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Hugh Featherstone · "Lullaby for Noah" FeatherTones 168 views This was the first of a series of three instrumental compositions (so far!) written to celebrate our grandchildren. As a lullaby it actually works. I know, because I tried ...
Hugh Featherstone · "Landing" FeatherTones 123 views I think this is one of my best. Like many love songs it is part obsession, part nostalgia and part atmospheric rendering of the state between fear of commitment and fear of...
Hugh Featherstone · "The Hiring Man" FeatherTones 96 views This is my commentary on the interim job generation. I set it deliberately in a 19th century folk style, because I think that we are heading back that way as decades of har...
Hugh Featherstone · "Winebar Bombers" FeatherTones 101 views This song grew out of events in Columbia in the early years of the new century. Carmen and Sandro, two middle class kids, find it hard to accept that they carry any share o...
Hugh Featherstone · "Corner Of The Sky" FeatherTones 234 views Written just after the euphemistically named "events" of September 11th and featured on "Friendly Skies". Birds fly over the rainbow, clouds cross borders so why do we insi...
Hugh Featherstone · "The Day You Left" FeatherTones 143 views Of the few songs I've written that are not in 4/4 time, this one features a guy bemoaning the sudden exit of his girlfriend, only to find that life isn't so bad without her...
Hugh Featherstone · "Kerosene & Caffeine (The Boeing Man)" FeatherTones 276 views This song, the band version of which we took as the single from "9 on the subprime", was written in response to a long-haul pilot telling me that he felt like a glorified b...
Hugh Featherstone · "Someone Else's Child" FeatherTones 280 views I have made four recordings of this song since writing it back in the early 80s. I first included it on the notorious Black Tape (1983) with a memorable chorus of monks (ov...
Hugh Featherstone · "The Circle Of Your Arms" FeatherTones 317 views I generally play this thoughtful little song as a solo intro to my band concerts, so it seems natural to put it here, at the start of this new series of video recordings. T...
"one planet per person" by hugh featherstone FeatherTones 446 views Created on september 26, 2009 using FlipShare. who remembers those 80's sweatshirts with "one planet, one people" written on them? can one be a baha'i and a misanthrope ...

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As ex-frontman of Foreign Bodies, Pierre Le Suit, Best Foot, Coast To Coast, Test The West, Red Shift and Trans/At (bands that spanned an arc through traditional folk, via punk-country to the avant-garde fringes of art-rock), guitarist & songwriter Hugh Featherstone can look back on a colourful music career spanning thirty-three changes of address.

With his wife and family he currently lives in the picturesque borderland of East Belgium, on the edge of the Hertogen Forest.

A bird of passage between diverse musical styles, Hugh's playing avoids gratuitous virtuosity for an honesty of presentation in which the material dictates its own terms. His 5-piece rock band Hugh Featherstone and a Panel of Experts is an ideal complement to the intimate ambience of his solo and trio (Hugh Featherstone & the Tone Poets, Hugh Featherstone & the FeatherTones) appearances.

The collected experiences and observations of the last three decades emerge in bitter-sweet ballads and edge-city songs with poignant and penetrating lyrics and melody hooks that won't let go, delivered in a rain and woodsmoke voice that both cuts and caresses. Whether performing solo, or fronting a combo, an evening with Hugh Featherstone offers singer-songwriter music of rare authenticity.

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