Samantics is a one man machine of honesty, energy, words, sounds and story telling.  His passionate and often poignant lyrics paint a unique, yet relatable, picture of world we're all wondering. Tiptoeing between the heartfelt and the hilarious his live show has often been described as ‘impossible to stop watching’ and ‘mesmerising’. Using an ever expanding trolly full of noises (ukuleles, bass, piano, beats, harmonies, blips and bloops and much more) Samantics layers and pieces each score together using live looping, meaning no song is ever the same. It's not quite hip-hop but it's not quite not... It's more rowdy, soulful, noisy poetry that's hard to describe and a lot better live. 

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Samantics grew up listening to punk bands practice in his dads living room, giving him the opportunity to experience the thrill and uppercut of live music while he sat and did his homework. However, being a more reserved, and tirelessly shy young lad back then, his passion really began with words, words he’d keep to himself in his pad, words, and poetry, that helped explain what he couldn’t always say. It wasn’t until years later that he discovered these words could be lyrics, and these lyrics could be life saving, something he would later be told was the case, by people all around the world.​

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Challenging himself to stand up on a stage, and say all these things he’d been hiding was no easy feat, but from the second he did, everything changed when he discovered performing. From slam poetry to the eventual one-man wall of noise he’s become today, a Samantics live show is almost indescribable. Performing the same words and melodies you will find across his five self-recorded, produced and mastered albums, but somehow turning them up beyond 11. Imagine a ferret after 9 shots of espresso, with a ukulele, on speed (but with less hair, and a generally nicer odour, he hopes).

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Now, with over a decade as Samantics, he has played across stages at Glastonbury, Boomtown, Beautiful Days and Bearded Theory to name a few, and has played alongside names such as Frank Turner, The Sugar Hill Gang and Goldie Lookin' Chain, often receiving high praise for his unique and heartfelt live show.

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Whether a festival tent filled with thousands, or a man and his dog in the local boozer, a Samantics live show is always the same: raw, honest, chaotic and completely off. the. chain.