Person Open DS/UK/23129 Skelly; Neville; English DJ Skelly Neville English DJ Male

As if Liverpool’s very own Count of St. Germain, NEVILLE SKELLY has adjusted his style dramatically over his years in the industry, is not an easy man to track down and possesses a head with a minefield of ideas. Yet, unlike our transforming troubadour, he has a voice that flows like nectar to the ears and proudly wears a beanie hat as a woolly two fingers up to the rest of the bewildered world. Perhaps not quite an international man of mystery but certainly elusive, we managed to pin him down one drizzly Sunday dawn to discuss his mesmerising new record, Poet & The Dreamer. A musical chameleon, (with his days suited and slick in front of his swing orchestra long behind him) Neville was once marooned at a musical crossroad and chose to take a sinuous passage of self-discovery. “By doing the album I wanted to find something that was more personal to me. I still like that music and I wouldn’t change where I’ve come from. Songwriters like George Gershwin and Cole Porter, well I think everyone from The Beatles to The Beach Boys were inspired by them but I wanted to find something that represented me.” His current influences are certainly not clandestinely concealed either – the album incorporates his own versions of two Beatles covers along with numbers from Neil Young, Phil Ochs, Marc Bolan, Woody Guthrie and Jackson C. Frank, the latter whom he “connected to more so than any other artist,” inspiring him “in a way to make music that was honest and soulful.” His own lingering rendition of Frank’s signature song Blues Run The Game captures the torments of a young man haunted by despair, though Neville’s honey-drizzled sombre baritone croon could soothe even the most abstinent of listeners. International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes RAHAKirkbride 11/6/2019 Rachael.Fragola 3/1/2022 8012ac47-8883-4456-9278-ab59e76475f9