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Singer-songwriter, Pip Fluteman started where most young musicians hope to advance to; playing with and writing for the defunct Manchester band The Quangos. Being the hip label Scruff of the neck's first signing, he and his group supported the likes of The Fratellis, Little Man Tate and Cast. Circa 2012 his band was billed with now highly successful bands Blossoms and Catfish and The Bottlemen. Pip was driven with a different ambition than that of the band once he became aquatinted with Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, he wanted to make music filled with emotion. Leaving the band to travel, exploring the art of songwriting, Pip went on to learn more guitar styles and to have some weird and wonderful experiences, this has created more variety, brightening his creative insight.

For the past three years Pip has independently booked and played shows in Cafes and intimate venues across mainland Europe allowing himself time, space and exposure to the music belonging to the cultures he has immersed himself in which can now be found in his music. The songs he wrote in this period touch on introspective and observational topics alike.

He describes his style as alternative folk, mixing the soft dynamic of this genre with a lively Latin flair using a nylon string guitar; this all makes a sharp contrast to most other singer songwriters he is billed with. His voice, accent and delivery are moulded by his roots, being a child of the nineties in Manchester and his lyrical style has been compared to those of Alex Turner and John Cooper Clarke expressing his messages through a surreal lens.

Pip found his style in the summer of 2015 during a stint of teaching English in a small traditional Spanish town. It was here living in maybe too much solitude for a man of twenty five, that he found a style he could call his own. He quit his job and hurried to a studio in Sheffield to record his first batch of songs. Armed with 200 copies of this record he toured extensively, performing every night, sleeping on sofas and composing stories along his way. Two more albums and tours followed over this period.

Now he has brought his style back home, returning to England, playing across the country and its capital. Pip is working on his debut album, a mix of his most positively received songs from these past years where he sat on cathedral steps, outside cafes in romantic squares or on quiet park benches where they were carefully forged.