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About Me

Layout Provided By CodeMyLayout.com - Myspace LayoutsBorn into a musical family in Dublin, Audrey Nugent is the youngest of seven and the daughter of an artist mother and a musician father. The Nugents were well-known for their sing-songs and grew up performing a la Osmonds.But alas, having constantly been forced to sing in the style of a soprano on helium in her secondary school choir, Audrey briefly fell out of love with music and into the worlds of fashion and drama. She studied at the Gaeity School of Acting for a while (in the same class as singer/songwriter Damien Rice incidentally) in order to find a new way to express her creativity but couldn't ignore the music going on in her head.And so, having found her way back to it, she picked up her guitar and made her debut at the Heineken Green NRG festival in Dublin. Her first demo was picked up by an independent label in London with whom she later signed as part of a three-piece. She soon found herself supporting the likes of Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and bizarrely enough, sandwiched between Alanis Morisette and Tricky at the Montreaux Jazz Festival.Having found her freedom earlier last year, Audrey is writing and recording her debut solo album in London, & has co-written songs with Carrie/Little Hell's Steve Ludwin(Girl on Fire), Ash's Tim Wheeler(Radio) & Coldplay's Chris Martin(Everytime I Do). She has also spent time recording at Rockfield Studios in Wales, played at various well-known venues around London and sung with Kt Tunstall.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/19/2005
Band Website: audreynugent.com
Band Members: Well there are some great, gorgeous, lovely, funny men who have played with me (erm in the musical sense!) when they can...In no particular order, cos I love them all: Arnulf Lindner(bass & double bass), Kenny Dickenson(keyboards), Perry Ap Gwynedd(electric guitar), Alex Toff(drums)...also cellist Sarah Martin who features on 'Bulletproof'.More recently, I have been joined by my old friend from Dublin, Adam Barry, on bass and thanks to him I met Ben Labi, who has been playing guitar and going bv's..now I just need a drummer! :-)
Influences: I seem to be constantly under the influence...And the music I most enjoy hearing comes in no particular order...Elliott Smith, Rufus Wainwright, The Cure, The Rolling Stones, Prince, Smog, Billie Holiday, Kate Bush, Pj Harvey, Bob Dylan, Interpol, The Cardigans, Cocteau Twins, Fiona Apple, The Dandy Warhols, Ron Sexsmith, Jenny Lewis, Carina Round, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Stan Getz, Turin Breaks, Frou Frou, Bjork, Sigur Ros, The Beatles, Smashing Pumpkins, The Reindeer Section, Queens of the Stoneage, Nick Drake, Pavement, Jeff Buckley, Kings of Convenience, Guns n Roses, David Bowie, Harold Budd, Depeche Mode, Ella Fitzgerald, Feist, David Kitt, The Frames, Blondie, Goldfrapp, Phil Spector, The Strands, Weezer, Jane's Addiction, Neil Young, Snoop, The Raveonettes, Ben Kweller, Ben Lee, Rilo Kiley, Neko Case, Stevie Wonder, Tegan & Sara, The Flaming Lips, & on & on & on.....
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Record Label: None...Yet!
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Get stuffed

Festive greetings from Ireland It's been ages since I've been on my myspace to be honest, having been recently hi-jaked by the enemy...Facebook!.. Music has been busy of late, especially with the Futu...
Posted by Audrey Nugent on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:04:00 PST

Who'da thunk?...

..that I'd be secretly working away on a wee electro project over the last few months or so?!..and I tell yee, it's going very bloody well!..I can't reveal much about it now as Im terribly superstitio...
Posted by Audrey Nugent on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:37:00 PST

Apres The Westway

Wow!.Under the Westway in Westbourne Studios is an amazing space!..Problem is, now I want to live there!. It was a very rainy, chilly night last night, so the crowd was small but I had a great time an...
Posted by Audrey Nugent on Fri, 11 May 2007 02:56:00 PST

Gone but not forgotten..I hope?!

Have just returned from a weekend in Dublin, where my big brother rightfully reprimanded me for not having posted anything new on my blog since February, which is really rather rubbish of me..I must ...
Posted by Audrey Nugent on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:30:00 PST

The Science of...

Guess who's back?..back again..Guess who's back, guess who's back ?...etc etc etc..you get the general gist!..and I've been doing a bit of singing on some friends of friends tracks at Arclight Studios...
Posted by Audrey Nugent on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:12:00 PST

Dont cry for me...

..Argentina!..and so Im off, in a weeks time or so, to Buenos Aires to have adventures and write lots of lyrics in my little book and imbibe much red meat, hearty wine and oodles of mate...Upon my ret...
Posted by Audrey Nugent on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 12:02:00 PST

In the heat of the morning

Have just recorded a version of David Bowie's 'In the heat of the morning" with producers Jamie Cullum and Steve Isles for their project 'Elcho' which should be up soon...
Posted by Audrey Nugent on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:40:00 PST

New pics

So I spent yesterday afternoon in the freezing but sunny autumnal park with my good friend Daz Tiernan, having my picture taken and generally fannying about in heels and a hooker coat!..The results of...
Posted by Audrey Nugent on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 07:55:00 PST

A band!A band!My kingdom for a band!...

So Im tres excited..or in Dublin, we would say, "excire and delire"!!..I'm going to audition a band in the next few weeks with the help of my good friend and excellent Breaks DJ, Adam Barry..he's a gr...
Posted by Audrey Nugent on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 07:17:00 PST

Mr Martin & Monkey Chews

So, I hung out with my old friend Chris the other night and, after a rather nice supper in Hampstead, I sat opposite him with a guitar and played through all my new songs, which was fun but a bit scar...
Posted by Audrey Nugent on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:51:00 PST