MG BOULTER & BAND

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M G Boulter is a songwriter and musician living on the Thames coast in Essex, UK. Serving his apprenticeship in numerous bands in the hotbed of the Southed-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”, recording five albums with the band.

In 2013 M G released his debut album ‘The Water or the Wave’ to great critical acclaim. Often touted as an ‘artist’s artist’ M G set about releasing his second solo album, ‘With Wolves the Lamb will Lie’, in 2016. The album drew upon the pastoral Sheffield setting where it was recorded to create a sublime mixture of classic singer songwriter material with a rich chamber folk backdrop. The album was picked as one of the top folk albums of the year in its end of year round up by The Daily Telegraph and R2 magazine referring to M G as “a weapon’s grade songwriter”.

M G’s songwriting creates vignettes of ordinary life and seaside 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.

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 2023 and this year.