Ruth TheodoreI’m going to let you in on a little secret. I don’t particularly like female singer-songwriters. I don’t think there is any real reason for this. I haven’t got some dumb misogynist thing going on. I just can’t find very many that I can actually tolerate, let alone claim to actually like. Now there’s a number of female fronted bands that I like a lot. Singer-songwriters though? Not so much. I don’t think I could even name three that I like if I’m entirely honest.

As such, in the spirit of trying to rectify this somewhat, I have stumbled across one that I do really like. is from deepest, darkest Southampton and making some incredible songs. From what I can tell, she now resides in London, and has put together a permanent five piece band that includes percussion, a bunch of strings and an accordian. She also performs regularly by herself, and it’s in that style that the songs below are representitive of.

Both of these songs are just Ruth and her acoustic guitar. ‘Home’ is an incredibly fragile song, feeling as though it could break apart at any minute yet somehow never doing so. ‘Worm Food’ is a far more frantic song, with Ruth powering through the words about how life is far simpler than we make it out to be. The lyrics in both songs have the obligatory quirkiness that seems to be required these days, but without ever crossing the line into annoying territory.

MP3 Ruth Theodore – Home
MP3 Ruth Theodore – Worm Food

She will be playing in London this thursday and Farnham of all places on friday, and you can get details of both shows on her nicely simple website. For you crazy kids who need your music via News Corp, drop by her Myspace page.