Bridgette Amofah on twitter.com/bridgetteamofah: General Info
Member Since
9/10/2005
Band Members
Myself - Vocals
Gbenga Adelekan - Bass / Vocals
Michael Winawer - Guitar
Will Gresford - Keys
Josh Breslaw - Drums
Dave Orchant - Trumpet
Influences
Decadence, apathy, empathy, debauchery, irony, nostalgia, heartache, curiosity, contradictary, uncoolness, gestures, epicness, old school musicals and musical halls, childishness, all things French, all things British.
I love Josephine Baker, Edith Piaf, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Grace Jones, Tracy Chapman, Nina Simone, Shirley Bassey, Bjork, Feist, Camille, Candi Staton, The Doors, David Bowie, Burt Bacharach, Phoenix, Sebastien Tellier, Antony and the Johnsons, Jeff Buckley, Joanna Newsom, Wallis Bird, Lauren Hill, Dusty Springfield, Minnie Riperton, Sia, The Bird and the Bee, Joni Mitchell, Queen, The Beatles, Oi Va Voi, Ivor Cutler, Ben Harper, Elbow, Stevie Wonder, Regina Spektor, Bill Withers endless endless...
Sounds Like
is this some sort of charades question? hmmm? ... love loss wishes dreams, funtimes sunshine late nights red wine, crying till we're laughing, laughing till we're crying, you you, our past the present, you you you, your smile x
About Bridgette Amofah on twitter.com/bridgetteamofah
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Hi I'm Bridgette and welcome to my myspace page!
Please do send and keep sending your lovely messages and comments and I hope to see you at one of my shows! x x x
Check me out on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter as well...
The Times named her as the female artist to watch out for this year. North London based Bridgette is currently in the studio working on her eagarly awaited debut album. She has been personaly asked to support both French leftfield sensation Sebastien Tellier and American Soul legend Candi Stanton on their UK & European tours.
Bridgette is also the lead vocalist in the critically acclaimed act 'Oi Va Voi' where she took over from KT Tunstall, touring the world from Moscow to New York, and has also worked with the likes of The Nextmen and Basement Jaxx & The Earlies.
She recently performed live on Jonathan Ross’s BBC Radio 2 show and was a resident performer at London’s exclusive 'Masque of the Red Death' cult theatre production. Bridgette features on forthcoming albums from both Oi Va Voi and the Part Time Heroes, and will be performing her jaw-dropping live set at a whole host of the UK's music hotspots this year.
"This is grown-up pop that harks back to the Sixties with a cinematic sheen and clever lyrics that bewitchingly picked over relationship break-ups...(with) the stunning set closer Carousel, squalling trumpet backed the spooky, playful tribute to both Sixties girl groups and Weimar-era waltz. Think of Amy Winehouse meets Cabaret. As the audience exploded into applause, Amofah danced like a drunken showgirl. Surely there’s room for one of those."
THE TIMES-2009
"Newcomer Bridgette Amofah dominates the action centre stage!" Evening Standard
Bridgette's Videos
Bridgette and Dom from The Nextmen - Out Of Your Hands (acoustic version)
Management and Bookings
bridgetteinfo@gmail.com
LIVE BOOKINGS:
Jules De Lattre at The Agency Group
Julesdelattre@theagencygroup.com
Bridgette Amofah on twitter.com/bridgetteamofah's Friend Space (Top 16)
Bridgette Amofah on twitter.com/bridgetteamofah has 5272 friends.
Hello everybody, I'm looking forward to play 3 really nice gigs in the UK this week! This mini-tour will bring us to the Stables in Milton Kaynes, the County and Station pub in Matlock Bath and Town Hall Arts Centre in Selby. Looking forward to meet you all! :-))) Cheers, Agnes
FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our fourth LP release...
London-born with a heritage both European and Ghanaian, LEILA ADU was brought up in New Zealand, and is now based in Rome
She has been described as 'A Nina Simone for the Noughties', and her two acclaimed albums infuse a broadly 'art-rock' approach with elements of torch song, speakeasy blues, avant garde jazz, gamelan, the post-rock textures of Slint and Tortoise, and a David Lynch style dreamlike b-movie melodrama. As her website has it, exploring the "dissonant edges of familiar forms", but with that kind of 'dissonance' that they once accused Thelonious Monk or Debussy of, the kind that soon betrays it's own compelling melodic and harmonic logic to the attentive listener...
'Dark Joan', Leila's third album as a solo artist, was recorded in Chicago with the legendary Steve Albini (PJ Harvey, Joanna Newsome, Nirvana, Pixies), and Albini's genius has been to strip her sound back to it's essence, and hold it's most distinctive qualities up to the light. It doesn't hurt that this is by far Leila's most powerful set of songs to date, and if anything we are lead even deeper into her world by the pictures painted with just piano (or in some cases harpsichord or a grime-encrusted electric piano) and that voice...
Capable of anything from delicate heartbreaking purity to a fearsome dramatic power, her powers are seemingly limitless, yet unlike most other singers of her calibre, never does she resort to melodrama or show-boating, or any kind of pastiche, instead she employs her resources fully in the expression of her distinctive musical vision and the deep well-spring of her imagination. Nothing ever sounds as though it could have not been sung...
Download from http://itunes.apple.com LP/CD from http://www.frizzrecords.com
Ahhhhh your version of Black Betty was amaaaazing! I'm part of OneTaste and was there at the festival doing the photographs. Met you briefly whilst chatting with Eli and Biscuit. You did a brilliant set!! Hopefully see you again soon :) Kim x
Another international line up for the next Fleur-de-Lys Club at The Lexington on Wednesday 18th November with Dan Mangan (Canada), Hafdis Huld (Iceland) & Sweet Baboo (Wales)
£4 advance tickets available here: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/61627
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Je n’sais pas si t’es au courant mais en 2010 c’est la fin du monde !!! Alors profites en vite, sors toi les miches de ton canapé et viens assister à nos messes d’enfer. Une chance ultime de sauver ton âme d’un paradis chiantissime
Hey, Maurizio, welke maat shirt wil je hebben? Ik heb L, Xl en XXL in huis. welke kan ik voor je meenemen naar school. Wanneer kan ik je weer treffen in de morgen? Let me know!
Not too late to get advance tickets for my shows coming up - including two tickets for £5 for my Birmingham gig (3 Nov). And remember I'm playing with Ebb at the ICA in London (9 Nov) - this is a very special performance and it would be great to see you there. /MaJiKer
SWAYS NEW SINGLE MERCEDES BENZ IS RELEASED OCTOBER 26TH
North London rapper Sway presents his turbo-charged, party single Mercedes-Benz. The first Sway release to roll off the production line in several months, this freshly polished, fun-loving track shows the lighter side of the versatile, finely-tuned vocalist.
You can watch the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECAoCSZ4rsU
WHO DOESNT DANCE IT HOLDS THE CHILD : 2009 Tracks: 13 Listen and purchase musics from Funky Seventy at Pleimo: Ouça e adquira as músicas do Funky Seventy no Pleimo: http://www.pleimo.com/funkyseventy
I got into a competition for Poles living in the U.K. called "Emigrants got talent".I would be very grateful if you voted for my song in the competition. Just go to: http://emigrancimajatalent.co.uk/video/show/id/79 and click "Glosuj na ten film" (under my name). You can vote 3 times a day for 2 weeks, starting today (12th October - 2nd November). The more votes, the better! :) Thank you very, very much for every single click!
