The Waeve
The Waeve (stylised as The WAEVE) is the debut studio album by the band of the same name, a duo consisting of English singer-songwriters Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall. The album was released 3 February 2023 by Transgressive Records. Background Coxon and Dougall first met in 2005 at a concert by Dougall's band the Pipettes, and saw each other around occasionally over the years, but didn't consider collaborating until they met again in December 2020 at a fundraiser for the Lebanese Red Cross at the Jazz Café in Camden Town, London where Coxon performed. The night of the fundraiser, they discussed working together and exchanged phone numbers. Over the following Christmas season, the two texted back and forth, sharing links to songs they both liked and exploring each other's music tastes. They decided to meet on 2 January, sharing a walk around Hampstead Heath and talking more music. Discovering a lot of common interests, they decided to start songwriting together, working in two or three sessions a week. The two subsequently started dating and had a baby girl together. The duo's name was inspired by an old English spelling of the word "sea" as "SAE", pointing to their English