Zoe Konez - vocals, guitars, piano
Will Connor - drums, percussion
Etkilendikleri
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.... ..
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.
After a recent 9 month adventure busking and gigging around Australia - a trip that ended with a residency at legendary Melbourne venue The Espy - Zoe returned armed with new songs inspired by her travels and since debuting them live this year in various live set ups - solo or with Will on percussion or full drum kit, Will and Zoe are now recording an album due be finished to coincide with dates in Australia in March 2010.
Oh good We are friends . Bless you 4 all yor days . Love ya voice and sond=gs. Colin is a geniy=us ,Did you know already ? Im exited ,got 4 new songs cooking on garageband ,Colin tells me I should get Logic ,but G is free and I am gonna flow with that 4 now . Keep on with your flow ,be beautiful and grow ,Along with US. Gratitude ,J T .
hey zoe, cheers 4 being a friend. hope you like the music, i like "scream it". i use to know hastings quite well, i remeber going to a club called the crypt. dont know if its still going. brett
Since our friends on Myspace are so important to us and we appreciate
all of you, we want to give you a chance to show off your favorite
non-human friend!!! We will be starting an album in our pics section
just for our friends... If you want to add your favorite picture of you
and yours, please email the picture to
AnimalRightsCoalition@gmail.com... We don't want to miss any emails, so
please put "Myspace Pics" in the subject line and please include your
myspace url so we can tag you from our page...
If you aren't
interested in having your picture on our page, but have a story you
want to share with us please feel free to post it in our blog or comment section...
We would love to hear it...
We have a very diverse group of
friends and we appreciate and welcome everyone, and strongly encourage
those of you that are not in our area to seek out an organization in
your area... It is amazing what a difference one person can make...
Thanks to all of our friends for showing us your support!!!!
RFE Bookings, a division of Redeeming
Features Entertainment, has opportunities for acoustic acts (soloists, duos
& trios ) to play with 3 nights of live acoustic music at the Roxbury Hotel
in Glebe.
Send an email to
bookings@redeemingfeatures.com.au & request a database questionnaire. If
you're already on our database we can offer you something straight away.
Meanwhile, if a butterfly flaps its wings
in the Amazon and there’s no-one there to see it, does that mean there’s no
such thing as Chaos Theory?
Hey Zoe we all wanted to say thank you so much for supporting OUTLETT!! Your kind comments mean so much to us. We know there are a lot of bands on Myspace and it's really great of you to take the time to give us a chance! We're currently in the studio finishing up our new release but we are excited to get out on the road and meet you in person! Please go to our BLOG and click on the Eventful banner to DEMAND OUTLETT in London!!! Thanks again and don't worry WE ACTUALLY WROTE THIS!! :)
Hey Zoe Konez, just wanna let you know our NEW E.P. 'The Making' is out November 30th, samples of the Tracks are on our myspace or check out www.thebeatpoets.com
haha yeah i remember haha good night dont let on but i deleted it hahaha, i would love to have you on a show, im going to be setting another acoustic night up soon so we will have to get you on it!
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