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*studio band on SINEAD GERE:
Ellissay (acoustic guitar, vocals)
Udo (acoustic guitar, electric guitar)
Armin (bass)
Dirk (keys)
Marc (drums)
*studio band on FEEL FREE:
Ellissay (vocals)
Udo (electric guitars)
Tom & Armin (bass)
Dirk (keyboards, hammond, piano)
Stefan (drums)
Influences
The Who, Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, Janis Joplin, Mahalia Jackson, KT Tunstall, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Clannad, Alanis Morissette, Tracy Chapman, The Beatles, Sheryl Crow, Amanda Marshall, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, REM, Queens Of The Stone Age, The Verve, Oasis, Blur, The Killers, Coldplay, Travis, Texas, PJ Harvey, celtic music, Peter Gabriel, David Bowie, amm ...
Ellissay is a German singer/songwriter living in the media metropolis Cologne and in Scotland's capital Edinburgh. Born in 1981, she started her musical training aged eleven when she was taught how to play the mandolin. She later added the acoustic guitar and various percussion instruments, as well as the Irish tin-whistle and started her first songwriting attempts. During later high-school years she joined various choirs, an orchestra and band projects.
Genres such as Gospel, Rock & Pop, Ska, Electro, Indie, Soul and also Celtic Folk left a print on her unique voice and song writing.
“For years I've been storing my songs in a shoebox on my shelf. One day my colleague Dirk convinced me to go into the studio and record them. I wasn't sure I could do it easily. No one had heard any of the material before. There's a difference in singing your songs to yourself at home or opening yourself up to an audience."
Due to producer Dirk Neuss' ambitious work and the help of colleagues the 28 year–old sound technician Ellissay finally recorded the first track “Feel Free” for a demo EP.
Since its online-release in October 2008 the singer's song "Feel Free" made it onto various webstreaming radio-stations, has been played at major sports events at Sheffield Arena in England and an US radio-station recently added the song to their programme. Also they decided to give an acoustic sitting-room-version of the song "Sineád Gere" a shot on air. With the help of an English DJ touring Asia and Australia the single can also be found on an Australian radio-station in Queensland.
Ellissay is an artist of the new internet-generation. Without a label and no management her songs made it straight from her room onto radio-playlists by using social network sites such as MySpace.
"Feel Free", mastered by two-times Grammy winner Darcy Proper at Galaxy Studios, Belgium is now available for download worldwide on iTunes, Napster, Musicload.de or Amazon USA. An acoustic set of new songs is going to be recorded in June 2009.
Herzlichen Dank. Beneide Dich um Deine zweite Heimat in Schottland. Alleine auf die Bühne...dafür sing ich zu kacke:) Eine Band die das ein oder andere Lied von mir mit mir spielt, das wär was.
am 5.6. um 12:00 geht "peace", das neue video von depeche mode in premiere auf tape.tv.
wer die premiere und den launch des depeche mode universums nicht verpassen will, kann sich ab sofort auf tape.tv für einen mailalarm anmelden.
in der countdownwoche - ab jetzt, sofort! - gibt es auch schon etwas zu gewinnen: wer das beste foto zum thema "peace" an social@tape.tv schickt, gewinnt das von der band handsignierte aktuelle album
Hey hows you? x just wanted to mention iam touring all over the UK from september for a year, traveling all over got the first 4 months up and adding more and more to it, the first 3 months is for Busking For Cancer :) in Aid for cancer research, all the shows are free so would be awesome to see you at a show supporting wat im touring for, check out our dates and if we arnt playing in your area then please do let us know cause it is for a FULL year so we wanna get everywhere and anywhere :) also recording new stuff this weekend so new songs will be up :) anyways hoping ur having a good start to the summer.
Just stopping by to say hello and give you some news. The new album 'Coolgilly and the Freakshow' from Centascope is now available worldwide from CD Baby and directly from the merchandise page of the official website. You can also get the album from Apple iTunes, MSN Music, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon and many more.
new version of "kept order" live at country star (Padova) ( the video is upload on my space ) - the band is ready for the recording of the 5th full-lenght album. The new act titled "You'll Bleed" will be released in November 2009 for cruz del sur music ( http://www.myspace.com/cruzdelsurmusic ) - "goetia summa" demo is avalible by demand - handful of hate will soon be on kink magazine
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