The MODERN Kosmologist
In October 2018, Jane Weaver set off on her Loops In The Secret Society tour of the UK. Ditching her regular band, she opted to build a solo show around what she described as an “assemblage of custom-built vinyl discs, unlikely instrumentation, tape loops and zoetropic imagery.” It was a bold experiment that presented a number of challenges.
“I didn’t want to do a singersongwriter type thing,” she explains, sitting opposite in a corner of her local boozer near Stockport. “And I didn’t want to use backing tracks. When I started out, I used to do gigs playing dubplates and keyboards, trying to be a one-woman band. It was pretty stressful, but I decided to do it again. I just threw myself in at the deep end, really. It was about representing songs differently, creating
