Anna is currently playing under her own name, and recording her first album with Richard Davies on guitar, John O Sullivan on bass and Dan Tilbury on drums + others who may care to join in! The Anna Page Band/Page (2004-2006) featured songwriter Anna Page on lead vocals and guitar, Michael Crabb on guitar, John O Sullivan on bass and vocals and Martin Farrow on drums.
Deluxor (1996-1998) featured Anna Page on lead vocals and guitar, Elaine Hills on guitar and vocals, Charlie Broom on bass and vocals and Katherine Regan on drums. Their original bass player was Kelly Culpin, and they were later joined by Charlie's twin sister Natalie on keyboards and vocals.
Vocalist Anna Page has a fey, Tanya Donelly type approach to singing, juxtaposed with aggressive lines like, Dont try to tell me that everythings fine or Ill kill you I swear. Fast or slow, these songs are melodic and catchy without resorting to indie cliché. (Making Music Magazine review)
These women know what theyre doing: the pop suss of the Undertones or the Buzzcocks tied to the feminist ethics of The Au Pairs. All men are bastards and so is the beauty industry: two songs to make you weep and dance at the same time. Superb (Record Collector review) "Fierce, frantic and fully sorted" (Melody Maker Review)
Those of us who saw Annas early KK appearance on a Friday evening will have marked her out immediately as One To Watch. Her songs and persona are refreshingly honest and bullshit free, while her self-deprecating asides are a front for some pungent and pertinent observations about life. Ecstasy is a perfect illustration, Anna effortlessly skewering the misogynist ego with a raised eyebrow and unambiguous language. Already Autumn is just a great song about the fear that lifes passing you by, while After It Happens is the best song about meaningless sex Ive heard in ages. Hungover Morning speaks for itself, exemplifying the truism that theres many a true word spoken in jest. Anna Page has talent and star quality to burn, remember where you saw her first! (Kashmir Klub live review)
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Anna's musical career began in 1996, as founder and singer/songwriter for all-girl band Deluxor. Their first four-song tape won Demo Of The Month in Making Music Magazine and first and only single, Ecstasy was also Single Of The Month in Record Collector Magazine (see opposite for reviews).
After the band split, she co-wrote and recorded tracks (such as Retail Therapy and Damage above) with producer Paul Sampson, of The Primitives and Catatonia production fame, before embarking on a solo career, playing venues like The Cobden Club, The 12 Bar, The Kashmir Klub and The Metro, where she supported the likes of Steve Diggle, The Libertines, Adam Green and Johnny Borell. She has also played at The Lost And Found in San Francisco and The Sidewalk and The Raven amongst other NY venues, and in various Paris bars.
Recently, she has played as The Anna Page Band at The Borderline, and at Alan McGee's club, Death Disco, and he has played her demo Addicted (can be heard above) on his BBC Radio 1 One World show a number of times. She also plays acoustic shows and runs a songwriters' night once a month at The Boogaloo in Highgate, recently dubbed the most Rock n Roll pub in London by Time Out. She is a part-time burlesque model, and has appeared in The White Stripes and Mick Jagger pop videos, on BBC and Channel 4 as a dancer and actress, as well as performing her own songs live on digital TVs Where Its At.
Anna also studied art at Yeovil College and Philosophy and Literature at Warwick University, so she put on a one-woman exhibition in 2001 on St Martins Lane entitled How The Universe Works (The Answer To Everything), for which she was dubbed The Shining Child Of the Revelation Revolution in The West End Extra (see pics for this and other press). She is currently living near Marlborough, writing a book and TV programme on the How The Universe Works theme and recording new songs for her first album, as well as teaching singing privately and at The Academy of Music and Sound.
anna!!! great songs you have up!! thanks for the friendship. i have to say, i really enjoyed Addicted and Retail Therapy should resonate with millions. Thanks again for the friendship. Be well
Hi Anna! I hope you had a lovely birthday! Sorry I didin't make it down to your party.. hopefully we'll catch up one of these days though :-) Hope you're enjoying the country life and life is good for you. I was looking for work in Berlin, trying to get on a film doing props... I have to wait and see, maybe in a month or two I'll be a Berliner yet!!... xx
How's ye Anna long time... Not sure i ye remember but I played at yer gigs when I used to live in London Well I'm movin' back there next week and was wonderin' if there was a slot for us? Hope yer well, Dylan
Thanks for inviting me last Monday... Life is so very hecticly busy, had no chance to make it again. Hopefully next time I'll be more free! Hope you're well and everything's good. Chiao bella xx
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