Press

'Completely Spellbinding' - Evening Post

’Incredible’ - International Guitar Foundation (IGF)

’Beautiful and sensitively played arrangements and compositions’ - Acoustic Magazine

’Mike Dawes & Amy Turk absolutely blew us away! Mike's virtuoso guitar style coupled with Amy's breathtaking skill on the harp make this young pair the most unique and captivating act to watch. Emotive melodies, rhythmic tapping, furious finger-work and engaging banter on stage ensured a hypnotized and thoroughly stunned audience’ - Bath Chronicle

’A world-class acoustic act’ - Live4guitar.com

’They even managed to make an arrangement of the theme tune to Dick Van Dyke's afternoon TV series Diagnosis Murder sound pastoral’ - Maverick Magazine

’A smartly original pairing’ - Venue Magazine

’Mike Dawes and Amy Turk showed that boundaries-to-be-pushed lie not only in how loud you can crank an amp or how many effects you can use to tweak your sound or how many strings you can combine to create magic!’ - Live4guitar.com (Sourced from audience member)

’You guys must be the best opener I've ever had!’ - Erik Mongrain

’Definitely worth checking out (Mike Dawes 2007)’ - Newton Faulkner

’This young duo are proving more than worthy of anyone's attention. 'Clocks' was especially inventive and 'Alien Waffle House' was stunning’ - Crackerjack Reviews

’Awesome, very creative. Mike has an amazing tone, really clear riffs. From some celtic stuff to great covers, to percussive stuff, to playing on his lap,
it was just an amazing set and i’m very impressed. Brilliant songwriters and super creative. Bravo Mike & Amy.’ (Video Transcription)
- Trace Bundy (video transcription)

’He can make the guitar talk, with no effort!’ - Jamie Bell (Billy Elliott, King Kong etc)

’At Acoustic Club our standards are very high, but Mike and Amy’s performance took us to a whole new level’ - Keef and Annie, Acoustic Club

’They put me into a trance, I didn't notice I was spilling beer on my leg’ - Martin Harley