Dry Cleaning

So the band is Dry Cleaning, and they are a four-piece singer-songwriter, Florence Cleopatra, which is just so nice-

Wow

... that her name is Cleopatra Shaw.

She's the vocalist, as I meant, the lyricist.

She does percussion, tape loops, and without irony, plays the recorder.

And she's a former arts lecturer and visual artist.

What I love about her is her deadpan looks and almost spaced out persona when she's in concert and even in her videos is just great.

Then there's Tom Dowse.

He's the guitarist, keyboardist, tape loops, and he's also a former arts lecturer.

Lewis Maynard, who is the bassist and worked with adults with learning disabilities.

And another reason why I like the band so much, and we'll talk about their concerts, both Tom and Lewis, Dowse and Maynard, rock out in concert.

They make wild gesticulations in between the songs [laughs] and they are really a good foil to Shaw's deadpan persona.

And then Nick Buxton rounds it out on the drums, percussion, programming, keyboards, and he was a former f- furniture builder.

Huh.

Well, interesting that some of them are art students as well, which was similar to Black Country, New Road too.

They all kinda met in college, right?

Mm-hmm, yep.

And these guys didn't...

Although they, they played around in bands, it's interesting, their history.

And why I say former is because Dowse, Buxton, and Maynard all knew each other from bands that they had, uh, they played in separate bands through their university years.

But they were all working, they all had day jobs, and they were really trying to get something going.

So Buxton and Maynard had a band called La Shark, and they have about 150 monthly listeners-

[laughs]

... on my streaming service.

Did you listen to them, or-