Shilpa Ray – Cat Lady Tour 2025

In the organizer's words:

Her music has been compared to that of Blondie, The Cramps and Screamin' Jay Hawkins. In Europe, she is known to a wider audience through her collaboration with Nick Cave, whom she accompanied as a backing singer and as support for the Bad Seeds.

Since 2011 - following her years with her bands BEAT THE DEVIL and SR & HER HAPPY HOOKERS - Shilpa Ray has been creating her experimental DIY punk sound solo in an enormously diverse range: bluesy, punky, a little jazzy and cabaret-like - a musical fusion of styles & genres from an entire century with the vibes of a metropolis like New York. Shilpa Ray can do it loud and soft, gentle and biting, and when she gets harsh and screams out of character, it gets a little dissonant and even weird. With fug, with right, with reverberation and feedback.

Now the New York punk rock/art-pop songwriter is bringing her latest album "Portrait of a Lady" to Europe. Written in the wake of the #metoo movement and the years of the first Trump administration, Ray deals with her own experiences of abuse, layering autobiographical details with wild bon mots and surrealistic rock'n'roll sheen - her most haunting and personal work to date.