Charlie Austen

Charlie is a dynamic one-woman tour-de-force performing carefully crafted original songs on the folk-soul-rock spectrum.

Airy, yet powerful blues-infused vocals, intricate guitar parts and bare feet that keep the beat, courtesy of her unique suitcase drum-kit invention. Prepare to be taken on a lyrical journey to outer-space and back, tackling heartbreak, joy, teenage angst, love and death along the way, all with warmth and humour.

Charlie tours as a singer for cult blues-rock band Nine Below Zero and has been chosen for many high-profile gigs in her own right, including Bryan Ferry’s European tour, several UK tours with Squeeze-frontman and Ivor-Novello award winning songwriter Glenn Tilbrook, and a contribution to Cat Stevens’s online ‘Catsong’ celebrating 50 years of ‘Tea for the Tillerman’. Charlie has recently been featured on BBC Radio 4’s Loose Ends on more than one occasion.