SHARON CLANCY, CHRIS GUARD, STUART WALTON, PETE RICHES
Influences
Talking Heads, Devo, Human League, Television, The Police, XTC, Scott Walker, Roxy Music, Pulp, Magazine, Depeche Mode, The Cure, DAF, Psychedelic Furs, Velvet Underground, Ultravox, Sonic Youth, Brian Wilson, Phil Spector, Burt Bacharach, Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Klaus Nomi, Frank Zappa, Pop Will Eat Itself, Melanie, Kings of Convenience, Mercury Rev, The La's, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, George Shearing, Mercury Rev, Blondie, The Divine Comedy, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Cockney Rebel, The Doors, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Public Image Limited, Portishead, Blur, Belle and Sebastian,
Magazine, Radio Stars, Punishment of Luxury, Penetration, Captain Beefheart, Pere Ubu, Scritti Politti, Pink Floyd, The Vets, Indians In Moscow, Nick Drake, Tom Waites, Ladytron, Elvis Costello, Goldfrapp, Dead Kennedys, Strawberry Switchblade, Half Man Half Biscuit, Tommy Dorsey, Roy Orbison, Arctic Monkeys, Turin Brakes, Stanley Unwin, Sam Cooke, Fad Gadget, Betty Wright, Stylistics, T.Rex, The Sweet, Rufus Wainright, Felice Taylor, Marvin Gaye, Propellorheads, Spike Jones and the City Slickers, Bonzo Dog Doodah Band, Holger Tzukay, Mazzy Star, Dave Brubeck, Syd Barrett, Echolyn, Tom McCrae, Ennio Morricone, Sex Pistols, I'm So Hollow, Blancmange, Radiohead, Philip Glass, Kraftwerk, Soft Machine, The Move, The Kinks, Native Hipsters, DAF, Green Day, The Slits, War, Brian Eno, Tangerine Dream, OMD, Saint Ettienne, Miss Kittin, Nine Inch Nails, Curved Air, Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, Prodigy, Nitzer Ebb, Alice Deejay, Antiloop, Koldkut, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Wild Cherry, Fatback Band, Parliament, Mister Scruff, The Orb, Deelite, Joe Jackson, Jamie Cullen, Mahler, Pop Tarts, M-People, Happy Mondays, The Pogues, Jah Wobble, Stevie Wonder, Qincey Jones, Van Morrison, Mungo Jerry, Lieutenant Pigeon, Morrisey, The Streets, Razorlite, Blink 182, Libertines, Athlete, Johnny Cash, The Flamin Lips, Foo Fighters, Blackeyed Peas, Placebo, Pink, Lemon Jelly, Pixies, Bjork, Marylin Manson, Panjabi MC, Linda Rondstat, The Corrs, Emmylou Harris, KT Tunstall, Sinead O'Connor, Buzzcocks, Secret Machines, Arcade Fire, The Cranberries, Loudon Wainright III, Dixie Chicks, Willie Nelson, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Nylon, Suede, Motorhead, Eurythmics, Ten Days To Live, John Lennon, Armand Van Helden, Prodigy, Paolo Nutini, Nina Simone, Sergio Mendes, Carlos Jobim, Bill Withers, Labi Siffre, Katie Melua, Babyshambles, Rage Against The Machine, Led Zeppelin, Massive Attack, Royksopp, Pet Shop Boys, Portishead, Basement Jaxx, Scissor Sisters, Phil Spector, Joe Meek, Beautiful South, Swell Maps, Gomez, Donovan, Black Cat Bones, John Shuttleworth, Polytechnic, Polly Harvey, Madame St. Onge, Editors
Sounds Like
Natalie Imbruglia, Garbage, Kate Bush, Dido, Aimee Mann, Carole King, Everything But The Girl, Nora Jones, Alanis Morissette, Beth Orton, Alice Martineau, Sarah McLachlan, KT Tunstall, Nouvelle Vague, Katie Melua, Fiona Apple, The Sundays, Mazzy Star, Ani Difranco, Imogen Heap, Frou Frou
Clancy make quirky folk-pop in an Aladin's cave on the third floor of an extinct industrial laundry in West London. Their songs are about
relationships on the edge, and sex, and hope and the sweet-ugly mess of it all.
Flame-haired singer/actress Sharon Clancy is from Wexford Ireland, where she did stacks of gigging and was also a DJ on local radio and teenage national kick-boxing champion!
Junk percussionist and singer Katie Stephenson of 'Bang On!' has joined Clancy on drums and vocals for their debut gig.
STOP PRESS: The simply divine Nikki Link is now sharing her keyboard skills with Clancy, and joins us live from October 24th
Ex 'Synth-punks.. Pete and Stu produce and design and play guitars and keyboards.
Songwriter and novelist Chris plays guitars and eggs.
Eclectic is electric.
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