Simon Belshaw, Julie Hill, Fay Cloonan, Mike Daniels, Sarah Lewis, Mat Sibley, Guy Harrap, Cheryl Enever
Influences
Michael Nyman, Gavin Bryars, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Eno, Bang on a Can
Sounds Like
Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Michael Nyman, Gavin Bryars, Howard Skempton, Meredith Monk, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Sun rushing In, Terry Riley, John Adams, Steve Martland, Deep Listening Band
The belshaw band project has involved a number of players (including Will Gregory and Mat Sibley) and performances in a variety of venues (pubs, restaurants, theatres and, on three occasions, at the Bristol Community Festival at Ashton Court), the band ranged in size from an ensemble of five players to one of fourteen. The band has produced a number of recordings some live and some studio with the following players as the nucleus of the ensemble: piano - Simon Belshaw, violins - Julie Hill & Fay Cloonan, trumpet - Mike Daniels, saxophones - Sarah Lewis & Mat Sibley, guitar - Guy Harrap, cello - Cheryl Enever
One of the highlights of the Vortex London Jazz Festival – TIME OUT
Featuring Fyfe Dangerfield (from Guillemots), Gannets posit an alternative jazz history in which 30's swing developed straight into a combined form of the free jazz and fusion movements, without any of the intervening decades.
Fyfe Dangerfield - keyboards + electronics
Alex J Ward - clarinet
Christopher Cundy - bass clarinet
Dominic Lash - double bass
Steve Noble - drums
