THE hushed, intense acoustica of Annie Eve will be the latest sounds to be heard in Kendal Library as part of the Get it Loud in Libraries programme.

The 22-year-old from North London has already supported Daughter, Fionn Regan and Little Green Cars and her debut single, Elvis, gained radio support from Huw Stephens, Alice Levine, Mary Anne Hobbs, Steve Lamacq and Dermot O’Leary.

After issuing two critically acclaimed EP’s, Annie brought out her much anticipated debut album, entitled Sunday ‘91 in August on Mouth to Mouth Records / Sony Red Music Solutions.

Annie was born in June 1991. The second youngest of four children, she describes herself as “a strange kid”.

“The thought of death always freaked me out,” she reveals, I used to cry about that.”

The first music she remembers is the soundtrack to The Rocky Horror Picture Show that her dad used to play in the car.

A self-confessed tomboy, she discovered serious music and the means to perform it herself when her older brother taught her to play on their father’s Spanish guitar.

Through him she discovered old blues artists such as John Lee Hooker and Robert Johnson, as well as the American punk of Green Day.

She became “obsessed” with Bob Dylan, “because every songwriter goes to Dylan at some point”.

In her late teens, she fell under the spell of Patti Smith and Amy Winehouse: “Women,” as she puts it, “who wore their hearts on their sleeve and weren’t afraid to write wildly.”

She later studied music at Barnet College, where she developed her guitar style and learned the rudiments of bass and drums - enough for her to be able to independently perform her material.

In fact, Annie Eve is so fully self-contained, she even designs her own record sleeves.

She also used MySpace to broaden her musical horizons and, encouraged by her tutors and peers, managed to overcome her terrible stage-fright.

Soon, she was using this emotional fragility to mesmerise audiences.

“When I feel really vulnerable, that’s when I give my best performances because that’s where I’m coming from,” she says.

Annie plays at Kendal Library on January 30.