Trev Gibb – Summer Tears mini-album plus free EPs

As a rule, it’s best to avoid anyone who happily applies the tag ‘singer-songwriter’ to themselves – the phrase is too redolent of MOR radio balladry, shopping centre busking and clunking protest songs. These days, there’s usually an issue of ego at play there too. For a long time now, the only way for a solo artist to distance themselves from this is to adopt a ‘band name’. Newcastle based Trev Gibb neatly sidesteps this issue by writing introverted and melancholic songs. There’s not a hint of ‘look at me everybody’ about his music at all. Which is just how it should be.

To compliment his excellent mini-album Summer Tears, on Rainboot,  Trev Gibb has also made available two free acoustic EPs,  Postcard and Dancing.

To get your hands on them, visit http://www.rainboot.co.uk/download/ and click on ‘free stuff’ to access the downloads.

This review came to us courtesey of Jon at the SuitCase Orchestra web site. Great site, great man. A big thank-you from The Northern Line.

LINKS:

TREV GIBB (myspace)  http://www.myspace.com/trevgibb

SuitCase Orchestra  http://www.suitcaseorchestra.com/

By peter on August 20, 2010