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Jeanette

About Me

My first band was as a lead vocalist with a group called Dial M, a melodic rock band and I worked with singer/songwriter John Ford and got my first real taste of writing lyrics. I went on to writing my own material and joined forces with yet another songwriter Greg McKella, together we formed the group 'Image wot Image?' with band members, Bass: Debbie Vanozzi - 'Gertrude', Lead Guitar: Tyronne Thomas - 'Alternative T.V', Drums: Mufa, Gregg - now running 'Paradise9' and 'Dreamfield' and myself now a solo artist. The band stayed together for 6 years playing festivals and gigs all over the UK.I started playing solo gigs at the Troubadour on Brompton Road, London which was a great night and featured some really fantastic singers and musicians. Other places included the 12 Bar Club, Half Moon in Putney, Chill Club in Fulham, and Acoustic Revolution to name a few.In 1996 I signed an album deal with Indie label - Ocean Records and released my debut solo album 'Biting' in 1997. The tracks received some rather pleasant reviews and got quite a lot of airplay on BBC Radio and on independent radio stations. It was great fun and quite an experience, I met some really great people. Unfortunately we ran out of money and couldn't get a big company to put up some dosh so the deal ended.I released another album called 'Sugar and Spice'in 2005 on my own label CSR, featuring guest artists Bassist: Steve Gee - 'Landmarq', Wayne Collier - Drums, Jerry Moody - muso instrumentalist and Steve Rispin - Muso/engineer and producer.I've been very busy writing new material and haven't been out much playing, but I'm now preparing to record another album.... mmmm though I do do the occasional gig in and around london.

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Member Since: 27/11/2006
Band Website: www.jeanettemurphy.com
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Influences: I find it very hard to pin point my main influences as they seem to change as life moves on and I know that when I mention one person now, for the rest of the day I'll be remembering others who have influenced me plus that face and not the name that always in the back of my mind!! urgh!-:)But to start with I'd probably say songwriters and singers like Joan Armatrading, Tina Turner, Diana Ross and the 3 degrees, Beverly Knight - I was heavily into soul and motown in my yute! Joan Mitchelle and then moving on to Lou Reed, Ian Drury, Toya Wilcox... Love Billy Holiday, John Lee Hooker, weirdly enough Rogers and Hammerstein, Burt Bacharach and all too soon the list goes on and on and on...P.S. I'm also rather partial to a bit heavy rock music too.
Sounds Like: Change

I LOVE YOU

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I've been likened to several different artists, but I prefer not to catagorise myself. So I think I'll leave it up to you to form your own opinion.
Record Label: CSR
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

WE7 track

Hi Everyone,After an eternally long wait to get some of my tracks onto we7, finally one of them got through. Ta-daa!!Tears Are Falling.. type="text/javascript" src="http://www.we7.com/scripts/widget.j...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:10:00 GMT

A Sunday afternoon at the Hootananny

LIVE AT THE HOOTANANNY2nd March 2008WOW! What a great place. I've just spent a wonderful sunday afternoon at a pub called the Hootananny in Brixton. Of course I had to be there anyway as I was doing a...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:05:00 GMT

Montague Arms on Friday 2 November 2007

Just thought I'd place the gig details here also,  because for some reason my gig space does'nt want to let me tell you the particular venue i'm playing at!!  Hope you can make it as its for...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:56:00 GMT

Re-Play gig at the Grove and CHOCOLATE!

This easter weekend I did a gig at the Grove Tavern in South Wimbledon. It was a charity event in aid of recycling instruments and redistributing them to childrens groups and schools locally in London...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:05:00 GMT

New Track Download

Hi everyone,Just thought I'd let you know that my new song called 'Changed' is available for FREE download at the following link.  http://www.yousendit.com/download/T2dlWmdwY3l1Yk0wTVE9PQ&nbs p;Fr...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:56:00 GMT