Delicate finger picking one minute, funky blues chords the next. Campbell Fry is a Newcastle singer-songwriter whose acoustic sets move through country-style strumming, blues and laid-back pop, often layered up live on a loop pedal. Covers run from the 60s to recent hits, Never Tear Us Apart, Stand By Me and Big Jet Plane among them, with originals slotted in where the room suits it. The style is contained rather than loud: music you can listen to closely, or let sit underneath the conversation and lift the mood of the whole space. Newcastle is home base, but the Hunter and the North and South Coasts are all within range, and a PA suited to medium and large venues comes along too.
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Acoustic guitar and vocals, easy to listen to, never aggressive. Campbell moves between laid back acoustic pop, country flavoured strumming and funky blues, and the interpretations of familiar songs are where it gets interesting, with intricate finger picking on some and a funk feel on others. You can lean in and follow the playing closely. Or you can let it sit under the room and just lift the mood, which is what most bookings end up wanting.
Campbell brings his own PA, which handles medium and large venues comfortably. Somewhere very large, he'd add an extra speaker. And if the spot has no power at all, a battery powered PA can be hired in without any fuss.
Quite a varied spread, and it moves around a fair bit. Regulars include Never Tear Us Apart and Stand By Me, Big Jet Plane, You've Got a Friend and Better Together. Then there's Use Somebody, Human Nature, Another Brick in the Wall, Imagine, When You Say Nothing at All, You're the One That I Want, You Make My Dreams, The A Team and Thinking Out Loud. There's Beatles material in there too.
If you want more than one date, say a run of performances rather than a one off, that can be worked out as a package.
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