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Donna Blitz

Alice is back !!!

About Me

Donna Blitz, the band, started as a collaboration between Alice MacGregor (vocals) and songwriter Peter Farrie. They met as a result of Dartington Plus . After a period of rehearsal, and songwriting collaboration, they started to perform at various venues around the South West of the UK in Autumn 2006. Recently they have been joined by 3rd year Dartington music students Rebecca Willson (violin) and Gabriel Collins (drums) and have been recording new material (with David B on bass).

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/19/2006
Band Website: donnablitz.com coming soon...
Band Members: Alice MacGregor (vocals) Peter Farrie (piano) Rebecca Willson (violin) Gabriel Collins (drums) Those are the basic assignments, but we also cover between us 3 x piano!, bass guitar, synthesizer, backing vocals, hand percussion.
Influences: Trees, ice cream vans, yoghurt, bicycles, mirrors, glass, icons, tapestries, texts, brickwork, buses, potteries, pine cones.
Sounds Like: Not 'Sounds Like', but please visit this site: www.savedartington.org
Record Label: Sticky ones are better than non-sticky ones.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

One Night Stanza - Bon Voyage, Alice!

We played One Night Stanza at the Barrel House Totnes last night, the send-off performance for Alice who is embarking on a wonderful adventure in South America, but who will be back in the Summer...
Posted by Donna Blitz on Thu, 17 May 2007 04:58:00 PST

Primal therapy - more songs

Primal therapy was needed after the gig at The Rat. Curl up in a fur lined drum case in a darkened bungalow and go back as far as you can. Thanks to everyone who came along. Soubriquet; new song, raw ...
Posted by Donna Blitz on Tue, 01 May 2007 04:20:00 PST

Donna Miss It!

We're playing at the Rat & Emu, Dartington College of Arts as part of South West Sound on Sat 28th April at around 9:40pm. Here's our set list (provisional): Million PeopleMr GreenI Become MeSuns...
Posted by Donna Blitz on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 03:10:00 PST

New Songs!!

Just uploaded 2 new songs: When You're Around and Mr Green. Recorded at the studio of Dartington College of Arts. Produced by DJ Greenclaws....
Posted by Donna Blitz on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 03:02:00 PST

One Night Stanza

Hey, we played One Night Stanza, at The Barrel House, Totnes last night, at last. It was a great evening, with lots of good poetry and comedy and music. Some v. good poets and comedians including Matt...
Posted by Donna Blitz on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:10:00 PST

Blitz News

OK, so we haven't blogged much since Christmas. Apart from the Barrel House. Well, Donna Blitz is budding. We're working with Rebecca on violin and now Gabriel on drums (and they can both do lots and ...
Posted by Donna Blitz on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 02:49:00 PST

Barrel House Big Hand Club

Peter writes: We just played the Big Hand Club at the Barrel House in Totnes. That's the event that's on the first Sunday of the month.  Felt like a step up from the usual open mic as people act...
Posted by Donna Blitz on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 05:45:00 PST

Northbridge no.2

Peter writes: Hey thanks to everyone who saw us and gave us their appreciation at the Northbridge Inn open mic last Wednesday. We were on first this time at 9 and did the following songs: Romeo, When ...
Posted by Donna Blitz on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:46:00 PST

Hustlers .3

We played Hustler's last Sunday, an opportunity to try out a couple of new songs (actually one's we'd worked on in the past. but haven't played live yet). We were a bit rusty, but it was good to 'brea...
Posted by Donna Blitz on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 05:24:00 PST

More Songs

Were so excited about playing live. It's been great so far at Hustler's, The Dartmouth Inn and The Northbridge Inn. Tomorrow we're going to practice 3 or 4 more songs we've not played live yet. Add th...
Posted by Donna Blitz on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:49:00 PST