The Saint Senara duo of Chloe Gorman (vocals) & Andrew Bate (guitar & vocals), are based in Cheltenham, but from Chatham & Cornwall respectively originally.
They have raised the awareness of their band with its blues infused sounds but with a bit of folk, country and even rock, with some standout festival performances including Upton Blues Festival. After a recommend from UK Blues Federation board member Tony Hyndman, Temperance owner Adrian Gains had listened to their set at Upton and promptly booked them for their debut performance, to a sell-out crowd.
They kicked off the first set with ‘What Am I Gonna Do With You’ with great harmonies which they demonstrated throughout the evening, with Chloe on tambourine, and followed with the raunchy ‘The Devil & the Preacher’ with its great rhythm and great passionate vocals from Chloe backed by Andrew. Then followed with ‘Never Done’ with its great blues guitar & vocals from Andrew, backed by Chloe.
Slowing it down a bit we had the groovy song ‘Backyard Queen’ with its echoey guitar start with a slower pace with attitude with alternating vocals between Andrew & Chloe.
‘Dolly’ gave the feeling of a dirty Nashville dive bar with its story about visiting a friendly neighbourhood sex worker, with its raunchy blues guitar led by Andrew on vocals with lively backing vocals from Chloe and tambourine.
They then covered the classic blues tune ‘In the Pines’ with mellow blues riffs to start with Andrew & Chloe with evocative passionate vocals.
For ‘Borrowed Time’ Andrew showed, and then played, the 3-string cigar box homemade guitar brought by Blues in Britain writer Graham Munn, which he had built himself using a small wooden beer crate from the Fullers brewery in Chiswick.
‘Sin With Me’ was last sung at Upton Blues Festival, and after tech issues and no power was sung acapella, which Andrew wrote 20 years ago. This was a slower mellow song with plaintive vocals from Andrew & Chloe, with great harmonies with pace changes.
‘Praying Fields’ was a flirt with country & folk with an acoustic song, an early lockdown project with Wuthering Heights influences. It was played on a 50-year-old acoustic guitar with great harmonies on an evocative story led song.
‘Everywhere & Nowhere’ was another acoustic song described by Chloe as a
“Ride or die song” about people who always bring snacks etc. on trips. From their 2nd EP ‘Under My Skin’ with its passionate harmonies and lovely guitar picking. The first set finished with ‘Under My Skin’ which was an acoustic romance song with spectacular harmonies on a mellow song with changes of vocal attack.
The second set started with a brand-new song that doesn’t yet have a formal title, and this was its debut live performance. It had Fleetwood Mac influences with its bluesy guitar riffs and Chloe’s lovely vocals.
The next song ‘Fate’ brought out a recently purchased resonator guitar, which Chloe wanted so badly she didn’t even ask the price. It was from a Texas company called Republic. This was a folk style song which will be the band’s next single and was about the experience of being a working musician.
With a reputation for writing murder ballads the next song in this style was ‘Flowers On My Grave’ with mellow vocals from Chloe, lovely acoustic guitar picking from Andrew as well evocative harmonies.
Andrew’s vocals led on the next song ‘Anybody’s Arms’ which as Andrew said was a “self-indulgent song” from a singer-songwriter. As Chloe explained the first gift, she received from Andrew was a set of tarot cards, which include one for Temperance and is the sign of patience. So now debuting at Temperance was a full circle moment.
‘Out in the Woods’ was another murder related song with lovely harmonies which was followed by audience favourite ‘Ophelia’. As Chloe explained she originally wrote Poems before starting to write her first song aged 30 after meeting Andrew. The song had echoey electric guitar with mellow evocative harmonies.
‘There's a Storm Coming’ was a loud and obnoxious song written after supporting Elles Bailey and epic rainstorm forced everyone inside. The song won Rock song of the year in Nashville in 2025 from Nashville’s Uncle Paul. It was a great rock number played with lots of gusto with powerful guitar & vocals.
They finished with ‘Lost Lisa Marie’ which Chloe sang but Andrew wrote 15 years ago. It was related to a Cornish competition, which Andrew entered, “What Cornwall means to you” and was another murder ballad, which is what it meant to him.
After much applause the band came back with their unique version of the classic ‘I Put a Spell on You’ and another new song to the band with its first live performance at Temperance. It had a new cool arrangement by Andrew and was a slower raunchy version with vocals from both Chloe & Andrew.