PETE BRILEY
Maidstone-born Pete spent some time in Leeds before moving back south to London where he's now based. His songs are insanely catchy and live performance-wise he's highly engaging with an energetic, passionate vocal style accompanied by some excellent guitar work. He played five songs, four of which, "Down And Out", "My Baby", "Drawn To You" and "Two Seats", were taken from his fabulous "Roads To Rome" EP, and "Semantics", his new single to be released in October. His myspace is
www.myspace.com/petebriley.
ANDY SMALL
ANother Kentish man up next in the shape of Beckenham resident Andy who has become a bit of a regular Icarus attendee. Andy's influences are rich and diverse, from Charlie Mingus to James Taylor and he demonstrated the full range of his talents on his five songs, "Count On Me", "Big Fat Nothing", "And I Look", "Spinning Round" and the extraordinary "Jumped Up Little Ape" which was featured recently on our Video Of The Week spot. Enter Andy's world via
www.myspace.com/andysmallmusic.
MARIA DAYEven closer to home (around 500 yards !), Maria made a wonderful debut appearance at the Icarus. Her voice is deeply sonorous and passionate and there were many spine-tingling moments in her five songs, 'This hole Gets Bigger", "Game Or A War", "My Family Torn Apart", "Passim" and the amazing "To The Slaughter", again featured in our Video Of The Week spot recently. Maria has promised to put in some regular appearances at the Icarus in the coming months and you can find her at
www.myspace.com/mariaday68.
NICK SWANTonight's international spot was courtesy of New York-based Nick Swan, originally hailing from Tennessee, who turned in a quite superb performance. His music is a classic blend of rock, blues and country and his five songs, "Photograph", "Subway", "Along", Suicide Song" and a wonderful interpretation of the old classic "Tennessee Waltz", showed the full range of his talents. Icarus Radio listeners will know that he was our featured artist recently, and he's also released his Icarus performances on an EP, "Live In London", full details on his myspace
www.myspace.com/nickswanmusic.
JACK O'BRIENAnother local act (around 50 yards away !) in the shape of Icarus regular Jack, who, as we've said many times before, just gets better and better with each live performance ! His music has a wonderfully insistent, hypnotic quality as demonstrated on his five songs, "Smoke Rings", "Far Away", "Free", "Falling" and "WHat Am I Here For". He's currently in the midst of recording a whole bunch of songs for release later this year and you can keep tabs on his progress at
www.myspace.com/jackobrienmusic.
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