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Twenty years ago, Martha Wainwright stepped out of her family’s illustrious shadow and announced herself to the world with her stunning debut album Martha Wainwright. Featuring "Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole", a song about her father, "Factory" and "When The Day Is Short", it immediately proved she was a major talent to be reckoned with.

On 23rd May 2025, [PIAS] will release this album on vinyl for the very first time. This classic debut will also be released on CD and digital with extra tracks and a bonus disc that features 14 rarities and alternate versions. 

Gems include "Bring Back My Heart" featuring Rufus Wainwright, "Our Love" with Kate & Anna McGarrigle and "Far Away" featuring the late, great Garth Hudson, both never previously released. 

“In the years before my first album was released, I was doing my own version of ‘artist development’ – playing a lot of gigs and going into the studio to make demos,” Martha remembers. “I got to New York City in 1998. It was a magical blur of fun and discovery, meeting musicians, playing and seeing shows and going into the studio. Hopping from bar to bar in the Lower East Side and Williamsburg.” 

“These are some of the recordings that came out of that time,” Martha says of the bonus material. “Some were released as EPs that I would sell at shows but others have never been released. These are the ones that best reflect that time and the wild eclecticism I’ve always had, for better or worse, as an artist.” 

To support the release, Martha will play eighteen shows this summer across the UK & Ireland including two in London: the already sold out Union Chapel on 30th May 2025 and Cadogan Hall 30th August 2025.