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Zoe Wren - A Moment's Madness

from The F Spot Femmes Fatales by Various Artists

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Track 3. Zoë was invited to perform on Stage 2 in Brian McNeill’s Festival Session on Saturday at Cambridge Folk Festival this year after her floor spot at the festival in the Club tent on the Friday night. She has supported various artists including Peter Knight’s Gigspanner at Cambridge Folk Club as well as Jim Causley at Hitchin Folk Club, where she has been booked three times in one season, as a result of winning the Best Newcomer award at Folkstock's Love Folk Live Awards. In 2013, Zoë also performed at Folkstock Festival and Standon Calling on the Folkstock Presents stage.
This track was released on Zoë’s debut EP Pandora’s Box on September 13th. The title track of the EP, Pandora's Box is also available in the Fatea Autumn Showcase download

"A Moment's Madness" is an upbeat telling of the eponymous "moment of madness", an act of dizzying but sunny regret by Zoe Wren. Despite it's light-heartedness, like the previous track, it conjures up teenage youth, the feelings of uncertainty over steps taken, but also of the wonderful buoyancy and flexibility of not being set in our ways. It is a light track but the lyrics clearly grasp around some of the realities around true moments of madness (a kind of un-PC way that as a social worker I could describe breakdowns). It feels a little like the optimism of 90's singer-songwriters that I miss during a humid afternoon in the office,"maybe I'll spend my time wishing for something that once was mine, all for a moment's madness one day". A good song indicative of the quality of reflection that is so useful for folk writers." Peter Taranaski Shedancesinthemind blog

"It takes an especially strong new voice to rise above the general hubbub of the current English folk song flashmob, but there’s a sort of inevitability about the way that clarity prevails over clamour. I first heard Zoë Wren’s voice in the very early days of Instrumental and I had not forgotten it. On Pandora’s Box, she debuts impressively with a five-song set that showcases a maturing voice and songs that have depth to match their indisputable charm.

If you are already conjuring up a cloudy image of a winsome folkette with wispy tunes and the disposition of a delicate flower, then let me dispel that waking dream of yours. Zoë Wren is, arguably, very young to be treading the boards in the folk dens of London town, but not too young to write songs like those contained in Pandora’s Box. They are indicative of a personality with patience to learn a craft, but one that also has the quick wit to bend it to a purpose. Wren has made these songs as a playwright might construct a play, and it’s this visible architecture that will make people stop, look and listen" .Instrumental Magazine instrumentali.com/2014/08/22/zoe-wren-lifts-the-lid-on-a-box-of-delights/

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Going round the bend was far too smooth
Up the wall's a fine line
From on the ground
Cracked so far beyond the help of glue
A million shards of sanity
Scattered all around

All the places that I could have been
All the sights my sorry eyes might have seen
But nothing can compare with
The feeling of not feeling anything at all

I might've lost my mind
But from all that I can find
There wasn't much in the first place anyway
Maybe I'll spend my time
Wishing for what once was mine
All for a moment's madness one day

Nothing seems to be the way it was
Maybe that's because the way it was
Is not the way it is
A man is nothing more than what he does
So why do we have ears that hear
Each useless word he says

Memories are playing in reverse
A silent movie with no yarn
To keep it all afloat
Some think hearing but not listening's not a curse
But when you hear the music play you can't
Recall a single note

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from The F Spot Femmes Fatales, released March 8, 2015
Written and performed by Zoe Wren
Produced by Lauren Deakin Davies

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Boutique label releasing handpicked singer songwriters from the Folkstock fold.
Most engineering, mixing and mastering by Lauren Deakin Davies.
Except Bright Season by Bright Season - released 31st May 2014
The F Spot by Friends of Folkstock - release date 17th May 2014
Passing the Baton - Swarb and Folkstock friends - 5th April 2014
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