PHIL EDGELEY :
Who is this Phil Edgeley anyway ?

Phil Edgeley loves playing guitar and singing his songs and now couldn’t imagine his life without it. Sadly this is a recent realisation and he has been madly making up for that lost time ever since.

His songs are direct and stripped bare to reveal the plain truths as he see’s them, studies and observations that are both incisive, sensitive and lyrical.

Phil draws on experiences from a lifetime or two he had before he came to the music. Working hard in big factories, working his body till it was cut as sharp as a knife. Riding his competition motorcycle on the ragged edge.
... Sure all the dials are pinned in the red …but that’s the way he really is..

True to form he got as far away from his past as he could and took up residence in Australia, far from his native Lincolnshire in the UK, to start yet another life. Learning fingerstyle guitar, slide technique and playing in open-tunings, he has developed a live performance style that is both dynamic & intense. Phil uses his honest vocal style to tell of the joy and the pain of what life brings and takes away.

Phil recorded his debut CD – This Life in 2005. It contained ten original compositions and he promoted that throughout Sydney, Newcastle and the Central Coast, and further into Northern NSW and Queensland. Playing the pubs, clubs and festival circuits, supporting local and international artists.

Two years on and Phil is back with his latest release…
Then and Now.

Recorded at Point Studios on the Central Coast. Then and Now features ten new tracks. Since his debut CD, Phil's song writing has matured and the meaning in his compositions has distilled so that where once you were hit full in the face with a plank you’re now offered a seat first. The new songs are just as emotive but are now set in audio landscapes that are more defined since producer Roni Francois has taken the helm.

A crew of top-flight musicians ably abets Phil: Mick King (Guitar), Christian Marsh (Blues & chromatic harmonica), Murray Campbell (Djembe, Moroccan talking drum and percussion) and Paul Rutter again steps up on both fretted & fretless bass guitar duties. Producer Roni Francois adds his multi-instrumentalist talents to the mix via drums, bass guitar piano and percussion.

Over the six months that it's taken to record Then and Now an original and eclectic polyrhythmic style has been created that underpins and enhances Phil’s guitar playing technique and provides solid support to the blues / roots based tales he tells.