Alessi Rose Tickets

Swirling in both the melancholy and heart-fluttering amazement of youth and young love, fast-rising indie pop singer-songwriter Alessi Rose faces up to her personal hardships with sensitivity and soaring honesty in equal measure.

Though her piercing lyricism might initially conjure the image of a wiser, world-weary writer on the opposite end of the pen, Alessi Rose has been steadily crafting her songwriting since a relatively early age. It’s a journey that the London-born artist has documented in the public domain, having uploaded videos to YouTube of her performing cover versions since the age of thirteen. 

But it was after living on a musical diet of Phoebe Bridgers, Holly Humberstone, and Gracie Adams during her late teens that Rose felt compelled to shape a sound entirely of her own. Not only in her songwriting, but also by learning the ropes of music production, weaving the tropes of numerous pop music subgenres around her candied melodies and pristine, breathless vocals. 

The basis of her inspiration proved to be personal. Very personal. As the bio on Alessi’s Spotify profile states: “if people don’t want me to write songs about them they shouldn’t do bad things”. Her Twitter/X name ‘alessi rose will eat you alive’ is perhaps more telling. 

In June of 2023, Rose set her sights on self-releasing her debut single, ‘say ur mine’, which she even self-produced alongside SYBLYNG. A song which “invented a whole parasocial relationship in my head”, Rose admitted to herself that she was besotted with someone, though her affections went entirely one-way. The track’s synth-driven, fist-clenching optimism mirrors the feelings of free-falling into love, with her lyrics like “you could breathe and I’d feel everything” characterising her unflinching candour.

Only months later, Alessi Rose’s sophomore single ‘hate this part’ was again self-released continuing her streak of candid songwriting. “Look I said I’d never come back yeah I promised / But I need you more than ever if i’m honest / I’m just hoping you still leave a key under the mat / Run for the hills but I can’t stay for long /'Cause if I get too comfortable I might be wrong / It’s hard and I hate this part,” she deadpans. Whilst on the surface, ‘hate this part’ might play out like a coming-of-age song about the hardships of leaving home, if you delve into her lyricism it’s a veiled ode to moving on from an ex-partner.

At the turn of 2024, Alessi Rose self-released her third single ‘eat me alive’, which swiftly racked up over 300,000 streams on Spotify. Momentum continued to build as BBC Radio Introducing cottoned on to the emotional complexity of her songwriting. In the summer she released her EP rumination as ritual, performing at The Great Escape, Latitude Festival and a headline show of her own at St Pancras Old Church in London.