Biography
Irish raconteur, Hubert Murray, has a voice bursting from the soul. Growing up in a house of mix-tapes and stacks of folk & blues records, he sifted through each one, de-composing their melodies and lyrics. His distorted folk sound embodies all that is best in modern roots music, combining soul, energy and storytelling. Hubert's songs feature lost loves, inner demons, compulsive liars & day-dreamers, rounded out with a masterful hand over the fretboard. His sound bows a head to the masters of melody and word such as; John Martyn, Beck, Laura Marling and Jeff Buckley.
Background
Best known as the frontman of two genre bending folk and bluegrass bands; Hot Rock Pilgrims and Lands End Bluegrass Band. With relentless touring of Ireland and the UK, playing everything from folk clubs to the Royal Southbank Centre London, Cambridge Folk Festival, Black Deer, Isle of White Festival as well as main stage slots of European Festivals. They gained the reputation as some of the finest players & performers on the bluegrass scene.
Hubert has already released 1 solo EP, 2 band EPs and 1 album. He has worked with producers such as; Gavin Glass (Lisa Hannigan, Paul Brady, and Villagers)., Joe McGrath of Hellfire Studios (Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, The Coronas)., Jake Rousham (Nick Cave, Roger Daltrey, and Snow Patrol) and Josh Clarke (Kate Rusby, Damien O'Kane & Ron Bloc).
Solo Debut Album 2025
Hubert's newest musical venture see’s him departing the territory of bluegrass and developing his voice as a folk and roots singer songwriter. His debut solo album "Everything Is Not As It Seems" is set to be released in Autumn of 2025.
The all electric album 'Everything Is Not As It Seems' is about living in a world sowed with distrust. Where the online world spills over into the real world causing a dystopian dream, where one longs to break free or dive in'. It was recorded in his home studio and mixed and mastered by Ivan Jackman (Sinead O'Connor, Norma Winstone, Luka Bloom, David Keenan).
HOT ROCK PILGRIMS are an old-time/bluegrass supergroup featuring some of the most exciting young pickers in the South East of England. Together they will take you on a high-energy pilgrimage of Appalachian music and its descendants.
Lands End
A sound which ranges from driving bluegrass, through modern arrangements of Irish music, old blues standards and blistering old time medleys. The band's debut EP ‘The Border Sessions’, showcases these multifarious influences with original songs contributed by Hubert, an Irish/blues treatment of Rory Gallagher’s classic ‘Out on the Western Plain’, classic bluegrass murder ballad ‘Wild Bill Jones’ and a showcase of the band's instrumental prowess on the John Reischman tune ‘Salt Spring’.