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Clayhill

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Genres
  
Folk

Years active
  
2002–2009

Instruments
  
Vocals, Guitar

Genre
  
Folk music

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Origin
  
London, United Kingdom (2002)

Albums
  
Mine at Last, Small Circle, Clayhill (Acoustic), Afterlight, Small circle - Acoustic version, Cuban Green

Members
  
Ted Barnes, Ali Friend, Gavin Clark

Record labels
  
Eat Sleep Records, Eat Sleep

Similar
  
Sunhouse, TOYDRUM, Pablo Clements, The Cimarons, Evangelist

Clayhill please please please let me get what i want


Clayhill was a British three-piece folk band comprising Ali Friend, Ted Barnes and vocalist Gavin Clark. They released their debut album Small Circle in 2004, and released two EPs and another LP, Mine at Last (2006). Throughout the summer of 2006 they toured with Mercury Music Prize winners Gomez and Beth Orton, as the support act on both her UK and US tours to promote Comfort of Strangers.

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In 2004, they appeared in the special Christmas concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London as one of Aqualung's special guests. In the same year their song "Afterlight" was used in the soundtrack of acclaimed Shane Meadows thriller Dead Man's Shoes. Their cover of The Smiths's "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" is featured on This Is England, also directed by Meadows.

Gavin Clark, lead singer of Clayhill, is featured on four albums by UNKLE: War Stories, End Titles... Stories for Film, Where Did the Night Fall and Another Night Out. He sings the track "Keys to the Kingdom", "Broken" and several on End Titles... Stories for Film. He was formerly in the band Sunhouse whose music features in Shane Meadows's Twenty Four Seven.

In 2005 Clayhill recorded a version of Tim Buckley's "The River" for the tribute album Dream Brother: The Songs of Tim and Jeff Buckley.

Barnes and Clark provided the original music for another Shane Meadows movie, Somers Town (2008). Tracks by Clayhill and by Clark (co-written with Nick Hemming) also appeared in Meadows's 2009 film, the mockumentary Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee.

During a 5 September 2009 concert at the King's Place Music Festival, the band announced that the performance would be their last.

Gavin Clark died on 16 February 2015.

The clayhill band new year s eve


Discography

  • Cuban Green (2004)
  • Small Circle (2004)
  • Acoustic (2005)
  • Mine at Last (2006)
  • Afterlight (2007)
  • Songs

    Please Please Please Let Me Get What I WantThis Is England · 2007
    AfterlightSmall Circle · 2004
    One NerveMine at Last · 2006

    References

    Clayhill Wikipedia