Saturday 24 Nov 2007 (7:30–10pm)
Tender years haven't slowed Laura Marling's progress from Reading-based teenage songstress to EMI's hottest new signing. Though she recently played a gig on the pavement outside a venue after they refused her entry for being just under 18, her brand of heartfelt folk and honest lyrics are already more developed than many better-known contemporaries — as the vulnerable-but-gritty "Night Terror" on last month's My Manic & I debut EP made resoundingly clear. With Jools Holland and Jon Kennedy already calling her name, intimate spaces such as the Tate's Café 2 will soon be a thing of a past for Marling. Jacob Sam-La Rose hosts some of London's best performing poetry talent to support this prodigious performance.
– Joe Rudkin