Billy Lockett is probably that artist you didn’t realise you were looking for.
And even if you don’t read a word of this interview, just listen.
In a world dominated by highly produced music Billy is a bit of a wonder. His music is stripped back, instrumental, raw, emotive, and at the same time his sound is huge. He is a self-taught musician and with it an incredible pianist. He’s thrown out the rule book on genre and song structure in places, and his beautiful, mournful songs can be likened to powerful movie soundtracks.
His power comes from the fact he’s very cautious about over cooking his tracks, they should be organic and simple, he exclusively told Metro.co.uk ahead of his gig at Union Chapel on 15 February.
‘Sometimes you don’t need more than a piano,’ he said. ‘A good song is a good song. Most of mine haven’t needed drums, if I thought they needed drums I’d get drums. I think going forward I’m… Read the full story