Acoustic singer-songwriter from Harrogate, UK.
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The Old Fights
I really really love this one. The piano is exquisite. I also dig your vocal style. You have a sound that is all your own. You've got that something special, All the best Eric Thumbs
James is a songwriter from Harrogate, UK. An active musician for 15 years, he started his career behind the keyboards in a high school band, wearing an ill-advised baseball cap and a smug self-satisfied grin. But the years were not kind, and the grin has gradually been replaced by a look of world-weary resignation and a furrowed brow, some of the outwardly visible results of a decade spent fighting to reconcile the internal cynic with the fatalist romantic, and failing spectacularly to do so. The war rages on. Motivated by an addiction to performing live and by a deluded sense of cosmic purpose, James co-founded and co-wrote for 1999 Bright Young Things regional finalists Candy Filter Tip. Playing extensively across the region, from The Duchess in Leeds to Bradford Rios and the Manchester Roadhouse, they recorded and self-released two albums before disbanding to allow members to pursue careers, further education and other such meddlesome trivialities.
Since then, as well as writing and occasionally performing his own music, James has played drums, guitar and piano with several bands, both live and in the studio, and has produced/mixed albums for The Arc of Manapples and Croak Ditch. He has amassed a sizeable collection of different instruments down the years, some of which he can actually play. Never shy of an adventure, his solo work has taken him to a wide cross-section of dank cellars and bars all the way from Ely to Edinburgh, several charity gigs, fundraising events, and an appearance on Radio York.
A self-recorded 5 track EP has just been completed with another one on the way. James has recently been featured on Radio York’s ‘Introducing’ show, MediaEssentials.co.uk and interviewed for JamCow Magazine.