Jake Morley
50RPM presents an intimate evening with the brilliant singer songwriter Jake Morley at the Georgian Hotel, Coatbridge on 30th September!
About Jake Morley
We are delighted to welcome the truly outstanding singer songwriter and virtusoso guitarist Jake Morley to 50rpm. We are in for a very special evening.
** We operate a no talking policy when acts are performing. Our members prefer the music to do the talking, not the audience. **
In a game of Singer-Songwriter Top Trumps, you'd be forgiven for picking Ed Sheeran's streaming figures or Jeff Buckley's voice. But genres get more interesting the deeper you go. Several albums in, Jake Morley is well known as one of the UKs most distinctive and interesting cards to play. Highly accomplished but hard to pin down, he is one of the world's finest lap-style guitarists whose lyrics, stories and live shows have a habit of staying with you long after they're heard.
Latest release No Drama was inspired by impending fatherhood. "I felt a desperate longing for our child to be safe in a noisy, fractious, complex world, and this song tumbled out. It's almost like a hymn, I'd sing it to our baby in the womb".
Debut album Many Fish to Fry (2012) brought to mind Paul Simon and Newton Faulkner with its refreshingly unpretentious lyrics, hooky melodies and implausible guitar playing. The richly-layered production of follow-up The Manual (2016) leaned more on Elbow or Gotye before 2018's Xoa-inspired Tell It To Me Straight series. Known for his distinctive and innovative guitar playing (This City, Falter), he combines guitar, piano and drums into one instrument with seemingly impossible dexterity, making him an artist to be seen as well as heard. But it was his incisive songwriting that led to a residency at London's Ronnie Scott's and exposure on Radio 2, BBC 6Music and Radio X. Hundreds of worldwide stages and shows have been clocked up since then, empty to buzzing, Aberystwyth to Zurich, with memorable headline shows at London's Bush Hall, invites to Canada's biggest festivals, and legendary venues like the Hammersmith Apollo and Dublin Olympia.
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