thea gilmore

‘Thea Gilmore’ is an album shaped by personal upheaval, self-reinvention, uncompromising determination and triumphant, empowered rebirth. Like a beacon, it leads the way out of the darkness.

Ahead of her forthcoming self-titled album due for release on 6th October, Thea Gilmore releases a gritty and commanding new single & video ‘Nice Normal Woman’. She created the video herself, which involved taking ‘800 still images of me in various states of genuine dishevelment’.

In February 2022, Mark Radcliffe of Radio 2’s The Folk Show launched 21st Century Folk. These songs are revealed for the first time today. The artists involved are Martyn Joseph, Thea Gilmore, The Young’uns, Chris Difford with Kathryn Williams, and Angeline Morrison with The Unthanks.

Taken from her new EP ‘WAS’ (out now), watch Thea Gilmore’s new video for ‘Bones’, the visual concept for which was created by Thea with the help of visual artist Andy Goff using AI technology.

Afterlight is indisputably one of her very best. The former Thea Gilmore can justifiably stand back and be proud of the new woman, the new artist she has become. Long may the Afterlight shine.

The artist previously known as Thea Gilmore announces a new beginning as Afterlight. Taken from her forthcoming debut album, watch the accompanying video for her powerful lead single ‘Of All The Violence I Have Known’, it’s quite unlike anything we’ve heard before.

Small World Turning is another splendid collection of songs from one of the UK’s top songwriters, still very much at the top of her game and still refreshingly unafraid to tell unpalatable home truths and speak out in defence of her uncompromising take on today’s world.

For The Counterweight, her fifteenth studio album, Thea Gilmore has consciously put together what she regards as a companion to 2003’s Avalanche, full of passion and fire.

In her notes on the album, Thea writes that listening back to the old songs was like being haunted by the ghosts of her past. Rather than exorcise them, she’s given them new life while continuing to graffiti the wall of the music industry with music that matters, music with a heart and a mind rather than a corporate game plan. Long may she be “the girl that went and …

We have a special video premiere and Song of the Day for you from Thea Gilmore with ‘Coming Back To You’ from her 15th album ‘Ghosts & Graffiti’, an album which is part new, part retrospective. Watch it here.

Thea Gilmore’s latest release ‘Regardless’ sees her moving away from her folk persona towards a more commercial sounding album with an 80s – early 90s flavour.

For Celtic Connections 2012, Thea Gilmore brought her much acclaimed Sandy Denny project Don’t Stop Singing to The Old Fruitmarket in Glasgow.