Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn, the pair behind Everything But The Girl, play two nights of songs from their 40-year careers at Union Chapel.
Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn, the duo behind Everything But The Girl, return to Union Chapel in Islington on Sunday 29 and Monday 30 November 2026. Each night runs to two sets.
Thorn and Watt met as students at Hull University in October 1981, both already signed to Cherry Red, a London label. They formed Everything But The Girl in 1982, taking the name from a furniture shop’s slogan in Hull.
Their first single, a spare cover of Cole Porter’s “Night and Day”, reached number 6 on the UK independent chart that year. Debut album Eden followed in 1984 and sold over half a million copies.
The pair play as a part-acoustic, part-electronic duo, drawing on their solo records as well as the band’s. These nights follow their long residency at MOTH Club in Hackney, which also shaped their next album.
Rex Horan plays double bass, and Blake Watt of the band Family Stereo plays guitar.