Dan Raza, Trent Miller

About the show

Doors open 7.30 pm, music from 8.15 pm sharp. Nearest tube station Kings Cross, 8 minutes walk.

Plucked while still a student to tour with Joan Armatrading, and championed by Neil Young on his ‘Living With War’ website, Dan Raza has spent the first chapter of his career weaving folk troubadour magic around the clubs and halls of the UK and Europe while quietly building a reputation as one of the UK’s best-kept musical secrets.

With three critically-acclaimed albums under his belt, the singer-songwriter, whose roots lie in folk, Americana and lyrical pop balladry, has won support along the way from some of the biggest names in folk music, such as Rodney Crowell (“great voice and fine arranging sensibilities”), Tom Paxton (“killer songs”) and John McCutcheon (“one of my favourite discoveries of recent years”), and has long been tipped for wider mainstream recognition.

The 12 tracks on Raza’s new album ‘Wayfarer’ are delivered in his trademark husky soul-laden voice which, at times, has been compared to singers such as Nick Drake, Mike Scott of the Waterboys and Ray LaMontagne. The record features a stellar cast of UK musicians including Adam Phillips on guitar (Richard Ashcroft), Geraint Watkins on keys (Van Morrison) and Luke Bullen (KT Tunstall) on drums. In addition, the album also continues Raza’s long-term collaboration with members of Slim Chance, the band Ronnie Lane founded in the 1970s after leaving The Faces.
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‘Dan Raza is one of my favourite discoveries of recent years. His instinctive way of telling a story in his songs that is both personal and universal at once is what first caught my eye. Then his ability to do just the right guitar part, a seductive melody, and heart-filled delivery…well, you just don’t see it all come together so well very often. His songs have heart and teeth, my favourite combo.’ John McCutcheon

‘The real deal’ Huey Morgan, BBC Radio 2

‘A writer who has matured into one of this country’s finest’ Country Music Magazine

‘Killer songs’ Tom Paxton

‘A songwriter of exceptional talent.’ Rachel Devine, Folk Radio UK

WATCH DAN RAZA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVUqgtEzLYU&list=PLpyIECdUcpjlQSsncDyt7STIJok2rA7tq&index=3

Seven years on from the release of Time Between Us, London songwriter Trent Miller returns with his fifth album. Summer Was Cold That Year, recorded at Rogue Studios in London between 2019 and 2024. Produced and arranged by Graham Knight (Simple Kid / Orphan Colours), the album also features guitarist Fed Abbott (Noah And The Whale, Jamie Lawson, Tom Chaplin, Cassyette, Charlotte OC, Jeremy Loops, Megan McKenna), and drummer Steve Brookes (Danny and the Champions of the World).

Carrying with him the dual influence of the Beats and darkly troubled songwriters like Gene Clark, Jeffrey Lee Pierce and Thin White Rope’s Guy Kyser, Miller’s new album offers a hopeful glimmer on the horizon, a new maturity in songwriting, and a more refined and pop-oriented sound.

'Fans of Gene Clark, Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark will recognise a kindred spirit in his glowering meditations and steely worldview’ Daily Mirror

‘A darkly underground mix of hangovers, anguished love, mournful blues and lonesome country’. Q Magazine

WATCH TRENT MILLER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wB10hSXaRw&list=RD8wB10hSXaRw&start_radio=1