Full Album show of February 15, 2022
Album: The Other Side of Midnight


Artist's Biography

Venus Blake is a Singer-Songwriter and Pianist. With a soul of a poet, the stature of a vampire and eyes of a fallen angel, she was born in 2004 and raised in London Uk of Greek and Russian-Jewish parents. She is currently living a bohemian lifestyle based in a little attic somewhere in Italy. A classically trained pianist, she started playing piano at the age of five, as well as briefly experimenting with the violin, organ and cello. Undecided whether to become an opera singer, a poet or a concert pianist, she found her true calling in pop music, writing her first song - called ʻ’Moonlight Whispers’’ - at the age of nine. In her teens she performed with local musical theatre companies, sang in choirs and formed her own rock bands where she first got a taste of the ecstasy of Rock’n’Roll.

A wild child in her teens, she ran away from home at 16 to pursue her music, and travelled around Europe performing with various tribute bands, playing in piano bars and sometimes even busking, something her gypsy soul always found extremely poetic. She wrote songs for other artists and bands and worked as a session musician, as well as occasionally doing some modelling, while refining her craft as a songwriter, a pianist and vocalist.

While in Italy, she met italian music producer Lex Mars and this meeting was the catalyst to bringing Venus’s own music to the forefront. Co-founding an indie label with Lex Mars ʻ’Count St. Germain Records’’ she began pursuing her own project as a solo artist and songwriter. Experimenting with various genres in order to find her own voice, she released a few electro pop singles before eventually coming full circle to where she was always most in her element - sitting behind a piano, pouring her heart out in dramatic, dark melodies, ballads, poetry in music, honest and volatile and true. She is a soulful singer-songwriter, the girl at the piano, with the music front and centre, with heartfelt songwriting at its core, backed up by powerhouse vocals and impressive piano skills.

Her debut album ʻ’The Other Side of Midnight’’ is an intimate look into Venus Blake’s dark, gothic soul, it’s an album for the outsider, with personal, intimate lyrics, emotional vocals, and simple atmospheric productions, ten tracks that take you on a journey through the other side of midnight, from darkness into the light. Notable for its dark cinematic quality and exploration of themes of tragic romance, sadness, tragic, glamor, and melancholia, the album is the quintessence of the piano driven Singer-Songwriter genre which Venus Blake is most at home in, bringing to mind artists like Elton John, Billy Joel, Adele, Tori Amos, Freddie Mercury, Christina Perry and Amy Lee, who along with Halsey, Lana del Rey, 80s rock (and Beethoven) are Venus’s biggest inspirations as an artist and songwriter.

In the rare moments where she’s not making music, Venus loves reading obscure books no one has ever heard of, studying philosophy, writing endless poetry, going on long road trips with no destination, exploring ruins, watching sunsets from rooftops, getting completely lost in nature and dancing in the pouring rain. She speaks five languages, is an inveterate bookworm, and will soon release her first book; a compilation of poetry, as a companion to her debut album. She’s passionate about women’s rights, children’s rights, the lgbt community and removing the stigma from mental health and addiction. As an artist she aims to reach people’s hearts with her music, trusting that songs that come from the heart - can go straight to the heart of her fans, followers and listeners. That’s the magic of music - in just three-four minutes you can change the course of someone’s life, inspire or console, create the soundtrack for poetic moments and put into words and music the essence of what it means to be human. Ordo ab chao, beauty out of darkness, is her motto.


About the Album

Venus Blake’s debut album ‘’The Other Side of Midnight’’ is an intimate look into the heart of the modern day Outsider, capturing the alienation, melancholy, solitude and angst of the artist, living in a world gone mad, and facing their demons with a devil on one shoulder, the muses on the other. Love, loss, heartbreak, melancholy, alienation, addiction, isolation but also hope, ecstasy, the devotion to beauty and the hidden magic of life come together to make a harrowingly honest and intimate look into the darkest corners of the soul. Venus Blake’s intense vocals, expressive mastery of the piano, and dark lyrics front and centre on this voyage through the Other Side of Midnight. Notable for its dark cinematic quality and its exploration of themes of tragic romance, sadness, drama, poetry, glamour and melancholia

Written after Midnight, recorded in a bohemian attic lost out in the Italian countryside, ‘’The Other Side of Midnight’’ harks back to the golden age of singer-songwriters of the 70s (Carole King, Elton John, Billy Joel, Phil Collins) and of the 90s (Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Fiona Apple). The haunting, minimalist productions create a haunting atmosphere, while Venus Blake combines her piano magic with powerhouse vocals and a gift for capturing the essence of emotion in her words and music.

As Venus says ‘’Singer-songwriters are like modern day troubadours, wandering around the world, and writing our songs about the highs and lows of the human condition, we’re like the chroniclers of humanity, recording our own deepest experiences, thoughts and emotions and crystallising moments and feelings into four minute songs.”

Ordo ab chao, beauty out of darkness, is Venus Blake’s artistic philosophy, and her debut album ‘’The Other Side of Midnight’’ while dark, dramatic and brooding, gives us the strength to rise above it all, as it deeply touches the heart, and tears through the highs and lows of what it means to be human.