Performance history:
Like many musicians, Michael began to play regularly in public in his early teens, starting with school functions and continuing during his time with a youth theatre company in his native Kendal. He stayed in the Lake District until he graduated from what is now the University of Cumbria and played at local Folk Clubs in and around the Ambleside and South Lakes area. He also remembers from this time an autumn spent playing every Friday night, sitting in the corner of a ‘mediaeval’ restaurant in Windermere and playing ‘…anything that sounded vaguely mediaeval’ as the diners ate.
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Michael moved to the Manchester area in the late 1970s and performed regularly, both solo in the acoustic clubs of Tameside and with his own band (Front Line). During this time he also played blues guitar in one incarnation of a band of some local repute, the Victor Box Blues Train and other bands. In 1980 he went to live in Stratford, East London with his then girlfriend and now wife, Stephanie. In 1985 he founded the duo ‘Offog’ with David Barrett on bass. Offog played as both an acoustic duo and a fully electric band with drummer in all types of venues from Folk Clubs to the Mean Fiddler Acoustic Room, The Rock Garden and the Woolwich Tramshed.
Michael and David spent their summers in France and an impromptu session in an ancient church in Chinon led, indirectly, to their beginning to play regularly in France in the late 1990s, where their welcome was very enthusiastic and secured them spots at ‘Festival Cosmopolite de Genillé,’ the Le Mans festival and in Brittany, not to mention various ‘Café-Concert’ venues.
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In 2003 the duo morphed into the successful trio ‘Midnight’ with Sarah Coleman on vocals. During the band’s life, Michael played with Midnight at the Fairfield Hall Croydon, Conway Hall, the Twelve Bar club in Denmark `Street, and various university, concert and club gigs in and around the London area. The groundwork done by ‘Offog” in earlier years led to bookings at the ‘Jeudi Jazz’ festival in the Indre-et-Loire and café-concert venues in that area. When Midnight broke up in 2010. Michael continued to play, perform, record and write in London until re-locating to Cornwall in the summer of 2013. His first gig in the area was at the ‘Falmouth Acoustic Tent’ event in August 2013 and he is regularly to be found playing in West Cornwall. He is looking for concert, festival and general gigs in the area and beyond.
Micheal Fearn Musician Cornwall
Michael Fearn Music Cornwall
Micheal Fearn Musician Cornwall