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Boo Sutcliffe | |
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.jpg) Sutcliffe in 2021 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Peter Gerald Sutcliffe |
| Born | 1964 December 10 Age 58 Huddersfield, England |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, drums. |
| Discography | https://open.spotify.com/artist/4snGQrWe8kfmUY06Loe8PV |
| Years active | 2015-present |
| Labels | Independent |
| Website | https://www.boosutcliffe.com |
Peter Gerald Sutcliffe (born 10 December 1964), best known as Boo Sutcliffe, is a singer-songwriter from Huddersfield, England. His music blends the genres of rock, pop, Indie, Folk, Country and Americana.
Early life edit
Boo’s father was not a fan of music. ‘He considered it to be basically just noise and his only real interest in it was making it stop’.[1] His mother didn’t play an instrument but was a real aficionado. She used to claim that her three sons would spontaneously burst into tears whenever she tried to sing them a lullaby.[1]
Boo shared his love of music with his two older siblings Nick and John. Their eclectic tastes introduced their younger brother to a wide range of genres. ‘The approach seemed to be: it doesn’t matter where it comes from or which traditions it’s paying homage to - just listen to it and let it do what it does to you… It was years before I came to realize that music fans can be very tribal and selective in their tastes.’[1]
Influences during the 1970s included Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney and David Bowie. A decade later, they extended to Elvis Costello, Squeeze, Kate Bush, The Smiths and Joe Strummer. Boo also followed Country song-writers such as Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton and Kris Kristofferson.[2]
A lover of literature, he drew further influence as a lyricist from North American novelists. He was quoted as saying that those writers had "...a particular brand of sparse eloquence, where every word matters and there’s not one out of place; I think that’s a good ethic to keep in mind when writing songs.”[3]
Boo received his first guitar when he was ten years old. Not long after that, the three brothers persuaded their parents to buy them a drum kit for Christmas. With borrowed bass guitars and microphones, sibling jams were a regular opportunity for Boo to hone his skills.[1]
By the time he was twelve, Boo was playing in bands. By now able to play guitar, bass, keyboards and drums, he was gigging in bars and clubs at the age of fourteen.[4]
Career edit
In 1992, Boo worked for a music promotion company in Huddersfield, where one evening a young support act from Oxfordshire had been booked at Huddersfield University. The band had just released their debut EP, Drill.
He recalled: ‘As they finished their final song, I remember scanning the venue from the side of the stage and everyone, to a man and woman, looked awestruck. I scraped my jaw up off the floor and went off to pay their tour manager the standard £50 support fee’.[4]
The following September, he spotted the band on the BBC’s flagship music show Top of the Pops. The band in question was Radiohead. In an interview with The Sound Café, Boo referred to this episode as ‘the best £50 I ever spent’.[4]
The Boo Sutcliffe Band (2015-2018) edit
Boo spent much of his adult life in other careers, honing his craft as a musician on the side through playing local gigs and finding open-mic sessions when his work took him around the UK. He was in his forties before he came to see himself as a song-writer and solo performer.[5]
A chance meeting at a party with former bandmate, guitarist Roger Kinder (one of the founder members of the band Razorbach) - who he’d performed alongside as a teenager - led to a long-term collaboration and eventually to Boo’s debut LP, Blink.[6]
Once the pair had re-united, Kinder invited Boo to record at his home studio. ‘Rather than looking like a loser to this respected local musician, I just got myself into gear and finished a song that I’d been toying with for years. Then I finished another, and another and so it went on’.[4]
Boo was joined by Kinder for gigs during the early part of 2015. During that time, they also played in various combinations with Jason Kerry (harmonica and percussion) and Claire Helm (vocals and percussion), who supported high profile shows.
In 2017, Boo formed the Boo Sutcliffe Band, comprising Boo on vocals and acoustic guitar, Kinder on electric guitar, Andy McCarthy on drums and Paul Melleney on bass guitar. Both McCarthy and Melleney contributed to the album Blink. Helm and Kerry were regular members; Helm later contributed vocal ideas and harmonies for the EP You’re the Same As Me, as well as performing on it. Kinder remained until early 2018.
As well as his own headline shows, Boo supported Dan Reed,[4] Toploader,[7] The Breath[8] and The Green Rock River Band[9] sometimes solo and sometimes with the band.
From 2017 onwards, the band were regulars at the annual Holmfirth Festival of Folk. They performed at a number of charity festivals in support of The Welcome Centre in Huddersfield]including Huddersfield's largest music festival MarshFest,[10] and the annual We Shall Overcome event between 2015-2018.[11]
Blink album edit
In 2018, Boo went solo and recorded his debut album Blink. The nine-track album was welcomed by the independent music press at its release in 2021. The Sound Café wrote that he offered up "keen melodies and razor-sharp hooks, underpinned by a strong lyrical sensibility".[4]
RnR magazine picked up on the album’s genre-hopping style, noting that as a song-writer, Boo had: "...drunk deeply from the well of Americana…but other influences are lurking – the indie pop of Del Amitri or Travis, Mark Knofler’s blend of English rock and Nashville country, folk-tinged singer-songwriters…any of these can hove into view momentarily".[12]
The album’s three singles - 'Letter to My Younger Self' 'Running Man' and 'Afterglow' - were given airplay on radio stations around the world, predominantly in the UK, Australia and USA. These included the UK’s New Indie Music Show at Longwave Music Radio and the Folk Pilot Show on Deal Radio. The album was picked up by the worldwide Blues and Roots Radio’s Acoustic Routes show and was featured on the Ear to the Ground slot at Nashville-based wxna radio. 'Running Man', on which Sutcliffe duets with Ruth Bostock, was one of the most requested tracks on Rodney Collins’ Beverley FM syndicated show, which airs across the UK, Europe and North America, gaining Boo’s debut album international exposure.
From 2020, Boo was joined by multi-instrumentalist Andy Wright who frequently accompanied him on violin, flute, piano and backing vocals. Wright later performed both violin and viola on the album Eleven Eight.
During the summer of 2022, three tracks from the album ( 'Almost Done', 'Afterglow'] and 'Letter to My Younger Self'), were performed live on The Narrowboat Sessions, an English non-profit organization raising funds for cancer research by airing acoustic recordings from a touring narrowboat.
You're the Same as Me EP edit
The four-track follow-up to Blink, You’re The Same As Me, was released in spring 2022. Wright wrote string arrangements for it and performed violin on 'The Last Train', whilst Helm contributed lead vocals on two of the tracks and backing vocals on three of them.[13] The EP was mixed and mastered by Carl Rosamond, who had previously worked with The Wedding Present, Nile Rogers, The Charlatans and Rag ‘N’ Bone Man. Yorkshire-based artist Puy Soden, artist and educator at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and The Hepworth Wakefield was commissioned for the front cover artwork.
The title track from the EP reached No. 14 in Aldora Britain Records Independent Top 20 while the follow-up track 'The Last Train' went to No 16 in AB Records Independent Top 20 later that year. Its final single, 'The Time, The Time', made No 3 on Isaac Banks’ Daily Top 10 on Banks Radio Australia.
Eleven Eight album edit
August 2023 saw the release of the 12-track album Eleven Eight, which included fresh interpretations of Blink tracks 'Afterglow' (re-mastered by Rosamond) and 'Almost Done'. 'Meet Me In…(V23)' was also the subject of new treatment, with a string quartet arrangement by Wright taking the place of its former more orchestrated production. In addition to former bandmates, the album introduced listeners to Steve Robinson of The Good Earth Collective (bass and accordion) as well as singer Roshan Battiwalla. Boo's civil partner Ruth Bostock, of the Huddersfield Choral Society, duets with Boo on the final track, 'Last Word'.
A non-album single ahead of Eleven Eight, a cover of Frank Sinatra's 'One for My Baby' went in at No 1 on Banks Radio's Daily Top 10 on March 22 2023.
The title track, released ahead of the album in June, reached No. 4 on Australia’s Eleven Eight Valley FM Radio Indie Alliance Top 10. It climbed to No 4 on Aldora Britain Records' Independent Top 20 in the same month, with Banks Radio Australia listing it as No 4 on its Daily Top 10 and No 3 on its Sweet Sunday Sounds list.
English artist Jacquie Hughes was commissioned to provide a portrait for the cover art.
Personal life edit
Civil partnership with Ruth Bostock, 2020-present
Discography edit
| Title | Details |
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| Blink |
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| Eleven Eight |
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| Title | Details |
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| Title | Year | Album |
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| Letter To My Younger Self | December 2020 | Blink |
| Running Man | February 2021 | Blink |
| Afterglow | April 2021 | Blink |
| You're The Same As Me | June 2022 | You're The Same As Me |
| The Last Train | July 2022 | You're The Same As Me |
| A Thousand Things | August 2022 | You're the Same As Me |
| The Time, The Time | September 2022 | You're The Same As Me |
| Margaritas on the Lawn | December 2022 | Eleven Eight |
| Say Something | February 2023 | Eleven Eight |
| One For My Baby | February 2023 | Not on an album |
| Eleven Eight | May 2023 | Eleven Eight |
| Afterglow v23 (re-release) | August 2023 | Eleven Eight |
| Meet Me In...v23 | September 2023 | Eleven Eight |
| Bobby | October 2023 | Eleven Eight |
References edit
- ^ a b c d Hilton, Tom (June 2023). "Letter to My Younger Self". A B Records Issue 104. Retrieved September 20, 2023.
- ^ Melanson, Jenna (26 July 2023). "Canadian Beats Passport - Boo Sutcliffe shares Eleven Eight". Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- ^ "Boo Sutcliffe | Singer-Songwriter | Official Website". 2020-11-02. Retrieved 2023-09-25.
- ^ a b c d e f "A Conversation with Boo Sutcliffe". www.thesoundcafe.com. 2023-09-20. Retrieved 2023-09-20.
- ^ "Clouzine 40 - Clouzine Magazine Flip PDF | AnyFlip". anyflip.com. Retrieved 2023-09-20.
- ^ Sutcliffe, Boo (2023-04-17). "Getting Things Moving With The Man From The Water Board". Retrieved 2023-09-20.
- ^ Abbiss, Ben (2019-08-27). "Full lineup for HuddsFest 2019 in Greenhead Park". YorkshireLive. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- ^ "The Breath (UK) – The Live Room". theliveroom.info. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- ^ "Green Rock River Band". Ents24. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- ^ KLTV (2019-07-01). "Huddersfield Music Festival 'Marshfest' is just around the corner". KLTV. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- ^ Abbiss, Ben (2018-10-22). "Huddersfield music event to fight austerity and help local food bank". YorkshireLive. Retrieved 2023-09-20.
- ^ "Boo Sutcliffe | Reviews Of Boo's Debut Album 'Blink'". 2021-05-21. Retrieved 2023-09-20.
- ^ "Boo Sutcliffe | Singer-Songwriter | Official Website". 2020-11-02. Retrieved 2023-09-20.