Starsailor are James Walsh, James Stelfox, Ben Byrne and Barry Westhead. Signing to EMI in early 2001, sold out tours, top 20 singles and their debut long player followed over the next 9 months. Love Is Here peaked at No.2 to much critical fanfare. Phil Spector produced 2 tracks on the band’s second album Silence Is Easy. The album was completed by the John Leckie and Danton Supple and peaked at No.2, spawning hit singles Silence Is Easy and Four To The Floor. 2005’s On The Outside had an altogether more direct rock sound as demonstrated by the groove laden Keep Us Together and the In The Crossfire. All The Plans released in 2009 boasted the melodically superior Tell Me It’s Not Over. With a 5 year hiatus the band returned in 2014 with a Best Of, which included 2 new tracks and featured all 9 Top 40 singles. 2017 saw the masterful All This Life arrive. Their first work with Embrace’s musical architect Rick McNamara was a hugely accomplished album that was proof positive that the band melodic sensibilities had ripened with age. 2023 sees new music in the shape of Where The Wild Things Grow, with McNamara producing. Jane Savidge, renowned novelist and journalist suggests that the first single from the album “has that slightly uneasy, otherworldliness reminiscent of those early Bowie or Pink Floyd recordings”. Pointing towards the release of the album of the same name in early 2024, Savidge comments that the new album is “an album that has no right to be as good as it is”