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Velvet Engine

About Me


What began as a side-project of the backing singer and multi-instrumentalist of Alice Room, My First Tooth and Katie Malco, has now evolved into something much more tangible. Velvet Engine, the brainchild of Latino Northamptonian San-D Godoy, emerged enthusiastically into our lives and our hearts at the start of 2008, touring the lower UK on and off throughout the year as a solo act and occasionally supported by a full band. Now here we are a year on, and after numerous positive reviews, tours and radio airplay, she is busy working on her long-awaited debut release of a collection of songs which have been described as "Yearning Indie Pop, with a sprightly but reflective soul". We can expect great things from this new breed of heart-warming pop folk music and Velvet Engine will be sure to drive it in the right direction with her catalogue of honest yet timid and catchy songs.
She still sometimes sings backing and plays melodica/glock for Katie Malco
www.myspace.com/katiemalcomusic
Her newest project is with a new instrumental band called 'Neon Skies' - playing bass guitar... watch this space..
any comments would be appreciated!
You can also join Velvet Engine on facebook here :
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Velvet-Engine/10947959587?ref= s/pages/Velvet-Engine/10947959587
enjoy!!
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here is a live vid from the picturedrome- apologies for the poor quality, but you kinda get the jist...

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Member Since: 3/11/2007
Band Website: www.myspace.com/aliceroom
Band Members: San-D Godoygenerally on her own, however in the past has been joined by: Craig Hammond Luke Print Matt Round Kevin Atterbury
Influences: Main influences:
The Beatles, Alice Room, The Duke Spirit, Howling Bells, PJ Harvey, Katie Malco, Oasis, Laura Marling, Elbow, Paul Weller, Jefferson Airplane, Stone Roses, The Verve, Dusty Springfield, Brian JonesTown Massacre, DirtySweet, Craig Hammond, My First Tooth, Ian Brown, Radiohead, All Saints, Fionn Regan, The Decemberists, Beirut, Hole, Joni Mitchell, Aretha Franklin

Other music i like...
Dub Pistols, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Fatboy Slim, Explosions In The Sky, Manu Chao, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Freestylers, Easy Star Allstars, The Music, Bob Marley, 2Many Dj's, Finley Quaye, Krafty Kuts, Michael Jackson, Rage Against The Machine, Dizzee Rascall, Jimi Hendrix, The Prodigy, Aim, Death Cab For Cutie, Plump DJ's, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings,The Rolling Stones, Primal Scream, The La's, Basement Jaxx, Happy Mondays, Postal Service, Thao Nyguen, Jurassic 5, James Brown, Kings Of Leon
Bass Player influences:
Bailey- Celeriac
Luke Print:
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

cheese

right, i have 10 minutes until it's time to take off my face mask (if anyone's looking for a good face mask, LUSH do really decent ones!- i'm happy with it)anyway, my favourite cheese1. Wensleydale Cr...
Posted by on Mon, 04 May 2009 15:34:00 GMT

Like A Scar

This is a re-work on the first blog i ever wrote, not a new song, but i like it:Silence is sweet and i seemed to like life better when I didn't know a thing,Ignorance is bliss, so why did we have to g...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:08:00 GMT

New Song- On The Floor

Hello everyone!I hope everyone has not been blown away by this ridiculous wind we've been having, I thought my little san-d house was going to go flying!... (I mean wind as in the weather, not wind as...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:07:00 GMT

New stuff soon

Hi all,How are u? Sooooo, after all my faffing about, and i am bad for faffing, but not so much when i'm getting ready like my friend Sarah is, she's the biggest faffer in the world when it comes to g...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:11:00 GMT

Its 2009!

Who'd have funk it!?2008 was an emotional rollercoaster- good and bad, happy and sad (but mostly good!)2008 was the year that most of my closest friends decided to leave Northampton. Kevin to Hong Kon...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:08:00 GMT

Falling from My first Dirty Velvet Umbrella with Malco....

    Soooo, it's been a while since i've wrote one of these! I thought I'd let you know what i've been up to.......    So on thursday just gone, that big ross man from my ...
Posted by on Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:30:00 GMT

On The Floor

With regards to the video which i've put on my page, I know it is really bad quality, it's actually off my dad's mobile phone when he came to see me play at the picturedrome, so everything sounds a bi...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:40:00 GMT

Across The Universe (literally....)

The songs of the Beatles have always enjoyed a global appeal. One of their best-loved recordings was beamed into the galaxy in an attempt to introduce the Fab Four’s music to alien ears.Nasa bro...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:23:00 GMT

Better Now

This song is dedicated for two of my favourite ladies Katie Malco and Sammy Maine.I actually wrote this song when i was 16, but there isn't another song which is more suited for how i feel about them*...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:12:00 GMT

just some lyrics i wrote...

like a scar, visable from space, when the tide came in, you got washed out so there was nothing left to face, like a bruise, seen from the stars, when it got a bit harder, you kept it all in and ...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:32:00 GMT