Melting Vinyl dedicated to bringing creative artists to Brighton & Kent

Melting Vinyl presents Michael McGovern + Scott C. Park
on
Saturday 9th May at The Folklore Rooms, 12 North Street, Brighton, BN1 3GJ
£14 booking fee / £16 on the door
Doors Open: 7.30pm
Seated
Age restrictions: 18+

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Running Order:
19.30 Doors Open
20:00 – 20.30 Scott C Park
21.00 – 22.15/30 Michael McGovern

Michael McGovern is a Glasgow-born singer-songwriter whose poetic lyrics and fingerpicked nylon-string guitar, craft a deeply emotional folk sound. His debut album, Highfield Suite (2021), recorded during isolation in 2020 and produced by Bill Shanley, earned critical praise across the UK and Ireland. Including BBC Album of the Week, RTE Lyric feature, and an “unexpected gem” nod from folk legend Paul Brady.

Michael McGovern returns with 10 captivating new tracks that mark a clear evolution in his sound and solidify his place as one of the standout songwriting talents of his generation, including ‘Evelyn’, a breakout track that went viral earlier this year, racking up over 100k streams and inspiring widespread covers online.

Thin White Road is rich in storytelling, drawing inspiration from literary voices like Laurie Lee, Hunter S. Thompson, and T.S. Eliot.

While honouring Michael’s classic fingerpicking style and impressive vocal range, this album expands sonically with full band arrangements, lush vocal harmonies, saxophone, and strings. Think Laura Marling meets Leonard Cohen often with the raw energy of Crazy Horse.

Michael made a strong debut with Highfield Suite (2021), a bedroom lockdown project produced by renowned guitarist Bill Shanley that earned critical acclaim.

“Michael’s beautiful voice, incredible guitar playing and wonderful songwriting were matched only by his completely lovely demeanour and he won our audience over immediately! His joy-filled performance was so irresistible” – Cambridge Folk Festival

Scott C. Park delivers catchy slacker-indie confessionals that are razor-sharp, loose and swaggering all at once, with powerful walls of vocal harmonies and guitar solos that hold on for dear life. Growing up on his family’s campsite on the remote Isle of Lewis has given the singer-guitarist a unique perspective on the world: an island where oppressive presbyterianism lives alongside rich celtic tradition, where every village has its quirky characters and every stone has a story. While his music borrows more stylistically from north American slacker-rock legends like Pavement, Wilco, and Neil Young, Park’s lyricism is firmly rooted in the west of Scotland, drawing on hyper-local references to paint his picture of how it feels to grow up where the wind howls, and the preacher howls louder.