Dominic Crane

Singer, songwriter and guitarist from UK. Dominic Crane is probably better known to Birmingham rock historians as one half of the criminally undervalued The Boaty Man with Stephen Grizzell before going on to play guitar with Rumblefish ( East West ) and their reincarnation as Low Art Thrill ( Island ). In 2005 he chose to work independently as a solo singer songwriter. A demo secured an invitation from Squeeze’s Chris Difford to attend his annual writers’ retreat week at Oxenhoath in Kent along with such names as Amy Wadge, co-writer of Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud”, Marty Pellow and Arts Foundation Songwriting Award winner, Emily Baker. Since then his live appearances have been a variety of House Concerts, Folk Clubs and supports that have included George Ezra, J P Cooper, Mike and The Mechanics, Sharon Corr, Boo Hewerdine, David McAlmont, Fyfe Dangerfield, Darden Smith and Pete Wylie. Festivals are often a regular summer feature with particular past favourites including The Acoustic Festival of Great Britain, The Moseley Folk Festival, Godiva Festival, Burtfest and The Birmingham Lord Mayors Show, sharing the bill with the likes of Donovan, The Bees, Seth Lakeman, Scott Matthews, Jose Gonzalez, Waterson-Carthy, Davey Graham, The Unthanks and Kate Rusby. His BBC ‘Introducing’ live session prompted further airplay from Janice Long who described his song American Tan as “glorious and magnificent”.