March 2024 issue:

"A pair of moody, driving-through-the-city-at night trackshere from electronic artist Martin Andrews, aka Octavia Freud, and vocal guests on this pair of singles, combining the darker end of 80s synth-pop with modern production sensibilities.

‘Fair is Foul’ (featuring Cate Debu) has melodic subtlety akin to The Human League, and a sense of negative space that creates a certain weight. Electronic arpeggios skitter around the long swathes of keyboard sounds that form the song’s base; carefully chosen guitar lines lead us from one place to the next.

‘Invincible’ (featuring The Bobo) ups the disco banger levels. It’s no hands-in-the air vacuous celebration though, and as with ‘Fair Is Foul’ suggests Octavia Freud has listened to a lot of Soft Cell and OMD.

As a set, these two tracks work very well: a light/dark duo sharing a strong shared approach to electronic music. There’s nothing wrong with a pinch of pop at the right time."

Octavia Freud & The Weird Sisters - (The Bobo) featured on BBC Introducing in Oxfordshire.

EXCLUSIVE: Octavia Freud & The Weird Sisters ‘Fair is Foul’ Video Premiere

Octavia Freud & The Weird Sisterspresent Mancbeth, an electronica concept album that updates Shakespeare’s Macbeth to the dark underbelly of the club scene of 90s Manchester.‘Fair is Foul / Invincible’is the lead double A single from the Mancbeth project due for release this Friday the 1st of March 2024.‘Fair Is Foul’featuresCate DeBuof electronica actThe Subtheoryand Invincible features Maria (The Bobo). It ripples and pulses with electronica and glimmering guitars. This gothic electro brew simmers with malevolent intent. Today, we are debuting the video for‘Fair is Foul’directed by Martin Andrews (Octavia Freud), watch it below.

Its introduction to the world of Mancbeth, a project with plans for a stage show, a film and an immersive multi-media experience. The concept of Mancbeth was devised by Mancunian actor and writer David Lemberg.

Martin Andrews (Octavia Freud), director for the Fair is Foul video said:
“To capture the essence of the Fair is Foul track I used the image of the witch alongside the spell-like word play of the opening lines from Macbeth, ‘fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through the fog and filthy air’. The fast fx transitions reflect the album’s updating of events to the 90s club culture of Manchester and the words conjure up a Lowry-esque image of the smog filled streets of grim Mancunia. The video introduces a sense of foreboding for the fate of the tragic figure of Macbeth, nightclub owner, drug dealer and murderer.”

Originally hailing from Manchester and having been part of the legendary 90s club scene there, Martin Andrews is well known for hisOctavia Freudsolo electronica project but for Mancbeth he has assembled a cast of rising stars that features top Oxford talents Emma Hunter, Kate Hicks, Maria (The Bobo), Mila Todd, Cate Debu and Pet Twin.