Rowan Coupland | tr

Rowan Coupland is a writer/singer/multi instrumentalist whose work focuses on the depths of situations, real and imagined. His voice has garnered praise from critics and his peculiarly intense performance style has both alarmed and enchanted audiences. His delivery shifts between profound English delicacy and wild-eyed energy, at one moment Nick Drake, at the next, Little Richard. He jumps between strident acapella, twisting harp and unruly guitar, whilst composing miniature symphonies for his recordings (which he plays himself, on accordion, clarinet, voice, piano, guitars electric and nylon, ukulele, violin, keyboard, glockenspiel, percussion and harp) and having advanced from his earlier attempts to play some of these at once [see archive footage].
Aside from this, Rowan is a member of Brighton's Willkommen Collective, who count among them The Leisure Society, Shoreline and Sons of Noel and Adrian- a band that he spent two years playing with- and has performed at Brighton Festival, the Big Chill Festival, and London's Union Chapel. He has also performed on the main stage of End of the Road Festival with SONAA, and the Cecil Sharp House's 75-year anniversary celebrations with Mary Hampton. He spent some time singing renaissance madrigals and folksongs with a group which came to be known as Garland Hearse, and also jumped into some loud bands for a while.
Mostly playing around Brighton and London, he has shared stages with luminaries such as:
Sunburned Hand of the Man, Vetiver, Mount Eerie (The Microphones), Diane Cluck, Castanets, Viking Moses, Peter and the Wolf (US), Birdengine, Clearlake, Richard Dawson, Drum Eyes, Whalebone Polly, Damien Jurado, Rozi Plain, and many others who are greater than their fame. .