| Clayhill | |
|---|---|
| Origin | London, England |
| Genres | Folk |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, guitarist |
| Instruments | Vocals, Guitar |
| Years active | 2002–present |
| Website | www.clayhillmusic.co.uk |
Clayhill are a British 3-piece folk band comprising Ali Friend, Ted Barnes and vocalist Gavin Clark. They released their debut album, Small Circle in 2004, and have released 2 E.P.s and a further L.P. Mine at Last in 2006. Throughout the summer of 2006 they toured with Mercury Music Prize winners Gomez and Beth Orton, 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 in London as one of Aqualung's special guests. In the same year their song 'Afterlight' was used in the soundtrack of acclaimed thriller Dead Man's Shoes. Their cover of The Smiths' Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want is featured on This is England, also directed by Shane Meadows.
Gavin Clark, 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' Twenty Four Seven
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 in 2008, titled Somers Town.
In a September 5, 2009 concert at the King's Place Music Festival, band members announced that the performance was to be their last.