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Anyone coming to this site to find out if we have any new songs or when our next gig will be - sadly there won't be any more of either. We have decided to lay this project to rest.

The decision wasn't due to a falling out between us. It is more about the lack of time and commitment our lovely singer and lyricist Strings will be able to give in the foreseeable future. We are all very proud of the music that we have made together, and have a thousand happy memories.

So what now?

Strings is busy becoming a super-psychiatrist and best-selling text-book author. Stop press - Psychiatry PRN is now published. Chris and Martin will without doubt, be involved with other music projects, together and separately. Derek our drummer is always busy, drumming, playing keyboards, buying and restoring drums and percussion and also teaching. Emily is getting her chops ready for the next Ceilidh!

You can find out more by clicking on the links in the Band Members section to the left.

Meanwhile, we still have a few copies left of our two albums;

Hurry, while stocks last, as they say!

Strings, Chris and Martin were brought together by a mutual love of Joni Mitchell's music. The band recorded two albums of original material between 2001 and 2006, and played many venues in and around London and Cambridge, UK; from house concerts to an audience of 600 at Islington's famous 'Carling Academy'.

"Wow! Goosebumps down my neck met the ones up my back and I was neither man nor ghost for a minute stretched into an hour maybe longer. This is beautiful music. Not the kind of beauty you find in magazines, but the kind you find in eyes and touches. Truly amazing." Oli D.

The Thrill of Maintaining Momentum "It's stuck in my CD player! ...and i can't get it out. Have been fascinated by this CD for well over a month. It took me three days just to get past the second track; I was spellbound. Throughout, the guitar and bass are equally as sensitive as the warm vocal lines, and the subtlety of all three principal instruments becomes more accessible with each listen. 'The Thrill Of Maintaining Momentum' is pure gold. Buy it." Randall Williams.

Love and Other Vices "...what makes this album so good is the marriage between music and words, between lyrics, melody and harmony. This is the sign of songwriters and musicians at the top of their game.
Graham Holland. 'It’s A Frog’s Life' Acoustic Podcast

"The centrepiece of every Stryngs song is the vocal, and here we have the most unique aspect of the band. The vocalist and lyricist (whose name is Strings. Note the subtly different spelling) writes the sort of lyrics that shouldn't be singable. There are too many syllables, the lines don't obey any regular meter and there are far too many long words. Half the songs read like prose on the page, and yet when you hear Strings' soft, intimate, chocolate delivery it all makes sense."
Tom Slatter. We'll Write

You can buy our albums safely online at CD baby.
The Thrill Of Maintaining Momentum and Love and Other Vices

Here's a video from a house concert we played
in Lewisham, London, UK.
"I would run my pen dry over you, if you let me.
I'd sign my name and address along the side of your thumb
in case you're ever lost
and had to hitch yourself a ride home to me."

And the one that always makes them cry ... 'Frank's Song'
"A cold, absent-minded year drifted by
and you felt you'd been sifted like flour - left behind
like a feather falling from a flying bird to where
past-tense sentences held her name."

Keeping in touch

MySpace is a great place to keep in touch with us. But there are other ways: the first is the discussion forums on our own website. Secondly, you could also sign up to our mailing list here:-

Middle England Cross
"She still dreams of separating shoals with a dagger and a tan
diving on practiced lungs, but like a pearl the oyster is her world."




Anywhere But Understood