Natalie Shay is one of the most exciting singer-songwriters emerging from the UK indie-pop music scene. Having performed at the world’s biggest festivals for new music SXSW and The Great Escape, as well as well-renowned festivals like Reading, Latitude and Victorious, the North Londoner is making her way across the globe, turning heads with her explosive live performances.
 
Picking up the guitar at the age of five and attending the prestigious BRIT School in her teenage years, music has always been a part of Natalie’s life and her passion from a very young age. Known for her honest and relatable songwriting, Natalie is creating songs that empower and support, from infectious heartbreak anthems to up-beat tracks on love and friendships. She also doesn’t shy away from topics, speaking openly about mental health and anxiety. 

Her latest single “All The Time” details the inner-monologue of a fan girl. With the chorus written in the middle of the night after Natalie had an encounter with her teenage dream idol, the track is about unrequited love for the person that doesn’t know you exist (yet). 
 
Natalie has already surpassed 9 million streams on Spotify alone, made it onto New Music Friday in 10 countries, including multiple times in the UK and received strong support from BBC Radio 1. She has also gained critical acclaim from the likes Billboard, Wonderland, Clash, The Line of Best Fit, Notion, 1883 Magazine and many more.

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He's a Jack Russell that blogs music and this is where he keeps it. 

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"an album of spare, striking beauty" Mojo ★★★★
“...a kind of Australian equivalent of PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake” UNCUT 8/10

Produced by Greg Freeman (Portico Quartet, Peter Gabriel, Amy Winehouse) and recorded at StudiOwz, a converted chapel in the Welsh countryside, A Dark Murmuration of Words takes Barker’s clear, expressive vocals and warm acoustic aesthetic and subtly shifts her sound in the direction of contemporaries such as Laura Marling and Phoebe Bridgers. Lyrically probing, by turns both dark and optimistic, Barker searches for meaning through the deafening clamour of fake news and algorithmically filtered conversation, delivering a timely exploration of the grand themes of our age through the lens of what it means to return “home.”

Alluding to the album’s title, Barker references American writer Emily Dickinson: “ ‘If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves’ – like the starlings in a murmuration, where the movement of each individual bird is related to just seven of its closest neighbours, none of them aware of the mesmerising, fluctuating patterns being created by the flock.” 

Throughout the ten songs that make up the album, Barker draws connections between the familial, the local, and the global: a mother sings to her unborn child, asking for its forgiveness on ‘Strange Weather’; ‘When Stars Cannot Be Found’ explores the humbleness and comfort of the night sky when far away from home. Other highlights include the nostalgic ‘Return Me’, the gloriously defiant ‘Machine’ and the effortless album closer ‘Sonogram’.

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In September last year Dail MacDonald returned to Inverness from two year stint of songwriting and spoken word poetry in the capital. Dail was quick to re-connect with guitarist Mike MacGillivray with who he had jammed with before going to London. 

 One night, the two boys were practicing when close friend Rhia Innes came round and soon started singing over the top of a random piece of music that they had written a few days previous. 

 Instantly clicking, Cryptic Keys were born. Cryptic Keys like to focus on the lyrics, meaning and story behind each song that they write and take advantage of the male and female voices by telling their story from two different perspectives.

I am a Belfast born singer songwriter and breast cancer survivor now living in Inverness who has just released my first EP of songs I wrote when I had cancer - "Rainbows In My Mind".   It is available for purchase on I-tunes, Amazon and Spotify.  I hope my EP will raise lots of money for Maggies Cancer Centres. Please follow me on LouiseBarronMusic on Facebook and twitter.  If you like my songs let me know!

'A confident singer-songwriter who crafts really sweet tunes'
Huw Stephens BBC Radio 1 

'Master craftsmen with the light effortless touch of Siôn Russell Jones are few and far between. Quality' 
Tom Robinson BBC 6 Music

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