Simon Fowler from Ocean Colour Scene plays an intimate show Liverpool April 23

Simon Fowler from Ocean Colour Scene plays Liverpool April 23

Harvest Sun Promotions 
Simon Fowler from Ocean Colour Scene plays an intimate show at Static Gallery, Liverpool 

Monday April 23 

£15

Simon Fowler has announced he will be playing an intimate, seated gig, showcasing his newly released folk album Merrymouth, with his backing band at the Static Gallery in Liverpool on Monday 23rd April 2012. Tickets are priced £15 and available from Ticketline and Ticketweb.

Best known as lead vocalist and guitarist with Britpoppers Ocean Colour Scene, Simon Fowler has also provided backing vocals for ‘Modfather’ Paul Weller and folk artist Kate Rusby.

Ocean Colour Scene are one of the most successful bands to have come out of the Britpop explosion of the mid-nineties, famously knocking Oasis’ Be Here Now off the UK Album Chart top spot with 1997 record Marchin’ Already. Popular hits include The Day We Caught The Train and TFI Friday intro track The Riverboat Song.

Simon has been working with Pledge Music to release his new album, Merrymouth, which was released this week and features the award winning folk musicians, John McCusker and Andy Cutting.

Pledge Music is an online direct-to-fan and fan-funded music platform, launched in August 2009, that facilitates musicians (artists) reaching out to their fan-base (termed pledgers) to financially contribute to upcoming recordings or other musical projects.

Simon and his band Dan Sealey, Mike McNamara and Adam Barry will be doing a handful of dates in April to support the album. Whist Ocean Colour Scene take most of the 2012 off to concentrate on writing material for a new album Simon Fowler has taken the opportunity to release his long awaited folk album.

“Ocean Colour Scene has been busy with shows lately, but over the last year, I’ve penned some personal material of my own. This doesn’t mean the end of the band at all, in fact we’ll be back with an extensive Ocean Colour Scene tour at the end of the year, however I just fancied releasing some music of mine own for a change to see what you all thought.

“I will also be donating a portion of the proceeds from the campaign to Strummerville, the Joe Strummer Foundation for New Music for the amazing work they do helping the next generation of aspiring young musicians” says Simon.


The album, Merrymouth , is out this month and is available for download via PledgeMusic on the March 25th.The conventional release has been set for the March 26th when the album will be available in the shops and on iTunes.