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The Kristin Hersh Electric Trio, 2022-04-21, London
The Kristin Hersh Electric Trio
2022-04-21, London Ticket prices
Kristin Hersh - Matinee, 2023-10-28, London
Kristin Hersh - Matinee
2023-10-28, London Ticket prices
An Evening With Kristin Hersh, 2023-10-28, London
An Evening With Kristin Hersh
2023-10-28, London Ticket prices
Giant Sand, Kristin Hersh, Steve Wynn + More, 2024-04-27, London
Giant Sand, Kristin Hersh, Steve Wynn + More
2024-04-27, London Ticket prices

Kristin Hersh (born August 7, 1966) is an American singer/songwriter. She is the lead singer and guitarist for alternative rock group Throwing Muses and the hardcore punk-influenced power trio 50 Foot Wave. She has written a memoir, titled Rat Girl, which was published in the USA by Penguin Books on August 31, 2010 and is co-founder of the non-profit, open-source software project for recording artists, CASH Music. Some interviews have described Hersh's early drive to perform as due to hearing sounds in her mind so that her songs began to "write themselves", becoming at times their own separate presences in her life, inner voices haunting her. She has stated that hearing these "pieces of songs" clanging together in her mind compelled her to take the pieces apart and craft songs from them. "If I don't turn ideas into songs, they can get stuck in me and make me sick," she said in a 1995 interview with AOL's Critics' Choice electronic music magazine. "That's the way a song hits you right here, right here [she motions to the heart and gut] instead of in your brain because the words themselves are all real sweaty, color, action words, so they just go bangbangbang. They're not supposed to make you think and try to figure out some puzzle. People think that I'm trying to trick them, that I have some thing I could write down and I haven't done it and I've just given them a bunch of poetry instead. I find it to be the clearest way to talk. It's like the way little kids talk because they have no filler words and no overriding thoughts to color your impression of what's happening in a song."