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MALIN ANDERSSON

With influences ranging from Joni Mitchel, Joan Baez, and Anna Ternheium, Swedish artist Malin Andersson delicately creates her unique blend of sensitively stylized folk. Malin’s inspiration takes place from delicate and minimal soundscapes that are established in her songs are derivative from her Swedish roots.

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CHRISTIAN LARSMON

Christian Larsmon is a singer songwriter based in South East London inspired by rock, folk and country music. His influences include Paolo Nutini, Kings of Leon and Cat Stevens. Christian has performed and recorded with various musical projects over the past two decades and his career highlights include support slots for Eric Clapton (true story!), Arthur Brown and The Pretty Things. Christian is currently in the studio recording his new EP ‘Dark Before The Dawn’ which is out in the Summer and has recently released his new single; ‘The Other Side’ which is available on all major streaming platforms.

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LEO KELLY-GEE

Leo Kelly-Gee is a singer, songwriter and guitarist from London, regularly performing across the UK. His songs feature a unique blend of intricate, acoustic mastery and melodic fingerpicking combined with smooth yet sensitive pop vocals, thoughtful, witty, introspective lyrics and powerful, ear-pleasing choruses. His influences are diverse, including Paul Simon, John Mayer, Tracy Chapman, and Tommy Emmanuel, all of which can be heard on his debut EP ‘Under A Blue Sky’ as well as his latest release ‘Headphones.’

Where Leo really excels however, is in his live performances, during which his electric guitar skills come to the fore, channeling artists like Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jon Gomm and Jimi Hendrix in atmospheric and blistering guitar solos.

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MATEEN

Flashback to 9 years old, when he wrote his first song. At 12, he took his first steps onto the stage. 16, he wrote and featured on a friends dance track. At 18, being scared of the consequences of being authentic, he left his music behind and decided to follow a career that he “could fit into”, and be a Barrister. At 21, he left his law degree due to mental health and took a job in a clothes shop. After leaving his position and years of inauthenticity, and a big push from his mum, he followed his “destiny” and started busking. Now, only 5 short months after his first steps back towards himself, he is taking the stage here at Iconic Bedford Pub, just over a month before his 23rd Birthday. Mateen shares, “The purpose of my music is to make people feel. In a world of suppressed emotions and experiences, I intend a light to go on inside when people hear my song, my voice, my music… and for it to never to go out.”

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 EMILIO

Vocal-driven, raw and soulful, emerging London-based artist Emilios is one to watch. Born in Greece, the singer-songwriter’s first memories are of listening to the sounds of Bouzoukis and Lyras with his Greek father, inspiring his appreciation for Byzantine vibrations. When his family moved to the North East of England, his British mother introduced him to the sweet sounds of Sting, Stevie Wonder and Michael McDonald which she’d blast like there was no tomorrow. His nurtured exposure to music, multi-cultural heritage and relentless passion for the Greats have shaped an appetite for pure melody and lyrics that reveal the soul.

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