Ivor Novello winning composer and musician, spanning the world of live music, theatre and performance that immerses audiences into new worlds of escape and wonder.
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Martin is a multi-award winning musician and Ivor Novello winning composer. As a member of Lau he has won four BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for Best Group at the. In 2015 he was nominated in the Best Musician category. In 2014 he received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists in recognition of his talent as a composer. In 2019 he won the Ivor Novello award for his sound walk “Aeons” that was part of The Great Exhibition of the North.
ABOUT MARTIN
A Soundwalk for Isolation
“I’d found that in lockdown I’d been getting up earlier and earlier and really enjoying that special period when it feels like there are very few people awake. The first thing I did was to go out and record walking at sunrise. This was early May and the sun was up at about 6am, so not too early. Obviously, it kept going earlier because it went on!"
"Martin Green’s A Place of Crisps and Pianos is sweetly, hauntingly gnomic."
A PLACE OF CRISPS
AND PIANOS
AWARDS
Winner
Ivor Novello Composer Award – Sound Art 2019
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists – Composer Award 2014
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards – Best Group 2013 (Lau)
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards – Best Group 2010 (Lau)
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards – Best Group 2009 (Lau)
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards – Best Group 2008 (Lau)
Scottish Traditional Music Awards - Best Live Act (Lau, 2009)
Nominated
BBC Folk Awards 2015 Best Musician
Scottish Album of the Year Awards 2013 (Lau – Race The Loser)
Arts Foundation Award 2010 - Folk Musician
British Composer Awards 2010 nominated by PRSF for “Monstre” (brass category)
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2009 - Best Live Act (Lau)
Scottish Traditional Music Awards 2008 - Best Live Act (Lau)
Spirit of Scotland Outstanding Achievement in Music Award 2008 - Lau
BBC Folk Awards 2008: Best Musician, Best Album (Lau – Lightweights and Gentlemen)
Best Live Act (Lau)
Martin Green - The Portal (Song of the Day)
"We have to think that one day we’ll do this in front of an audience"
"The Portal is more than just a means of escape, a way of losing yourself in the primitive allure of dance and music. It is a kind of mirror to the world as it is now, a hauntological document that plays on our strange relationship with the past and our uncertainties about the future."
"Green has created a multifaceted artwork that is as original as anything that has come out of this strange year."
Musician Martin Green of folk supergroup Lau on the story behind his new podcast, The Portal