Eli

**Folklore Sessions Presents**

Eli + Support 7th August | £12.50 adv The Folklore Rooms 18+

ELI tours his album 'Dork Mode Raw'. Big vocals, full band.

Dork Mode RAW is my follow up album. I always wanted to do an acoustic version of my first album. I've put everything into it, with a couple of bonus tracks too. Every weird, honest, uncomfortable, beautiful thing I couldn't say when I was younger. This is going to be a special celebration. Full band, and I want it to be loud and I want it to be close. 70 people in a room. That's it.

ELI is a London singer-songwriter whose voice has been stopping strangers in their tracks since a piano session of a song called 15 And Alive at St. Pancras went viral and never really stopped.

Expect big pop vocals over production that pulls from Prince, The 1975 and places less expected, with writing that deals in identity, queerness, growing up hiding and the slow work of not doing that anymore. He's been building a live reputation across London and Brighton, picked up a Mahogany session, and taken his audience from a few hundred to tens of thousands entirely on his own terms and you are still amongst the first to discover him.

Dork Mode RAW is the album. It arrives with a full band in a 70 capacity room in Brighton, which is exactly the kind of night where you'll be telling people you were there. Advised to purchase early with his previous show at The Folklore Rooms selling out in advance.