As a rule, it’s best to avoid anyone who happily applies the tag ‘singer-songwriter’ to themselves – the phrase is too redolent of MOR radio balladry, shopping centre busking and clunking protest songs. These days, there’s usually an issue of ego at play there too. For a long time now, the only way for a solo artist to distance themselves from this is to adopt a ‘band name’. Newcastle based Trev Gibb neatly sidesteps this issue by writing introverted and melancholic songs. There’s not a hint of ‘look at me everybody’ about his music at all. Which is just how it should be.
Ahead of the release of his excellent mini-album Summer Tears, on Rainboot, Trev Gibb releases two free acoustic e.p.s the first, Postcard is available now, the second, Dancing follows on June 28th.
To get your hands on them, visit http://www.rainboot.co.uk/download/ and click on ‘free stuff’ to access the downloads.
