A Lover or a Friend on Adrian Goldberg's show

Robert Lane is a singer songwriter based in Birmingham. His most recent EP/Mini Album Ends and Starts was released via Fish Records on the 21st of March 2016 and launched with a performance at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. The lead track, My Love's In Deep, has been featured on several radio stations and received a tweet of recommendation from Telegraph Music. Robert has recently been a Laurel Canyon featured artist, was asked to perform at Fatea Magazine's Busk Love Folk Festival and embarked on a tour in support of Ends and Starts which will visit venues across the UK as well as a first trip to Germany.


My Love's In Deep

Bill Frost's Flying Machine was inspired by a local legend in Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire where I spent a lot of my childhood. 

There's a story which claims that a Saundersfoot local called Bill Frost managed to design and build the first powered flying machine, and that he flew it briefly in the decade before the Wright Brothers. He crashed the machine and before he could recover it there was a gale which scattered the various bits of the machine, Frost was unable to repair or recreate it. 

The story has long been considered something of a tall tale, but recent research has in fact uncovered a patent for a flying machine filed by Bill Frost, so who knows!?

The song is told from the point of view of the machine, and it's disappointment not to achieve the worldwide fame that was "only a flight away."

Bill Frost's Flying Machine

Man Of The Moment - Robert Lane

Baby Knows - Robert Lane

Who Do You Think You're Talking For - Robert Lane

Take As Long As You Need - Robert Lane

When it was recorded it was about asking people to listen in to me and my creativity.  The lyrics explore themes of insecurity and inadequacy about ones places in the world, and I was also using it as a message to yours truly to stop comparing myself to others so much and enjoy what’s happening in the moment.

As we collectively began to go through the last 3 months the song took on a whole new meaning to me. I feel it reflects the fact that we should all listen to each other more as everyone is struggling in their own way through the pandemic and lockdown. It feels like most of the world is on “broadcast” rather than “receive” and we aren’t really seeing or hearing each other in a healthy way. 

The wonderful cover artwork is by the extremely talented artist Jodie Brown. 

The track was mastered by the very generous maestro Ty Unwin.

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Robert is a musician, songwriter, guitar tutor, actor and workshop leader based in the UK. He released Only a Flight Away in April 2018, his third record following his self-titled debut album and his 2016 extended EP Ends and Starts. As an actor he works in theatre and film and is a founding member of short form comedy improvisation group The Improlectuals. Robert has delivered workshops on topics including songwriting and comedy improvisation in various establishments including schools and colleges and provides regular music and drama sessions for Midland Mencap. As a guitar teacher he works with students of all ages and abilities.

Robert is also the host of The Robert Lane Creative Careers Podcast where he chats to creatives including musicians, songwriters, actors, writers, comedians and journalists about their careers and how they create their work

In 2019 Robert was cast as one of the leads in independent feature film Sam and Dan Get Lost directed by Lee Price of Homebird Productions. The film is a partly improvised comedy drama and also features Robert’s music as the score.

Fatea Magazine have described Robert's album Only a Flight Away as “an outstanding release…one of the first essential albums of 2018"

In June 2019 legendary DJ Janice Long played Robert’s track Bill Frost’s Flying Machine on her BBC Show.

Robert has toured extensively in the UK as a support for artists including Jenn Bostic, Sarah Darling, Calan, Lotte Mullan, Nell Bryden, Dan Whitehouse and Bob Fox. 2019 tour dates have included Wimborne Folk Festival, HowTheLightGetsIn Festival, Bath Fringe Festival, Bridport Folk Festival and concerts around the UK. He has played joint headline shows and tours with Kyshona Armstrong and Iona Lane and his 2018 solo headline tour to support Only a Flight Away included a 5th trip to Germany and first visit to Holland.

Robert was chosen by the LG Arena to perform in the Forum Live area of the arena before concerts by Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Ellie Goulding, John Mayer and Fleetwood Mac.

In August 2013 he was selected to attend a song writing retreat/course with Kinks front man Ray Davies.

In late 2018 Robert was asked to add music to lyrics written by David Payne for his musical Reality Bites. David is a  producer who works on the BBC's The Archers, as well as a freelance scriptwriter. Extracts from the musical were performed at an event hosted by Cucumber Writers in November 2018 and Robert played the part of Kyle.

“You got me out of bed to listen to this and it was worth it…
I actually got out of bed to make sure I sent this in for the programme because I thought it was so good.” Janice Long, radio legend.

“Robert Lane attended my songwriting course at Dartington in 2013. Robert responded well to composition and exercises given. As the course became more intensive his progress was excellent throughout. I am pleased to recommend Robert to continue his music and develop his writing so that he can reach his full potential.”  Ray Davies songwriter and frontman of The Kinks

"a talented songwriter and singer. EP Ends and Starts is full of deceptively simple songs with clever and witty lyrics across a range of styles."  R2 Magazine

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