Clayhill was a British three-piece folk band comprising
Ali Friend
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,
Ted Barnes and vocalist
Gavin Clark. They released their debut album ''Small Circle'' in 2004, and released two EPs and another LP, ''Mine at Last'' (2006). Throughout the summer of 2006 they toured with
Mercury Music Prize winners
Gomez and
Beth Orton
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, as the support act on both her UK and US tours to promote ''
Comfort of Strangers''.
In 2004, they appeared in the special Christmas concert at the
Queen Elizabeth Hall
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The ...
in London as one of
Aqualung's special guests. In the same year their song "Afterlight" was used in the soundtrack of acclaimed
Shane Meadows thriller ''
Dead Man's Shoes''. Their cover of
The Smiths's "
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" is featured on ''
This Is England'', also directed by Meadows.
Gavin Clark, lead singer of Clayhill, is featured on four albums by
UNKLE: ''
War Stories'', ''
End Titles... Stories for Film'', ''
Where Did the Night Fall'' and ''
Another Night Out''. He sings the track "Keys to the Kingdom", "Broken" and several on ''End Titles... Stories for Film''. He was formerly in the band
Sunhouse whose music features in Shane Meadows's ''
Twenty Four Seven
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''.
In 2005, Clayhill recorded a version of
Tim Buckley's "The River" for the tribute album ''
Dream Brother: The Songs of Tim and Jeff Buckley''.
Barnes and Clark provided the original music for another Shane Meadows movie, ''
Somers Town'' (2008). Tracks by Clayhill and by Clark (co-written with
Nick Hemming
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) also appeared in Meadows's 2009 film, the mockumentary ''
Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee''.
During a 5 September 2009 concert at the King's Place Music Festival, the band announced that the performance would be their last.
Gavin Clark died on 16 February 2015.
Discography
* ''Cuban Green'' EP (2004)
* ''Small Circle'' (2004)
* ''Acoustic'' (2005)
* ''Mine at Last'' (2006)
* ''Afterlight'' (2007)
See also
*
Red Snapper, of which Ali Friend was also a member
References
External links
''This Is England'' official site
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English folk musical groups