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.

Arriving three years after was Dark Harvest (Pt. 1). The intervening time has been one defined by loss, challenge, independence and empowerment for Nick, who underwent a transformative period.

Speaking on the album, Nick explains: “For me, Dark Harvest Pt. 1 tracks the descent and grief that hit me in the last three years, during the losses and challenges I faced. Often brutal, these years have tenderised me, as I know they have others. Making this music carried me through.”

He continues, “Back when I was at the hardest point, when I was on my knees, a friend said to me, ‘there will be a ‘dark harvest’ to all of this Nick, there will be treasure from these struggles.’ And she was right.”

In support of his fourth album, which includes some of his most profound work to date, Mulvey set out on a solo world tour which includes dates in UK cities such as Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds, Nottingham, Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, and London.