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About Me

The Music scene welcomes the Redwood Thinkers with a great sigh of relief from the hectic sound that has been sweeping this land of late.

All of the thinkers hail from eclectic backgrounds which adds to their gutsy style

The bands music moves from upbeat to melancholic with down right mellow in between, described as somewhere between Beautiful South and Bob Dylan. Their music gently cuts across eras and styles, tied together by powerful songwriting and the sheer potential beauty of the English language.

Live, they are a band not to be missed.

The Thinkers have an incredible charisma and presence on stage, inviting audiences in with a bright smile and a breezy hello. Their writing produces potent songs with a sense of purpose, candid and creative, their poetic vocal style cuts through the gentle buzz of the crowd with a charm that captures the throng.

Redwood Thinkers are:

Darran Cummings - Guitar/vocals

Andrew Wright - Guitar/vocals/harmonica

Will Aird - Drums/Djambe

Ruth Wilde - Electric/double Bass

Kezia Wilkinson - Vocals/percussion

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/7/2006
Band Website: redwoodthinkers.co.uk
Band Members: Darran - Vocals/guitar, Andrew - Vocals/guitar, Kezia - Vocals/percussion, Will - Drums/percussion, Ruth - Bass
Influences:
Ranging from They Might Be Giants, Ben Harper, Vertical Horizon, Fleetwood Mac ... too many to mention

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Sounds Like: The debut album is described as somewhere between Bob Dylan and Turin Breaks as the music moves from upbeat to melancholic with down right mellow in between and "a very satisfying listen, with bright melodies and often dark subject matter seamlessly blended into a first album to be proud of." Chris Wright - The Chris Wright radio show. Redwood Thinkers gently cut across eras and styles tied together by powerful song writing with infectious hooks and the sheer potential beauty of the English language.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

No title magazine

First news... Grab yourself a copy of No-title magazine when you are out and about in Leeds as we have a little feature in this christmas' edition. I havent seen it as yet as I hate photos. ...
Posted by Redwood Thinkers on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 01:55:00 PST

As I lay in bed...

Dull dull dull I am now of an age where I cannot stay in bed for very long as I get guilt pangs that I should be doing something else and I am wasting my life by sleeping it away. I used to love...
Posted by Redwood Thinkers on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:00:00 PST

Just flew in from holland to play a gig at virgin megastores!

No no its true! Sounds very rock and/or Roll doesnt it?! Well I popped over to Holland for a couple of days to visit a friend, who is a self professed 'biggest fan of the thinkers' kind o...
Posted by Redwood Thinkers on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:13:00 PST

Mini update. xx

On the 3rd June we played at Under the boardwalk in Sheffield. This is a great venue with a great idea. There are def not enough nights like this with this type of music, so hats off to th...
Posted by Redwood Thinkers on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:40:00 PST

Redwood Update!

Cor how exciting is life at the moment! So the thinkers have been recording as I have said before. and the finished product is to be available to show everyone really soon. Are we happy with it?...
Posted by Redwood Thinkers on Fri, 11 May 2007 01:08:00 PST

Manic Street thinkers!

Its always about the music these blogs! But this time its about someone elses music. On Wednesday 40% of the Thinkers went along to the Manic Street Preachers playing live at Leeds uni. My...
Posted by Redwood Thinkers on Fri, 11 May 2007 12:56:00 PST

Recording tomorrow!

Hey all! Well plenty happening this week! Tomorrow we will be recording our first full band song (or maybe two) We will def be recording 'Falling Down' as this seems to be a firm favourite...
Posted by Redwood Thinkers on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 04:38:00 PST

Aw my birthday was lovely!

What better way to spend your birthday then playing at a really cool bar (my fave in Leeds) and surrounded by lovely people. Thanks to those who could make it. It was great fun and we played a b...
Posted by Redwood Thinkers on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:24:00 PST

Why dont you...

We had a rather lovely gig at the mixing tin on Easter Sunday. It was kind of a celebration of the arts. Poetry, Music, Modern Art etc. Why dont people get out more and see these thi...
Posted by Redwood Thinkers on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:42:00 PST

Gig o rama!

Cor many gigs coming up soon and more to be added too. Seems the full band set up is a slight hit, and we love it too. It has allowed us to explore new musical sounds, some of them being s...
Posted by Redwood Thinkers on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 05:58:00 PST