Oliver Knight (musician)

Oliver Knight (born 1969) is a British singer-songwriter and sound engineer. He is son to folk singer/songwriter Lal Waterson and George Knight. He is brother and stage partner to folk musician Marry Waterson.

Oliver Knight was born in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire]], England. Son to George & Elaine Knight (Lal Waterson) with one sister Maria Knight (Marry Waterson), he and his family lived in Park Avenue, Hull until 1976 and then moved to St. Ives Farm, Robin Hood's Bay.

He attended Bricknall Ave in Hull, then Fylingthorpe C of E, Eskdale and then Whitby. Oliver then went to Scarborough Technical College to study Art & Design for 1 year.

At the age of 14, Oliver started to play electric guitar, “Although encouraged by my parents, it wasn’t until I found Uncle Martin’s Fender Telecaster under a bed, hi-jacked his amp and started to play along to Pink Floyd that I felt inspired to play the guitar”, Oliver says, “At college I made friends with some guys from Whitby who were playing, and before long we had a band called Sons Of Gods Mate. We even made a video of one of our songs to send to The Tube but I don’t think we ever sent it. There was quite a music scene in Whitby at this time, a gig most weekends and good fun.”

He did various labouring jobs until settling down in 1989 as a self-employed subcontracting gardener for a local firm based at Ravenscar, North Yorkshire. In 1986 Oliver moved from St. Ives Farm into the Village of Robin Hood's Bay.

After buying a 4-track machine, Knight started experimenting with recording music, leaving home temporarily and playing in various blues and rock cover bands, but moving back to his parents' house in 1993. His mother had been asked to provide a track for a sampler CD for the musicians' co-op No Masters, to highlight the songwriting talent they had in their organisation. “Mum and I had played songs together in the past and we were always saying to each other, “What do you think to this track or that”, but it wasn’t until she asked me to play guitar for her on Midnight Feast that we clicked.” Oliver developed a writing partnership with his mother and eventually they collaboratively recorded the studio album Once In A Blue Moon released in 1996 to much acclaim, with a vinyl reissue in 2009. Lal Waterson died in 1998, just before their second album, A Bed Of Roses, was finished. The material was fully recorded already, and it was released posthumously.

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