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Amy Firth

About Me

Amy Firth is a nomadic creative soul never quite content to rest.Raised west of Sydney, in the cloud-cloaked villages of the Blue Mountains, Amy's sound is rooted in the eucalpytus and wood-smoke of an Australian winter.She has just returned to the UK after briefly touching down in Sydney after 12 months roaming the globe in search of broader, brighter horizons, wowing audiences from London to Paris to Lisbon and along the Edinburgh Fringe. She is two parts bravado and brilliance, and a third pure guts. She sings from the heart and rocks from the soul.Critics in London's West End loved her so much they paid her the ultimate British accolade -- a year's supply of cider as first prize in a talent competition. It's still waiting for her in a dusty corner of Clapham Common.Amy's music is a mosaic of jazz, folk, rock and funk, and there's little that doesn't form part of her repertoire. She's been singing since she could speak, and playing guitar almost as long. Vibrant, rich and cheeky -- this is Amy's music, warm as toast and purple as the twilight sky. Her voice can transport and tickle the senses, reaching beyond this stage, this bar stool, this bar, to the laneways and vast, open skies of her mind's eye.Fix yourself to the soles of Amy's feet as she walks the lost cities of song. Be transported.


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Member Since: 08/09/2006
Band Website: www.amyfirth.com - Coming Soon
Band Members: The Horn Tooting: Runner-up in the Sydney Originals Songwriting Competition Jul, 2009. Winner of the NABSTOCK Future Sound Competition in London's West End Dec, 2008. Finalist in the Songwriters Live Songwriting Competition in Sydney, Nov 2007. She has supported folk legends such as Kristina Olsen and Penelope Swales. She has recorded her Debut EP with studiomarx and has a live three track demo with Linear recordings. She is also is a part of the Unsigned Artist of Sydney Compilation CD due for release late 2009.
Influences: Ani DiFranco, Beth Orton, The Waifs, Fiona Apple, Something For Kate, George, Jeff Buckley, KT Tunstall, Sarah McLachlan, PJ Harvey, Pearl Jam, Jewel, Mia Dyson, Billie Holliday, The Audreys, Missy Higgins, Sarah Blasko, Holly Throsby, Clare Bowdtich, Bertie Blackman, Gotye, Kate Miller-Heidke, New Buffalo, Martha Wainwright, Ella Fitzgerald, Lior, John Butler, Xavier Rudd, Mazzy Star, Angus & Julia Stone, Emiliana Torrini, Augie March, Paul Kelly, Bic Runga, Cat Power, Jeff Lang, Decoder Ring, Regina Spektor, Bjork, Radiohead, Ella Hooper, Paul Dempsey.
Type of Label: Unsigned

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Amy Firth, Roxbury Originals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YJZcdeAA_A
Posted by on Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:27:00 GMT