LIVERPOOL singer-songwriter Robert Vincent will showcase his new album In This Town You’re Owned at Pocklington Arts Centre on February 7, one week before its release on Thirty Tigers.
For this return visit, he will be accompanied on stage by PAC favourites The Buffalo Skinners in his 8pm set.
“My last visit to Pocklington Arts Centre, supporting Beth Nielsen Chapman, was such a great night with a lovely music-loving crowd. So, I’m looking forward to being back and playing for the lovely folk of Pocklington,” he says.
Vincent has been hailed by veteran BBC presenter “Whispering” Bob Harris as “the real deal” for his Americana music. On seeing him play in the Bluebird Café at the Bluecoat, Liverpool’s centre for the contemporary arts, the legendary broadcaster immediately invited him, to record an Under The Apple Tree Session in his home studio for his BBC Radio 2 country show, describing his performance as “absolutely magnetic”.
Vincent duly received the inaugural Emerging Artist Award from Harris in 2016 and the UK Americana Music Association’s UK Album of The Year in 2018 for 2017’s sophomore work I’ll Make The Most Of My Sins, recorded in his hometown and mixed in Nashville by Grammy Award-winning producer Ray Kennedy.
His 2013 debut, Life In Easy Steps, drew BBC airplay for its title track on Janice Long and Radcliffe & Maconie’s shows.
He has since toured the UK supporting Paul Carrack, James Blunt and Squeeze and The Pretenders at the Royal Albert Hall. Last spring, he opened for Beth Nielsen Chapman on her Hearts Of Glass tour, including the aforementioned Pocklington show.
Last summer, Vincent was on the supporting bill for his hero, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, in Hyde Park at British Summer Time and joined “the Titan of Twang”, guitarist Duane Eddy, across the UK on his 80th birthday tour.
Now comes third album In This Town You’re Owned, produced by BRIT Award-winning Ethan Johns.
Tickets for Vincent’s Pock gig are on sale at £13.50 on 01759 301547 or at pocklingtonartscentre.co.uk. Vincent has further Yorkshire gigs coming up at The Greystones, Sheffield, on March 25, and Leeds Lending Room the next night.
