JESS SILK PLUS SUPPORT FROM KERRY WORTON ACOUSTIC

JESS SILK Bio

Jess Silk is a guitarist, singer and songwriter from the Black Country. Her passionate and

melodic brand of folk/punk music gets people sitting up and listening. Armed only with an

increasingly sticker-covered acoustic guitar, lyrics right from the heart and a distinctive, powerful

voice that many don't expect, Jess plays to audiences up and down the UK and has shared

stages with many well known names among the folk/punk scene.

Jess released her debut album, Break the Bottle, in May 2018 with a packed out show at

her spiritual home of Katie Fitzgerald's in Stourbridge. Since then she's shared a number of

other releases including two live EP's with tracks taken from shows at Katie's and HMV Merry

Hill. 2020 saw the world shut down and Jess release two (almost completely) self produced

EPs, the first of which, If We're Damned, was put together from songs that had been gathering

metaphorical dust on her hard drive, and the second, There's A Bar At the End Of the World, a

collection of songs written between March and August taking their inspiration from the events of

the year. At the end of August 2021 Jess released her second full-length album Blitz Spirit, and

in April 2025 she released her new EP Old, Broken Isle which was recorded at Metway Studios

in Brighton.

In recent years Jess has appeared at a number of festivals including Bearded Theory

where she opened the main stage, Rebellion, Beautiful Days and Glastonbury where she

shared a stage with Billy Bragg as part of his Radical Roundup on the Left Field stage. She has

opened for the likes of the Levellers, New Model Army, Bar Stool Preachers, The Men They

Couldn't Hang and Merry Hell amongst others and she continues to tour around the UK playing

festivals, supports and her own headline tours.

"

...Her songs are gripping, emotional and so very relatable...

"

Magazine 3rd August 2024

https://www.punktuationmag.com/review-rebellion-festival-2024-day-2/

- Ruth Rae, Punktuation

"

...There are no pretences, posturing or posing, just a woman, a guitar and songs...worthy of

compare to Billy Bragg, and with a nod to Frank Turner...

"

- James Koppert, Yorkshire Coast

Gigs 7th September 2025

https://www.yorkshirecoastgigs.co.uk/reviews/gigs/beautiful-day-at-the-seaside-the-levellers-pop

-will-eat-itself-bar-stool-preachers-and-jess-silk/