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Live at Omeara

2018 live album by Freya Ridings

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ85781739 ↗
Source-derived summary

Live at Omeara is the second live album by English singer-songwriter Freya Ridings. It was released in the United Kingdom on 30 March 2018 by Good Soldier.

Background

The album is a live recording of the full setlist from the Ridings' performance at the Omeara in London in January 2018. On Facebook, Ridings' said, "Thank you so much everyone who came to Omeara last week and made it such a special night. Here's some memories from the day and a bit of my performance of Lost Without You.

Editorial summary

“Live at Omeara” enters the record as 2018 live album by Freya Ridings. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Live, Omeara and live can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Live, Omeara and live.
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Why this record matters

“Live at Omeara” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Live, Omeara and live provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q85781739. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Live at Omeara” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.