THELMA PLUM ANNOUNCES DEBUT LONDON DATE
TICKETS GO ON SALE ON WEDNESDAY 31ST JULY HERE
Thelma Plum hasn’t always been ready to share her story, until now. Following the release of her debut album, Better In Blak, the Brisbane singer is set for her debut London show on Tuesday 17th September at The Courtyard Theatre. Tickets are on sale from Wednesday 31st July, available HERE.
Thelma Plum’s debut album Better In Blak is a story about culture, heritage, love, and pain. With incredible strength, courage and heartbreaking tenderness, her debut album captures so deftly what it’s like to be a young Aboriginal woman in Australia. Since releasing her 2014 EP Monsters, Thelma has been through a lot. “On this album I speak about how it feels being an Aboriginal woman in this country. When I was younger I wasn’t ready to share this side of me, but I’ve grown a lot in the past few years and that’s changed,” says Thelma.
Thelma started working on her debut album four years ago. In fact, she had an album of songs ready to go, but she scrapped it entirely and decided to start again. “I’d written all these songs, but they didn’t represent what I’d been through. So, I rewrote the whole thing,” explains Thelma. “The new songs just came to me, because I’d reached a point in my life where I was very ready to write them”.
Listening to Better In Blak, you can tell that this is true. Written and recorded across New York, London and Sydney with her frequent collaborator, producer Alex Burnett (Antony & Cleopatra, Sparkadia), the album is 12 tracks of Thelma at her best; brutally honest, insightful, incisive and with her heart on her sleeve. You can hear it on the album’s title track – a tribute to family and people of colour – or on the album’s anthemic second song ‘Don’t Let A Good Girl Down’, where she spins her experiences of hate and bigotry into a hard-hitting pop song.
Now, she’s ready to perform these heart-breaking, hard-hitting pop songs live in London at The Courtyard Theatre on Tuesday 17th September. Tickets go on sale on Wednesday 31st July, available HERE.