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Rebecca Howles

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Rebecca's first stage experience was appearing as a special guest at Vicar Street at the age of 13. It was love at first sound. Since then she has been gigging as often as possible in order to maintain and nurture this performance addiction.In 2004, her first EP entitled ' Everything is music' was released independently. This is for sale so for info email [email protected] considers herself as much a lyricist as a singer and enjoys the challenge of writing songs in different styles, which makes her difficult to categorise as she moves easily from Rock to Blues to Country to Swing! Sometimes she writes with herself in mind, sometimes the song would be suited to another singer entirely and sometimes they are definitely 'Stage Musical' oriented.For more info visit www.rebeccahowles.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/23/2006
Band Website: Official site coming soon!
Band Members: Rebecca Howles - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, and reluctant, occasional Piano. Profile photo by Dermot Byrne photography (www.dermotbyrnephoto.ie). Battle of the axe photos taken by Ian McNairn (www.mcnairn.com). Others by RCN Photos (www.rcnphotos.com) Above we have a Balcony TV performance, many thanks goes to Stephen at www.balconytv.com!Below we have the end section of my performance at the Jeff Buckley Tribute night at the Village in 2007. Please excuse the quality of the recording... I think the lovely lady in charge of it had had a few tee many martoonis.. but I love this song - 'Song to the Siren' by Tim Buckley and it's not all that bad if you don't look at it... :) Thanks go to Grace Sheehan for organising the event in aid of The Niall Mellon Township Trust! www.myspace.com/jeffbuckleytributenightireland/Above we have a Balcony TV performance, thanks goes to Stephen at www.balconytv.comBelow we have the end section of my performance at the Jeff Buckley Tribute night at the Village in 2007. Please excuse the quality of the recording... I think the lovely lady in charge of it had had a few tee many martoonis.. but I love this song - 'Song to the Siren' by Tim Buckley and it's not all that bad if you don't look at it... Thanks go to Grace Sheehan for organising the event in aid of The Niall Mellon Township Trust! www.myspace.com/jeffbuckleytributenightireland
Influences: Everything from Rock to Classical to Folk to Punk to Jazz to World music to Country to Swing to Reggae to Broadway Musical to Blues, and even little bits of pop.. Admired artists: Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Katell Keineg, Jeff Buckley, Tim Buckley, Muse, Josh Ritter, Leonard Cohen, J.S. Bach, The Frames, REM, Billy Holiday, Antony and The Johnsons, Michelle Shocked, Bessie Smith, Nick Cave, Nina Simone, David Bowie, Lisa Gerrard, Dory Previn, Sibelius, Marc Bolan, W.B. Yeats, Talking Heads, Buffy Saint-Marie, The Neville Brothers, Marie Boine Persen, Fleetwood Mac, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Fraser, Emily Dickinson.
Sounds Like:"Don't worry about saving these songs! And if one of our instruments breaks, It doesn't matter. We have fallen into the Place where Everything is music. The strumming and the flute notes Rise into the atmosphere. And even if the whole world's harp Should burn up, there will still be Hidden instruments playing."By Jalaluddin Rumi

Type of Label: Major

My Blog

WWW.REBECCAHOWLES.COM

Hey all,Finally, after many hours hard labour, I've put together a website!Who knew such toil was involved? Not me.There's a combination of my music, painting and jewelry... an odd mix by all accounts...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:25:00 GMT

Paintings

PaintingsAfter much coaxing from various people, I have uploaded a few of my recent paintings to 'my pics'. These will be exhibited at The Quay Co-op in Cork city ( www.quaycoop.com) from December -...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:50:00 GMT

New song "Courage" recorded live at Sin E! Listen at www.ontheverge.ie

Great gig at Sin E on the 8th of August, thanks goes to Brendan Hickey of The On The Verge Club! "Courage" was recorded live and can be heard at www.ontheverge.ie
Posted by on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:43:00 GMT

The Independent artists and musicians network in New York

The Independent Artists and Musicians Network in New York is doing great promotional work through myspace! The name says it all but check out the page for more information on featured artists: (h...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:12:00 GMT

The Sunday Roast review June 17th

SUNDAY ROAST - JUNE 17thTHE SHOWALAN TULLYREBECCA HOWLESHere's what happened...The Dubs were Leinster Champions again and Thomas Reads is buzzing. First up was a newcomer, Rebecca Howles. What a voice...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:22:00 GMT

THE INS AND OUTS OF BUSKING FOR A LIVING

Busking for a living is without a doubt the strangest, most interesting job I have ever had.. I think that these weird and wonderful occurrences need to be written down and recorded somewher...
Posted by on Sun, 20 May 2007 13:05:00 GMT