Watersmeet 🌊

IMPORTANT UPDATE! Unfortunately our gig at @victoria_tunnel has been postponed due to an accidental clash in scheduling. @ouseburntrust are working hard to make sure all ticket holders are aware of this and that their tickets can be carried over to the new date! Thanks to everyone who bought tickets in advance - we hope we will still see you there on 11th September, Jessie's Birthday! 🥳 Here's the info: Join us for our first gig UNDERGROUND… Where? Victoria Tunnel Entrance, Lime Street When? 11th Sep, 2026 What time? 7:30pm - 8:30pm, please arrive 10mins prior to start time How much? £10.00 What? Sounds of the Underground is an atmospheric and unique experience taking place beneath the streets of Newcastle in the pitch black of the historic Victoria Tunnel. The Victoria Tunnel is a subterranean wagonway that runs under Newcastle upon Tyne, England, from the Town Moor down to the River Tyne. It was built between 1839 and 1842 to transport coal from Leazes Main Colliery in Spital Tongues, to riverside staithes(jetties), ready for loading onto boats for export. The colliery closed in January 1860 and the tunnel was abandoned until the start of the Second World War, when it was converted for use as an air-raid shelter. For those of you who might not have made the previous date, tickets will be on sale for this within the next few days - we'll be keeping you updated on here and on our mailing list! Thanks for the understanding ✨✨

Dead excited to be heading to @gatetosouthwellfestival for the first time this summer alongside a wonderful line up! Don't wanna wish time away butttt bring on the long summer days filled with good music and merriness 🌞🌞🌞

Meet the Artists: WATERSMEET Spellbinding Indie-folk duo @watersmeet_ are set to headline on the 16th, with a weave of melodic soundscape of heartfelt music that delves into the heart and soul. Partners in life and in music, Anna Hughes and Jessie Howard came together in 2022, to share slow-burning, heartfelt songs with lofty melodies. Interweaving guitar arrangements meet spacious harmonium drones creating a dreamlike, yet grounded sound carried by close-knit harmonies. Their music explores ideas of rest and restlessness, nature and wildness, guiding listeners into a space of reflection and reverie. Their live shows are known for their intimacy and warmth, capturing the magic of their studio recordings. Check out their debut EP ‘Carried Away’, ahead of their amazing headline performance at @thestationeastgh , as part of United in Music Festival: Year 3! #unitedinmusicfestival #afterlightmgmt #stationeast #musicfestival #ukmusicscene #livemusic #acousticmusic #semiacousticmusic #gatesheadmusicscene #grassrootsmusic #northeastmusicscene

This is a new song we’ve been working on, written at Heriot Toun in the Scottish Borders. It’s a song about our relationship with ancient landscape, the underground, its formations and everything that has come before us to shape us today. We are looking forward to playing this @unitedinmusicfest on May 16th! tickets in bio ✨ We now have a mailing list! Please sign up for updates and info that can’t be lost to the algorithm 🌀link in bio for that also x

Stoked to be playing @thecumberlandarms on the 22nd March downstairs by the fire, come and cosy up, we have a new tune for you! Can’t wait to catch you there in the glow 🔥🍻 J&A x

Meet the Headliners! WATERSMEET Spellbinding Indie-folk duo Watersmeet, weave a melodic soundscape of heartfelt music that delves into the heart and soul. Partners in life and in music, Anna Hughes and Jessie Howard came together in 2022, to share slow-burning, heartfelt songs with lofty melodies. Interweaving guitar arrangements meet spacious harmonium drones creating a dreamlike, yet grounded sound carried by close-knit harmonies. Their music explores ideas of rest and restlessness, nature and wildness, guiding listeners into a space of reflection and reverie. Their live shows are known for their intimacy and warmth, capturing the magic of their studio recordings. Check out their debut EP ‘Carried Away’, ahead of their amazing headline performance at @thestationeastgh , as part of United in Music Festival: Year 3! #unitedinmusicfestival #afterlightmgmt #stationeast #musicfestival #ukmusicscene #livemusic #acousticmusic #semiacousticmusic #gatesheadmusicscene #grassrootsmusic #northeastmusicscene

Have you watched the new docudrama Dirty Business on channel 4? Based on a decade-long investigation into England’s water companies, Dirty Business tells the stories of real whistleblowers and people whose lives have been destroyed after encountering sewage-polluted water. It is deeply moving, eye opening and essential viewing. It was reported by the Guardian newspaper in 2024, that since 1990, when it was privatised, Northumbrian Water had paid £3.7 billion in dividends to its shareholders and created a debt of £3.5 billion. Privatisation? No thank you. We’re being neglected and so is our beautiful environment. Bring back public ownership, put water back into the hands of the people - people who actually care. Water brings life, wonder, joy, creativity…it should have rights of its own. We met by water, grew up in awe of it and everything it nurtures and shapes. There are no words…but there are always actions we can take: 🌊sign the petition via @surfersagainstsewage or there’s a link in our bio 🌊contact your MP 🌊download the safer seas app or view sewagemap.co.uk to see what’s really going on and to stay safe 🌊follow @riveractionuk 🌊support @thegreenparty 💚 🌊read Is A River Alive? By @robgmacfarlane for beautiful accounts of rivers around the world, thier meaning, thier power, thier impact on lives, how they are constantly under threat and how we can protect them Thank you @surfyonder for raising our awareness on this issue. Don’t let it get you down, let it motivate us all to take action, to feel empowered and to ensure clean water for our future generations. It’s not too late ♥️ J&A x

HAPPY VALENTINES PALENTINES! 💘 We thought today would be a nice day to share a little bit about how the title track from our EP, carried away, was made 🌬️ Jessie wrote the song after a series of cold, element embracing dates we went on in 2020. It's a strange thing falling in love amidst an otherwise extremely isolating time, in a lockdown, but it was a beautiful adventure and having so many dates outside means our love for each other is inseparable from nature, so we count ourselves very lucky. 🪾 We couldn't see much of each other and our main method of communication was just sending each other songs, little snippets of things we'd been working on or tracks by artists that were getting us through. That's what made this song - it's still one of our absolute faves to play live and has seen us through the last five years... And we're getting married in June! (Jessie measured Annas ring size by inventing a hula hoop on fingers game and then kept the hula hoop that fit!) Sending all our love your way today and always! Wm 🌈

Slow-burning folk. Lofty melodies. Harmonies that feel like a deep breath. @watersmeet_ – Anna Hughes and Jessie Howard – live from their From The Glasshouse session. Fancy catching more artists like watersmeet live in the room with us? @bbcintroducing from The Glasshouse returns this month. Maybe it’s time you joined us.

We spent a few days at our new creative haven in the borders earlier this month to create some new songs together 👀 And we're REALLY hoping we can get started on a record this year... that depends entirely on funding etc (you know how it goes) so if you see any funding ops let us know!! We just wanna express our endless thanks to the people that have bought our merch at a gig or on Bandcamp - it's thanks to you that we can get away from it all and spend some time writing, jamming, walking and getting silly 🪿 which all helps the creative process promisee! 100 points if you spot the buzzard in the reel, let us know in comments if you see it! 🦅 🎧 @theearlypurple

So happy to have kicked off '26 supporting @thewranmusic for their SOLD OUT gig at @thecumberlandarms Thank you for all your kind words after our little opening set 🫶 Thanks to @thewranmusic @thecumberlandarms @f54_live and @ian___evans on sound! We had our first ever gig at The Cumberland and couldn't have chosen a better spot to play just a couple of days ahead of independent venue week ✨ We love and cherish the small scale, the DIY, the indie, community based spaces and audiences like Saturdays keep them alive, you legends!  Massive thanks to @ellendixxon @_victoriawai_ for these photos 📷📷 More soon... @ivw_uk @aceagrams @bbc6music

We're playing our first gig of the year this coming Saturday, 24th Jan! Supporting the amazing @thewranmusic at the finest @thecumberlandarms Tickets in bio See you there! 🔥 @f54_live