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About Me

We were put into a class together when we were 11. I guess not many people liked us and we had no hobbies so we decided to pick up a guitar write a few songs about things like angels, dreams and dead pets, thinking that it was the perfect scheme to get out of school and into the lifestyle of the rich and famous. After repeatedly standing up during classes and bursting into song we realised that we had an extreme talent for singing over laughter, and dodging flying pencils. Ten years later, we are still pretty much the same, except we actually sound good, found some crazies to hang out with and we write about more grown up subject matters like getting drunk, and feeling depressed. nce we went and lived in New Orleans for a year. It was a good time. met some great people, played some gigs and then had to leave. Sometimes you know that you are not meant to be some where, so you get the hell out. thats what happened to us when we came back to england. For some reason we chose to pack up and move to Canada. Some might say it is a wonder we are still alive, after the antics we took part in during our time in Vancouver, but it was worth every bottle of whisky, crazy stalker, burnt foot and fucked up ankle. Now we are back in london causing havoc there. come and check out one of gigs if you are in the area.
DEMOS CD We have a few demos CDs available - Being nice, we'll charge the same p&p if you live near or far, just click below to buy one. The demo tracks on there are: Living With Ghosts / We Had Lost Our Minds / Sea Shanty II / Good Man / He's Moving On / Troubles / Sea Shanty I / Bones / Tonight
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Member Since: 12/16/2005
Band Website: smokefairies.com
Band Members:
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Jessica Davies & Katherine Blamire
CONTACTS
Please note we cannot take bookings via this myspace, see contacts below:

Jessica: [email protected]
Katherine: [email protected]
Management:
'matt' or 'doug' @HydrogenDukebox.com
Bookings:
[email protected]

Sounds Like:
"Fragile folk... these girls produce just about the loveliest two part harmonies you're likely to hear" Music Mart

"this is music for the soul - music of the Gods - music from the Gods!" Peter Brown - rbfanzine.co.uk

"Haunting. Tuneful. Musically accomplished. If you want a four-word review for this duo, there it is." Indie-Music.com

"The Fairies were simply magical" (Jarvis Cocker's Meltdown) musiclikedirt.com

"absolutely superb" Lobster Quadrille Mag

"the sounds are so refreshing and new & yet so old" ChaptersMusic.com
UPCOMING GIGS:

Record Label: none
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Knowing when to buy earplugs

Last weekend we went back to the studio to finish the new tracks. Unfortunately the night before we went out to see a gig and the band was so loud that I had stuffed some pieces of toilet roll in my ...
Posted by smoke fairies on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 09:35:00 PST

juice through the letter box

Yesterday was an interesting Sunday for a change. Things started to get weird quite early on in the day when i had to run for the train alongside a man carrying a ferrett. Being from the country I am ...
Posted by smoke fairies on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:37:00 PST

So FAr this year

It has been a while since we wrote a blog. So long infact that it is hard to know what to mention in it. I suppose music stuff is a good place to start. The main news is that we have purchased amps an...
Posted by smoke fairies on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:10:00 PST

Rainy day in shack (may have cabin fever)

We have spent our day in a shack in Georgia. We are unsure of the exact location as we were driven here late at night and the person who drove us here has now gone off to look after new born babies. B...
Posted by smoke fairies on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:33:00 PST

Tour round up

The Bryan Ferry tour has sadly drawn to a close. We went out with a bang by going on a mini rampage around the hotel, attempting to find a golf cart. I woke up with the apple display from reception in...
Posted by smoke fairies on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 04:39:00 PST

Forest of No Return. Royal Festival Hall

Our lives are a bit crazy sometimes. One minute we were sitting around in our pyjamas, drinking whisky and  feeling like unemployed bums, and the next minute we found out that we had to learn a D...
Posted by smoke fairies on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 07:21:00 PST

Recordings and other news

It is hard to play when there is something cold and metally down your pants, but during our recent gig at the Green Note we realised that sticking an extra lead down our pants is the only way to preve...
Posted by smoke fairies on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 12:53:00 PST

reviews and things

Recently some people have been writing things about us. this link has come out really long, but hopefully when you click on it, it will take you to the lobster quadrille review:loster quadrilleIf you ...
Posted by smoke fairies on Sat, 12 May 2007 09:01:00 PST

duck tape marks

 This past weekend we went into the studio to record a few songs with Leo Abrahams. As usual, our guitars didn't want to coopperate because they are old and cranky. My one, which has recently bee...
Posted by smoke fairies on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 05:31:00 PST

New EP Released!

We have released our newest EP 'Came a Winter' on tunetribe. you can buy it by clicking on the tune tribe link on our profile.We were very lucky to have Ed and Gita Harcourt play on some of the tracks...
Posted by smoke fairies on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:56:00 PST