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Hermine Demoriane

About Me


Dates for your diary, 2009
Hermine performed earlier this year on
March 22nd at Elke Diviné, Pont Sainte-Maxence .
Dates lined up for 2009:
May 1st, Music Night at Whitechapel Gallery
- Rod Melvin and Special Guests
7pm. £7.
77-82, Whitechapel High Street,
London E1 7QX
www.whitechapel.org (Events->Music)
Friday July 24th, Port Eliot Festival, Cornwall
7pm, Walled Garden
Simon - violin - and Lynn - accordion
(both from Signs of life)
James Sneyd - accordion
Ian Kane - piano and guitar
Ellie Ling - violin
Hugo Williams - tit'fer
Hermine - vocals
Geneva...as filmed by Marion Innocenzi
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Swiss Concerts, November 2008
Photo: Marion Innocenzi
Hermine had a very successful tour in Switzerland
in November 2008, playing three dates in Bern,
Geneva and Zürich. Supporting Hermine were:
Ian Hill (accordion), Ian Kane (composer; guitar & piano),
and Susie Honeyman (violin).
Hermine's blog has further details.
“Who'll come walking” - Hermine's new album
£12.50 (15€, SFr 23)
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I am a French person described as a migrant in my own country. Derek Jarman once gave me the part of "Chaos" in his film "Jubilee" and this has stuck with me. I used to go and get milk from the farm on my mobylette and the farmer would ask whether I was camping. I answered yes for months on end until someone who knew my whereabouts gave the game away: I was living in an old dilapidated house, the largest in the village, AND I DID NOT OWN A CAR. Other rivetting facts about myself: I am married to Hugo Williams and I am secretary to The Blondin Memorial Trust, who toasts once a year the famous Frenchman who walked across Niagara falls in 1856 and is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery. Finally, I must add that after all these years, the sound of my own singing voice still sends me screaming out of the room. Yet I plan to release music I made and liked.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 28/01/2008
Band Website: None
Band Members: Ian Hill (accordion), Susie Honeyman (violin), Ian Kane (piano & guitar)
Influences: Frankie Miller, Mistinguett, Louis Eliot
Sounds Like: Small animal that goes white in winter
Record Label: LTM, Crammed Discs, Salomé Discs
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Ultimate

It was my ultimate pleasure to pass on the mike to my five-year-old granddaughter at the end of my gig at the Port Eliot Lit fest. Silver had been warned I would do this and had got herself in the moo...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:43:00 GMT

No trouble

Sitting opposite in the train back from Paris was a black girl who had got fined by the "controleur" because she didn't have a ticket. She wouldn't condescend to utter the usual excuses, getting the m...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:50:00 GMT

Josephine Baker

Josephine Baker, heard on France MusiqueIn her eighties she would give concerts to fund the château where she had gathered children from all over the world. She would appear in her sequinned evening g...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:43:00 GMT

practice

PracticeI'm practising three songs of ian kane's for someone's home concert. Ian has produced the piano part for a pianist exclusively used to classical music, who marvels at my knowing my words by he...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:42:00 GMT

awful photos - inept photographer somewhere in la Suisse

Awful photos of myself taken by someone in Switzerland arrive on my doorstep. Hard to believe I can look that awful. Bring back Rick Rayner-Canham oh goddess!
Posted by on Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:32:00 GMT

hotel

In the bus from the Boulevard du Temple to the Gare du Nord, there was an actress learning her lines, her script on her knees with her wordsome out of underlined in green. This prompted me to check to...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:24:00 GMT

back from Swiss tour

Back from touring....The three Swiss musicians who turned up on the last night protested that they hadn't become lawyers. One of them was the producer who failed to find the 19 year old tape in time f...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:56:00 GMT

Swiss tour

I wonder whether any of the Swiss musicians I've taken the liberty of listing on my page will turn up at any of my concerts in Berne, Geneva and Zürich, and whether you can really expect people to get...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:28:00 GMT