Victoria was bought up in Handsworth, Birmingham and went to an inner city comprehensive, where she was the only white student in her entire year. She experienced a very different upbringing with strong influences of Indian culture and music. 

Aged 14 she was part of a school trip funded for inner city schools to go to India. A experience which changed her forever. These have all fed into her love of Eastern styles of singing and song writing. Studying Indian vocal styles Konnakol and Ragas. 'When You’ comes from these origins mixed with her love of electronica and artists such as Tricky and Americana. Sensual and expressive. 

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This song, which is called ‘When You’ I’m going to go so far as to say that for me, it is one of the best songs, that I’ve heard all year. Roots and Fusion Rick Stuart.

“When You” is a captivating and atmospheric piece that showcases Hangover Square’s talent for crafting evocative and immersive music. Musikpool

“When You” is a captivating and atmospheric piece that showcases Hangover Square’s talent for crafting evocative and immersive music" Edgar Allan Poets

"Bourne evoking thoughts of Les Mysteres de Voix Bulgares while the focused, almost tribal rhythm of the guitars and percussive and wailing electronics conjure a complementary Eastern European atmosphere" FATEA

When you turn around
Back at what you’ve found
And the feeling erodes
 
When we find love
Held in time from above
And the feeling it slows

Two lovers to the race
Two lovers embrace 
And the feeling it grows

When you love
When you
When you

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03 When You

Simple to be fake
Simple to delay
Pulled down I may break
Pulled down out the way

See how I know
See how I explain
Let go my shadow
Let go my chain.

When the light shines over me
And the dog is gone

In our love
In your love
In our love
In your love

I am your fate
I am your cliche
In the broken state
In the life astray

Before you go
Before you crash
Look up you will know
Look up don’t be rash

When the light shines over me
And the dog is gone

In our love
In your love
In our love
In your love

Hold my hand
Hold my hand

02 Hold My Hand

I saw from afar, a house made of stone  
Made to survive, a gleaming white home 
But now so near there’s no stone at all 
But the softest of silks between you and the world 

Breathe, one more step up the stairs  
Sing, to me outside your prayers 

The lake is an eye and the eye has a shore  
And the shore is a home when the eye is no more  
The stairs on the lake spiral both ways 
And you on the stairs, climb every day 

Breathe, one more step up the stairs  
Sing, to me outside your prayers 

Your hand on your heart and your eyes to the sky  
You cease your steps with the lake swirling by 
How many times did your head leave your heart behind?  
How many times did your head leave your heart behind? 

Breathe, one more step up the stairs 
Sing, to me outside your prayers

01 Softest Of Silks

Soul-stirring Americana, a cinematic take on folk-blues that is a balm for the broken hearted and a swoon-inspiring delight for the lovers.

From darkness and loss,  hangovers were left behind for the peace of sobriety for duo Victoria Bourne and Chris Harper. In the last year the duo became sober and bounced back from two close friends suicides and Victoria’s own depression. Confronted with so much existential angst. Last year became a springboard for change going back to their roots of electronica and acoustic sounds.

“We’re doing what we love best, creating sad, romantic, cinematic music”

The electronics are an integral part of the band both on the recordings and live. Not to replace musicians but to be a musician in their own right. 

They host gigs in venues as diverse as a graveyards, gothic churches and cinemas. This is two people sounding like a 40 piece ensemble.

Reach out and listen with us whilst we take you on a journey to Hangover Square. 

They are two highly experienced professional musicians who have been played widely across the radio including having been playlisted on BBC Radio 2, they have toured extensively across the UK and in Europe.

“It’s an album that meshes electronica and acoustic instruments seamlessly, creating an intricate soundscape for Bourne’s expressive vocals”
– Louder Than War

“I’m very excited to have discovered Hangover Square’s music. Their second album is a triumph of the personal and the experimental, delivering a journey in which one can easily become lost. The mix of Americana and electronica on display is simply stunning” 
– York Calling

'Absolutely stunning, I’ve played them numerous times over and over again’ -- Rick Stuart Roots and Fusion

“…this is hugely accomplished…an impressive calling card…a hangover most definitely worth nursing…” Folk Radio

New tracks tagged #Americana Electronica