“Young, wild, and armed with an acoustic guitar, Louise Distras sings of desperate situations, dodging bullets, final stands and hostile towns with the coarse emotional vigour of a reckless outlaw. Her anthemic melodies grab hold with a fierce bite while her lyrics are fraught with futile sentiments, fearful vulnerability and aggressive defiance.
Her voice cuts through the tracks with the same visceral intimacy of Jamie T’s ‘Panic Prevention’, or Billy Bragg’s ‘Levi Stubbs Tears’.
A Yorkshire cousin to Mumford & Sons, Ben Marwood, Frank Turner and Laura Marling,
Uplifting music, stripped of commercial or gimmicky, tired hooks which surround the music
scene this music is unapologetic in it’s traditional beauty. This woman knows her way around 6 strings.
Folk punk may strike some as somewhat of a contradiction in stylistic terms but Ms. Distras ties the fast paced aggression of a Wild – West rebellious attitude to the rustic charm of the current ‘folk revival’ with jaunty skill and the result sound is distinctive, appealing and instantly memorable. With lyrics more in common with Jackson Cage than Eliza Doolittle, there’s real fury and commitment. This animal will claw the skin off your face if you get it riled. Don’t underestimate it.
Louise has played at the Strummercamp Festival and the worlds biggest punk festival – Rebellion Festival – in Blackpool, as well as constantly touring throughout the UK supporting bands such as The Adverts, Ben Marwood, Tim Barry (Avail), Great Cynics, Sonic Boom Six, Sam Forrest (Nine Black Alps) and many more.
The end of 2011 will see Louise on tour with New Model Army aswell as completing her first tour of Europe, taking her brand of acoustic punk to Holland, Germany, Austria and Belgium along with Mike Scott (Phinius Gage).

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