Variously described as ‘supremely strange and ambitious’ and ‘Britain’s answer to Prince’ (not that we’re saying Prince is strange, of course) Jamie Liddell has put his Super Collider days behind him and is forging a niche for himself. Moving away from his electro-funk roots, Liddell now delivers ‘digital derangement and deformed R’n’B’ (according to his record label anyway), that has been described as hard to understand and surprisingly soulful, coming as it does from a kid from the Home Counties.

By making his latest offering more accessible, he has transformed himself from his former persona of a geek with a laptop pumping out tunes to other geeks. By reinventing himself, he has made himself more consumer-friendly and given himself no small amount of mass-appeal, garnering fans from across the world with his eclectic style.

His live performances are a real roller-coaster too, building everything as an experiment, ensuring that a concert is not just a regurgitation of the record. Mixing art, music and film, Liddell takes his audience on a journey where the guide doesn’t even know the destination. Or the route.

Well, what would expect from a chap who sometimes thinks he ‘has a few powers up [his] sleeve’?

Jamie Liddell performances as part of the From The Basement season, running this month on Sky Arts.

Image courtesy of Laurent Julliand on www.jamieliddell.com