Mike Nisbet
Official Biog
Vagrant is the debut album from Oban-born musician Mike Nisbet. A Diving Bell Production, it was recorded in Glasgow in October 2010 by Marcus Mackay (Snow Patrol, Frightened Rabbit, Sparrow & The Workshop) and will be released on (9/06/2011). The release will be preceded by single (Not Long)
Though only 22 years old, Nisbet’s talents have flourished since his interest in music began. “I’ve been playing and writing music for years,” he says. “With ‘Vagrant’, it feels like I’ve really found my stride. The Diving Bell and Marcus’ involvement was really important to the whole process.
Simple acoustic guitar and percussion, married with vocals that belie Nisbet’s young age, succeed in creating a resonant escape to the desert, a personal and emotional travelogue through themes of waywardness, discontentment, relationships and fear.
While the album’s subject matter may be imbued with a real sense of its creator’s unsettled frame of mind, it soundly captures Nisbet’s love of traditional folk and rootsy Americana and confidently presents an accessible album of ideas that, says Nisbet, “I hope many people will find themselves relating to in one way or another.”
