Spike, Dublin's alternative cello festival, opens with performances from Laura Moody and Lioba Petrie.

Laura Moody (UK) is a wildly alternative cellist, vocalist and avant-singer-songwriter. Fascinated not only with words and songwriting but also with sounds, noises and textures she eschews laptops and loop pedals to explore what is possible using only solo cello and voice. She creates emotive songs that reveal a multitude of influences and inhabit a unique space between the contemporary avant-garde, classical music, experimental pop and singer-songwriter tradition.

Lioba Petrie will present a brand new project, performing a live film score to screen from one of Ireland’s most exciting filmmakers.