About this Event

Please Please You & The Duchess presents Bill Ryder-Jones

The Duchess, York. Sun. 9th June, 7.30pm. £8adv/£10otd.

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Bill Ryder-Jones will be known to most as lead guitarist with Wirral indie darlings The Coral. Having played on the bands first five albums, Bill left the band in 2008 after twelve years service

He slowly began creeping back into the spotlight recording guitar and doing production work for The Last Shadow Puppets and Alex Turner's Submarine EP, the latter's four tracks were made to sound completely timeless will Bill at the controls. A couple of short film scores followed, culminating in the release of 'If...', a score to a book written by Italian novellist Italo Calvino in 1979. 'If...' was released by Domino Records in 2011 to rave reviews.

A Bad Wind Blows In My Heart is the debut album proper by Bill Ryder-Jones. Warmly melodic, majestically textured and bravely intimate, it is the most fully-realised and deeply personal collection of songs yet from a songwriter and musician who has been quietly but seriously staking claim as one of his generation's most gifted for over a decade.

The album is such a successful endeavour because it represents a perfect union of those two disparate, but equally beautiful strands of Ryder-Jones's artistic vision thus far - it's a collection of capital-S songs that will more than sate the appetite of those that so appreciate his long-established, effortless knack for heart-swelling melody and painterly eye for lyrical detail but, at the same time, is blessed with a serious compositional touch belying Ryder-Jones's still modest years.