Currently playing live in various gatherings with Aaron McRobbie - bass & double bass, Paul Birch/Richard Newman - drums, Simon Barker - guitar, and Sam Brown - Piano, Accordian, Kazoo, Percussion, Ukelele (you name it, she can play it!). Past musicians include Tim Parker - bass, Darren 'Gerbs' Gurney - guitar, Adrian Dacre - drums.
BROKEN DOWN - Vocals, acoustic guitar, tambourine - Me, Double Bass - Aaron McRobbie, Electric Bass - Rumbold, Drums - Richard Newman, Backing Vocals - Sam Brown, Margo Buchanan, Steve Balsamo, Me & Rob Thompson.
TAKE OFF YOUR SHOES - Vocals, piano - Me, Double Bass - Aaron McRobbie, Accordian - Sam Brown, Backing Vocals - Sam Brown, Margo Buchanan, & Me.
I will be providing the lead vocals for Homespun this year. See live dates and the Homespun page for more details.
Influences
Mainly my Mum & Dad for playing so much music at home, especially rock & roll, and also, for being so rock & roll. My Dad played bass in the Remo Four (early 60's) and he rocks! The Beatles, Carol King, Neil Finn, Billy Joel, The Carpenters, The Everly Brothers, The Beach Boys/Brian Wilson, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, The Eagles, James Taylor, Simon & Garfunkel. I'm sure I can think of plenty more. How could I forget...Mamas & Papas! Oh and my big brother P.J.Andrew, who is the person to blame for getting me in my first band - The Big Still. Thanks mate! Myspace Layouts @ JellyMuffin.com
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Born and raised in Liverpool, Aitch began her singing career with a recording session at the age of 12. Having spent the ensuing years providing backing vocals for many Liverpool artists, she made the move to London, where the majority of session work was.
She has worked regularly with Jools Holland on The Hootenanny, Later, and 'Friends' albums, and has sung with many of the artists appearing, including Tom Jones, Edwin Starr, Suggs, Lulu, Solomon Burke, Prince Buster, Jimmy Cliff, and Lonnie Donnegan to name but a few.
Aitch can be heard on many recordings, and has also worked live with a list of artists which includes David Gilmour (Meltdown), Deep Purple (Albert Hall), Ronnie Wood, Roger Daltrey, Michael MacDonald, Mavis Staples, Joe Walsh (Fender Strat Pack Concert), Paul Rogers, Gary Moore, Joe Cocker, Van Morrison (Lonnie Donegan Tribute Concert-Albert Hall), Paul Carrack, and more recently with KT Tunstall, Corrine Bailey Rae, James Blunt, James Morrison, Paul Weller, Robert Plant, and Amy Winehouse.
As well as vocal arranging, and coaching, Aitch is also an accomplished songwriter, performing her own songs on both piano, and guitar, and was invited to sing lead vocals at the Albert Hall accompanied by Jon Lord at the piano, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. She is a memeber of a quite unique sounding a capella Choir, a rocking little covers band called Hobson's Choice, and will now be providing the lead vocals for Homespun (see friends). She is currently completing her first album, and hopes to be able to share it soon. Watch this space.........
Hey there lovely you!! It would be so sweet if you could make it on the 11th, I may have to pinch you to see if you're real. I got a couple of Truckstop Honeymoon cds after that awesome night at the 12 Bar club, really cool. Let me know about the Homespun gigz in Sept, well up for seein you guyz again, i dug it. Take care, gerbs
Auld Bag!!!!! Plenty of stick!!! That better be plenty of sticks of rock from your holidays, young lady. Watch out for that Gavin, by the way. He drinks like a fish, and it's not sherry or Advocaat either...no class, like me. The last time I saw him, he was in a bigger state than Texas with the bevvy. Wee Jeannie Bingo - skint till pension day because her horse got thrashed last night...damn.
No worries! Actually, there was a last minute change, and we ended up going straight to Paris for the day off. So it all worked out, except for the sucky part that we didn't get to hang out! Next time...
Oh dear oh dear oh deary me!!!!...the mint imperials have kicked in. I haven't been able to set 2 feet away from my toilet since I guzzled the whole bag. My colostomy bag burst twice during the night (and it was a Prada). This overdose thing is no fun...I can now run faster than the bionic woman at the first sign of "murmerings below". Oh hang on....must dash....very quickly...my old grey flannel drawers don't no whats hit them. Wee Jeannie Bingo - get the doughnut shaped cushion, matron.
Don't you have telly?? Mine was repo'ed as well for a while, so don't feel embarrassed. I've decided not to end it all...yet. The overdosing on mint imperials didn't work, but maybe next time. I had lost a game of Ludo at the Home to that witch, Senga McAsbo, and the shame was just too much to take. My mood has lifted now though as my favourite horse, Merchant of Dubai, is running tomorrow night at Haydock Park at 9.30pm. I'm putting my full pension money on the nose at Willy Hills, and when it comes in, I will be swimming in plenty plenty plenty Sherry and Advocaat. If it loses, pass me the mint imperials. As for Henry Kelly...didn't they bury him with Jeremy Beadle?? Hopefully it was a burning for the pair of them, even if one of them was still alive. Wee Jeannie Bingo - too scared to top herself because of the funeral costs....that's June Whifields fault.
Hello dear, it's Wee Jeannie Bingo here, and I must say that your new photo has caused some Argy Bargy at the Home. Some of us have been putting on our Abba records, as you look quite Scandanavian...some of us have been guzzling Toblerone, because you look quite Swiss(ish), and Ginger Y Fronts has put on his "Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em" DVD Because of the bunnet. Anyway... What a weekend!! I'm in training for the Olympics. I'm representing GB in the freestlyle Swearing Competition. You have to stand on the podium and continue swearing without stuttering, stammering or pausing, for as long as possible, without using the same swear word twice. I won the British heat with a respectable 6 minutes and 42 seconds, before I used the word "Bastard" for the second time. I hope to break the 8 minute barrier in China!!! Watch out for the gold medal winning interview with Sue Barker...the air will be blue. Wee Jeannie Bingo - taking the steroids already.
Homemade pies!!!!....I see!!! So you are obviously the cook in the great big Homespun band house. I take it that is what happens when you join up with a band...you all move into the big band house, like The Monkees or The Partridge Family? Wee Jeannie Bingo - Council Tax dodger.
You should come and visit Up-yer-choocty's German barber if your tempted by the hair clippers.....he's called Herr Cutt, and his shop is on the High Street. Wee Jeannie Bingo - better than the Yellow Pages.
