Bill Ryder-Jones is a songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist from West Kirby on the Wirral. Bill first found success as a founding member of the band The Coral, achieving several UK number one albums, a mercury prize nomination and tours with Blur and Oasis. He left the band in 2008, signing to the great British independent label Domino Records, with whom he has released five LPs, from his first – a classical score to Italo Calvino’s novel If on a Winter Night a Traveller, to 2024’s critically acclaimed album chamber-pop gem, Iechyd Da.
Iechyd Da is Ryder-Jones’ most ambitious record to date, a culmination of years of exploration. At times joyous and grand, at others intimate and heartbreaking, the past few years spent producing other artists has provided that gentle nudge to expand into new territory, from kids’ choirs and tender strings to dramatically re-contextualised disco samples. 2024 saw him touring Europe with Beth Gibbons, co-headlining concert halls with Gruff Rhys-Jones, and bringing the full string section and kids’ choir along for sold out shows at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall and the Barbican Main Hall.
Following on from his new arrangements for the BBC Concert Orchestra this past January, for Durham Brass Festival Iechyd Da will be re-arranged for Bill with the backing of Chester-le-Street’s NASUWT Riverside Band and premiered at the festival.