Perry Keyes

Any artist can evoke a place, a time. The trick to great songwriting is to make those times and places resonate in the hearts of people who’ve never been there or done that, and the gift of Perry Keyes is that he achieves this brilliantly in his heartbreaking ballads and gritty rock..

The world Keyes sings about is one of growing up in Australia, of embracing the working class culture that dominated the inner-city in those long-lost days, and of family.

Of love and drugs, sleeping rough and risking being incarcerated for things you may or may not have done. Of busting a gut driving a cab or slaving in a factory from dawn to dark to pay the rent, maybe buy the new Clash record and a feed of beef and black bean on Friday night with your best girl.

Perry Keyes has been compared to Springsteen and Elvis Costello, influences he typically shies from but when pressed on certain days may not deny.

Perry Keyes

The Last Ghost Train Home Perry Keyes £9.99