Bill Ryder-Jones

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Hailing from a sleepy seaside town between North Wales and Liverpool, The Wirral's Bill Ryder-Jones is a musical polymath with a decades-long career as a producer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and singer/songwriter with several acclaimed solo records to his credit. In 1996, while still in his early teens, he became the lead guitarist for psychedelic pop outfit The Coral, with whom he spent 12 years, garnering 5 UK top ten albums in-between supporting the likes of Oasis; before embarking on a solo career.

His most elaborately produced LP to date, 2024's "Iechyd Da" (a Welsh term meaning "good health") has propelled him from an artists' artist to a beloved figurehead of British song-writing, continuing his steady move up the UK album charts to hit the top 40, as well as a host of 2 & 3 spots in the specialist categories. At times joyous and grand, at others intimate and heart-breaking, the past few years spent producing other artists has provided that gentle nudge to expand into new territory, from kids choirs and tender strings to dramatically re-contextualised disco samples.

"Iechyd Da feels a culmination of all he set out to do. It's a record that beckons you over and invites you in, that rewards your faith and careful listening with moments of extraordinary beauty, unflinching honesty, a sonic exchange of love. 9/10" - Laura Barton, Uncut