Sophie Thatcher’s first live performance featuring her own music took place at Prada Mode New York’s private preview.
The Lynchian vibes were in full effect at Sophie Thatcher’s performance at Prada Mode’s New York preview inside the Hotel Chelsea. The private club designed by video game master Hideo Kojima and film director Nicolas Winding Refn granted invite-only guests two full days of retro atomic space age television sets re-envisioned by Kojima and Refn, complete with a free Prada vending machine stocked full of cassette tapes, coloring books and pins, run by metallic-silver-clad attendants. To close out the final day of the preview, Thatcher performed her original songs in front of an intimate live audience, for the first time ever.
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To set the scene, the tiny room was lined with small silver chairs and square-shaped stools, complete with a chic open bar in the back. The stage was anchored with a matching draped silver curtain, a neon purple Prada sign, and a single microphone. Refn warmly introduced Thatcher and told the audience that this was her first time ever performing her own music live. She stepped up to the mic wearing a brown and white circle printed shift dress by Prada, with a mod 1960s vibe, and perfectly styled shag haircut, both of which only further added to the haunting and alluring Mulholland Drive vibe. New York icons like the singer and poet Lydia Lunch watched, alongside the medium and photographer Jasmine Hirst. Ben Babbitt played the keyboard as he stared into the audience’s souls. The aesthetic of the whole performance was a mix between camp retro lounge songstress and punk prom queen, with an intentionally unnerving effect that was wonderful.
Thather is known for her roles in the Showtime drama series Yellowjackets (since 2021) and the spooky thriller Heretic (2024), but she also comes from a musical background; she started voice lessons at the age of nine and she is classically trained, plus her mother is reportedly a piano teacher. During the brief concert, she sang “Go On” and “Pivot & Scrape” from her debut EP released in 2024. Her performance was intentionally emotive; expressive and satisfyingly unconventional–very early Tumblr era with a cool, raw, experimental edge that read as purposely dark. Watch our videos from the private performance below.
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