Member Since: 10/21/2004
Band Members:
Rebecca Jade: Songwriter/ Guitars/ Vocals
She is often joined on stage and on recordings by a roving cast of musicians, permanently:
Matt Jones: Piano/ Keyboards/ Organs/ Melodica/ Stylophone/ Vocals
And on Be My Any Port and A Fraud, A Guizer and A Fool:
Stu Maxwell: Bass Guitar/ Vocals
and
Scott Vining: Drums/ Percussion
Gordon Raphael plays the Hammond organ and Wurlitzer on ’The Dawn’
In the past and on previous recordings musicians have included
Dewi Rhys on on lead guitar and
Matt "Tookie" Tooke on Drums and Percussion.
You can find some earlier recordings
here
The Dawn was produced by Gordon Raphael and is the result of an afternoon with Rebecca Jade at his wonderful
Urchin Studios, aka The Silver Transporterraum of London.
V for Victory was recorded by Rebecca Jade and Matt Jones on Matts ’home studio’.
A Fraud, A Guizer, A Fool was recorded and produced by RJ, Scott and Matt with Stu Maxwell at the helm, at Leisure Lounge Studios, now reinvented as Stylee Corporation.
Be My Any Port was recorded by RJ, Scott and Matt , with Stu at the helm, again at Leisure Lounge. It has since fallen into the magic hands of Dave Lynch , who has produced the version you find here before you.
Other credits:
Photography as credited on the shots or albums, mostly by Joseph Lee, William Robinson, Plus.Equals.Photography, Dean, Gruffydd Fon Gruffydd and Russell Lee.
Most of RJ’s dresses are by Becca Grover, including the gold and red ones
Influences: The following is listened to and loved and admired, sometimes all three...
The Beatles
David Bowie
Talking Heads
Pavlov's Dog
Spirogyra (the psych folk band, not the jazz group)
Patti Smith
Elliot Smith
The Smiths
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Nick Drake
Neil Young
Neil Diamond's Greatest Hits
Super Furry Animals
Sunforest
Caravan (early stuff)
Comus
Aphrodities Child
Neighb'rhood Childr'n
Phluph
The Cars first album
Ramases
Funkadelic
Chrysalis
Van Der Graaf Generator
dEUS
Pavement
Belly
Sebadoh/ Folk Implosion
Deep Purple
Of Montreal
Led Zeppelin
(Smog)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Fresh (Fresh Today)
Roxy Music
Television
Grandaddy
Todd Rundgren
Tom Newman (Fine Old Tom)
Gentle Giant
July
Strawberry Alarm Clock
Shawn Phillips
Phluph
Andy Pratt (Andy Pratt)
Iggy & The Stooges
Audience
Pulp
The Wallace Collection
Queens Of The Stone Age
Nirvana
The Mattoid
Murray Head
Gram Parsons
Wire
Family
The Groundhogs
The Lemon Pipers
Leonard Cohen
OutKast
Welsh Rare Beat compilation
Velvet Underground
The Poppy Family
Meic Stevens
Captain Beefheart
Edward H Dafis
The Walker Brothers and Scott Walker
The Tindersticks
White Noise
Fleetwood Mac *and* Dougal Reed's Rumours
Sounds Like: 'dickensian waif' (emily breeze)
'elegant' (david pajo)
'...'-you?
Type of Label: Indie