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I'm a singer based in Cambridge, UK, with over ten years' experience as a musician. I've sung for several bands including Fruit Tree, Skelliga and Foxtrot Uniform, as well as solo work. In the past I have played a support slot for Napalm Death, done vocal sessions for Lady Morphia, played Strawberry Fair free festival in Cambridge, recorded three EPs and several other projects, and played gigs and festivals all over England. I also have an HND in Popular Music. Currently I am working as a lead singer for a Heavy Metal band named Telomere that is based in Bury St Edmunds (see gallery for pics), lead singer for Southern Rock band Angelust and also as a backing vocalist for the Texas Chainsaw Orchestra
I have some of Skelliga's songs up on this profile, but they are ancient, so you'll have to excuse the crap production! There's a few more on Skelliga's myspace profile, please check out http://www.myspace.com/skelliga for those. 'Crossing the Boundaries' and 'No Forgiveness' are probably the best. The college project, 'City Siren' was my final year studio session - the lyrics and vocals were written and recorded inside of 45 minutes. I should hopefully be updating this page shortly with some rough demos of what I've been doing with the Bury Band - watch this space!
I'm currently available for session work, either recorded or live. I'm into many genres of music, including various permutations of Folk, Rock, Metal, Punk, Ska, Trance, Goth, Industrial and some Hip-Hop/Rap. I write lyrics and vocal melodies/harmonies, but not full songs and I can do anything from your classic love song through protest and socially conscious to rage, hate and pain!
Favourite Influences:
The Levellers - socially conscious lyrics, folk-rock-punk, electric violin, songs you can STOMP to.
Within Temptation - gorgeous vocals, soundscapes, sequences and samples, bombastic, theatrical female heavy metal!
KMFDM - industrial heavy metal at its best, complex sampling/sequencing, darkly humorous/socially conscious lyrics.
Devin Townsend (especially circa 'Ocean Machine') - Very complex 'Wall of Sound' technique with loads of samples/sequencing. Quite progressive but also very heavy.
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Other interests include:
Reading - especially books on mythology, linguistics, psychology, sociology, music, history & politics.
Writing - both lyrics and prose.
Making/altering clothes.
Travelling
Dancing
Swimming
DJing
Cycling
Skating
Walking
Going to festivals, clubs and gigs.

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Music:

Member Since: 2/13/2006
Band Website: alixandrea.livejournal.com/profile
Band Members: Just me!
Influences: New Model Army, The Levellers, The Clash, The Damned, All About Eve, The Gathering, Within Temptation, Evanescence, HIM, Queen Adreena, Type O Negative, Anathema, Jim Steinman, Sisters of Mercy, Roxette, Pat Benatar, Transvision Vamp, P!nk, Gwen Stefani, Aerosmith, Def Leppard, The Smiths, Black Sabbath, Guns n Roses, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Jack's Family, KMFDM, PWEI, Danzig, Devin Townsend, Alice Cooper, Kate Bush, Queen, Linkin Park, Marilyn Manson, Tori Amos, Portishead, David Bowie, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Siouxie and the Banshees, KLF, manga/anime, comic books, their movies and soundtracks, Edgar Allen Poe, Hunter S. Thompson, Robert Anton Wilson, Hans Christian Andersen, The brothers Grimm, Lewis Carroll, Terry Pratchett, Snorri Sturluson, Tim Burton, Rob Zombie, Alex Proyas, Terry Gilliam, Peter Jackson...
Sounds Like: The Levellers, Within Temptation, Evanescence, Lacuna Coil, HIM, Jim Steinman, Pat Benatar, Type O Negative, KMFDM, Bruce Dickinson!
Record Label: None (yet)
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New Texas Chainsaw Orchestra recordings!

Hello my lovelies! I know I should post more often in here, but I've been so busy with both my bands and life in general that I just haven't had the time (although I have been updating my Livejo...
Posted by Alixandrea on Tue, 20 May 2008 02:55:00 PST

A Public Announcement...

I have quit Mas. I won't be going to the club anymore and I won't be helping the organisers out in any way. I don't want to go into the gory details, but suffice to say that I am unwilling to put up w...
Posted by Alixandrea on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:54:00 PST

Check out this event: TEXAS CHAINSAW TRAVELLING HORROR PICTURE

Hosted By: Texas Chainsaw Travelling Horror Picture Show When: 30 Nov 2007, 19:00Where: FORUMLONDON, London and South East|66 NW51JYUnited KingdomDescription:Texas Chainsaw Travelling Horror Picture S...
Posted by Alixandrea on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:34:00 PST

Alix the DJ!

I seem to be getting back into the whole DJing thing right now, which is great! :-) My list for the next couple of weeks is as follows:Tuesday 16th October 10.30pm - 12pm @ Wake Up Screaming, Th...
Posted by Alixandrea on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:59:00 PST

taptap Is this thing on?

I don't post often enough here really, although that is what my Livejournal is for really... Anyway, Mas is going really really well - we reached capacity both on opening night and on the second...
Posted by Alixandrea on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:53:00 PST

New club night in Cambridge!

Well, I offered to help promote it, and I'll be DJ-ing there (along with the hubby) so here's me telling you to get your asses down to Mas on Friday 10th August! It's a new, monthly Alternative ...
Posted by Alixandrea on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:43:00 PST

Performance Group Work In Progress!

I wonder if anyone actually reads this...?Anyway, the Junction Performance Group will be showing our work in progress at a FREE jam night at Junction 2 in Cambridge on Monday 23rd July. The perf...
Posted by Alixandrea on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 05:36:00 PST

Singing warm-ups

I realised last week, at my penultimate class with Rowena, that I should have been writing up each of the weekly singing workshops I have been attending recently. As I haven't done so, I figured the l...
Posted by Alixandrea on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 01:47:00 PST

My Download review!

Can be found here:http://alixandrea.livejournal.com/229231.html
Posted by Alixandrea on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:27:00 PST

Call this Summer??

It's raining. It's been raining for days. It's freezing cold too. Our boat is sitting as high in the river right now as it ever did during the winter. It better not be like this on Saturday. Straw...
Posted by Alixandrea on Tue, 29 May 2007 03:47:00 PST