Boyd performing live. Free entry.

CDs /mp3s also available on https://madeofboyd.bandcamp.com/

Frank and clear, Young Womanhood asserts a complex vocal cachet without obscuring the range of instrumental abilities Boyd has garnered to date; namely piano and violin, guitar, synths and programmed drums. 

Residing in Glasgow with her newlywed husband and a West Highland Terrier named Whistle, Meadhbh’s personal history has been steeped in music since she came into being in County Clare in the west of Ireland. She has worked behind the scenes for Roxy Music’s Bryan Ferry as an orchestral coordinator / transcriber and has recorded and performed with Grammy-winning producer, Chilly Gonzales. Classically trained in piano and violin, she plays with the sweetness and lightness of touch that comes of love and understanding music as a form of expression. She could be classical, a rocker, a polemic-spouting pop star or a punk but there’s no fun in being good at just one thing. Of many things, she’s best just as Boyd.

“Anyone who has ever learned to play the piano will know what it’s like to sit down to practice. You quickly postpone the inevitable 15 minutes of scales and arpeggios to conduct your own joyous musical explorations, absent-mindedly freewheeling up and down the keyboard to find unexpected melodies, harmonies and rhythms. That’s what Meadhbh’s songs sound like; they obey virtually none of the stuffy rules of songwriting, and that lack of constraint means that there are no forced rhymes or clichéd cadences. In fact, they almost sound directly imagined from her head into yours. At first that can feel unsettling, but it quickly transforms into something very playful, personal and beautiful. This wonderful record sits in an alternative world that I wish I could visit more often, where absent-minded doodling meets laser-guided musical precision.” Rhodri Marsden, Scritti Politti