Bannerman

Bannerman

Richie Setford, Paula Sugden, Andrew Gladstone, Campbell Burns

Country, Folk, Pop, Rock, Singer-Songwriter

Clive

Bannerman features the songwriting of Richie Setford, whose work over the past 30 years as performer, singer and guitarist has incorporated funk and soul (One Million Dollars), world music (Batucada Sound Machine), punk (The Brood) and indie electro-pop (Ziko). The Bannerman world is a place of imagination and cinematic ambition and can be as confined or as liberating as the listener allows it to be. Big skies, wind swept battlefields, nostalgic lovers and lurking monsters, fragility, anguish and the exploration of the human condition. These are emotionally affecting songs that have a compelling and dynamic structure. They can be quietly dramatic, sweeping, disarming and melancholic. A sweet and sad undercurrent with just enough groove to get you through the night. Since 2008 Richie has poured his thoughts and ideas into this project and been aided by a cast of friends and musicians who have worked with him on the sonic “world building” of albums The Dusty Dream Hole (2010), Dearly Departed (2011) and Clawhammer (2013). Along the way he has toured with or supported, amongst others, The Magic Numbers, Shovels & Rope, Tiny Ruins, Anais Mitchell, Marlon Williams, Julia Jacklin, Lawrence Arabia, Kat Frankie and Margaret Glaspy. In 2024, after a 12 year stint performing and recording in Europe (based in Berlin), Richie arrived in the Hawkes Bay and has spent the last six months introducing himself to the regional music scene. The Bannerman band is made up of resident musicians Paula Sugden (Cello), Andrew Gladstone (drums) and Campbell Burns (bass). Richie's last release was the 2022 album Curious Growth, under his own name, while Bannerman's last release was the EP Here Comes The Day which collected three tracks from an aborted album session, begun in London during the spring of 2015 and subsequently finished in Berlin during the summer of 2016. A trilogy of weariness and longing, featuring the single Alone, Not Alone. ----------- In his darker moments, he might be a more tuneful Nick Cave, but his melodies are so full of unexpected twists, his chord changes so cunning, that I'm equally reminded of the Beatles' White Album era." (The Dusty Dream Hole) – Nick Bollinger, The Listener “A deeply engaging listen…” (Dearly Departed, 4.5/5) – Lydia Jenkin, NZ Herald “Bannerman make you realise once again that not only can he/they not be easily pushed into a box, but that sense of the unexpected is exactly what gets you in...and keeps you there...When this album isn't song-noir it is luminescent. Rare stuff." (Clawhammer) – Graham Reid, elsewhere.co.nz “Poetic, experimental and beautifully lonely...” (Here Comes The Day) – Shani.O, elsewhere.co.nz

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