At seventeen Angie Palmer left England for Europe to follow in the footsteps of folk troubadours and ended up in Paris for five years busking a living playing bars, cinema queues and the Metro. She began writing her own songs and playing at free festivals, save enough money to buy a van, which she converted into a camping bus, and then spent two years travelling around Europe before ending up in Geneva living as part of a buskers community.
After a few years she moved back to Paris where she met Paul Mason, a lecturer in philosophy from Manchester Metropolitan University. This fortuitous meeting in a Cafe Philosophique on the Place de Bastille led to a writing partnership and soon Angie returned to England and began recording.

The first two records, 'A Certain Kind of Distance' and 'Romantica Obscura', generated some interest, but Angie’s third CD 'Road' gained 4 and 5 star reviews and earned her comparisons with Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell thanks to lyrics described by reviewers as “intelligent” and “literate”. For others her potent mix of country, blues, and folk has led her to called the “British Lucinda Williams”. 'Road' made it on to the long-cut for the Mercury Prize in 2004.

Angie’s music was now being championed by Bob Harris, who called her “one of Britain’s greatest singer-songwriters” and this year she has appeared on his Saturday show for the second time. Angie’s electrifying live performances have seen her to most of the major festivals in Britain and Europe.

Her forth CD 'Tales of Light and Darkness' continued where 'Road' left off, mixing strong narrative songs with smaller, more personal reflections. HMV Choice said “Not since Bob Dylan’s mid-60’s output has a singer jammed songs with so many high-culture reference points”. Her new CD 'Meanwhile, As Night Falls...' was written while living in France on the edge of a forest and the influence of European folk tales, songs and stories are reflected in the writing and in the haunting darkness of the music. The new CD shows the maturing of one of the most literate and compelling of singer-songwriters who is never afraid to take on big themes and stretch out across musical genres and marks her out as a unique British talent.

Thanks to Peter Holmstedt at Hemifran