FOLLOWING a successful career on the rock and pop scene as part of the Christians, Henry Priestman has released a live solo DVD, entitled ‘Settle Down’.
Filmed in Settle with numerous guest musicians, the DVD comes hot on the heels of his second solo album ‘The Last Mad Surge of Youth,’ released in 2014.
His 2009 debut solo album ‘The Chronicles of Modern Life’ found him thrust into new territory with acoustic based songs - it became a surprise hit, topping the Amazon Folk & World charts.
This is the sound of a man who has been part of the music scene since supporting the Sex Pistols in 1977 and through his million selling ‘pop’ band The Christians, for whom he wrote all the songs on their 1987 triple-platinum debut.
His numerous other projects include sharing a mic and a number one single with Paul McCartney, and composing the title song for London West End musical “Dreamboats and Petticoats”.
Radio 2’s Johnnie Walker described Henry’s new direction as “music for grumpy old men” and in 2008, Island Records picked up Henry’s solo album from Stiff making him, at 53, the oldest-ever artist to be signed to a major label for a debut solo album.
Henry plays at Staveley Roundhouse Theatre on April 16.
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