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Alice & the Majesty

About Me



Alice and the Majesty is the nom de guerre of singer songwriter Alice McLaughlin, created to encompass both herself as sometime solo artist and her various guises with collaborators. Tinged with folk and blues, Alice performs gritty, soulful, pop songs that cross mainstream appeal with leftfield spirit. On stage she evokes the fierce and the fragile, with passion and spontaneity at the heart of her lyrics.

Alice has been described variously as ‘a female Hunky Dory-era Bowie’, ‘a modern Janis Joplin’, even 'a female Johnny Cash'. Alice’s “stunning voice”, writes Nigel Williamson, combines “the English purity of early Marianne Faithfull with something of the otherworldliness of Bjork.”

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 17/12/2007
Band Website: myspace.com/alicemclaughlin
Influences: MUSICIANS LIKE JOPLIN, HENDRIX, TOM WAITS, THE BEATLES, ZEPPLIN, RICKI LEE JONES, THE KINKS, THE PIXIES, M WARD, BLOW UP STUFF, DUSTY, VIOLENT FEMMES,
RADIOHEAD – BENDS, FEIST'S MUSHABOOM MAKES ME EXCITED,
TERRY CALLIER BREAKS MY HEART, BAND OF HORSES FOR THAT ONE SONG,
MOSE ALLISON'S LYRICS ARE INCREDIBLE, BECK IS JUST A DUDE,
BILLIE HOLIDAY LOVE YOU, NEIL YOUNG, IRON AND WINE, ELLIOT SMITH, IRMA THOMAS, SHIRLEY BASSEY, BOB DYLAN, VAN MORRISON, JOHNNY CASH, GILLIAN WELCH, PJ HARVEY,
STONE ROSES IN THE DAY, LAURA NYRO - SWEET BLINDNESS MAKES ME HAPPY -
TODD RUNDGREN'S REFRESHING, DOLLY PARTON'S A LEGEND AND THIS NEW BON IVOR GUY IS GREAT. ITS JUST ALL REAL AND ITS ALL AMAZING.

POETS I LIKE GENERALLY BUT ESPECIALLY W H AUDEN AND T S ELIOT

Sounds Like: GOOD MUSIC
Record Label: None
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Go to my old myspace for current tunes and blogs...(!) Thanks

see my top friends link formyspace.com/alicemclaughlinI'm using it more this year....the majesty has lost it's crown for now.
Posted by on Mon, 02 Feb 2009 01:19:00 GMT

..emerging from screwed up paper and nibbled biros

Hello hello is anybody there?I've emerged from the underworld - the sea of screwed up paper and nibbledbiros - the oceans of emotions have drowned me in sense making but I'vecome through the other sid...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:32:00 GMT

Single Review "I Could Love You" Alice & the Majesty

SINGLE REVIEW: Alice & The Majesty - I Could Love You (Sunday Best) For awoman with folk credibility, Alice McLaughlin manages to sound surprisinglymodern. The electric overtures she achieves using la...
Posted by on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:53:00 GMT

a wednesday night sometime in Jan

Great rehearsal today with Ted, Ali and Raiffe. Ted Barnes and Ali Friend, along with Will Worsley, helped me record my first album, The Eastcote Sessions. They're good mates and pretty sweet players ...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:01:00 GMT

New Blog Post

here is my first blog
Posted by on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:36:00 GMT