Fyfe Dangerfield

As front man with Guillemots, Fyfe Dangerfield dreamed up grand, ambitious indie pop that clattered together brass, strings and oddball sounds into a Mad Hatter's tea party of eccentric, melodic freak-outs and earned the band BRIT award and Mercury Music Prize nominations. A former music teacher, Dangerfield recorded sessions for John Peel's BBC Radio show with his first band Senseless Prayer before composing classical and choral pieces for choirs in Birmingham. This broad musical vision lives on his solo work as his romantic piano ballads tinkled into dreamy, booming crescendos on debut Fly Yellow Moon (2010). Lead single She Needs Me made little impact but the well-received album reached Number 12 in the UK and his cover of Billy Joel's She's Always A Woman for a John Lewis commercial went on to reach Number 7 in the singles chart. The album's opening track When You Walk In The Room was named single of the week by iTunes and Dangerfield went on to record Only Love Can Break Your Heart, a duet with Sting's daughter I Blame Coco; and he played at the BBC Electric Proms covering his favourite Neil Diamond songs.

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