Michael Kilbey performing on the main stage at the OnBlackheath Music Festival 2016
Michael Kilbey is a self-taught guitarist and pianist, He draws on a wide vocal range to create expansive, haunting, melody-laden bubbles of dream-like introspection, charged with real emotion and unreal imagery, citing influence from The Smiths, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, REM, Smashing Pumpkins, Jamie Frankel &The Killers. Predominantly full-borne epic rock, arrangements occasionally favour more stripped away, intimate, vulnerability-exposing singer-songwriter fair. His lyrical style of songwriting and soul-searching is also at times reminiscent of David Bowie, Jeff Buckley, U2, Coldplay and Keane, whilst his honest and distinctly English tone of voice has drawn comparison with the late Nick Drake. Debut EP ‘Indigo’ was self-produced in a bedroom and released in October 2014, promptly attracting a large online fan-base, inspiring to-date a cult following of over 100,000 followers on Twitter, together with live sessions & interviews across a host of local radio stations, including BBC 3 Counties Radio. With BBC Radio 6 also quick to endorse his distinct sound, a string of London dates confirmed for the remainder of the year and recording of his first pro-produced EP 'I Was Waiting' set for commencement in 2016, Kilbey appears poised to very aptly embody the yearning voice of the so frequently dubbed ‘lost generation’.
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Location: Blackheath, Lewisham, London, UK
Photo credit: © John Gaffen / Alamy / Afripics
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