Andy Skellam is a Bristol based, alt-folk musician with over twenty years of experience writing and performing in the UK and beyond. His main instruments are guitar and vocals with influences from 60’s finger-style folk musicians such as Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell, to English Psychedelia and American Indie such as The Silver Jews. He grew up in rural Herefordshire, surrounded by nature and disused buildings, an upbringing that shaped his deeply introspective and evocative songwriting. After studying fine art in Portsmouth, where grey cityscapes sharpened his awareness of our disconnect from nature, Andy turned to music as a spiritual lifeline. His sound—intimate, organic, and rooted in both field and sea—draws from multiple genres to explore themes of loss, eco-anxiety, new parenthood, and romantic escapism. His third album, Brighten Up The Place, recorded in Bristol and in the stillness of his home studio, is a balm-like work of layered beauty.

Betty Blight lives in Bristol, where she writes and performs folk songs on guitar and voice. Her songs renew old ideas of English folklore, taking literary and historical figures as inspiration to deal with exile, youth, being an outcast, and women on the wrong side of power. Born in the maritime city of Portsmouth, Betty plays the echoes of the sea, the music of ships, as well as playing trad folk songs from players such as Shirley Collins, Archie Fisher and John Renbourn. Betty spent 14 years in Argentina immersed in music, fronting cumbia band Betty Confetti from 2009 to 2017 and releasing Camina Sobre Fuego on vinyl in 2012. She also toured Europe with both Betty Confetti and punk trio Las Kellies, with whom she released several albums on Fire Records. Since returning to the UK in 2019 to reconnect with family, and despite living with a heart condition, Betty Blight has continued to compose, record, and perform in both the UK and Argentina.

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