JANICE LONG (BBC Radio 2) – “Glorious…Magnificent”

NME (Leading UK music publication) – “Hooks so poppy, you could make opium from them”

BRUM BEAT (Midlands music magazine) – “Dominic Crane is the new Chris Difford”

STEVE CRADDOCK  (Ocean Colour Scene & Paul Weller) – “Dominic plays so melodically with guitar parts that are so cleverly arranged.”

BOO HEWERDINE (Ivor Novello award winning songwriter) – “Really Lovely Songs”

NELL BRYDEN (Recording Artist & Broadcaster) – “ ‘American Tan’ – wow! Such a beautiful song. It would be lovely to have more people hear his fantastic songs. Always room for good music in the world”

Dominic Crane is probably better known to Birmingham rock historians as one half of the criminally undervalued The Boaty Man with Stephen Grizzell before going on to play guitar with Rumblefish ( East West ) and their reincarnation as Low Art Thrill ( Island ). 
 
In 2005 he chose to work independently as a solo singer songwriter. A demo secured an invitation from Squeeze’s Chris Difford to attend his annual writers’ retreat week at Oxenhoath in Kent along with such names as Amy Wadge, co-writer of Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud”, Marty Pellow and Arts Foundation Songwriting Award winner, Emily Baker. 
 
Since then his live appearances have been a variety of House Concerts, Folk Clubs and supports that have included George Ezra, J P Cooper, Mike and The Mechanics, Sharon Corr, Boo Hewerdine, David McAlmont, Fyfe Dangerfield, Darden Smith and Pete Wylie. Festivals are often a regular summer feature with particular past favourites including The Acoustic Festival of Great Britain, The Moseley Folk Festival, Godiva Festival, Burtfest and The Birmingham Lord Mayors Show, sharing the bill with the likes of  Donovan, The Bees, Seth Lakeman, Scott Matthews, Jose Gonzalez, Waterson-Carthy, Davey Graham, The Unthanks and Kate Rusby.  
 
His BBC ‘Introducing’ live session prompted further airplay from Janice Long who described  his song American Tan as “glorious and magnificent”. 
 
He remains a favourite with journalists who regard his “stylish crafted music and powerful eloquent lyricism” worthy of artists such as Neil Finn, Elvis Costello and Squeeze…   …“Listening to the dreamily lovely American Tan, with notes of honey and new mown grass to the vocals and its gentle English folk-pop melody, a rather more accurate comparison would be Stephen Duffy while the softly bluesier waltzing Baggageman, the wistfully nostalgic Made In England definitely explain why Difford found him a kindred spirit. Featuring a harmonica that could have come from the soundtrack of some rain-washed street scene in a 40s British romance, the very English languor of Possibilities also calls to mind the 
work of Clifford T Ward and Peter Skellern, which, of course, should set the hairs tingling on the back of Richard Hawley’s fans’ necks“. 
 
Dominic is giving away a free download of the radio edit of his new single “Good News For The Paperboy” together with “American Tan” and “Baggage Man” for a limited period at www.dominiccrane.com, so grab yourself a copy and discover why the critics are comparing him to some of the UK’s most celebrated and best loved singer songwriters.