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Kim Brooke

About Me

Music is my passion. I started singing in Church choirs and later in School musical productions. I learned classical piano up to grade 5 and have been composing songs since the early 80's. I have had two different bands to perform my songs over the years, and played at Glastonbury Festival twice. I've been in other people's bands too on piano, sequencers and backing vocals and performed at Womad once. I'm lucky enough to know some very talented people in Bristol who have helped me record some new arrangements for my songs that I'm very proud of.
If I'm not composing, recording or performing then I love to film my musical friends. I love filming gigs but I also love filming ob doc style behind the scenes films and have made 7 feature length ob docs of the Jazz Stage at Glastonbury Festival from 1995 on. The highlight of my career so far was when Julien Temple chose to include my footage in his movie "Glastonbury" released in April 2006. I have many creative projects in various stages of development that mix my music ideas with my experience gained from 14 years in TV production. So I'd love to meet people who would like to record my songs or use my music in their films or who want me to film them.
See my TV CV at http://www.perceptivefilms.co.uk
See my Youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/KimBrooke2
See my production company website at http://www.tv2k.co.uk
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Member Since: 01/02/2007
Band Website: http://www.tv2k.co.uk
Band Members: I love being based in Bristol surrounded by so much musical talent! I moved to Bristol 23 years ago to join a band called Squeeky, previous to that in Somerset I had a band called Kim and the Karpettes aka Karp; After Squeeky I played in Bristol as Kim Wilson, and also with Swaah Deezon.
I'm presently performing as a solo artist, in a duo with pianist Charlie Rose and in a new funky dance band called GKLO.
Musicians playing on my recordings are Rob Rathbone formerly of Swang Party, The Eff Word and Ramcatsurfer; Graham Egan-Andrew formerly of Sourmash, Swaah Deezon and Three; Crispin Groves-Raines formerly with Boxcar, Single Gun Theory and Celtic Kings of Rock; Lex Cousins has been invaluable on extra production and is aka Jnr Hacksaw.
Influences: John Martyn; Bill Withers; Aretha Franklin; Johnny Hodges; The Beatles; David Bowie; Carol King; Santana; Marvyn Gaye; Fleetwood Mac; Bob Marley; Stevie Wonder; Ernest Ranglin; Miles Davies; Anita Baker; Pink Floyd; The Eagles; Rod Temperton; Average White Band; Deniece Williams; Oscar Peterson; Moloko; The Isley Brothers; Groove Armada; Talking Heads, Steely Dan; Doobie Brothers; Ashford & Simpson; The Crusaders;Lynyrd Skynrd; Michael Eavis; Len Brooke.
Sounds Like: unique
Record Label: Unsigned

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