Rainy Miller (known to his mother as Jack Bowes) was born and bred in Longridge, Preston, a typically unremarkable northern market town. Things began getting remarkable once the nascent grime scene started spilling over from its London birthplace and took root in disparate places around 2006. An explosion of youthful expression, grime provided a template and voice to young people in towns such as Preston, blossoming into an energetic city-wide scene that Miller was a part of. He quickly began playing and experimenting with rapping and making beats under the Rainy Miller pseudonym. Miller moved to Manchester in 2015 and soon recorded and released his debut project Limbs (2019), a work of northern neo-R&B on his newly minted own label Fixed Abode which he toured across the UK in support of US artist Gus Dapperton. Along with the success of other Manchester-based electronic artists such as Blackhaine, Space Afrika and Iceboy Violet – all working at the forefront of UK electronic music and loosely spinning around the axis of storied Salford club The White Hotel – suddenly a lot of attention was on the artist by 2021. Rainy Miller has had features, reviews and guest mixes for The Face, NTS, Fact, Salt and Crack Magazine, as well as plays on BBC 6 Music, Worldwide FM and BBC Radio 3. He has co-produced Blackhaine’s And Salford Falls Apart (2021 via HEAD II) and Armour II (2022 via Fixed Abode) to critical acclaim, and tours as part of the Blackhaine live band.