A prolific songwriter since she was a teenager, Hannah Rodgers has always written “on my own in my room, just me and a guitar.” An exercise in catharsis and decompression, “I write from a place that’s hard to explain…it almost feels like a takeover, out-of-body.”

Having written songs continuously in the way others may keep a diary, she found herself sitting on a stockpile. “I had this backlog of songs that I didn’t really know what to do with. I’d always wanted to be in a band but I didn’t really know how to make it happen.” 

Tentatively, she started sending the songs out to friends, road-testing them at small live shows, with different members “joining and leaving, coming and going” and when Rodgers hit upon the band’s current iteration, “it just sort of stuck.”

Finally, having headlined the George Tavern in London in December, Marsy have a pair of shows at this year’s Dot To Dot Festival.