Amy Smith - Lead Vocals/Piano
Gus MacGregor - Acoustic & 12 string guitar/Backing vocal/Harmonica;
Philipp Moll - Double Bass/Backing vocal;
Chris Graham - Drums/Percussion/Backing vocal;
Marcus Bonfanti - Electric & slide guitar;
Influences
Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Sandy Denny, Nick Drake, John Lennon, Van Morrison, Ray Lamontagne
Sounds Like
Please feel free to decide for yourself though I do hope you can here a little of my influences in there. All in all I just hope it sounds like me really.
I am 27 years old and live in South London.
I graduated from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts in Liverpool in 2003.
From September 2003 - Feb 2004 I toured with The Australian Pink Floyd Show as a backing vocalist, singing The Great Gig in the Sky from the album Darkside of the Moon. A year later I recorded a full length DVD with the band at the Liverpool Summer Pops festival, extracts of which you can see here on my page.
In October 2004 I signed a publishing deal with Universal Publishing Group and a record deal with an independent label called New Frontier. During this time I wrote, recorded and sold my own music and performed support slots touring with Simply Red, K.D Lang, Jamie Cullum, Ray Lamontagne, Lulu, Tom Baxter, and Peter Cincotti. I also performed at Michael Parkinson’s famous pub and my music was played on his show and also Lulu’s show. I performed at South by Southwest in March 2005 along with James Blunt, Embrace, the Go Team and Tom Baxter.
I’ve also worked with Damon Albarn, Brian Eno and 3D (Massive Attack) for a piece that was part of the Stop Trident Campaign with Greenpeace. The piece subsequently became part of Damon Albarn’s opera ’Monkey’.
I have spent the last year touring with The Australian Pink Floyd Show.
Hi Amy! I caught the Aussie Floyd show in Montreal on Thursday for the 6th year in a row and it was fantastic as usual. The only disappointment was that you didn't sing Great Gig. No one can compare to you when you sing it, not even the original. I guess we'll have to wait for next year.
Hope the rest of the tour goes well and that you will be back next year. Take care and be well!
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Ali will be on tour in the UK from June 19th – July 4th come and see him and his new band live – they are tearing it up, round the country with a great party vibe!
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