Clarke Camilleri is a roaming song-maker whose music resists easy labels. His writing is eclectic yet unmistakably his own, shaped by the many musical worlds he’s wandered through.

Raised in Nottinghamshire and steeped in the echoes of the UK blues and folk revival, Clarke grew into a true troubadour—rolling from country to country, banjo slung over his shoulder, carrying songs like companions. “I love the access that being a musician gives you into other lives,” he says. “I like being brave with it and seeing where it gets me.” The result is a body of work woven from countless stories—some light, some heavy, all deeply human—that ripple through his songs.

In 2020 he released his debut solo album, The Rollin’ Hills of Home. Since then, he has lent his voice and playing to Angeline Morrison’s award-winning The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience (The Guardian’s Album of the Year, 2022), performing as part of Morrison’s four-piece touring band. He also collaborates with blues-folk musician Jinda Biant, and with his brother Victor as The Good-Time Brothers.

Clarke’s life is as textured as his music. Beyond the stage, he has worked as a fisherman, construction worker, fruit picker, deck hand, plasterer, gardener, and busker—each role adding grit and grain to the stories he tells. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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