From a young age Julie Collings surrounded herself with music.                                                                              She’d be sat for hours wearing headphones in the front room listening to her parents Beatles, Melanie, Joni Mitchell & Simon and Garfunkel LP’s and grew up admiring the musicians who did more than just sing in studios and look pretty on the cover of magazines.                                                                                                                                                                       Picking up her first acoustic guitar at the age of 12 she began to develop a knowledge, understanding, and deep passion for the guitar and began writing and performing her own songs. Since her early teens Julie has always been keen to write and play as much as possible, jumping at any chance to play around the UK. Julie spent a few years gigging & writing with local bands playing many popular music venues including Ronnie Scotts, Birmingham and the White City BBC bar in London and sharing stages with other established musicians including Glen Tilbrook, BC Camplight and Beth Garner. 

A variety of live and studio collaborations gave Julie the opportunity to explore her talents and love of many musical genres, and demonstrated her vocal and musical talent compliment many musical styles.
                                                                                                            Julie’s main passions lie in performing live, song writing, recording and producing. 

Receiving glowing responses at every performance since her first solo gigs right back in 2002, Julie pulled together a few of her songs, recorded,  produced & released her first Acoustic EP in 2004 - through her own label Perrito Records with each batch selling out!. Since then Julie has released her CD Album 'Flotsam' and iTunes Single 'Don't' through her own label 'Perrito Records' - and is constantly writing and recording new material.   

 Julie is fast gaining a diverse and fervent following, including BBC Radio’s Janice Long, who played Julie’s track Simple things on her BBC Radio 2 show. Flotsam has also received very positive words from Music and Gig reviewers including The Guardian newspaper and Rock & Reel Magazine.

                                            You can also hear Julie's single 'Don't' featured on the soundtrack for 'Tomorrow is Today' a film by Frederic Lumiere starring Scout Taylor-Compton & Mark Hefti.