nu folk

Adelaide's Cape is the nu-folk music of Sam Taylor. Sam works with a collective of talented musicians in both performance and recording, most prominently with percussionist Hannah Richardson, who has been involved in Adelaide's Cape since its beginning. After relocating to the Southwest in September, Adelaide's Cape is continuously immersed in the musical hubs of Bristol, Norwich and London.

The melodic, thumping, and occasionally eccentric timbre of Cardiff's Draw me Stories is the musical invention of three chaps: Carl Hodgetts sings songs about all sorts, Mathieu Albasser plays bass and tickles the glockenspiel, and Samuel Souter hits all things that emit tasty ‘booms’ or ‘tings’ (these may include drums, spoons or plant pots). The story began for our three troubadours at Cardiff University.

Bond Street Bridge is the creation of Auckland-based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Sam Prebble. Sam has been playing music for as long as he can remember, and ‘probably before that as well,’ as he puts it. Bond Street Bridge is currently a solo project, but Sam has always played in bands, orchestras and choirs. For the past few years he has been playing in the Broken Heartbreakers and Reb Fountain’s Bandits, and has recently guested on releases by White Swan Black Swan, Dylan Storey and Andy Gibson, playing fiddle and writing string arrangements.

Formed in Adelaide, South Australia in 2004. The Audreys play alternative folk music. They have released three records, one in 2006 called Between Last Night and Us, another in 2008 called When The Flood Comes, and in 2010 Sometimes The Stars. Their first two records won the ARIA Award for Best Blues and Roots Album. After their debut album, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Taasha Coates says it took her and fellow songwriter/guitarist Tristan Goodall an age to get back to writing: