Clara Barker (writes the songs, plays guitar, sings the songs, has good ideas, tells them to Phil, pulls faces, tells stories, likes pie, is a Princess)
Phil Reynolds (records, produces, plays bass, pushes buttons, tells Clara to behave, gets told to fuck off, makes the magic happen, has the occasional good idea of his own, is a LEGEND!)
Influences
Mister-Tom-Muh-Crae! The Weepies, Tori Amos, Kate Nash, Dido, Catatonia, Fleetwood Mac, Cat Stevens, Ben Christophers, Norah Jones, Jewel, Annie Lennox, Madonna, Elvis Presley, Simon & Garfunkel, REM, Peppercorn, Bic Runga and Rachael Yamagata.
Special and honourable mentions to my muso gal pals who I could not do any of what I do without.... Sarah Creighton, Anna Goldsmith, Christy DeHaven, Stacey Fuller, Mimi Shilling, Heather Watson, Laura Moore and Sarah Quinn. I love you Goddesses! :) xxx
Sounds Like
A girl singing songs and playing the guitar, all nice and lovely like :)
I was born in the road racing capital of the world in the year Elvis Presley died. I grew up listening to my Dad's music and dreaming of being an actress. The acting thing didn't work out, but being born a noisy girl with the affliction of a sensitive soul, there had to be an outlet. I started writing poetry in my teens (don't we all?) and progressed to songs in my early 20's. My first complete song (Sunday Sundown) came in a flash of inspiration despite my complete lack of musical ability. So I went out and I bought me a gee-taw, a beautiful blue Tanglewood by the name of Louis. He and I have whiled away many a night, wondering where it all went wrong, who made it right and when oh when would we ever learn?
After 10 years in Bolton, I have come home to the Isle of Man. A beautiful and magical place where people believe in Faeries, the sea is never too far away and my drinking is considered perfectly reasonable. Deep joy!
Thank you very much Clara Bean!! XXX Had a lovely day thanks : ) : ) Have joined your facebook page already I think? Hope you are having a scrum diddly umptious weekend! : ) XX
Soft spirit.........you whisper out upon my neck and push my long dark hair to one side, As the wind pushes the waves against the shore; I turn, but you're not there.....just the air on my skin, pretending to be you.
Between breaths I live a hundred lives, a thousand perhaps, The sea and the moon and the scent of desire intertwined somehow; I close my eyes and see a light upon your face, your lonely eyes, You're like a dream......and I breathe again, and live another life, waiting...When will you come? When will you murmur to me? When will we sing together as two birds upon the sand...
Every day I wait and wonder, every day I breathe you in, I know in the night I can feel you...but my eyes see only darkness when I look, I'm sure I can hear you there, stirring next to me, But only the silent night is my friend. The moon shines in upon the sheets and I lay my cheek down and feel the silkiness on my skin,
But it's not your silkiness nor your warmth that keeps me company. I go to the sea to look for you, to find something of you there, But I can only touch the shells, washed up by a storm, laying lost among the rocks. I bring one home, set it on the sill, its sheen reflects the setting sun;
More breaths, more lives pass between each one. More waves, more nights, more suns and moons... But never you.......never you.... Perhaps your scent, your sigh, your skin...... Somewhere, I know, I'll find you again.
As you may or may not be aware SoundARC hold a charity gig every year at Club 85 in Hitchin in aid of the Garden House Hospice in Letchworth, and this year we are going to try something a little different from previous years.
This year we are going to take over the club and host 37 acts in one weekend putting full bands upstairs and acoustic acts downstairs in an event that we are calling ARCfest!
It all starts on Friday 4th December at 7pm and then continues on through Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th from 12pm-11pm
As well as raising money for the Garden House Hospice in Letchworth, ARCfest will showcase all the different genres of bands that we at SoundARC have come across over the last 4 and a half years. Over this weekend a lot of the acts that you will see don’t get a chance to play a great local venue like Club 85, So as well as hearing new music you will see all manors of genres and styles from acoustic - Metal - Indie - Rock - Punk - Electro - Ska - Funk - Hip Hop/Rap - Alternative - Rhythm & Blues - Reggae - Grunge and loads more that I cant remember!
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