Morton Valence

Morton Valence are a five-piece London-based rock band who describe their music as "urban country". They have recorded four studio albums, one of which was accompanied by a 110-page novella and are noted as being one of the first ever bands to successfully enter into a crowd funding agreement with their fans. Their 2009 single "Chandelier" was a BBC Radio 2 Record of the Week.

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Founded in 2006 by Robert "Hacker" Jessett and Anne Gilpin, the band won the 2006 Fopp/PRSF award for best new band and went on to sign a record contract with Cheap Date Records. After the release of the single "Sailors" - praised by the BBC as being "the best single you've never heard of the past decade" - Morton Valence split from Cheap Date to form their own label, Bastard Recordings.

Jessett had been an associate of Johny Brown of the Band of Holy Joy who he had written and collaborated with in the 1990s, as well as writing and touring with the Alabama 3 (a.k.a. A3 in USA). During this period he became acquainted with filmmaker Franny Armstrong who later introduced him to the idea of crowd funding which had funded her film The Age of Stupid, in which Hacker makes a cameo appearance performing a version of These Boots Are Made For Walkin'.

Morton Valence released a second album in 2011 entitled Me & Home James in which the band experiment with country music,

Morton Valence released a 3rd album entitled 'Left' in 2014 and a 4th - Another Country - in 2015.