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Toby Martin

William Toby Martin (born 5 August 1975), is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, academic, and lecturer at University of Huddersfield UK. Martin is the grandson of Hungarian-born Australian poet David Martin and has a PhD in the history of Australian music from the University of Sydney. After fronting Sydney-based band Youth Group from 1996 to 2009, Martin developed his solo career, releasing his first album, Love's Shadow in 2012.

Martin's PhD thesis, published in 2012, is titled "Yodelling boundary riders : country music in Australia, 1936–2010".In 2017, Martin released his second solo album, entitled Songs from Northam Avenue. The album was written in Bankstown, and features musical accompaniment by several locals to the area.

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2012 Love's Shadow
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Reviews / Live
Live Review: Toby Martin
"Some songs would have benefited from incorporating different voices, rather than having all of these stories filtered through the dude from Youth Group."
News / Music
NGV Reveals The Line-up For Friday Nights With Vincent Van Gogh
A stack of international and Australian acts announced for the Friday Nights with Vincent Van Gogh music series
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Toby Martin - Songs From Northam Avenue
"It doesn't all work, but there is a spirit of place."
Features / Premiere
EXCLUSIVE: Toby Martin - Songs From Northam Avenue
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Toby Martin - Love’s Shadow
The arrangements are memorable throughout, but at its heart this is a gentle series of piano and guitar ballads, recounting some of life’s bewildering moments in a sincere and uncomplicated way.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Toby Martin - Love’s Shadow
Love’s Shadow is a proudly Australian album, void of nationalistic pride but reveling in the landscape and its people. It’s also a very strong introduction to Toby Martin as a solo artist.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Toby Martin, Magnetic Head
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Toby Martin - Love’s Shadow
Four years after Youth Group’s swansong, Martin is still pitching himself somewhere between the weary observer and the heartbroken traveller.
Features / Music
People And Places
"I guess ‘Postcard From Surfers’ is automatically ironic, ‘cause it’s the sunny beachside capital, but it’s also I think makes a lot of people immediately think of the negative, sleazy kind of unhappy side to that."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Toby Martin - Love’s Shadow
A subtle and utterly human record. Just excellent.
News / Music
Toby Martin Announces Solo Shows Upon Album Release
Youth Group member turned solo artist will play a couple of intimate dates.
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