Art School Girlfriend

Art School Girlfriend will be entertaining the crowds of NE1 on 11th October 2018 in Think Tank, Newcastle.

Polly Mackey is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and producer from Wrexham, North Wales. Her upcoming second EP ‘Into The Blue Hour’ tracks her move from London to a tightly knit creative community in the seaside town of Margate, where she now lives and runs an art bookshop with her girlfriend. After trading the intrusive city skylines for an endless horizon by the sea, Mackey’s forthcoming music has a new sense of space, depth and introspection. Named after the time where the light is perfect either at dawn or dusk, ‘Into The Blue Hour’ finds her exploring her intent as an artist, her queerness and the feeling of being the only person within a square mile when walking her dog on the beach.

Now writing and recording for her debut album, Polly Mackey has found an inspiring, hugely creative environment to work and live in. “I have this theory that when you’re looking at the horizon out at sea, that your eyes are stretching as far as they possibly can. My eyes could never do that in London, there’d always be buildings in the way. Every night I see this bright pink sunset - I think maybe it’s something to do with the salt in the water - and sometimes you feel like you’re totally alone and the only person within a square mile. Feeling all that definitely has an effect on me.”

Art School Girlfriend’s ‘Into The Blue Hour’ EP is out this September on Wolf Tone.