“Rather Lovely Electro-Folk” – Mark Radcliffe & Stuart Maconie – BBC 6 Music
“The feel of Elliott Smith & Sufjan Stevens” – Scottish Daily Express ★★★★
“Haunting” – The Sunday Times
Cleverley’s boundary-shattering ‘Dream-Folk’ songwriting sits on the cutting edge of modern folk. A true guitar-man, his elaborate alternate tunings, percussive rhythms and ambient sound design flow beneath a visceral lyrical style inspired by the Lo-fi American Greats, Elliott Smith & Sufjan Stevens; a curious tapestry weaved from the hazy psychedelia of the 60s folk revival and the soulful oblivion of 90s Pacific Northwest.
FATEA Male Artist Of The Year 2019 & 2022
I was really happy to release my new single ‘The Arrows and the Armour’ on Friday 16th April. It’s the second single from my album ‘We Sat Back and Watched it Unfold. Want to hear the brand new radio edit?
Spotify: Listen here
Bandcamp: Download here
I’m excited to announce my next live stream concert. It’s a launch party for the release of my forthcoming single ‘The Arrows and the Armour‘.
I’ll be streaming from YouTube on Saturday 17th April from 8:30-9:30 pm GMT.
CLICK HERE to add the event to your YouTube reminders.
It’s a free concert but PayPal donations will be gratefully received.
I’m pleased to share that I’ll be releasing the 2nd single from my album ‘We Sat Back and Watched it Unfold’ on Friday 16th April 2021.
‘The Arrows and the Armour’ will be available to download and stream worldwide from this date.
CLICK HERE to head on over to my Official Bandcamp page and select FOLLOW to be notified as soon as it lands.
I want to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who supported the Lockdown Gramophone Circle project in November 2020. To everyone who donated, watched the videos, shared social media posts and said encouraging things, you were all integral to raising this total
If you happened to miss this project then you can still catch one or two of the videos of cover songs by artists like Elliott Smith, John Martyn and Sufjan Stevens over onYouTube by clicking HERE
In recognition of this important day, I was really lucky to be joined by three fantastic musicians for this exclusive live arrangement of my song ‘A Voice For Those Who Don’t Have One’.
This is a song about the reluctant kind of conversations that you may have with yourself and others as a voiceless young person growing up with anxiety in the 21st Century. The video features:
Lukas Drinkwater – Upright Bass
Katie Stevens – Clarinet
Kathy Pilkinton – Vocals
You can watch the full video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yygFL_Hfap4&t=1s
This weekend saw the first anniversary of the release of ‘We Sat Back and Watched it Unfold’. It’s been a crazy year and interesting to see what place the album has in our strange new world. I’m so hugely grateful for the massive amount of support the album has received over the last year and have been so touched by all your kind words about it. If you haven’t had a chance to hear the record yet why not check it out:
Listen on Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/album/1gpBOi3l3QitXbrAYmsxC9?si=UYccW02lRy27YYEkSVmhAg
Buy the CD at Bandcamp – https://chriscleverley.bandcamp.com/album/we-sat-back-and-watched-it-unfold
I’m very pleased to say my latest album ‘We Sat Back and Watched it Unfold‘ has been nominated for Album of the Year by superb online music magazine ‘Folking.com‘ in their annual awards. It’s a great honour to be included with some fine artists.
If you have heard the record, enjoyed it and would like to vote for it (or any of the others) then please simply follow this link and click on the name of your choice:
https://folking.com/folking-awards/
You may have also enjoyed the bass playing on the record by Lukas Drinwater, who is also nominated in the ‘Best Musician’ category and with his duo ‘Jacob & Drinkwater‘ in the ‘Best Duo’ category.
Hi there friends.
Thanks for being here and reading this. I hope you and your people have all been keeping well during this period. I wanted to encourage you to check out ‘RELAY‘ – a compilation album produced by John Elliott of The Little Unsaid. It features a number of cover versions, recorded by wonderful artists such as Billy Bragg, Edgelarks, Dan Whitehouse and Emily Barker.
It was a great pleasure to be included in this lineup to offer a version of Jacob & Drinkwater‘s totally beautiful song ‘Real Love‘.
Please feel free to check out the album at https://relayuk.bandcamp.com/
It is available for digital download on a pay-what-you-like basis. All proceeds go to the Music Venues Trust to support struggling independent music venues which have been hit particularly hard by recent events.
I hope you’re all keeping well in these curious and unsettling times. I’m pleased to share with you a video of a live recording made by mighty Rob Bridge of Redwood Music Photography. ‘The Low Light Low’ is track 10 from my new album ‘We Sat Back and Watched it Unfold’. Here it is arranged for solo guitar.
Please feel free to give the video a peek at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWs3Ui1p8ZI
