Minnie Birch is a folk pop artist from Hertfordshire UK. She was BBC Radio 1s introducing artist of the week, Buzzfeed's "one to watch" and received awards and critical acclaim in national press for her original compositions on life, love, loss and fairytale. 

She released a Sunday Times Top 100 record of the year with a unique album based on songs heard on the football terraces.  Minnie has toured extensively across the UK, Europe and across Nashville USA. 

An intriguing and unusual artist, Minnie was forced to take a career break when she was diagnosed with a rare cancer, a diagnosis which turned her world on its head and also effected the mobility in her right harm. Minnie struggled through extensive physio to get back to playing her piano and guitar. 

Her new songs are a testament to the hope and the love you can find in your darkest hours. She is looking forward to sharing them with you. Prepare to have your heart put in a soft spin, wrung out, hung out to dry and handed back to you ready to wear to the party again.

Withdrawal Symphony was born in the underbelly of South London: Croydonia.
This band came into existence in 2012 when 4 unique musicians joined forces to embark on an epic quest to make noise.
Bobby (guitarist) and Rachel (vocalist) met each other back in 2007, and were originally members of a band formerly known as Kaleidofly. 
Since Kaleidofly's demise, the two continued to write tasty jams, and eventually found a drummer in Bobby's younger brother, Daniel (otherwise known as Dilbo). 
These three individuals instantly bonded as a group, and made it their mission to complete their band with a bassist. 
James, a gifted guitar player and long-standing friend of the group, was invited to play bass, stunned them all with his unbelievable skill, and quickly became a member of the WS family!

Apples for Everyone were in some ways more a concept than a band. In 2005 they assembled together around the idea of being a large band full of different musical styles and approaches that came together to make something. They carried on in various line-ups and combinations for 5 or 6 years. They took a democratic or collective approach to making music which may or may not have been a good idea. The band included producers as equal members and songs written by everyone. They gigged a hell of a lot. Sometimes they recorded and released music. Sometimes those recordings captured something of the band. This is a best of put together by their founding member Dave Pickering. It represents not the best songs that they made but his subjective opinion of the best recordings of songs that they made. 

 

Poet and reciter - the world's second oldest profession. Performing and agitating since the year 2000, rarely far from the East Coast Main Line.

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