Ma Polaine's Great Decline

Taking inspiration from the 1940's jazz of Billie, the blues grit of the Wolf, and the genre sidestepping of Waits, Ma Polaine's Great Decline create their own style of broken-down roots music; from painfully sparse bitter-sweet love songs, to fearsome tales of revenge, alongside country-soul ballads and infectious vaudevillian tango.

Alongside gigging around London, straddling the blues, folk and songwriter scenes, Ma Polaine’s Great Decline exerted great patience in finding additions to the live band. The right musicians with the right disposition slowly uncovered themselves in Jon Gillies on tenor sax and piano and Chris Clavo on double bass. With Beth introducing her own harmonica and accordion, the band utilise the combinations of different sounds to give the songs just what they need.