Lump

Full disclosure: for anyone at their first proper gig post lockdown, the drumbeat could be off, the singer totally out of tune or the performance only five minutes long, and they would still be thrilled to bits just to be amidst a throng of sweaty, pint-sipping music lovers after an almost two-year break from the live

The four-piece on stage played the album from start to finish onstage, elongating sections into jams and so forth.

In amongst the deluge of new release announcements earlier this year lurked a very curious revelation: there was to be a new Laura Marling record, hidden under the least auspicious of monikers, LUMP.

Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay hand an assured debut to their ambitious new project in the Calder Valley

The last of their limited UK tour

Given Laura Marling's reputation as one of the UK's best modern folk singers – demonstrated by last year's Mercury Prize-nominated A Song for Our Daughter – it felt like a bit of a left turn when she formed LUMP with Tuung's Mike Lindsay.

LUMP is the love child of acclaimed singer songwriter Laura Marling and Tuung member/Mercury Prize winning producer Mike Lindsay. Creating an eclectic mix of psychedelic-folk sounding harmonies. Marling and Lindsay's collaborative pairing shows opposites do attract, as Lindsay's strange, wonky, playful, synth