José González in London

José González is a Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist, born in Gothenburg in 1978. His acoustic folk songs are built around fingerpicked guitar and restrained vocals. His debut solo album, Veneer, includes “Crosses” and his cover of The Knife’s “Heartbeats”; later records include In Our Nature, Vestiges & Claws and Local Valley. He is also a member of Junip. In 2017, González toured Europe with the orchestral collective The String Theory, and recordings from those concerts became the album Live in Europe. In 2023, he marked two decades of his debut by performing the record in full on the Veneer 20th Anniversary Tour.

Beth Orton is an English singer-songwriter, born in East Dereham, Norfolk, in 1970, who makes folk-rooted alternative music shaped by electronic production. She is known for the albums Trailer Park and Central Reservation, the songs “She Cries Your Name” and “Stolen Car,” and her vocals on the Chemical Brothers tracks “Alive Alone” and “Where Do I Begin.” Later records include Daybreaker and Weather Alive. Beth Orton performed on the travelling Lilith Fair in the 1990s during her early concert work in North America. In 2022 she toured behind Weather Alive, playing theatres and clubs in Britain and the United States; her festival history also includes Glastonbury Festival.