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Tristan Mackay

• 26th Apr 2012

Tristan Mackay plus:
Andrew James O'Brien
And Busker One

4th June 2012 @ The Castle Hotel, Manchester

'Out Along the Wire' the album of all original tracks was released in February 2012 and went straight to No.1 on the itunes Blues Album chart in both the UK and Australia. Tristan’s story having been spotted while busking by Grammy award winning producer Martin Levan to becoming one the UK’s hottest talents right now has received massive interest from the British press including features and articles in The Sun, London Evening Standard, Channel Five News, BBC Look North, BBC London, West Country News, BBC Radio 2 and more. Tristan’s second single ‘Last Love’ is being released on 28th May.

Tristan Mackay was born in Tiverton, Devon and was educated in Wellington, Somerset.
He first picked up a guitar at the age of 14 after hearing the Eric Clapton ‘Unplugged’ album. This started his lifelong love for blues guitar music and the storytelling songs of Dylan, Young and Springsteen.

In 2001 he moved to Yorkshire to study at Leeds University. During his student days he would busk to pay the bills and it was to this pursuit he returned after university to promote his music.
Tristan built up quite a fan base in Leeds through his busking, appearing several times on local news programmes, printed press and radio, where he was hailed as ‘the next big thing out of Yorkshire.’

He self recorded and released his first two E.P’s ‘Tales from a bedroom orchestra’ and ‘Live from the lounge’. Although these were only produced and sold from his bedroom ‘studio’, his track ‘The Wine and Me’ was featured in the Channel 4 show ‘Skins’, as well as being a recommended track on Indie store.