Hoping to earn a bit of extra pocket money playing their favourite cover songs at weddings and bars, singers Martha Bean and Joel Evans started Clementine Duo in 2014. Quickly realising they wouldn’t get hired if people couldn’t hear them, the pair grabbed their acoustic guitars, shot some live videos in their garden and put them on YouTube. If people liked those videos, they figured, they might get a few bookings…

It turns out that people really did like those videos. Fast-forward to 2023, and Clementine’s most popular song on YouTube (an acoustic rendition of Christina Perri’s “A Thousand Years”) has over 9 million views – and the duo’s subsequent releases on Spotify have amassed a total of over 120 million streams.

Success has come from a diverse range of cover songs. Among their most popular releases to date are versions of Justin Bieber’s “2U”, Journey’s 80’s Rock classic “Don’t Stop Believing”, and Motown favourite “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)” – all performed in the pair’s trademark stripped-down, acoustic style.