INTRODUCING: Genevieve Miles

Genevieve Miles isn’t here to be palatable — she’s here to be felt. Blending psychedelic, witchy alt-rock with raw emotional honesty, her music channels rage, grief and release in equal measure. With a rapidly growing reputation for live shows that feel more like collective therapy than gigs, Miles is carving out a space where audiences are invited to be loud, unfiltered and fully alive. Fresh from BBC Introducing support, major festival slots and a headline UK tour, she’s stepping into what she calls “the time of the wild woman” — and she’s bringing everyone with her.

Your phrase “this is the time of the wild woman” is really powerful — what does that mean to you personally, and how does it shape your music and performances?

For me, it means making noise, taking up space, prioritising feeling alive over feeling pretty. It’s kind of become a mantra for me before gigs, it’s like this is my moment to let it all out, the rage I’ve held my whole life and that all the women in my lineage have held for generations. And creating a space where I and everyone else in the room can let it be expressed. I think I used to be obsessed with making sure myself and my music were digestible and small and pretty, but that’s not good for me, we’re all having to put this mask on all the time and gigs should be a place where we can have space to howl in pain, get a bit feral, dance and stomp it out and come out feeling lighter.

Your live shows are described as “therapeutic” and “affirming” — what kind of experience are you hoping people walk away with after seeing you perform?

I hope that people leave my gigs with a feeling of catharsis, because making noise in a shared space is what humans have done forever and it is so healing. I try to create a space where people feel that they can move their body however they need to, make whatever noises need to be let out, just all unmask together. Feel the biggest feelings and begin to let them go, in a space where we are all held in so much love. It’s therapy for me and I hope others get the same feeling.

You’ve had support from BBC Introducing and played major festivals like Truck and The Great Escape — what’s been a standout moment in your journey so far?

My EP release show in November was incredible, it was a real honour that so many people came to celebrate with me. And headlining ‘Ones to Watch 2026’ in Birmingham in January was so electric, I literally nearly passed out at the end haha, I was screaming and I closed my eyes and I could see all these flashing lights behind my eyes and my legs nearly buckled, it’s rare to feel so present and connected with a crowd: it was really special.

Your new EP ‘then it gets worse’ has such an intriguing title — what themes or emotions were you exploring with that release?

The EP explores rage, grief and hope. How you cannot imagine the amount of pain you are capable of feeling, the unimaginable losses you will experience. But there is also so much hope, things get so much worse but they also get so much better, more than you could ever imagine. Life is full of gifts and grief in equal measure, and it is so worth sticking around to see the gifts.

With a headline UK tour and more new music on the way, how do you feel your sound is evolving compared to your earlier work?

I think the main thing for me is the honesty, I think my writing just keeps getting more and more real. Sonically, the music has definitely continued to get heavier, but I think that just goes hand in hand with being authentic, making music that really sounds like the feelings I’m talking about. I’m really excited to play some of the newer stuff on tour, I’m really proud of it.