Ricky Murray

Blending a fusion of jangle pop, doo wop, indie, glam rock, alternative, grunge, new wave, Motown, surf and blues with psychedelic and avant garde ideas of sound effects and recordings of everyday sounds, Ricky Murray is quite the concoction. Tied up with lyrics that pertain to a songwriter that metaphorically wears his heart on BOTH his sleeves, it makes for spellbinding listening. He’s not pretentious at all for writing his bio in the third person and saying all this. When he’s THAT good, he has carte blanche to speak in the third person and assume the effects his songs have on the listener. After some made-up ditties as a child in the 1990s - ‘Teddy Bear Armbands’ and ‘Greg The Egg’ to name but a few – his songwriting journey (have to use the word ‘journey’ in a bio) began in earnest when he started playing guitar and writing songs, proper, in January 2002 with a ‘God Save the Queen’ rip-off – Sex Pistols song – called ‘Going Back to School’. Since then, he hasn’t looked back, unless it’s to the artists who inspire him to pen his deeply charged laments, all of which has led to the works of genius you can hear here. Hear, hear to that.