At twenty four, Christy O’Donnell has already lived out several unlikely dreams. He’s busked the streets of Glasgow making £400 a day. He’s been in a boy band, Supernova (“Busted meets One Direction – the music was terrible”); he’s played the lead in an indie film, Moondogs, and he’s currently two seasons in as a romantic hero in the time-travelling Disney series Find Me In Paris. He’s even climbed Arthur’s Seat with Rufus Wainwright… But beneath the young Glaswegian’s many incarnations is a serious musician about to unleash his first EP: a suite of songs which mix the vocal tenderness of Jeff Buckley or Chris Martin with the swirling musicality of Bon Iver. Though intensely personal, this is not simple, singer-songwriter territory: the effervescent O’Donnell counts Ray Charles, John Martyn and Chet Baker as among his biggest musical influences.

“I wanted people listen to every single element of this record,” he says. “I want every instrument to be played with expression and beauty, and it’s just my job to bring them together. I hope people hear the music like jazz – where every part is as important as the next and the violin or trumpet means just as much as the voice. I just wanted to create something beautiful.”

Emerging singer-songwriter Kitty Montague fuses savvy pop sensibilities and a vocal drenched with soul influences. She is already turning heads on the music scene, receiving support from Notion, FMS Magazine, Music Crowns and BBC Music Introducing, performing with Sofar Sounds, Secret Sessions, and supporting Gabrielle Aplin for Banquet Records.

You can’t keep a good man down. In the face of global quarantine, Blanks has returned stronger than ever, with his first ever US dates and a show-stopping headline performance at London’s VidCon under his belt before the outbreak began. The massive shift in day-to-day routine has actually been the source of inspiration for the “over excited music boy”, whose YouTube channel has over one million subscribers to date.

Chris’s finely crafted indie folk songs are a product of his life story. They are tales of redemption and hope, forged from a life which has not always been easy. Chris has rarely taken the straightest path, but whether moving to London at 19 with no goal but to form a band, or building a home studio or seeking out like minded souls to help him realise his creative vision, music has been central to every choice he has made.

A native New Yorker, Carrington’s love for music was sparked in early childhood while listening, dancing and singing to the records that her dad, a huge music aficionado, was spinning — Teddy Wilson, Beethoven, Herb Alpert, Hudson River folk, Scottish marches, Bob Dylan, classic rock, and the Beatles, among many other artists. Carrington traverses the globe and her inner muses with gleeful explorations of thought and practice. Whether making music, voicing works of literature, piloting a fixed-wing airplane, writing poetry, or savoring the zen-like concentration of target shooting, she is led by her passion for creativity, and, of course, independence.

Jake Morrell could have come straight out of Nashville, or even from the Californian sunshine, as his music suggests; but he is in fact from Norfolk, England! Jake was ‘discovered’ by Dermot O’Leary, who featured him on his Radio 2 Show and has since become one of the country’s favourite UK Country male artists through a succession of ear-candy singles and joyous live shows.

Having first met many years ago, and having sold more than 60 million records combined, Abz Love (Five), Ben Ofoedu (Phats & Small), Dane Bowers (Another Level), and Shane Lynch (Boyzone) have united to become a distinct new boy band, Boyz on the Block. The music of the 1990s provided the soundtrack to their lives and together the boys have reignited their shared love of pop and R&B, leading them to officially unite to reinterpret some of the tracks which meant so much to them.