FORM presents
MARIPOOL
+ LAL TUNA

£13 Adv
7pm doors

Maripool is the moniker of Lisbon-born, London based songwriter Natacha Simões, a self-described “one girl band” who works largely solo, writing and playing on her guitar- driven, bedroom-pop arrangements.

Upon moving to London at 18, Simões got a job at Whole Foods and bought a guitar with her first paycheck. Having never played music before she then spent most evenings teaching herself how to play the music of her heroes from the midwest emo scene. Honing her craft in isolation, Simões would eventually fall upon what would become the world of Maripool - a captivating mix of melancholy that swirls between the delightful wonders of articulated shoegaze, and a witching hour state of deep-blue dreaming. Maripool’s debut single Blindness, released in 2021, received critical acclaim from the likes of DIY, So Young, and Pitchfork.

Her debut EP, It All Comes At Once, was released in 2022, via Practise Music. Filled with emotive charm and drawing from the canon of 2010s jangly guitar-centric pop, 1990s shoegaze and midwest emo. In 2024, she followed with her sophomore EP, a day that feels like nothing at all, released through Oakland-based label Smoking Room, further refining her ability to turn introspection into atmosphere. Maripool’s debut album, Rotten Luck, will arrive in late August via Smoking Room and Lost Wisdom. The record is a nostalgic yet assured exploration of emotional extremities, a confrontation with inner demons rendered in soft distortion and sharp vulnerability.

Lal Tuna has been evolving within the French music scene for just one year. Hyperactive artistically, it becomes easier to understand her decision to leave Istanbul a few years ago, when she was only 18. From her apartment, she writes, records, and produces her music entirely on her own, crafting an intimate yet cinematic universe where mainstream pop sensibilities collide with gothic atmospheres and raw 1960s garage textures. Following the dark and confessional Television Forever, Lal revealed a more luminous, almost psychedelic side with Car Crashes, while still preserving the melancholic tension and emotional ambiguity that define her songwriting. Even though she prefers to be alone in her creative process, Lal brings her songs to life on stage with a full band.