featuring young singer-songwriter Hristo Yordanov and composer/producer Gueorgui Linev aka Kan Wakan. Formed after a random encounter at a house party, they found a shared love for artists like Cocteau Twins, Björk, Slowdive and Portishead. At the end of 2023 they played their first gigs and released debut single ‘Last Rays’, accompanied by a video combining Bulgarian pagan symbols, Greek mythology and biblical elements. Their debut EP is out in October 2024. Woomb is nominated for the Music Moves Europe Awards 2025.
00:10

Cardinals (IE)

Cardinals started as a joke between two sixteen-year-olds in a sleepy fishing town on the southern coast of Ireland. Now barely twenty, the six-piece from Cork are blending Ireland’s musical beating heart with a swell of contemporary frisson. Their eclectic gothic amalgam of shoegaze, Irish trad folk, and rock incorporates 60s Wall of Sound elements for a punk-inflected noise that ‘wants to be warm pop’.
01:30

Library Card (NL)

Expressive yet thoughtful, abrasive yet melodious, explosive yet introvert: Rotterdam’s Library Card are a band of contrasts. The tight-knit unit of four entirely different characters formed mid-2021, drawing inspiration from Detroit post-punks Protomartyr, cult Glaswegian art-rockers Life Without Buildings and the poetry of Anne Clark. Spearheaded by Lot van Teylingen, whose spoken word rapidly alternates between sardonic and sincere, Library Card has quickly gone from a first gig in May 2022 to supporting OSEES, playing a host of Dutch tastemaker festivals, and touring in Germany, France, Denmark and Austria.
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