"Latest set from highly-regarded singer-songwriter powerfully addresses contemporary issues with intelligence and insight, matched by creative backings. Why's this guy's music not more widely accepted?" (fRoots on The Less Blessed)
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THE STORIES
Simon is a songwriter. If you like your stories unflinching, raw and tender, then this uncompromising, yet sensitive songsmith is for you. At turns provocative, poignant and funny, Simon's songs pour out of an informed social conscience and a chequered storybook of personal experience.
THE STAGE
Alongside Simon on stage, you'll often find long time collaborator guitarist Leigh Trowbridge and double-bassist Andee Price. Their three-part harmonies provide a rich setting for Simon's material. In concert you'll recognise what BBC Radio Cambridge presenter Sue Marchant meant when she said: 'He's an entertaining, down-to-earth bloke that you wouldn't mind sharing a beer with'.
THE INFLUENCES
While his most direct musical influences are American and Canadian singer-songwriters (Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen and Steve Earle), Simon was drawn to British folk music while exploring the North of England clubs of the 1960s. These influences can be found in his writing - notably in a song that was heard on national radio: The Ballad of the Suffolk Five, a song of respect for the victims of the Ipswich serial killer of 2006.