M G BOULTER & BAND

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M G Boulter is a songwriter and musician living on the Thames coast in Essex. Serving his apprenticeship in numerous bands in the hotbed of the Southend-on-Sea pub rock scene, M G came to lead, as singer and guitarist, the popular country rock band The Lucky Strikes, who Q Magazine once likened to “The Waterboys on trucker pills”.

M G’s songwriting creates vignettes of ordinary life and living communities. This writing is no better shown than in his 2021 album Clifftown, a themed album based on his personal experiences and the wider hidden histories of his hometown, Southend-on-Sea, creating a personal history of growing up in seaside suburbia which is both affecting and observant. The release was accompanied by a podcast series called ‘The Clifftown Podcast’ and the 2022 EP A shadow Falls over New Brighton. The psycho-geographical elements of the Clifftown project led to appearances at Melbourne’s Emerging Writers Festival (2021) and Focal Point Gallery’s ‘Sounds’ Project, an audio online only exhibition delivered from 2022.

2021 saw M G join The Remnant Kings, Jon Boden’s solo touring band as a regular member, as well as collaborating with Shetland artist Jenny Sturgeon which resulted in the 2022 single ‘Flint Knapped’. 2024 will see the release of M G’s fourth album, which he has been busy working on throughout this year.

Often touted as an ‘artist’s artist’ and with R2 magazine referring to M G as “a weapon’s grade songwriter”, his writing has a grittiness, a realism, which brings the subject into sharp focus while, musically, the arrangement's up-tempo rhythm adds tension through its juxtaposition with a sweet major/minor key modulation, conveying the emotion of its subject matter without needing to resort to artifice or cliché.