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Featured Artist

10 - July - 2020

Bethany Ferrie is a 22-year-old Scottish singer-songwriter. Her recent successes include being made Richer Unsigned artist of the week. She has played extensively live at venues and festivals across Scotland including King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, The Blue Arrow Jazz

Club, The Ice Box Arts and Music Centre, Queen Margaret Drive Street Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival.  She was a finalist in a competition to play the Queen Tut’s

stage at TRNSMT in 2020, and was shortlisted for the BBC Radio Scotland Singer/Songwriter Award.

During the lockdown, Bethany has been writing new material that has enabled her to sign her first professional music publishing contract with EMI. She has also played for The Music Venue Trust and been interviewed by the CEO of MVT Mark Davyd.

“A wise head on young shoulders, exemplified by the stunning lyrical execution”

– Turtle Tempo

“Bethany Ferrie has one of those voices that just feels warm and inviting right

from the start”

– LA on Lock

“It's now just a wait to see when she blows up on the national scene”

– It’s All Indie

Following the success of her previous single, Stayed, 22-year-old Glasgow

born singer/songwriter Bethany Ferrie returns with a new track called Under.

The song, which is being released on the 10th of July 2020, is about the

heartbreak of being let down by people that you expect to be there for you.

“It’s always the hardest heartbreak when they’re the ones to let you down.

Friendships, relationships, family relationships; they’re the

things that can really make you or break you completely. 

I’ve never been the person that someone never wants

to lose, and that sort of thing can eat away at you

if you think about it too much. You end up

questioning your own self-worth. It’s a

headspace that you slip into but have to claw

your way back out of."

When I started working on the production of

the song, I was going off of two chords

throughout the full thing. Back and

forth, super simple. I took a lot of

inspiration from John Mayer on this

track–a lot of electric guitar and

really narrowing the focus in

on the lyrics of the song.”