Jenny Beck

Music:

Member Since: 5/26/2005
Band Website: jennybeck.co.uk
Band Members: Jenny Beck - vocals and guitar
Mitch Deighton - drums, bass and percussion
Ian Latimer - guitar on Shoot Him Down (as featured on this page) & on forthcoming album
Ricky Lee Barber - guitar on forthcoming album
Simon Blight - bass, strings & piano on forthcoming album
Brainbox Music (www.brainboxmusic.co.uk) - co-production on the Morning Rain charity single
General Likes/Dislikes:Likes

Travelling, Turkey, Istanbul, air baloon trips (gonna try to get a flying certificate and fly one myself one day...), gym classes, meeting people on travels, drinking with mates, live music, biking down the sea front (why is it you always have head wind all the way, irrespective of the direction you're going in though?), painting with acrylics (well, I try), shutting myself away to write songs (only to emerge hours later with a big cheesy grin on my face), listening to my favourite records really loud and singing along like a loon, skiing across frozen lakes in rural Sweden, Summer BBQs, sailing, Spring, meeting new people, travelling to places where you don't get loads of tourists (actually seeing real villages and exploring the surroundings rather than staying at some tourist resort), breakfast in bed, lazy Sunday mornings, scary films, blackbirds (used to have colic as a baby and the only thing that would make me stop crying was hearing the blackbird sing outside the window...it's kinda stayed with me), Budweiser, red wine (preferrably South African), Italian food (had the best pizza ever in Venice...why can't you get those anywhere in the UK!?), Animal Planet, programs about monkeys (always up to monkey business), acoustic guitars (especially my gorgeous new Timberline), trees (not a tree hugger though...all Swedes like trees! lol), the ocean (can sit listening to the waves all day), log fires, hot chocolate after a day out in the snow (yummy with little marshmallows in it...mmm), good hair days (seldom have em), rain on the window, late nights, road trips, being my own boss (good and flexible, but man is it hard to be disciplined sometimes)

Dislikes

Gale force winds when you're on your bike down the seafront, amusement arcades, noisy neighbours with dogs that howl whenever the ice cream truck comes (it can be quite funny sometimes actually, but not early in the morning when you've been out late the night before), inconsiderate smokers, post offices (why are they so depressing and stressful?), early mornings, bingo, bills, vacuuming (almost as boring as doing the dishes), last orders at the bar (always FILO - first in, last out), missing my family back in Sweden, bad hair days, laundry (it's never ending!), loud people who curse a lot, Opera (really don't get it), airports, being my own boss (also means you're completely broke at times when no work is coming in), time (where does it go and why does it seem to speed up the older you get?)
Influences: Joni Mitchell, Sarah McLachlan, Sheryl Crow, Sting, The Beatles, John Lennon, Damien Rice, Suzanne Vega, Amy Winehouse, Alanis Morisette, Eva Cassidy, Norah Jones, The Corrs, Tori Amos, John Mayer, Shania Twain, David Gray, Gemma Hayes, KT Tunstall, Corinne Bailey Rae, Nerina Pallot, Anna Nalick, The Black Crowes, Aerosmith, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, SheDaisy, Seal, Shawn Colvin, James Taylor, Tracy Chapman, Van Morrison, Paul Simon, Eric Clapton, Don McLean, Janis Joplin, Nina Simone, Vanessa Carlton, The Rolling Stones, The Hollies, Eagles, Paul McCartney, Simply Red, The Cardigans, Dinah Washington, Macy Gray, Dana Glover, Beverley Craven, Katie Melua, Adrina Thorpe, Joss Stone, Matt White Band, Delhill, Razorlight, Snow Patrol, Kaiser Chiefs, Arctic Monkeys, The Feeling, The Fratellis, The View, Stereophonics, Oasis, Paul Weller, Ben's Brother, Ocean Colour Scene, Del Amitri, Paul Weller, Newton Faulkner, The Weepies, Antigone Rising, Blues Travelers, The Jam, Foo Fighters, Rosalie Deighton, Plain White T's, Stevie Wonder, The Fray, The Hoosiers, The Killers, REM, The Mayflowers...

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