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"Stunning Indie Pop" - RSW Concerts
"Honest, brave, dashing and witty, with vocals unlike any other" - Danny Wallace, XFM
"His voice is both soothing and plaintive and moves most powerfully when the music falls back into the quietude of simple guitar picking for accompaniment; creating the kind of ambivalent tension reminiscent of a Lord Byron poem or a David Sedaris essay" - Jasmine Anderson, Blogcritics Review
"A Molotoff Cocktail with legs" - My Dad
"A Man Of Many Talents" - Kelly Dalglish
"Like James Blunt, Only Good" - Live & Unsigned
"A cross between Gavin Rossdales teenage fueled angst and Billy Braggs street corner protest" - New York Waste
"If you don't like his music, you'll like him as a man... and if not as a man, at least you'll like his face" - Timothy James Pritchard
Click the link below to request 'It Feels Like A Race' on BBC Radio 2
'It Feels Like A Race' Music Video recorded by Silvertip Films
Gareth talks about his debut album and upcoming single
A brief bio...
Gareth Icke is a singer/songwriter from the Isle of Wight.
He has just released his debut album ‘It gets worse at night’ through Icon Records.
The 10 track album was recorded and produced by Dan Swift (Kasabian, Snow Patrol, Aqualung) and received great reviews upon its release.
"his voice is both soothing and plaintive and moves most powerfully when the music falls back into the quietude of simple guitar picking for accompaniment; creating the kind of ambivalent tension reminiscent of a Lord Byron poem or a David Sedaris essay. Even when he's singing about the kind of loneliness that gets worse at night, there's a strange hopefulness in his voice that reassures things will all work out alright in the end." - Jasmine Anderson , Biocritics
Gareth has toured tirelessly over the past couple of years taking him as far a field as the USA. He has played Top festivals including The Isle of Wight festival and Norway’s Quart Festival as well as many UK tours.
The records opening track, ‘It Feels Like A Race’ has been championed by radio stations all over the Country including Kerrang Radio, BBC 6 Music and Steve Wright’s Afternoon show on BBC Radio 2.
The songs music video reached over 20,000 youtube hits in it's 6 weeks online.
Gareth and his band are regularly headlining top London venues such as the Borderline, South of the Border and The Barfly.
They will once again embark on a full length UK tour in September, taking the band all the way from Brighton to Edinburgh, before Gareth flies off to California to perform acoustically around San Diego and Los Angeles.
As well as writing and performing, Gareth is also an International Beach Soccer player. He has earned several caps representing England in front of live TV audiences all over the World.
He has done articles for 442 magazine, the Daily Star and had his music featured on the titles of Nuts TV Beach Soccer show.
He has modelled for More Magazine and Virgin Media, as well as presenting Virgins Bestival coverage.
You can keep up with Gareth on Twitter, Facebook and by subscribing to his mailing list below…
"I look at life like a big book and sometimes you get half way through it and go 'Even though I've been enjoying it, I've had enough. Give us another book'" Karl Pilkington
Hey There! OUT NOW the new single !!! Visit our page & follow the links to buy our music from your fav stores like iTunes, Amazon, LaLa, Napster & more !!! thanks so much,
thanks man, i'm pretty damn happy with them - live recording is definitely the way to go for me :) hopefully see your good self in Holland some time soon.....good luck with the tour, keep me posted
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