Downton Abbey co-stars Michelle Dockery and Michael Fox are to launch a debut EP later this 12 months after signing to Decca Information.
The pair, recognized musically as Michael and Michelle, first met on the hit interval drama, during which Fox performs footman Andrew Parker and Dockery performs Girl Mary Crawley.
They quickly found their shared ardour for music, and an informal jam led to common practices and time in a recording studio in Los Angeles.
“There was one thing about that point after the sequence had ended,” Dockery mentioned, “about one thing with contemporary eyes and feeling nervous about what’s forward. Then abruptly we have been simply writing music.”
Six years later, they've made their partnership official with the discharge of The Watching Silence on 6 Could. Produced by Ian Grimble (Catfish And The Bottlemen), the EP consists of 4 unique songs with Fox and Dockery singing and on twin guitars – recalling alt nation partnerships Civil Wars and Angus and Julia Stone.
The EP additionally options Mumford and Sons’ Chris Maas on percussion and Willy Mason’s Tommy Heap on piano and drums.
“It’s a complete completely different set of expertise and vulnerability,” Dockery mentioned of the distinction between music and appearing. “Appearing tends to start out with what’s already written on the web page. Music can start anyplace. It’s completely different and really releasing.”
Fox added: “I'll at all times love appearing however there's something about us, some a part of our characters that we haven’t absolutely realised – and that’s taking place now.”
Rising up, Fox was in numerous bands ranging in types from indie to folktronica and wrote his personal songs. Dockery sang on numerous London levels, and was impressed by the music of Joni Mitchell, Alison Krauss and Indigo Women. They'll proceed to juggle their music and appearing commitments.
In keeping with the label, Michael and Michelle’s music is “each traditional and totally timeless: although extra Nashville Americana than UK folks in melody and construction, their impressionistic songs are trendy and fast, freed from pastiche, and are shot via with their very own London realism.”.
Laura Monks and Tom Lewis, co-presidents of Decca, mentioned in a press release: “We're thrilled to have these two multi-talented artists be part of the Decca household. They're an ideal match and we fell in love with their sound and chemistry as quickly as we heard them. We all know their international fanbase might be as excited to lastly hear them on report as we're.”
Michael and Michelle’s first public present might be at Omeara London on 6 June.
Downton Abbey, the British historic drama set within the early twentieth century, premiered in 2010 and ran for six seasons. A movie of the identical title launched in 2019, with the sequel, A New Period, due for launch this spring.
Dockery, who lately starred in Apple TV’s Defending Jacob, may even be seen on display screen within the long-awaited Netflix adaptation of the bestselling novel Anatomy of a Scandal alongside Sienna Miller and Rupert Good friend.
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