FOLK star Eliza Carthy comes to Bridport next week to celebrate her latest album, Neptune.

The album is the solo follow up to 2008’s Dreams of Breathing Underwater and the first record to be released through her own label, HemHem Records.

Last year’s album Gift, which was a collaboration with her mother Norma Waterson, received widespread critical acclaim and picked up Best Album and Best Traditional Track accolades at the BBC Radio Two Folk Awards.

“Neptune relates to an astrological reading I had done by a friend of the family,” said Eliza.

“The material on the album is ordered chronologically and is about the last ten years of my life. It’s a story about ending relationships and beginning new ones with their own imperfections, and is about the thought that nothing is perfect, even when written in the stars.

“I’m still an old romantic though and partial to odd quotes from old television programmes.”

Comedian and writer Stewart Lee describes Eliza as ‘Not the Messiah, but a very naughty girl’. Championed from an early age by John Peel, Andy Kershaw and Billy Bragg, Michael Eavis claimed to have discovered her when she played the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury in 2001. Catch her at Bridport Arts centre on May 13. Tickets are available from 01308 424204.