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Miss Von Trapp

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Miss Von Trapp: Murderously Quirky PsychoCello Cabaret: Mastering the Art of Decomposition!
30 minutes of terrifying songs and 'psychocello' accompanied performance poems...
From Murder to Mania to Medication!
From Death to Despondency to Decomposition!
Thrills and Chills for Screaming Children* and Adults Alike!!
Message Miss Von Trapp to book for your Event NOW!!
*Bwahahahahaha....Not yet road tested on Under 10s. Proceed with Caution.
THE ALBUM: MORBID DITTIES IS AVAILABLE!!
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Miss Von Trapp - The Worm Song Halloween Show

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Why 'Miss Von Trapp'?
As my parents are both music teachers I never had a choice...
Instead of 'would you like to learn an instrument' I got asked 'what instrument are you going to learn...'
So, at 11 years old, I chose Cello as they teach flute and piano and both my younger sisters learnt flute, piano, saxophone and clarinet. I'd done Grade 6 by the time I was sixteen, then stopped and played Bass Guitar for a few years, but came back to the 'cello when I met my drummer husband in 2004.
About Miss Von Trapp:
I am a trained singer with a good mezzo soprano range and am a professional actress with an extensive background in physical theatre, experimental cabaret and also TIE and community theatre.
I play the 'cello to around grade 6 level - and currently perform as Miss Von Trapp in a scary cabaret act - songs, performance poems and terrifying experimental psychocello accompaniment!!
I spend the time when my husband is out gigging recording my own peculiar projects when the whimsy takes me: These are the more musical recordings of the songs which, when stripped down to one melody to accompany my singing, form part of my Miss Von Trapp cabaret stage act.
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THEATRE/MUSICAL RESUME:
Pretty much up-to-date...
YOUTUBE
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FACEBOOK
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LIVEJOURNAL DIARY:
The Trials and Tribulations of a nocturnal nuisance.
NetGoth Profile: VampGirl
VAMPGIRL FM: My Launchcast
Vampire Website: VampGirl.com
Personal Website: VampGirl.co.uk

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/15/2006
Band Website: http://vampgirl.livejournal.com/
Band Members: 'Miss Von Trapp' is just me and 'Old Scratchy' : a Boosey & Hawkes Golden Strad Cello (made in Hungary in the 60s/70s). I also play a Yamaha Silent Cello, name of 'Spike' predictably...
Other Projects:
'Strung Out Folk' : we supported Seth Lakeman in Summer 2006!
'The Three Trees' : A Christian Folk Tale
Em Frente : Track 4 on their new EP
BrickBat : New Album in progress (vocals and cello)
Anna Angel: Folk songs with Guitar and Cello.
Influences: Musical:
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Screaming Lord Sutch, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Creatures, Kurt Weill, Leonard Cohen, Church Organ music, Malcolm Arnold, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Kate Bush, Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus, Joy Division and Depeche Mode...
I also listen to a lot of industrial, experimental noise, punk, classical, jazz, blues and folk. But don't tell anyone exactly HOW MUCH I love Julie Andrews voice...
Film:
A Clockwork Orange, The Wicker Man, Tim Burton (esp. Beetlejuice), David Lynch (esp. Eraserhead), German Expressionism (esp. Nosferatu), Koyaanisqatsi, Mary Poppins, Natural Born Killers, The Sound of Music, Blade Runner, Jean-Pierre Jeunet (esp. Delicatessen), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Tetsuo, Withnail and I, A Company of Wolves, Labyrinth and more...
Literature:
The Bronte Sisters (esp. Wuthering Heights), Chekhov, Joseph Conrad, Jill Murphy (Worst Witch), Neil Gaiman, Emile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, Kafka, George MacDonald, CS Lewis, Angela Carter, Aeschylus, Euripides, Boccaccio, Edgar Allen Poe and more...
Listen to my Launchcast Radio
Featuring : The Birthday Party, Sisters Of Mercy, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Bauhaus, Joy Division, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Nine Inch Nails, Dead Can Dance, Ministry and some more stuff that I haven't filtered out yet...

Sounds Like: Ravings from an asylum.
From Murder to Mania to Medication!
From Death to Despondency to Decomposition!
Early 'Creatures' (Siouxsie) stuff, Kurt Weill, and singing in dark damp holes.
Record Label: Morbid Ditties: The Album is Available!
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

New stuff a-coming!

Original, folk and the odd cover. More macabre delights and disasters imminent!
Posted by on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 05:11:00 GMT

Pregnancy!

Am now 4.5 months pregnant and not gigging at present due to not being able to practise for last 3 months as the singing and cello vibrations made me vomit! Am researching new material instead and we'...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:49:00 GMT

Gig at Rubarb Arts Cafe Tues 4th March!

I am gigging at the Rubarb Arts Cafe on Tues 4th March 08 at 7pm Miss Von Trapp 04 Mar 2008, 19:00 90 Cornwall Street, Plymouth, Southwest Cost : FREE Miss Von Trapp's AvantGarde Cabaret, on before Pr...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:29:00 GMT

Spikes First Date! (my gig with Yamaha svc50)

Well, yesterday was an experience!   Fantastic first fifteen minutes of the gig - utterly fantastic - first song went down well as usual with the audience joining in the last line, then heckling...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:28:00 GMT

Taking Bookings Now!

I am now taking gig bookings for the new year.  If you have an interest in a 30 min session of psychocello mania - message me and we'll arrange something!! Lizzi x
Posted by on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:25:00 GMT

2008 and I’m on Bowed Radio AGAIN!!

It's the New Year and I'm on the Radio again! Huzzah I'm a very happy Lizzi!! Please havalissen!! http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&f riendID=65286607&blogID=344868413 Bowe...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:25:00 GMT

Happy New Murder...

Happy New Year everybody!I shall be welcoming in the new year at the vicarage this evening (soon as I get out of work at 7pm) with a murder mystery evening.Whoever said churches were boring and fusty ...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 04:11:00 GMT

Token Folk Songs - Your suggestions please?

The Worm Song is a trad folk song, re-arranged and tweaked by my evil hand...   I'm working on some more miserable and downright grave folk...   Whilst I'm doing that I'm reviving the 'Token...
Posted by on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:06:00 GMT

Miss Von Trapp on Bowed Radio

I'm on the Radio!!! For further details, click here: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&f riendID=65286607&blogID=291243522&indicate=1   (and I am indeed alive, the...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 07:31:00 GMT

New Avant-Garde Cello Group!

Tomorrow afternoon I am going to the hospital for a pre-admission check up - then I am in for my sinus operation next thursday morning at 7:30am.I'm going to have drains and plugs up my schnoz for ten...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:52:00 GMT