The WAEVE is consisting of English singer-songwriters Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall. Coxon and Dougall first met in December 2020 at a fundraiser for the Lebanese Red Cross at the Jazz Café in Camden Town, London where Coxon performed. 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 "S-A-E", pointing to their English folk music inspiration, water-centric lyrics, and "a kind of reconciliation of feeling at odds with what [was] happening in" the United Kingdom at the time. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.