SINGER/songwriter Thea Gilmore is playing the Cheltenham Town Hall on Wednesday, May 20, showcasing her new album Ghosts & Graffiti.

Ghosts & Graffiti is a retrospective with a difference, a 20 track double album where Thea looks both forward and back.

It includes all her best known songs on one record for the first time and features a duet with Joan Baez, and a duet with Billy Bragg.

There is also a full collaboration with The Waterboys, produced and co-sung by Mike Scott.

John Cooper Clarke appears, reading one of Thea’s poems and there is also a special collaboration with King Creosote.

Bruce Springsteen regularly uses Thea’s work as play-on music at shows and she has duetted with Sting, and Martha Wainwright.

* Call box office 0844 576 2210 or go to cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk for ticket information.