Tessa Rose Jackson

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One wintry Amsterdam afternoon in early 2024, a light guided Tessa Rose Jackson home. In the midst of an unproductive few months which this visionary Dutch-British singer, songwriter, artist and composer set aside to write her 5th album, a song struck her from nowhere. “The Lighthouse” was a beacon illuminating her way towards a place of intimacy, exposure and reassurance; of embracing her fears, her identity and her deepest, most morbid fascinations.

“I could see the album before it was made,” she says of the record she’d also name The Lighthouse. “I knew the world I wanted it to live in, a slightly more out of time world, a little bit of ghostly folklore. Talking about mortality means talking about life and how we live it, and how we use it and appreciate it.”

For the 32-year-old Jackson, it’s been a colourful, if turbulent, journey to The Lighthouse. Raised in Amsterdam to two lesbian mothers, she sadly lost one of her parents at a young age. “I learned to think about death and loss as something inescapable and vast very early on,” she says. “I always used to say: if you’re not a little bit scared of dying… do you really appreciate what it means to be alive?”

A bright beam of reassurance from the darkness, The Lighthouse is both timely and timeless, intimate and universal, sumptuous and spare. A thing of stature and beauty gleaming in the pitch. “It's an album that's about death, but not in that very dark sense,” Tessa says. “For me, it's also very much about life - the celebration of life and allowing yourself to think about these things.” And on the cliff face of modern alt-folk, it stands tall.

Tue 15 Sep 8pm £20/£17/£15

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