Chris Young - Acoustic guitar, glockenspiel, Korg synth.
Rachel Steadman - Violin
Steph Patten - Cello
Ian Mok - Cello
Amelia Robson - Cello
Adam Morris - Drums/Orchestral Percussion
Benjamen Fraser - Drums
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Influences
Vivid imagination. The epic, the other-wordly, the terrifying and the beautiful.
Sound.
Ideologies. Neurosis. Moments. Day-dreams. Nightmares. Memories. Love. Being loving. Being hated. Loss. Absence. Endings.
Phildel is a compound name - made up of her two parents' names: Philip and Della. Her father is Hong Kong Chinese and her mother is Irish. Despite being off to a good start, at the age of 8, Phildel's life spiraled into what can only be described as a Dickensian-style story. Her mother married a religious fundamentalist. Her name/religion/lifestyle/dress-code were changed by force,, all of her possessions seized and music became a forbidden evil within the household. For the next decade Phildel was treated as a servant within her home. However, Phildel spent lunchtimes with her school piano with sympathetic music teachers, creating and playing her compositions relentlessly. She ran away from home at 17 to escape her home-life and to finally follow her dreams.
She got together a second-hand computer and some music demo software packages and began putting together her first home-demo. Within very little time, it attracted the attention of Roger Watson - former Chrysalis MD and his support of her lead to collaborations with Spike MaClaren at Massive Attack's studio and Sam Dixon (known for his collaborations with many artists including KT Tunstall and Duffy's 'Rockferry' album).
In 2007 her epic and moving music was used on one of the UK's most high profile advertising campaigns, followed by two more high profile filmic campaigns in France in 2008/2009.
During December 2008, Phildel joined the likes of Radiohead and Goldfrapp to become a Warner Chappell Music Publishing artist. She is currently working at the world-famous Metropolis Recording Studio, to complete her neo-classical album. This will be followed by the recording of her artist album later in 2009.
For now however, you can purchase The Cut-Throat EP, a £5.00 six track CD by Phildel which includes the following killer songs:
The Wolf
Ghost
Holes In Your Coffin
Slow Cloud
Piano B
Switchblade
To purchase The Cut-Throat CD click the below "Buy Now" button (please allow 3-5 days for delivery within the UK and up to 7 days for those outside the UK.
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Hi Guys, Just wanted to say you were THE BEST acoustic set i have ever seen!! You were amazing to listen to and mesmerizing to watch, it was an absolute pleasure to be there, You guys are gonna be MASSIVE!!! I really could listen to you all night such beautiful music and awesome vocals. You were both lovely to talk to, i really wish you all the best and any London Gig you will see me there!!! Angel xx
Hello Thanks for being our Friend! We are a 3-piece from Nottingham called Satnam's Tash who play Punk/Theatrical/Rock recently finishing a tour of Germany, ending in Berlin.
We've also been played on FatCat Radio Recently.
Here is a music video we made ourselves of one of our songs!
And here is a video of us playing Live from our last tour of England!
Please feel free to drop by anytime and leave a comment or just say hello! Hope you enjoy them and we'll speak again soon.
Just want to stop by and tell you how much I like To The Kingdom, I'm totally captivated by this tune. I like all your new songs as much as the "old" ones.
