| Powerful trio with Julian Pollard on vocals and strumming
guitar, Simon Othen picking, sliding and generally being a clever git,
with Mark Platt blowing and hitting everything else. The Machine Breakers
are contemporary English acoustic music that bites. Their work is critically acclaimed: Sea Green described as ‘a masterpiece’, The Bells Ring Anyway nominated for a U.S. Indie Acoustic Award, their live album Sunday Evening - 10 PM hailed as a ‘fantastic collection of work to date’, live performance noted as ‘stunning.…passionately intense’, and with their latest offering Eight Men from Three Beams they venture forth ‘once more with this brilliant studio work’. Their Festival credits include: The Larmer Tree, Greenbelt, Bridgnorth, Cromer, Broadstairs, Wheaton Aston, Hook Norton, Wallingford Bunkfest and Beggars Fair. |