Taken from his new album Clifftown (reviewed here) watch our current Artist of the Month – M G Boulter – performing Nights at the Aquarium outside the Three Shells Cafe in Southend. In his review, Billy Rough says “In his lyrics and musicality, Paul Simon is, naturally, an influence that springs to mind here. You can hear it in Boulter’s soft, sing-song voice, and the rhymes of his writing. ‘Nights At the Aquarium’ certainly recalls the poetry and self-awareness of Simon.”
The video was filmed and recorded by Andy Bell of Hudson Records:
In our recent interview, M G Boulter spoke of how people often escape their hometown only to later return:
“London is only 40 miles away, so it’s like salmon swimming upstream. There’s a life cycle to Southend in that families move here because it is relatively safe. It’s nice, there’s lots to do. But then as kids grow up, they just get bored. There’s nothing here and they can get on the train and be in London, you know, one of the major cities in the world. So, they all disappear. Then when they are at an age when they want to have kids, they come back to Southend. So, you get a real mixture of people. You get these really young angsty kids that don’t want to be here. You get elderly people that have stayed here for a long time and seen their families come and go and then you’ve got young families…”
Read the full interview here.
Clifftown is out now: http://www.smarturl.it/clifftown
Photo Credit: Jinwoo