Featured Artist of June 9, 2022
with the            : The Nieto Sessions


Artist's Biography

Singer and guitarist Simon Scardanelli enjoyed chart success in March 1989 with Anglo-Canadian duo Big Bam Boo, scoring a top 50 hit in the UK, USA & Canada with "Shooting From My Heart". Since then he's released 5 solo albums, numerous singles and EPs, composed the music for the award winning "Clean - the Musical" (Brighton Fringe 2021) & scored the music for several theatrical productions & short films. He is currently at work on a Folk-opera which he hopes to launch in 2024, inspired in part by the folklore & culture of Brittany, France, his home since 2017.

A charismatic and engaging solo performer, Simon's songs are infused with wry observation – he is able to look back on a long and varied career with an ironic appreciation of its highs and lows. From tales of life on the margins of rock and roll in NYC, where he lived and worked as a liquor runner in the notorious "Save the Robots" club during the 90s, to a love song written to a favourite guitar, or meetings with vampires and aliens, his songs are rich in imagery and passion.

“Simon's greatest asset is a fantastic singing voice....his performance on tracks such as They Dance bear comparison to the likes of Scott Walker.” Sound On Sound Magazine

“A spine-tingling listen” Maverick Magazine
 

Full Album show of October 6, 2019
Album: The Rock, the Sea, the Rising Tide

Simon Scardanelli is an English singer-songwriter who now lives in Brittany, France. He released his 5th solo album on September 6th 2019. "The Rock, the Sea, the Rising Tide."

About the Album
2019 - Folk If 2016’s Make Us Happy was a return to Simon’s folkier roots, "The Rock, the Sea, the Rising Tide" goes to the soil. Eleven totally acoustic, guitar finger-picked songs with a sparse balance of additional instruments. The occasional use of violin, cello, recorders and cumbus, round out each song perfectly. The title of the album is taken from the chorus of The Ballad of Jago Trelawney; a story and character based on a real sea battle that took place in 1793 between the English Nymph & French Cleopatre. Other songs deal with subjects ranging from a shamed Edwardian lady to a delusional lunatic asylum inmate’s dreams of freedom, and the album ends with a touching Ukulele based lament at the climate change disaster that awaits us if action isn’t taken. Singer and guitarist Simon Scardanelli has released many creatively successful albums, singles and EPs since his initial chart success in the late 80’s with the duo Big Bam Boo. Following the U.S top 40 hit Shooting From My Heart in 1989, Simon moved from London to New York where he lived, worked and recorded in the underbelly of New York’s Lower East Side. His moodily challenging album Death Row Tales in 1994 bears testament to that dark and dangerous lifestyle. Since then he has released 5 albums, 3 EPs and several singles, embracing different aspects and genres of his musical passion In 2017 Simon relocated to central Brittany, building a studio in an old farm house and gigging across northern France. If you like intriguing and experimental songwriting, charismatic performing and singing that works in some of the areas explored by the likes of Scott Walker, Vini Reilly, John Martyn, Jacques Brel, David Ackles and Tim Buckley, you'll be inspired to discover Simon Scardanelli's work.