Rebecca Jade

Bio:

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Growing up in a dilapidated seaside town at the foothill of a mountain in north Wales, Rebecca Jade abandoned school at 14, studied performance art and fully immersed herself in guitar playing and song- writing. Having decamped to London a decade ago, her songs are infused with melancholy and melodrama: reflecting a wayward rural childhood and adolescence, and the ramshackle existence and experiences of the city.

RJ currently plays with Andrew 'One Cup' Pridding on bass guitar and vocals, and recently welcomed Steve Brummell on drums. Odel Lennon Jeffries drums on these recordings, and James 'Mori' Moriaty plays percussion on the treehouse video below.

Shows so far in 2010:
The Rotary Club, London NW1
SEW @ St Mary's Church, London N16
Kushinda! 2 @ Blue Sky Cafe, Bangor, Wales
Folke Newington @ The Drop, London N16
Dark Market @ Brixton Village, London SW9
Uncivilisation Festival, Llangollen, Wales
Kushinda!Zimbabwe @ Llanfairfechan Church Institute, Wales
GooNite @ The Buffalo Bar, London N1
Hackney Wicked Festival, London E9
Dark Mountain Mini-Fest @ The Urban Orchard, London SE1
Electroacoustic Club @ The Slaughtered Lamb, London EC1

Entirely Instrumental, at the Uncivilisation festival in Llangollen. A Power Down night for the Dark Mountain.



I Will Choose, a collaboration with Kingwa Kamencu at the Blue Sky Cafe in Bangor, Wales.



Echo Strikes Out Alone. This was in a treehouse in Regents Park, organised by Power Down:



Be My Any Port live at Ryan's Bar, December 08. One of our last gigs with Odel on drums. We're about 9minutes in:
SEW@Ryans Xmas 7th Dec 08


RJ also DJ's under the alias The Lost Chord of Atlantis, hosts the Random Year Generator Club and co presents the gLASS sHRIMP show on Resonance FM. One Cup is Sky Comes King, Mori drums for Sunlight Service Group and Odel Lennon Jeffries is The Night Terrors.

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Member Since:

October 21, 2004

Members:

Rebecca Jade: Guitar, vocals, songwriter.
Andrew 'OC' Pridding: Bass guitar, backing vocals.
Steve Brummell: Drums.

James 'Mori' Moriaty is on the videos in the treehouse on percussion
Odel Lennon Jeffries plays drums on these recordings.

Recorded and produced at Luke Cawthra's studio in Bristol

Other credits:
Photography as credited on the shots or albums, mostly by Joseph Lee, William Robinson, Plus.Equals.Photography, Dean, Gruffydd Fon Gruffydd, Jenny Johnson and Russell Lee.
Most of RJ's dresses are by Becca Grover-Jones

Influences:

The following is listened to and loved and admired, sometimes all three...
The Beatles
David Bowie
Talking Heads
Pavlov's Dog
Spirogyra (the psych folk band, not the jazz group)
Patti Smith
Pentangle
Elliot Smith
The Smiths
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Nick Drake
Neil Young
Neil Diamond's Greatest Hits
Super Furry Animals
Sunforest
Caravan (early stuff)
Comus
Aphrodities Child
Neighb'rhood Childr'n
Phluph
The Cars first album
Ramases
Funkadelic
Chrysalis
Van Der Graaf Generator
dEUS
Pavement
Belly
Sebadoh/ Folk Implosion
Deep Purple
Of Montreal
Led Zeppelin
(Smog)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Fresh (Fresh Today)
Roxy Music
Television
Grandaddy
Todd Rundgren
Tom Newman (Fine Old Tom)
Gentle Giant
July
Strawberry Alarm Clock
Shawn Phillips
Andy Pratt (Andy Pratt)
Iggy & The Stooges
Audience
Pulp
The Wallace Collection
Queens Of The Stone Age
Nirvana
The Mattoid
Murray Head
Gram Parsons
Wire
Family
The Groundhogs
The Lemon Pipers
Leonard Cohen
OutKast
Welsh Rare Beat compilation
Velvet Underground
The Poppy Family
Meic Stevens
Captain Beefheart
Edward H Dafis
The Walker Brothers and Scott Walker
The Tindersticks
White Noise
Fleetwood Mac *and* Dougal Reed's Rumours

Sounds Like:

'dickensian waif' (emily breeze)
'elegant' (david pajo)
'prog banshee' (marmaduke dando)
'psychedelic rock, some 80s kitchiness too with a hint of bluuuues' (kazumi hirota)
'sexual'- citizen helene
'...'-you?

Record Label:

Unknown Indie

Label Type:

Indie