One True Pairing

One True Paring plays the Woodland Stage at 7:30pm

Domino Records recording artist Tom Fleming AKA One True Pairing was previously in The Wild Beasts.

“You look forward,” sings Tom Fleming on new album ‘Endless Rain‘, “but you’re full of doubt.”

It was Christmas in Cumbria, and at the end of 2019 Fleming felt that he had ran out of road. “It was on the back of a terrible breakup,” reflects the singer-songwriter, “a loss of income, a loss of house, everything. It rained solidly for about a week.” Fleming reflected on his life and watched the downpour. “The brown, mucky water rising and the creatures that live in it.”

Today, Fleming’s reflection and hard won self-revelation has fed into ‘Endless Rain‘ – the startlingly intimate and gorgeously realised new album from One True Pairing. Recorded in Dublin in 2022 with producer John ‘Spud’ Murphy (Lankum, black midi, Caroline), ‘Endless Rain‘ boldly restates Fleming’s vision with an autumnal, searching and often uplifting record shaped by the backgrounds in traditional music, classical and noise rock of its players. Sonically, ‘Endless Rain‘ is an ambitious and widescreen record quite unlike anything in Fleming’s back catalogue.