Oh Yeah & CQAF presents: da Googie + Cara Tivey w/Barry Peak

da Googie is the solo project of Deb Googe, the bass player in My Bloody Valentine and Thurston Moore Group. da Googie blends traditional basslines with more abstract noises and field recordings to create songs based around intricate, layered soundscapes.

Cara Tivey is a pianist and composer. During the 80s and 90s, Cara worked as a session keyboardist, touring and recording with various bands, including Everything But The Girl, Billy Bragg, and Blur during their Parklife era. She later taught music and Performing Arts at the Royal National College for the Blind in Hereford.

Despite decades of stellar work, neither Deb nor Cara had ever released an album under their own names until now, with The Golden Thread, their full-length debut made under the name da Googie + Cara Tivey.

Support comes from Barry Peak ( Torgas Valley Reds) 

Raised in Belfast and based in Dublin, Barry Peak is perhaps best known as a member of 90s indie-rock outfit Backwater. The band signed with Ché Trading Ltd and toured with the likes of Mogwai, Ash, and Urusei Yatsura. They also earned critical praise with a couple of singles in the indie charts, features in the UK music press, and a John Peel session.

In the 00s, he became a schoolteacher while continuing to play music with Torgas Valley Reds. 

As a solo artist, Barry has shared stages with everyone from Radiohead and the National to David Grubbs and Chris Brokaw.

When not playing music, Barry works at a university in the areas of sustainability and social justice and rides a skateboard.

We've commissioned Derry-based multidisciplinary artist The Fully Automatic Model to transform the space around the music - digital projection, generative art, and light as sculpture colliding to create something more than a backdrop. Not a light show. A fully immersive experience built entirely in response to these two artists and this record.

This is the second event in our Oh Yeah Presents immersive series, following our first commission VANTA x TNI x Venus Rising at Sound of Belfast 2025. Each one is a one-off.

About the Artists

Deb Googe joined My Bloody Valentine during its ascent to legend, Deb joined My Bloody Valentine, and then filled a temporary void in Primal Scream. She also aided in Thurston Moore's late-period artistic high, formed Snowpony with Stereolab's Katharine Gifford, and played bass in ex-Fall guitarist Brix Smith's all-female band.

Cara Tivey may be best known as a long-time collaborator of Billy Bragg, but she has also played with a remarkable array of artists, including Everything But The Girl, Blur, Lilac Time, Au Pairs, and the greatest living genius of the West Midlands, Robert Lloyd of Nightingales fame.

The Fully Automatic Model is a multidisciplinary artist from Derry working with digital projection, generative art and light as a sculptural medium.