Bruce Low

As a guitarist, his early influences included Cat Stevens, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, The Band, Jeff Buckley, The Doors and Nick Cave. More recently, he has been inspired by the likes of David Gray, Jack Johnson, Brett Dennen, Damien Rice, Ray La Montagne and his music has been described as ‘folky acoustic-pop’ with a similarity to James Blunt and Pete Murray.

Bruce's musical life started at about age 12, when he took up the drums. He played in a couple of bands, including school-band ‘The Visions’, and soon after learnt the guitar. Toward the end of school life, and into uni days, he formed ‘Heartland’ with friends, playing covers and playing at weddings, parties and any function they could talk their way into. In Heartland, a three-piece band including drums and bass, he played guitar and sang. After a few years of playing at uni bars and parties ‘Heartland’ disbanded.

Around the mid-90s, Bruce found out Sydney-band ‘Orpheus’ was looking for a drummer, got himself another drum kit, and joined them. After playing the Sydney pub scene for a few years, ‘Orpheus’ started to go places. Unfortunately, work and study made it difficult to keep up with the ever-increasing demands of the band so he finally left ‘Orpheus’ (who, by the way, are now doing very well and called ‘The Camels’) and started writing and recording solo works.

Around 2000, Bruce decided he wanted to get his solo works recorded and began working on his debut solo album. The album was recorded at 'The Vault' studios, in Balmain, and was produced by himself and James Cadsky. It features Darren (Fud) Ryan on Drums, Greg Royal on Bass and Darryl Chute on Keyboards - plus a few other guest musicians. The CD is an independent release on a record label set up for the purpose, called Creative Pursuits.

His debut CD features a number of different musical genres, including reggae, jazz, rock and pop. He's currently in the studio writing and recording his follow up CD, which is set to be more focused toward an acoustic-pop style. It is expected for release early in 2009.