Adapted from t’internet:-
Zoë Bestel is a Scottish singer-songwriter, who describes her music as Nu-Folk. Born in Liverpool in 1997, she was aged 8 when she moved with her family to Wigtown, Scotland. Prior to taking up music professionally, she won awards for the piano, recorder, oboe and singing at the Galloway Music Festival. In 2011, aged 13, she started teaching herself the Ukulele.
The following year, her first EP ’35 Missed Calls’ was released by Distilled Records. It was really well received, and soon the teenager was playing live at folk festivals across Scotland.
In 2014, she self-released the album ‘Sir Lucas & The Moon’, featuring entirely original songs, and again the reviews were positive. In September 2014, she took part in a short of Scottish venues alongside other up-and-coming musicians, one of whom was Lewis Capaldi.
Zoë continued to play and perform over the next few years without ever becoming a household name. In 2017, the label Last Night From Glasgow, which had not long been formed, announced that it would be releasing Transience, her sophomore album.
It came out in 2018 to a great deal of praise across the Scottish media. The Herald newspaper included three tracks from the album in their ‘Top 100 Tunes from Scotland in 2018’, with this being placed at #6:-
mp3: Zoë Bestel – Eye For An Eye
Plans are in place for a third album which hopefully will see the light of day in 2024.
THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN 