Venbee

Support from Queen Millz

Fresh from a successful Neighbourhood festival performance, dnb-pop starlet Venbee returns to Manchester on 1 March for a headline show in The Lodge at Deaf Institute.   

Venbee is a rising 21 year old artist and songwriter who’s having a breakout moment out with her drum & bass tinged ​songs. Unapologetically herself, you just can’t help but like Venbee. Hailing from Kent, she’s a Chatham girl through and through,​ and ​as far from pretentious as you can get: her Instagram is all bucket hats, oversized tracksuits and toilet selfies… a refreshing breath of fresh air in the highly curated social world.

Venbee has now dropped her new track “Messy In Heaven”, a collaboration with drum & bass producer Goddard, where she reimagines the son of god in a modern club predicament… In reality an allegory about that mate of yours who always puts others before themselves. Despite the cheeky blasphemous nature of the song, it debuted at #38 and is currently a #14 in the UK Singles chart.

Venbee’s quick ascent to viraldom started with her debut track “Low Down“ (with Dan Fable) released earlier this year. A dark pop song tackling the subject of depression, backed by stripped-back liquid drum & bass. It topped Spotify’s Viral chart, Radio 1 made the song its Introducing: Track of The Week, and spent 6 weeks in the U​K ​chart (peaking​ at #59) while at the time of writing it has racked up more than 19 million Spotify streams.

Venbee started writing music at the age of 9, teaching herself the guitar and piano after watching her grandad play. By the age of 12, she had already decided she wanted to be a musician. “It’s one of the only things that help me get through the ups and downs of life,’ says Venbee. She looks to the people close to her for lyrical inspiration, “Music has always been a way for me to express myself and tell stories, whether they are mine or someone else’s…. That’s why a lot of my songs are about my friends' messy nights out!” Freestyling and memorising the lyrics alongside rhythm guitar to combat her dyslexia, Venbee says ‘I am and will always be unapologetically myself…I’m a bit of a nutter. When people listen to my songs, I hope they can relate.”

For Venbee it’s much more than fleeting viral moments, she’s in it for the long run so is currently busy in the studio writing and recording new music with host of producers (such as Rudimental, Johnny Coffer and Two Inch Punch) who are all instantly taken in by her exuberant energy and drive…and on the basis her first two songs, her future success seems more than assured! The Chatham girl’s done good!