Ryan Vail

Since the age of 13 Ryan Vail has been tinkering and experimenting with music. He cut his teeth at the tender age of 16 in the city's groundbreaking turntablist scene, where his love of hip hop and drum and bass, and also the crackly, analogue charms and possibilities of vinyl and synths, found root.After working for a few years on melodic, instrumental tracks, Ryan hooked up with multi-instrumentalist and singer Katie Cosgrove,and the two began to sing and play live together, Starting small at local gigs, they incorporated Katie's flute and guitar, bringing an organic balance to Ryan's synthesized, propulsive beats. The pair have recently gone on to support acts such as Jon Hopkins, David Kitt, Boxcutter and Luke Vibert among others.No stranger to breathing fresh life into battered old