Sage Gateshead recently shared a live video of M G Boulter performing as part of their ‘From The Glasshouse’ series – “a garden of musical delights including homegrown talent, wildflowers from further afield, and brand new music which has been lovingly nurtured in our iconic glass building.”
Taken from his latest album on Hudson Records, Boulter performs the title track of Clifftown; we reviewed the album here – on which he “introduces us to the eerily familiar landscape of Clifftown, a sleepy seaside resort on the east coast of England.”
“Handsomely produced by Andy Bell, Clifftown has a gorgeously evocative sound, and Boulter is well accompanied by some notable names, including Pete Flood (Bellowhead) on drums and percussion, Lizzy O’Connor on mandolin and guitar, Paul Ambrose on bass, Tom Lenthall on synth, Helen Bell on violin and Lucy Farrell (Furrow Collective) and Neil McSweeney on voice. Boulter himself is no slouch here, providing voice, guitar, and mandolin.” Billy Rough, Folk Radio UK.
As part of our Artist of the Month interview in April this year, M G Boulter spoke to Billy Rough about the album here; he starts by introducing us to the album and the story behind Clifftown:
“It’s a collection of songs that are rooted in my personal experience, and my feelings about my hometown, which is Southend-on-Sea, in Essex, sort of 40 miles east of London on the River Thames, and you know, I live in suburbia, and I don’t feel many people write about suburbia. But, for me, suburbia is all I’ve ever really known, and so it pervades all my song writing; it certainly has for at least the last 10 years.
“It sort of all came to a point with Clifftown, because I was writing a lot of songs, and as I was collecting them together, I thought actually, there’s a theme here, about growing up in suburbia, and these experiences that I’ve had in the in Essex suburban environment by the seaside, so it naturally came from that.”
M G Boulter Upcoming Dates
WED 17 NOVEMBER – Davenham Player’s Theatre, Northwich
THU 18 NOVEMBER – The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge
SAT 29 JANUARY – Great Easton Village Hall, Market Harborough
Order Clifftown: http://www.smarturl.it/clifftown
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