Carla J. Easton is an award-winning singer, songwriter and filmmaker, releasing four critically acclaimed solo albums, with her fifth due in 2026 via Ernest Jenning Record Company and FIKA Recordings. A member of TeenCanteen, Poster Paints and the Hen Hoose Collective, she has written music for Belle & Sebastian, BMX Bandits, Hen Hoose and National Theatre Scotland, and is regularly championed by BBC 6Music. She has performed at festivals across the UK, Europe and North America, including SXSW, Pop Montreal, The Great Escape, Celtic Connections, Indiefjord and Pop Cologne, and has toured with Camera Obscura, The Vaselines and Kim Richey.
Her SAY Award-shortlisted album Impossible Stuff (produced by Howard Bilerman) earned national and international acclaim, while WEIRDO was praised by Bandcamp Daily, The Line of Best Fit and Pitchfork for its glitter-soaked, maximalist pop sensibility. Poster Paints (her project with Frightened Rabbit’s Simon Liddel) released their celebrated debut album in 2022 via Ernest Jenning.
Carla is also Co-Director of Since Yesterday: The Unsung Pioneers of Scottish Pop, a documentary platforming the trailblazing Girl Bands who challenged a male-dominated industry, acknowledging their rightful place in music history and examining enduring barriers faced by women making music.
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She is currently undertaking a practice-based PhD at the University of the West of Scotland and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in partnership with the Scottish Music Centre (SGSAH-AHRC funded). Her project, “I Don’t Want to Go to Heaven”: A (Living) Archival Study of Scotland’s Girl Bands and Associated Do-It-Ourselves Cultures, explores living archives, girl-bands and DIY cultures, expanding her ongoing work into feminist archiving and the democratisation of cultural memory through creative practice.
