Bill Ryder-Jones
Bill Ryder-Jones
Person from United Kingdom
Genres: indie, folk, singer-songwriter, british, Classical
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About Bill Ryder-Jones
Bill Ryder-Jones (born William Edward Ryder-Jones on 10 August 1983 in Warrington, Cheshire) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, producer and composer from West Kirby, Merseyside. He co-founded the band The Coral, together with James Skelly, Lee Southall, Paul Duffy, and Ian Skelly, playing as their lead guitarist from 1996 until 2008. He has since pursued a solo career, writing both his own albums and film scores, as well as producing records for other artists and appearing as a session musician. Growing up on Merseyside, north-west England, Ryder-Jones was first signed when he was 16, but rose to prominence with British band The Coral and as a very, very handy guitarist (as Noel Gallagher has mentioned several times). Indeed his skill for playing lead saw him temporarily join Arctic Monkeys during their AM tour. He has cemented his name as one of today’s great talents, soundtracking numerous short films and producing solo records with critical gravitas. His 2011 album If… was an orchestral score designed to accompany the novel If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller by postmodernist writer Italo Calvino, while 2013’s word-of-mouth pearl A Bad Wind Blows In My Heart, an album he recorded at home on an iMac just for himself, has created high expectations. Constantly working, Ryder-Jones has also racked up production credits for other bands, including The Wytches, Hooton Tennis Club and the underrated group By The Sea, whose frontman Liam Power is also part of Ryder-Jones’s live set-up. Last month saw the release of Ryder-Jones’s accomplished third album, West Kirby County Primary: with tracks Two to Birkenhead and Satellites preceding the album’s arrival, the sound on this record is louder and fuzzier in parts, but with the bare bones of sincerity he’s increasingly becoming well known for. Think 1990s grunge via Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci and Super Furry Animals, mashed with the influence of the land spanning the Dee Estuary. Discography A Leave Taking Soundtrack (2011) If... (2011) A Bad Wind Blows in My Heart (2013) Piggy Soundtrack (2013) West Kirby County Primary (2015) Extended plays Home Recordings (2012 - 2014) Home Recordings (Jan/Feb 2015) Home Recordings (May 2015) Home Recordings (April 2016) No Worst, There Is None (2016) based upon a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem
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Bill Ryder-Jones — Top 22 songs
| Artist | Song title | Like / Dislike | |
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| Bill Ryder-Jones | And Then Theres You | ||
| Bill Ryder-Jones | A Bad Wind Blows In My Heart part 3 | ||
| Bill Ryder-Jones | Don't Be Scared, I Love You | ||
| Bill Ryder-Jones | By Morning I | ||
| Bill Ryder-Jones | Don't Be Scared, I Love You | ||
| Bill Ryder-Jones | There Are Worse Things I Could Do | ||
| Bill Ryder-Jones | Nothing to Be Done | ||
| Bill Ryder-Jones | Thankfully for Anthony | ||
| Bill Ryder-Jones | Mither (2018) | ||
| Bill Ryder-Jones | Two to Birkenhead | ||
| Bill Ryder-Jones | And Then There's You | ||
| Bill Ryder-Jones | I Hold Something In My Hand | ||
| Bill Ryder-Jones | Daniel | ||
| Bill Ryder-Jones | He Took You In His Arms | ||
| Bill Ryder-Jones | Put It Down Before You Break It | ||
| Bill Ryder-Jones | If Tomorrow Starts Without Me | ||
| Bill Ryder-Jones | This Can’t Go On | ||
| Bill Ryder-Jones | This Can‘t Go On | ||
| Bill Ryder-Jones | You're Getting Like Your Sister | ||
| Bill Ryder-Jones | We Don't Need Them | ||
| Bill Ryder-Jones | Christinha | ||
| Bill Ryder-Jones | Catharine and Huskisson |