Drawn from Manchester’s Platform 54 artist collective, this duo consists of Heath Common, a singer-songwriter living in Scarborough, and The Thin Man, a Sheffield based multi-instrumentalist. Common once played in New York with Robert Lockwood and Johnny Shines – stepson and close friend, respectively, of legendary blues musician Robert Johnson – and was involved with the New York art rock scene in the 1980s and early 90s. A published poet, he maintains links with surviving figures from the Beat movement. The Thin Man has performed and recorded with everyone from Fatboy Slim to Bill Nelson. “A New Bohemian” also features Steve Priest (keyboards) and Ella Byford (percussion, vocals).