"It's rare to stumble across true musical talent these days, but that's exactly what happened when we found Conor playing his solo acoustic set in the small venue at the back of Brel in Glasgow's Ashton Lane.
Brought up in a musical family in Ireland, Conor Mason took to playing music from a very young age. Learning classical piano at the age of 8 he soon progressed to a variety of other instruments. The efforts to self teach himself drums and guitar would later pay off to become the basis of his songwriting.
On leaving school Conor followed a music production course at a local college where he learned the techniques of writing and recording music. With this newly acquired knowledge, some software, and his brother’s computer, Conor went to work on his first batch of songs and has never looked back.
It wasn't long before people were taking notice of Conor's music. His song 'Circles', was one of ten songs of the year in the BBC Across The Line show in N. Ireland. Most recently, Conor has also won both the XFM Unsigned competition and the monthy 'Your Sound' showdown at King Tuts,
which lead to a slot at the Hydro Connect Music Festival last year, where Conor will play alongside artists like Elbow, Sigur Ros, the Coral and Gomez.
With such stunning songwriting consistency, and the sheer warmth of every performance, we look forward to hearing (and seeing) what Conor does next."
Antimatter Music
As you may or may not be aware SoundARC hold a charity gig every year at Club 85 in Hitchin in aid of the Garden House Hospice in Letchworth, and this year we are going to try something a little different from previous years.
This year we are going to take over the club and host 37 acts in one weekend putting full bands upstairs and acoustic acts downstairs in an event that we are calling ARCfest!
It all starts on Friday 4th December at 7pm and then continues on through Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th from 12pm-11pm
As well as raising money for the Garden House Hospice in Letchworth, ARCfest will showcase all the different genres of bands that we at SoundARC have come across over the last 4 and a half years. Over this weekend a lot of the acts that you will see don’t get a chance to play a great local venue like Club 85, So as well as hearing new music you will see all manors of genres and styles from acoustic - Metal - Indie - Rock - Punk - Electro - Ska - Funk - Hip Hop/Rap - Alternative - Rhythm & Blues - Reggae - Grunge and loads more that I cant remember!
