AN EVENING WITH SWIM DEEP & BILL RYDER JONES | IN PICTURES

PHOTO GALLERY | SWIM DEEP & BILL RYDER JONES w/ Oscar Browne | MANCHESTER NIGHT & DAY CAFÉ by Lucy McLachlan

Last week saw two exclusive ‘An Evening With Swim Deep’ nights take place in Manchester and London. Intimate affairs, the shows saw the band performing songs from across their career, as well as special versions of the tracks they made with Bill Ryder-Jones on ‘There’s A Big Star Outside’. Ahead of the shows, Swim Deep vocalist Austin Williams shared;

“The Cribs got Johnny Marr, Oasis got Andy Bell, and we’ve got Bill Ryder-Jones. Making ‘Big Star’, was a highlight of Swim Deep’s career, and throughout the process Bill became part of the band, so to mark it with a one off show will be the summit of this chapter. I found a big brother in Bill at the perfect time, I was going through a lot, we both were, and after leading this band for 12 years, I was yearning for a mentor, a big brother, to tell me everything was ok, and bring my deflated ego back to its space invader shaped self. It’s the honour to say, Swim Deep play a church with Bill Ryder-Jones on guitar.”

We headed along to the first of the two intimate shows on Thursday 6th March at Manchester’s Night & Day Café. Opening the night was a performance from North London singer-songwriter, Oscar Browne.