First known as the indomitable vocalist of 2010s post-punk scene leaders Savages, in the near-decade since that band called it a day Jehnny Beth has sunk her teeth into her status as a true artist’s artist. Savages earned Mercury Prize nominations for both of their albums and a hefty legacy amongst the legions of adjacent bands who’ve followed into their lane; Beth as a solo artist and actor (most notably in the Academy Award-winning Anatomy of a Fall) has a similarly outsized cultural importance in comparison to her commercial stature.
Though her rigorous industrial rock is unlikely to ever broach the drivetime Radio One playlist for fear of scaring the Sheeranites, basically every heavyweight alternative artist on the circuit has planted their flag in her corner. She’s supported Depeche Mode, Queens of the Stone Age and Nine Inch Nails, collaborated with Gorillaz and Idles, and recorded an entire album - 2021’s Utopian Ashes - of duets alongside Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie. At Tufnell Park venue The Dome, you can immediately see why the cream of the rock crop salute her: whatever the opposite of ‘phoning it in’ is, that’s what you get at a Jehnny Beth show.
