Bridge UK

Bridge (the "UK" added purely as an online differential) began in Oxford in 1997 as the duo of Colin MacKinnon (vocals, guitar, keys) and Ed McClements (drums, bass, guitar, production), recording three albums; "The Depths of The Sea", "Drowning by Numbers" and "Helen of Troy". The line up expanded in 2002 to a 5-piece live band with the addition of Simon Hunt (bass, BVs), Bruno Muellbauer (keys, BVs) and Adrian Breakspear (guitar, BVs, production). This line-up recorded the "So Sue Me" EP prior to disbanding in 2004.


As astutely observed by reviewers, Bridge sat outside the trends of the time.

"But whilst melodic folk-prog might not sound that appetising, what this album lacks in all-new millennium, baggy arsed togs, it more than makes up for in very nicely realised acoustic-based experimental chops"

Making Music magazine on "Helen of Troy", April 2001:


"Bridge sit out on a limb from every other band on the Oxford scene by dint of existing outside of any kind of trend or genre you care to throw at them. There's a rich Celtic vein running through Colin MacKinnon's singing and songwriting, but the traditional sounds are forever cut through with the eerie spectre of gothic foreboding or new wave edginess, most notably on this heartbreaking ballard [Harvester] that somehow undermines Steeleye Span's trad folk with Magazine's synthetic New Wave."

Nightshift Magazine, December 2003

Now Bridge are reworking and releasing material that was uncompleted at the time.