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Juniper Leaf

About Me



Juniper Leaf was started by Rupert Browne, frontman of Chikinki and drummer, architect George Bradley when they met at a party in Stoke Newington, London in spring 2007. They were then joined by Boris Exton, also of Chikinki and more recently Vanessa Marlowe, who plays with her sister Jess Marlowe, once of fellow Bristol band, Mooz.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/2/2007
Band Members: Rupert - singing, guitars and things
George - drums and things
Boris - melodyhorn, organ, violin and things
Vanessa - bass guitar

Influences: The Incredible String Band, Pentangle, Anne Briggs, Jennifer Gentle, Nico, Tyrannosauraus Rex, Syd Barrett, Captain Beefheart, Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick, The Zombies, Black Sabbath, Polly Jean Harvey, Devendra Banhart, The Wicker Man, Broadcast, Monks, The Gris Gris, The Doors, Alasdaire Clayre,The Velvet Underground, Dr Strangely Strange, The Hollies, The Beau Brummels, Os Mutantes, Silver Apples, The Modern Lovers, Nuggets, Shirley Collins, The Stooges, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Can, Jefferson Airplane, Scott Walker, Lee Hazlewood, Nancy Sinatra, Led Zeppelin, Screaming Lord Sutch, Birdsong, Amon Duul II, The Seventh Seal, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, White Noise, The Strokes, Joe Meek, Bert Jansch, Eddie Cochran, United States of America, Joanna Newsom, 13th Floor Elevators, The Pretty Things, Fairport Convention, Neu, Leonard Cohen, Saloon, Make Up, Alfred Hitchcock, The Ramones, Davy Graham, Akron/Family, Espers, Roy Harper, Little Richard ...

Sounds Like:
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Gigs (April 2009)

So we have a gig at Power's Bar in Kilburn on Saturday. I think it will just be me and Boris playing acoustic versions of the songs and some traditional material too. Its free and its a Saturday night...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:37:00 GMT

More from the Toybox Sessions

Having been in the studio again before Christmas to mix down the songs we did in the studio, I have put up some more of the songs. "Who knows where" is a frantic rock n roll song that we were playing...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:35:00 GMT

The new recordings...

I've put up two of the rough mixes we came away with from our recording session at Ali Chant's ToyBox studios in Bristol. The first is Bushes and Briars. This is a traditional English folk song. It wa...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:56:00 GMT

In the studio...

We've just been in Toybox Studios, Bristol the last week recording what might well be an album. It was super fast recording! George and Vanessa were only in the studio for two days! Frantically bashin...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:15:00 GMT

My first blog - California

I was just looking about a month ago on the Gris Gris's myspace (because I was bored, I guess) and I noticed they had split up but that Greg, the frontman, was recording bands now. So, we may now go t...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:59:00 GMT