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Jessie Pie

About Me

Born in Bradford, I treasure magical memories of Yorkshire pudding and listening to my older sister play Human League, reggae and Gil Scott Heron while she sat making plasticine earrings at the kitchen table. My theatrical debut was as a cow in a school harvest festival. I had an early dream about a witch who sat playing the theme tune to "The Third Man" while perched on a lamp-post outside my house in the dead of night. Then, one summer evening, long ago, I felt a little sulky and decided I had "the blues".I didn’t start doing music until 2003, first through cabaret and burlesque, then for three years I sang lead vocals in a live blues band called "Elephant Shelf" (http://www.myspace.com/elephantshelf and http://www.elephantshelf.com/) and toured many pubs, taverns and the like, including some pretty high-class joints, throughout London and beyond. Lately I have returned to some limited live performance while but I work on my serious stuff from home.I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 23/08/2007
Band Members: Just me for the time being. However, recording credits are due to Brian Galibardy, North London resident and musician, whose excellent guitar playing you will hear on "Blues in New Orleans" and hopefully some more songs when upload them. Photographic credits are due to photographer Tim Cracknell, more of whose work you can see on http://www.flickr.com/photos/shadwell61/, and Laura Handbag, many-stringed muso/artiste of “Treacles” fame, whose band you can listen to on http://www.myspace.com/treakles.
Influences: Gil Scott Heron, David Bowie, K. D. Lang, Cowboy Junkies, Barenaked Ladies, Joe Jackson, John Lee Hooker, Johnny Guitar Watson, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, The Who, Pearl Jam, Jane’s Addiction, Queens of the Stone Age, Faith No More, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, Patti Smith, Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Kanye West, Beyoncé, Amerie, and other modern R’n’B classics, Richard Thompson, Paul Simon, Gillian Welch, Jane Siberry, Joan Armatrading, Al Green, Nick Drake, Bert Jansch, Johnny Cash, Muddy Waters, Tim Buckley, Jeff Buckley, Michael Jackson, Tom Lehrer, Barrington Levy, Tenor Saw, Sugar Minott, other rare dance-hall reggae, UB40, Pixies, Moxy Fruvous, Michelle Shocked, Carol King, Neil Innes, Pete Townshend, Paul Weller, The Style Council, The Jam, Sting, Queen, Martin Stephenson, John Martyn, Tom Robinson, Spirit of the West, Santana... I’m sure I will add more to this list....
Sounds Like: Hmm... maybe best left to others so I don’t sound like I’m completely up myself.
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Collective Ambition!

Firstly, thanks for dropping by if you're reading this page. So far I've been pretty rubbish when it comes to blog-esque ramblings but I now have a vested interest at stake... I'd like to "up my game"...
Posted by on Tue, 06 May 2008 06:55:00 GMT

Doing the Folkey - Cokey.

I am always toiling over the issue of live vs recorded music and how Jess the lovelorn, folksome troubadour is not nearly as infectious as some random, funkadelic back-beat that sets cats a-jump...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:21:00 GMT