Bridie Monds-Watson performing as Soak, on the main stage at the OnBlackheath Music Festival 2016
Just 19 years old, Bridie Monds-Watson has been performing in her home of Derry since the age of 14, where she’d split her time between studying, the local skate-park, her burgeoning songwriting and touring in the school holidays. Then, in 2014 she released the beautiful ‘Blud’ and toured with the likes of George Ezra and Bombay Bicycle Club. In the same summer that most of her friends got their exam results, Soak signed an album deal with Rough Trade Records and aired the beautiful singles B a noBody and Sea Creatures. Her album Before We Forgot How To Dream cements Bridie Monds-Watson’s ascent from a raw talent to a unique artistic voice for 2015 “a vivid portrait of teenage deep-thinking…intricate, ambiguous psychodramas” The Guardian. Bridie Monds-Watson, better known by her stage name SOAK, is an Irish singer-songwriter born in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1996.[1] SOAK's music has been described as 'a vivid portrait of teenage deep-thinking' by The Guardian. She released her debut studio album Before We Forgot How to Dream in May 2015. In November 2014 she was revealed as one of acts on the BBC Sound of 2015 long list.[3]On 20 January 2015 she released her debut single "Sea Creatures".[4] She released her debut studio album Before We Forgot How to Dream on 29 May 2015 which won the Irish Choice Music Prize Album of the Year 2015 on Thursday March 3, 2016 at the annual awards ceremony held in Vicar Street in Dublin.
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