Zoe Konez - vocals, guitar (Cole Clark, Takamine), piano
Will Connor - drums, percussion
Influences
in no order: PJ Harvey, The Used, Mew, At The Drive In, Mars Volta, Jimmy Eat World, Dredg, Ani Difranco, Blood Brothers, Garbage, Pretenders, Biffy Clyro, The Faint, Incubus, Imogen Heap, Glassjaw, Jackson Pollock, Coheed and Cambria, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bjork, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Thea Gilmore, Placebo, theSTART, Mogwai, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, UNKLE, Tegan and Sara, Deftones, Queen Adreena, The Donnas, Pixies, The Turner Prize, Fiona Apple, The Fall Of Troy, Levellers, DJ Shadow, Haruki Murakami, Doves, Madonna, Take That, Regina Spektor, And His Voice Became, Gossip, 65 Days Of Static, Bertie Blackman, the sea, George Orwell, reggae and dub, John Butler Trio, early Oasis, Iron And Wine, the Waifs, my friends, my foes, my home, Kaki King, Jeff Buckley, Sahara Honights, Skunk Anansie, Otti, Tubelord, Juliette and the Licks, CSS, RX Bandits, that silly metal band I used to be in, seasons, Transfixion, Joan As Policewoman, Feist, Rose Kemp, memorable acquaintances, My Vitriol, Dale Campbell, Minus The Bear, Patrick Wolf, people being bad and people being good, The Junket, Listen acoustic night, System of a down, Lidl, Head Automatica, Melaton, Isis, Declan Bennett, Distillers, Skin, Martha Wainwright, Fidgit, Hastings and St Leonards, spontaneity, sexuality, peta, independent spirit, words and sentences, opportunities, quotes and thoughts, randomness, photos, pioneers, travelling, people, architecture, originality, injustice, occurrences, Australia, missed chances, serendipity, weather, bad decisions, Yours....
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Hello there, I'm Zoe, (I do the singing, stringing and inventing). The other half of Zoe Konez is Will, (who hits skins, and tings and makes splendid recordings).
We just made a CD which will soon be available to buy online, you can currently get your hands on it at gigs.
We're always looking for other lovely acts to play with and venues to play so get in touch!
Biog
Since writing her first song aged only 11, Zoe has played in bands and as a solo performer in various extraordinary places. From streets to park bandstands, up trees to under canvas, in regular bars and not so regular bars, Zoe has seen a lot and been seen by a lot more. The many festivals under her belt, including Two Thousand Trees, Cambridge Folk Festival, Beautiful Days, TMF Festival, Brighton Pride and the south's own Black Horse Festival, have reinforced Zoe's live reputation.
Performing as much for the need for letting things go as she does for the love of losing herself in her guitar, managing to contain frustrated passion alone becomes a demanding spectacle for anyone who isn't paying attention properly. Her future-thinking and provocative lyrics grab you with their passionate, sincere delivery. Memorable melodies entangled with every emotion, daring you to think about them, are neatly rolled up and expertly launched, reaching the furthest member of her audience. Once described as a "one-woman aural assault", Zoe's charismatic vocal energy combined with the complimentary clash of intricate finger picking and powerful playing makes for all watching unable to stop their listening.
Zoe ran her own Listen Acoustic night for 2 years at venues on England's south coast, drawing the talents of performers both local and international. Being involved with such a vast amount of musical talent this way, along with her experience in working collaboratively with other musicians and bands (metal to indie pop), has helped her explore an array of styles on the acoustic and electric guitar, singing as both a backing vocalist and taking the lead. This creative collaborating with so many musicians has helped her develop her own style. Zoe is a distinctive, rhythmic guitarist. Her experience playing both acoustic and electric guitars in wide-ranging music projects has evolved into a fusion that can only be identified as Zoe. When asked about this she puts it down to being self-taught. "I've never had patience with studying the standard way. As soon as I learn the basics in something I wander off to create my own path. I experiment with different tunings by randomly de-tuning strings, creating chords and melodies by ear without thought for scales and formula."
Will's drumming takes the role of reinforcing Zoe's sound with his jazz/funk influenced textures, on an array of percussive set ups, from djembe and shaker to unusual drum kit constructions. Will and Zoe first met 10 years ago, forming a band in their early teens, and after many years apart and a chance meeting they formed the 2 piece band that forms the present Zoe Konez live show.
Following a support slot with legendary Australian guitarist Jeff Lang in February 2010, Zoe and Will flew to Australia to promote the new CD Home From Home, recorded by Will using one laptop, two microphones and three instruments - acoustic guitar, drums and voice.
Amongst a wealth of gigs across Victoria and New South Wales, the duo were crowned first prize winners in the 2010 Apollo Bay Music Festival Busking competition.
Hehe hell yeah things with Citrus Jam are absolutely rocking! The shows are more insane and tropical than ever. That's awesome that you'll be moving closer to Will, will be able to accomplish a lot more with your music : D No problems, keep us posted with you're tour movements and if you need any help feel free to give us a hola aye. Ohhh and how's the angel??? : P I bet everyone is so jealous, me and Gabe we're chatting a few weeks back about how unique it would be over there as you wouldn't seem them at all! Yarrr!!!
Yarrr! Hey hey matey how you been!!! Hurry up and come back to Australia so we can rock some more kick ass shows : P Say a big howdy to Will for me too aye. Hope things are dandy and such : )
Hi Zoe Konez Thanks so much for accepting my request! Please do come and listen to my new track 'Moanin' featuring Anthony Strong, Ian Shaw, Geoff Gascoyne & Dave Ohm plus a host of great Backing Vocalists xxx Emma
Yeah it was donkeys ago and i can only just about remember it! Sorry for making you feel old though. Yeah that would be awesome so let me know if you ever have a scotland date planned cause we would well be up for it! and i'll see if anything comes up also. :) Jess x
Sick! I'll see what i can do and get back to you : D We should tee up a full Australia tour too, i've got some mini tours interstate coming up which are gonna be kick ass and i'll make some wicked contacts to book future shows! Still shattered i couldn't make it over there for August/September tour. Plans are still rocking for UK tour April next year though! Gonna do Ireland and such too if you're keen?
hello :) Jess here, Williams nephew. Just stopping by to say i really enjoyed listening to your CD it's great. If you're ever playing a show up Aberdeen way give me a shout i'd love to support! x
Hi Zoe, a long distance fan here. I never heard you when I lived down in Hastings, but came across your page since, and love your music. I notice you say that your album will be available online soon, as being up in the distant north 'm nowhere near anyof your gigs. Keep us posted on the online release date. Lookng forward to it. XX Adrienne
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