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www.billyirvine.co.uk
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Artist Management
Cameron Music Management
+44 (0) 7791 957365
management@billyirvine.co.uk

Surrey based blues/roots, multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter Billy Irvine, is most definitely multi-faceted; when he plays solo he plays National resonator guitars, uses a foot stomp board for body and percussion and tops it all off with a tripod to enable him to play any one of his three didgeridoos in different keys, one of which is a slide didgeridoo. When he performs with his band he plays electrically and is the lead singer.

His playing style has a roots/blues edge to it with lots of airy open tunings and the use of a boot board for body and percussion. Billy is an original songwriter whose songs are diverse, melodic and contemporary. He dexterously plays National resonator guitars and uses them frequently during solo sets, "I love my National to sound like clashing swords when I play slide!” Equally, he is just at home plugging in a Stratocaster through an old Marshall and turning up the heat.

Billy’s home recorded debut album Bare Bones, which was professionally manufactured, is not your common or garden offering as he explains, "I always wanted to do a raw old fashioned recording with everything done in one live take, just like the way the old 1930s guys did, but of course with a bit of modern sparkle also!" The whole album was completed in three stages in just one day.

His stripped-down brand of blues draws inspiration from the sounds of: Jimi Hendrix and Bukka White, Cream, Led Zeppelin, Robert Johnson, Son House, Rory Gallagher, Johnny Winter, Chris Whitley, Ash Dargan, David Hudson, Reef, The Black Crowes and many more.

Billy outsold any other unsigned musician at Guilfest for three consecutive years from 2005; his performance sold an average of £5,500 worth of tickets each year.