Nick Mulvey Tickets

Nick Mulvey’s worldly and gently heady folk songs have a warm, fireside glow that seem to ground the listener into a mindful state.

The Cambridge-born artist broadened his horizons before releasing his solo debut album, First Mind, in 2014, having moved to Havana, Cuba, as a teenager to learn music. When he returned he studied Ethnomusicology at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, where he met and formed the jazz group Portico Quartet. Their debut album, Knee-Deep in the North Sea, was nominated for the Mercury Prize, but Mulvey yearned to pursue a personal project, so left the group in 2011. His debut EP, The Trellis, followed two years later, introducing listeners to his nylon stringed guitar playing, haunting vocals, and atmospheric world building.

Mulvey’s first full-length was released in 2013, and had a lighter tone than his first EP, though each song still kept an emotionally devastating power. Featuring songs such as ‘Fever To Form’, ‘Cucurucu’ and ‘Meet Me There’, First Mind was hailed “a total package of pop hooks, instrumental genius and gorgeous rhythms” (The Line of Best Fit) and “beguiling” (The Guardian).

2017 saw the release of Mulvey’s second studio album, Wake Up Now, which felt fuller and richer in orchestration and featured some of his most powerful melodies. Tracks such as ‘Unconditional’, ‘Mountain To Move’ and ‘Imogen’ displayed the gamut of the artist’s cathartic abilities, while ‘In Your Hands’ stretched out like a long path ahead of the listener.

Speaking of his third album, New Mythology, in 2022, Mulvey said: “If there’s one word that sums up what this album is about, it’s ‘interbeing’”. Interconnectedness and humanity has long been a driving force of his songwriting, but on track such as ‘Mecca’ and of ‘Brother To You’, feeling connection and compassion to both the artist and fellow man came especially easy.