The Anchoress aka Catherine Anne Davies

Dropped some rare merch and a 10% off everything code for those looking to buy themselves an early Christmas present on that there site that has a special Friday every so often…

Watch the video to grab the code and then go fill yer boots!

4 years ago, The Art Of Losing was an album of the year. It was a dream come true. Today, so many of those publications that championed that record have closed or cut their coverage drastically.

New piece over on my Substack about why we need to fight for the music press: theanchoress.substack.com

😂🙏🏻

When your phone autocorrects “kettle” to “Kierkegaard” it probably means I’ve owned it too long that it knows the inside of my head and it’s time to upgrade…

Some thoughts on my birthday…
I’m off to hunt for some cake now x

Thank you! Can’t wait x

Can’t wait for tonight! Timings for this evening’s show at the Union Chapel, London:

7.30pm Roxanne De Bastion
8.30pm The Anchoress
Offstage by 10pm, with merch signing after the show.

Thanks to everyone who came to the warmup show last night at The Horn in St Albans. It might have been a bit chilly in the dressing room but you certainly warmed our hearts and bodies up as we hit the stage.

Hope to see for for the main event on Friday at London’s Union Chapel

Thanks to everyone who came to the warmup show last night at The Horn in St Albans. It might have been a bit chilly in the dressing room but you certainly warmed our hearts and bodies up as we hit the stage.

Hope to see for for the main event on Friday at London’s Union Chapel

Can’t wait 🙏🏻❤️

⭐️ Sneak peek of the incredible @theanchoress.bsky.social ahead of her show on 14th November at #UnionChapel. You don't want to miss this! ⭐️

Book your tickets now at: unionchapel.org.uk/venue/whats-...

No rest for the wicked as I was up early getting in. The shows are just ten days away now and I always get stuck into a daily ritual of running the set from start to finish to get my muscle memory embedded in.

What have you all got planned for your Sunday?

Thank you

🙏🏻🙏🏻

Thanks Andrew

Official video for 'Bizarre Love Triangle' by The Anchoress. Produced by Catherine Anne Davies. Mixed by Mario J. McNulty. Taken from the 'Versions' album. Out now on Drowned In Sound Recordings.… Bizarre Love Triangle - The Anchoress

#LunchtimeListening @theanchoress.bsky.social insanely beautiful voice #NowPlaying www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEA8....
Catch her performing on the 14th November. You don’t want to miss this – book now at: unionchapel.org.uk/venue/whats-...

Afraid not. We’re taking a break from live after this as two band members are welcoming new babies! Hope you can make the trip down to London x

We’re just two weeks out from the shows now. One of the ways I can manage the adrenaline overload before going on stage is by having a nightly ritual of getting ready and putting my #gigface on.

Wed 12th November 2025 ST ALBANS, The Horn (warm-up show) 
Fri 14th November 2025 LONDON, Union Chapel

British Library to reinstate Oscar Wilde’s reader card 130 years after it was revoked Exclusive: Pass to be presented to playwright’s grandson after original cancelled over conviction for gross indecency

Happy Birthday to Oscar Wilde, whose British Library reader pass is being reinstated today.

The Anchoress: Instrumentals & Dreamscapes

If you need a soundtrack to your working day, check out my playlist of instrumentals and dreamscapes from across the albums 🎧

Give it a follow and show it some ❤️ open.spotify.com/playlist/0XO...

It’s World Mental Health Day and I wanted to share my top tips for looking after your mental health as a touring musician.

I know times are tough & not everyone can afford to buy a ticket for the show next month.

If you’d like to come the Union Chapel and don’t have the means to buy a full price ticket, I’m offering up a handful of half price concessions.

Just drop me a DM and I will do my best to get you sorted x

And while we are on the subject of autism…

Yesterday’s off the cuff posts turned into a longer piece about how having my neurodivergence exposed a decade ago actually probably gave me my career.

Spent this afternoon laying down some omnichord on a new track for the album.

It’s one of my go-to instruments for adding a layer of twinkle-texture that can’t carry the weight of another melodic instrument that is going to make frequency masking an even more complex issue.

‘The Ziggy Stardust suit sparked my adolescent awakening’: Moby, Goldie, Natalie Merchant and more delve inside Bowie’s archives As a huge new public collection opens this weekend, famous fans pick out their touchstones – from the game-changing wardrobe that gave birth to glam to the synthesiser that drove his Berlin years

Honoured to have been asked to contribute to this piece to mark the opening of the David Bowie archive this week, alongside Goldie, Moby and Natalie Merchant. I got to pick the object I’d most like to get my hands on from the 90,000 in the archive: www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

Hey folks. If you're not already stocked up on some superb Anchoress musical goodies, then today is a good time to rectify that

To celebrate reaching the unbelievable milestone of 20,000 physical album sales, I’ve decided to do something a bit mad today and have a better than half-price sale on all my CD albums.

Head over to Bandcamp to grab one while stocks last!

The Art of Losing @theanchoress.bsky.social

We would need some serious witchcraft for that to happen

Critical Thinking is a bone fide classic already