Naomi Alder - Vocals
Sally Austen - Guitar and vocals
Hannah Rowlands - Vocals
We also work with a range of musicians including a double bassist, cellist, violinist, trumpet player, banjo player and a percussionist.
Influences
Prince, Adem, Beck, Outkast, Annie, Yann Tiersen, Tom Waits, Cathy Davey, Peaches, Nina Simone, Bob Dylan, Kate Bush, Bjork, Ben Folds Five, Sufjan Stevens, Smog, The Smiths, Dolly Parton, Bobbie Gentry, Elliot Smith, The Sundays, Andrew Bird, Joanna Newsom, Bright Eyes, Billy Bragg, Modest Mouse, Feist, The Cardigans, The Be-good Tanya's, Eels, Jeff Buckley, Polly Paulusma, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, The Beach Boys, Talking Heads, Loudon Wainwright III, Martha Wainwright, Elvis Costello, Joni Mitchell, Belle and Sebastian, Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, N.E.R.D, Fleetwood Mac, Bob Marley, Coco Rosie, Devandra Bernhardt, Simon and Garfunkel, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Odetta, Patti Smith and Justin Timberlake.
Sounds Like
Although we sound more like the Andrew Sisters, if they were big Prince, Bjork and Bob fans and they could only afford acoustic instruments and sounded nothing like them. Or so I imagine from the stage.
1.Naomi, Hannah and Sally meet in a call centre in 2002 where they sit all day and dream about getting out of the call centre.
2.All three move intogether and enjoy singalongs around the piano to any tunes that Sally can remember.
3.One day, between calls, Hannah writes a chorus, she comes home and Sally has been playing around with some chords, they write their first song in the garden. Naomi comes home and joins in.
4.All three worry that they wont be able to write anymore songs together.
5.They then write a whole load more songs.
6.They arrange their first gig in a disused office overlooking canary wharf, they perform sitting on filing cabinets.
7.They then record their first EP which none of them any longer own.
8.They perform in various London Venues, one that they share with an Irish Wake, one dominated by a half naked dancing drunk lady, with low hanging bosoms (Not Sally, Naomi or Hannah), in a church, in a zoo, in someones living room and one for the Camberwells Community Gay Rights Group, audience: one.
9.They tour America from New Orleans to New York, writing and listening. They play a gig in Memphis which several audience members describe as awesome.
10.They record and tour their first album, Surviving St Francisville and finally feel happy that despite still working in a call centre they, just like Great Gatsby and many before and after, are following the dream.
Needleandthread presents... {yet another series of} dirty great big nights out.. @ JAMM bar, 261 Brixton road.. {nearest tube : oval / brixton} {buses: 159,N59,333,133,N3} running 8pm-4am, £4 before 9pm, (afterwards its £6 / £5 with flyer, or NUS)..
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its the night out you've been waiting for! so far, on friday march 14th, we have experimental lectronics, live bands, hiphop crews, artists, bizarre performances, live visuals, singer/songwriters, dj's playing funk, hiphop, reggae, soul, rock n roll, gypsy breaks, ragga, dubstep, breakbeat, jungle, drum n bass, dancehall, glitchcore, and generally good stuffness..
LIVE ROOM
DJ TENDRAW {gluerooms} VS. INFINITE LIVEZ {bigdada} -twisted toycore with vocal oddities.. FRAZER KING - Mancunian psych-rock, harmonic rebels.. QUEENS ENGLISH -lyrical hiphop, bouncing bass.. BUNTY - self-looping vocal beats.. GREETINGS - new lancastrian cross curiosities..
DJ’s
D-CYFER - junglist classics, and vintage drum and bass.. SUNMONKEY - eclectic party blend..
with appearances from the tealeaf collective, surreal musings of a goliath frog, decor by cafe cairo, an animated depa, and the ink-stained scratchings of illegal guff.. beleive me, it all makes sense on www. needleandthread. org
Come and visit us down.. The Akoustic Karma Lounge Brighton's Premiere Open Mic Night! Every monday @ The Hope, Brighton! Booking slots from 8!
We have also started up a new acoustic showcase night every last thursday of the month! please check out www. myspace. com/originalmusicknights for more information!
Take care, hope ur having a great start to 2008 and hope to see you soon!
You are invited to join club Spher][cal on the 3rd Friday of every month @ The Pressure Point in Brighton! Details for February's party are as follows;
See you there! Love
Bruno x x
Check out the following myspace pages to hear some of our guests tunes!
www.myspace.com/sigmauk www.sigma-music.com www.myspace.com/djbringa Sigma have been nominated for this years Drum and bass awards for the "Best Breakthrough DJ" category :) Please also vote for MC Master X in the 'best breakthrough MC category. To cast your vote please go to;
You are invited to join club Spher][cal on the 3rd Friday of every month @ The Pressure Point in Brighton! Details for February's party are as follows;
See you there! Love
Bruno x x
Check out the following myspace pages to hear some of our guests tunes!
www.myspace.com/sigmauk www.sigma-music.com www.myspace.com/djbringa Sigma have been nominated for this years Drum and bass awards for the "Best Breakthrough DJ" category :) Please also vote for MC Master X in the 'best breakthrough MC category. To cast your vote please go to;
You are invited to join club Spher][cal on the 3rd Friday of every month @ The Pressure Point in Brighton! Details for this months party are as follows; Love
Bruno x
Check out the following myspace pages to hear some of our guests tunes!
I hope your 2008 is Great Inside Sixty Five! If your usual swing goes missing, or friends you know and love have problems finding or maintaining their swing, don't you worry,'The Harvey Brown Ensemble' Album is now available in post-modern quanties online at emusic,itunes and all online swinging outlets! All such swing purchases will fund further HBEnsemble Swing making. Love Harvey and The HBEnsemble x
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Come and join us THIS MONDAY the 17th Dec 07 for the last AKL OPEN MIC NIGHT of 2007!!! The Hope, Queens rd, Brighton! We will be returning on 7th Jan 2008!
Come and perform or come and enjoy the music of others! We start booking slots on the night from 8, 1st come 1st serve! Come and get festive with us! :)
Room One.. BAD SCIENCE - dubfunk-skahop-ery.. HEADJAM - metallic dub-punk.. QUEENS ENGLISH - lyrical hiphop.. ELLY JACKSON - local songstress.. dj DARK - roots & culture.. dj RINSE - oldschool junglism..
with lots of bizarre performance, and special guests, including live art from lux products..
@Jamm Bar, 261 Brixton Road.. 8pm till 4am, £6/£5 NUS, or £4 before 9pm!
go on, check em on myndspaz.com/ /badscience /headjamuk /queensenglish /schemeboy /mullymo /riksymmetrik /ellyjackson /nouvellecroix /patscan /unclesmutfist /mrrinse
full details on frontpage, or the illustrious "www.pecknam.com" ..nuff sed..
We are putting on this party to show case DJ's/ MC's & producers. We are SPHER][CAL aka DJ STATIC / TopNotchMC. Headlining our party is Nebulus with support coming from 2 Brighton legends Redford and MC Buzz (rare drum and bass set) as well as Heat/Fever In2Beats and Legends Of The Dark Black affiliate DEVASTATE.
Saturday 15th December 2007 11.30pm > 4am Pressure Point, Brighton TICKETS ARE £3+BF (50P) £4 ON THE DOOR AND ARE AVAILABLE FROM DANCE 2, RESIDENT AND ROUNDER RECORDS IN BRIGHTON.
holy cow you're not gunna believe this...i completed this offer to receive a REAL designer bag from Coach 100% FREE and it really came!! since i KNOW its no joke now, i'm going to act real fast and snag more to give as goodie..you really ought to go get some as well HA HA! isnt the one i got sweet?
Needleandthread presents... {yet another} dirty great big night out.. 19 Oct 2007 the JAMM, 261 brixton road, London, sw9 UK Cost:£6/£5, or £4 before nine.. BARGAIN!!
Room One.. Cyan341 - Tonight we are lucky to have Rednetic label boss Mark Streatfield perform his more techno based material - deep, soulful, and groove ridden, but with all the electronic frills we’ve come to expect from him. eN - atmospheric breaks and harsh edited jungle rhythms with washed out synthetic soundscapes to create bass heavy dancefloor killers. rANdOMoiDz - Dirty shuffling beats chop and change between techno rhythms and wonky breaks, and are guaranteed to make you move. Alt*Ctrl djs - these DJs have played alongside the biggest names in electro and know exactly how to rock a dancefloor. Patscan - combines complex rythyms and sweet melodies with a definite dancefloor focus. Uncle Smutfist - an utterly unique frenzied but playful sound that dances between distorted dubstep and battered breaks. between the rooms, we have live performance pieces from The Great Antagonist, and guests..
Room Two.. ZeJ - combining live electronic drums and bass with effervescent synthesis and live gadgetry, provides an experience impossible to ignore. Red - brixton based multi-vocalist, building his tongue twisting rhythyms into live loops, then turntable-ising the results.. King Porter Stomp - a dub - ska juggernaut of rhyme and funk on a mission to entertain, enliven and enlighten. an unstoppable octet of big horns, fat beats, heavy bass. Bogus Gasman - anarchic dub-core.. punk-laced reggae.. what they lack in covers, they make up for in brass, fat old basslines, and guitars that go chk chk chk chk.. Bunty - one mouth, one mic, one loop station, one delay pedal.. one hell of a show.. dj’s include Mr Hovis, Dj Dark.. should be a bloody good one!
B FESTIVAL The biggest live music night event is to hit East Grinstead on Friday The 5th Oct 2007 & every Friday.
The B Festival will be Headlining Noasis The ultimate tribute to Oasis, Also performing on the night will be Dry Riser, Saving Amy, Your Army & Suzanna Kempner.
What ever your music taste this is a night not to miss.
Opening Times 7pm Till Late.
Free B4 10.30pm
Were to find us
B Festival, Billie Rox, King Street, East Grinstead, West Sussex, RH19 3DJ, Tel- 01342 317597 Email: b-festival@hotmail.co.uk or eastgrinstead@billierox.com
check this! this friday, 31st of aug, we're having a mad one at the jamm bar.. live performances from Chik Budo, King Porter Stomp, Zingaro and the Tempest, Bunty, Joey Herzfeld, Randomoidz, Uncle Smutfist, Mike Cupcake, DjDark, and many others.. live art, wierd performance, good vibes.. check mindspazz.com /needleandthreaddotorg for more info, and full lineup.. only £5 on the door, £3 BEFORE NINE!! 8pm-5am.. @JAMM bar, 261 Brixton road..
The second BEATtheMIX weekly chart is tomorrow with the winning song played hot off the press between 9pm-9.30pm on Juice Brighton. The winner is also invited into the studio to do an acoustic set so don't miss out!
It could be you!
Simply upload your songs, gigs, music videos and classifieds for FREE to get yourself seen and heard! Check out the prizes up for grabs this week at WWW.BEATTHEMIX.CO.UK
VOTE for your favourite song and help them reach the number 1 spot. All voters will be entered into a draw to win an IPOD donated by Solutions Inc. Miss it, miss out! Listen to all the songs on BEATtheMIX
CLaire and the fella's, Tom Fry on Double Bass and Fergus Gerrand on percussion, play on wednesday 18th July @ the extremely sumptuous 1940's style club called The Pigalle Club, Picadilly, London. On stage 10pm.. Free entry. www.thepigalleclub.com
In association with Lady Soul Showcase/Raison D'etre www.reason2b.net
Get yourself SEEN and HEARD by uploading your own songs to the official chart for Sussex and Hampshire for FREE, and WIN absolutely amazing prizes.
Upload them nice and early ready for the first weekly chart and voting to start next week. Prizes include a two day recording session at SOUNDLOCKER studios, extensive press coverage, radio play, release on CRASH records, gigs, equipment and much more.
Come and rehearse at Soundlocker Studios and grab your free voucher to receive £50 off every full day of recording at our newly up graded recording facility. Pro Tools HD 24io with superb analogue desk and extensive outboard.
