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Acoustic singer songwriter based in Leeds...Album out soon..................................................................................................................................................................................................................
10 track CD Available by mail order: £ 5.00 + £1.50 P&P. For bookings & CD's email: faidtroy@yahoo.co.uk
CD Reviews the music has recieved...
Bristling with leashed passionate blues and folk from a young cat on fire with a slightly understated vocal and instrumental ferocity that loses nothing for its refinements, whether tempered or momentarily pyrotechnic
.... This guy's another player you'll swear has a second guitar or bass in accompaniment, but you'd be dead wrong, and delighted for it...streetwise ... philosophical, bittersweet in tone and content -
Mark S. Tucker - Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange - full review @(www.acousticmusic.com/frames/index).................................................................................................................................................................
Neil Fatea - (www.fatea-records.co.uk/magazine/releases)
'Troy Faid" is one of a stream of great guitar picking songwriters that's releasing material at the moment. Troy has managed to catch the essence of southern folk blues and then overlaid a sixties England feel. It gives the music a timeless quality. It also gives it a sense of wanderlust. It's not out of place anywhere, but it doesn't quite belong. It has the delicate strength of lace, but not pristine wedding dress lace, more a doyle that's absorbed the passing of life and bares the stains, but is too beautiful to tuck away in a draw'...................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Live reviews...'Leeds based guitarist Troy Faid's reputation is steadily growing at the moment and there is really little wonder. Once you see Troy live there is no doubting his command of the guitar. His easy going laid back approach to country blues and his understated vocal delivery puts him right up there with the leaders in the field. His influences read like a who's who of important exponents of this style of playing, including Lonnie Johnson, Skip James and Robert Johnson as well as more recent 'keepers of the faith' Kelly Joe Phelps, Eric Bibb and Martin Simpson, who incidentally will be sharing this very same stage later today' - Allan Wilkinson - Rotherham Arts Festival 2007 (www.myspace.com/northernsky2005)
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hi troy, i have just listened to all your songs and they are fantastic. your guitar playing and vocals are really something else and you definitely touch upon the music i so very much love! take care. river.
Hay Mr Troy... Hope you well...Theirs our Annual Beach Party In Cayton Bay / Scarborough... It's always a GREAT one.. x Saturday night but all campers will be there Friday till Sunday Get ya beach thongs on and come along.. Its down by the surf shop then on your right when you hit the beach... keep walking until you find us x
Pick and slide genius Gareth Gregory makes a welcome return, with local luminaries Andy Gaines, Adam Rogowski, Aimie J Ryan and Thom Piddock. Bluesy songsmith Troy Faid from Leeds makes a special appearance.
It seems like years since the last Moorfest happened and to be honest I think the weather was very much a factor in whether people enjoyed themselves or not. Some thrived in the mud whilst others wept until their dads could pick them up. Moorfest is still carving an identity for itself and in the three years that it has been established I think I can say that the one thing that most people love about it is the friendly atmosphere, and this gig is a good opportunity to meet up with friends that perhaps you haven't seen since the festival, to make new friends, enjoy quality music, get a flavour of Moorfest if you haven't already been and also to talk to the organisers in order to give your opinions on how to improve the festival.
KLEZMA TRIP - Are simply an awesome live band. Featuring the amazing musicians that are Giuliano Modarelli, Bill Laurance, Sam Hobbs and Joe these guys had a packed Brudenell dancing all night to infectious eastern grooves which blends aspects of funk, jazz, reggae and indian music into a medicine which you just want spoon after spoon of. Although they are yet to have there own myspace, you can get a flavour here:.. http://www.myspace.com/giulianomodarelli
VESSELS - These guys absolutely rocked Moorfest with mucho hardness and aplomb. They're always getting better, bigger and probably older too. Massive soundscapes, deliciously simple melodic guitar meanderings, vocals that haunt but are still comforting and an intensity that sucks you directly into their world. http://www.myspace.com/vesselsband
COWTOWN - Instant party merchants and connoisseurs of novelty, the Cowtown crew are like a reflex to an injection of arabic coffee directly into both cheeks of your bottom that remains long after they've finished. Skewed sharp guitar riffs, electro kitsch synths and sparse and hard rock drums is one way of summing them u
just been having a listen...tis all great, like your style...hope you can come to the phoenix and play it for us live next saturday at the jamming session/bday party.....take care n hope to see you in sunny scunny next week?
can you please come to a jamming session at the phoenix 7 in scunthorpe...i have asked danny senior to run it...he hasn't said yes yet but if he knows some of his friends are interested in playing at it then it should help things along...it is my birthday on saturday 8th december and that is when i have asked him to do it...hope you can come and play???? i remember when you sang golden brown at a jam there before 2 xmas's ago and it was ace though would love you to do your own stuff...have never tried to organise owt for my birthday before like this and would hate for it to flop coz no-one comes...there will be a bit of food put on as well...thanks for adding me as a friend as well by the way...please say you can make it to sunny scunny that weekend???xxx
Troy Faid has been played on the It's A Frog's Life Acoustic Podcast Show 37 - Instrumental Rewind II. This show features 8 acoustic artists from across the UK with 8 great instrumental tracks which have all been used as bedding tracks on the show. This time we get to hear them in full, uninterrupted glory!
To listen to the show follow the link above to the specific show or the link below to the shownotes page.
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