Who is Newton Faulkner?
October 22nd, 2007 5
One word - Genius!
And all from a 22 year old singer / songwriter who hails from London. If you’re not familiar with the name then you’ll probably know his song ‘Dream catch me’ which has been getting quite a lot of radio play. Personally, I’d not heard him until Dan was going on about him last night. Like many new bands and artists someone tells you about - you tend to go “yeah, cool” then forget all about them.
But then he showed me this.
LOOK at that body slapping! HOW does he do this, and sing and play the melody too?! How do you get your brain to process that much all at once? Man… this guy is good.
So today I got his album ‘Hand Built by Robots’. Again.. Wow.
Check him out. See him live. Hook him up with your mother… Or even better get his album, which is available on iTunes and (i’m sure) in all good record stores. And yes, it includes that amazing version of Teardrop.
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#1 On October 22nd, 2007 at 12:50 pm Si Jobling said...
I’ve got to say that live performance is very impressive (at a Heart FM festival of all places too). Like you said, to process all those different “instruments” at once must have taken a lot of practise but he seems to do it effortlessly.
#2 On October 22nd, 2007 at 3:11 pm James said...
Amen to all the above..he is fab-a-doo. No doubt.
#3 On October 22nd, 2007 at 7:32 pm derv said...
he does good rendition of spongebob square pants too!!
#4 On November 2nd, 2007 at 5:15 am Geoff said...
Hey I had never herd of Newton Faulkner until I linked over to this page and read your post, Awesome music he makes, and really cool live performance… Thanks for sharing him with us. If you like his style check out guitar player Andy Mckee on youtube his music is incredible… a must see for any guitar player or anyone who likes this hybrid syle of music.
#5 On November 2nd, 2007 at 3:07 pm Paul Oakley said...
When I saw the utube link I thought it was “Neil” out of the Young One’s!
Liked what I heard. I might go off and investigate.