At Present:
Rod Melvin: keys
Sim Jones: violin
Travis Porter: bass
Donny Mahmood: guitar
Edmund Swinburn: sax, percussion, guitar, vox and just about anything he fancies
Gareth Dylan Smith: drums
Additional artists on the album include:
Woody Woodmansey, drums: Claus Bøhling, guitar; Pete Dixon, guitar; Keith Godman, guitar; Steve Linton, guitar; Tom Hardy, sax; Mac Newton, violin; Jean McGowan, viola; Helen Harvey, cello; Alonza Bevan, co-writer of 3 songs on the album; Paul Buckmaster, string arranger for Red Shoes; Joe Mennonna, string arranger for Singing You to Sleep; Don Airey, string arranger for Go; Tom Wilcox, producer and foot tapper; Last but most certainly not least Roger Glover, some extra production and encouragement!
Influences
Travel - the thing that finally brought me to play live and to sing, the thing that opens my eyes and humbles me. New sounds, new languages, new food, new people. Good sushi. And some music in no particular order (except maybe alphabetical): Amparanoia, Amadou & Mariam, Ani DiFranco, Beat:Root, The Beatles, The Bees, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Björk, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, The Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Choir, Cassandra Wilson, Chuck Berry, Citizen Cope, Cream, Crosy Stills Nash & Young, Damien Rice, Donny Hathaway, Dr John, Ella Fitzgerald, Ellen McIlwaine, Elliott Smith, Etta James, Feist, Fiona Apple, Funkadelic, Gillian Welch, Harry Nilsson, Janis Joplin, Jeff Buckley, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Karmantra, Kate Bush, The Kinks, Kula Shaker, Led Zeppelin, Leonard Cohen, Lhasa De Sela, Lila Downs, Los De Abajo, Madeleine Peyroux, Manu Chao, Massive Attack, The Meters, Mose Allison, Muddy Waters, Neil Young, Nick Cave, Nina Simone, Nitin Sawhney, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Oi Va Voi, Ojos de Brujo, Orange Blossom, Ozomatli, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Peter Gabriel, Radio Tarifa, Radiohead, Randy Newman, Ray Charles, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Regina Spektor, Robert Plant, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Roger Glover, Rufus Wainwright, Ry Cooder, Sarah McLachlan, Erik Satie, Sonny Boy Williamson, Stevie Wonder, Sting, Suzanne Vega, Taj Mahal, Tim Buckley, Toots & The Maytals, Tori Amos, Toumani Diabaté, Tracy Chapman, Turin Brakes, The White Stripes, Vashti Bunyan
Sounds Like
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RED HANDED is available at select stores in the UK. It has also been released in France and is available there in FNAC, Virgin and indie stores. Red Handed can be ordered online and posted to anywhere on the planet at hmv.co.uk, play.com, or amazon.co.uk or can be downloaded from iTunes:
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***** ''The debut album from Gillian Glover, Red Handed, is a poised yet strident collection that manages to stamp her authority on the singer-songwriter genre, while never becoming bogged down by the constraints of the form...Resonating throughout are Glover's powerful vocals; her voice serves as a most decorative centrepiece to her own self-compositions.''
- ROCKnREEL, July/August 2007
''Red Handed doesn't fall easily into any single category; Glover mixes it up here with some gritty blues, soulful rock and a liberal taste of nu-country. The real common denominator with Gillian Glover is the total commitment to quality - from the moment the pen hits the paper to wrapping it all up in the studio everything's treated with total professionalism and attention to detail. What becomes absolutely clear as you work your way through the eleven tracks is that Gillian Glover is a new solo artist positively glowing with natural talent and positivity. 'Red Handed' no-way sounds like a debut work; it's superbly crafted with everything superbly rounded and styled to make it quite an exceptional piece of work. Glover has a pretty powerful vocal delivery but is able to tone it down when necessary in order to bring out just the right degree of emotion - she's got 'balls', sentiment, style and massive, massive potential!''
- Toxic Pete. For the full review go to toxicpete.co.uk.
In the summer of 2005, Gillian was put in a room with a handful of the musicians involved in this project. They wrote and recorded four songs over those four days. Sparks flew and the fire started. 2007 saw the completion of Red Handed, in which Gillian was able to realise the ideas born in the wee hours of the morning hunched over a guitar and give voice to the words that for years were scratched across notebooks and journals.
Gillian also sings in a band called Beat:Root. Check out their myspace too...
gillian!! thanks for the add! hope you've recovered from one world , was great to meet you and rach! fabulous voice - i love beat root too... keep me informed re gigs girl!
The album just gets better with time. Can't wait for the next one. I hear you are going to be singing on your Dads next album. I look forward to hearing it. Hope you are enjoying the summer. All the best to you and yours x
Ey damzel, great pleasure of counting you in our virtual friends! if you let your ears on this site, you can discover our songs and our world! so have great fun and don't hesitate to come oftenly!;) nice to meet you on the road or maybe in a tavern, with your soulful and haunted songs! take care, kisses dedzu
Hello, great music on your page. Very beautiful voice and it's amazing in "My broken skin" with the piano. Love all your tracks. Have an excellent evening, Julien
Just came from Milano where I spent a great time with Roger, Jim and Christine after DP show! Roger told me you were in Mali...hope I'll visit that festival in the future, too, but have a lot of work with music here...very like your songs, too!
Hi Gilly, yes we have to speak, so, you can come at Carcassonne or Vienne ? (20 and 24 july) If you can't, you can send me a sms or mail, but the best is to see us. So, i'm free for calls at 17h and i will to come back to london in sept with two friends, it can be a cool meeting ;-)
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