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ESTELLE MEY
Folk roots | Punk fire | Voice-driven
Estelle Mey creates music from the voice first.
Everything else grows from there.
Her work blends folk roots, punk and metal energy and modern sound tools.
She mixes the ancient resonance of the hurdy-gurdy with electronic textures and distortion, moving naturally between quiet, intimate moments and raw, explosive ones.
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Her sound moves through primal rhythms, ancestral echoes, gritty punk energy
and layered, glitched textures.
Influences range from Björk and Heilung to Sepultura and Nine Inch Nails
all blending into a single, evolving journey.
Live, these elements come together as one continuous flow,
guided by the voice and shaped in the moment.
Estelle creates spaces where old sounds meet new ideas.
With her self-made shamanic drum and a voice rooted in the body,
each piece feels alive and physical.
Some Past Achievements
Releases including The Key, Late, and Snake (from the Storm collection) have been played on BBC Radio 1 Future Alternative, Radio X and Planet Rock.
What’s Next?
Her current work is slower, more exploratory and rooted in process.
Woodchant is an evolving project ecploring the ''magic of the world'' combining music,
visuals, experiments and writings guided by ancestral echoes and curiosity.
She shares her creative path as it unfolds, grounded in folk traditions and open to the unknown.
At the same time, Lilith, soon released, in the Storm collection leans into her punk and metal side,
with raw industrial textures and phonk-inspired glitches.
All of this belongs to a wider journey: one of voice, craft, raw energy and becoming.
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Now this is a real face melter and exactly what we need, perfect, a shot in the arm at this time of the day!Someone described this artist as PJ Harvey into Sepultura, you'll know what I mean when I play it ”
- F.Francis, AMAZING RADIO UK
MORE ABOUT ESTELLE MEY'S JOURNEY
After a long journey from France to Iceland and Iceland to England, Estelle fell in love with the heavy British scene and decided to be part of it . With her baritone guitar she composed her first EP ‘’Limited luck Edition Demos’’ in 2019 .
Later Estelle and Rob met and her songs took another dimention, on bigger stages.
The two started their adventure in September 2021.
They have played in London and the South East of England, with their current highlight of supporting SUN BRUTAL POP, FALSE HEADS and HEALTHY JUNKIES.
The pair have reworked a number of Estelle's previously released songs and have recorded at
Sky Studios at the NFTS where they performed the new version of 'Venus' Guts' originally released on Estelle's 2017 solo album 'The Key'.
Keeping the explosive energy of ''Get out'' from Estelle Mey's 2019's demos ''Limited Luck Edition', the first single' 'Snake'' (Rejection) saw the light in March 2023 and have been featured on national radios as well as magazines such as NEW NOISE MAGAZINE, CLOUT , ILLUSTRATE and many more.
" So punky, I just like that old school raw punk, I'm all about it! "
- Alyx Holcombe, BBC RADIO 1
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Releases :
Waiting, The key, Pulsion and Silence have been played on BBC introducing, BBC radio Kent, the national Radio France bleu and Radio scoop as well as many local radios in Europe, United States and Australia. Her performance of Pulsion at Sky TV studios reached 50 000 + views on facebook.
She released her debut album The Key thanks to a crowdfunding that has been supported with more than 300%.
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Performances:
The singer has supported :
SUN BRUTAL POP, FALSE HEADS, TOPLOADER ,BANG BANG ROMEO, and THE FUN LOVIN CRIMINALS in England,SINCLAIR, MINA AGOSSI in France and performed with the band JAGÚAR in Iceland and in various festifals including some with headliners such as HYPHEN HYPHEN and SHAKA PONK.
She also played acoustic shows for the Radio Scoop Tour in France with a crowd of over 27,000 people as well as various festivals and venues throughout Europe, including SOFAR SOUNDS and the Ella Guru night hosted by PIXIE LOTT.
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Earlier :
Before falling in love with songwriting, Estelle was focussing on singing and received the special jury prize at the Söngkeppni framhaldsskólanna, a national singing colleges contest in Iceland, where she used to live. Also where she started playing and composing.
She also ended 13th on the singing TV show ''Nouvelle star'' in France.
"Let's up the attitude as we get on this infectious punk song from Estelle Mey. It's a headbanger if ever I've heard one. So clear some room and go wild."
- Abbie McCarthy, BBC Kent