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Tara Simmons

adults are just tall children holding beers

About Me


MANAGEMENT
Ben Preece
email : [email protected]
phone: 0417628037

www.tarasimmons.com for more information

this is the film clip for 'EVERYBODY LOVES YOU' from the film 'ALL MY FRIENDS ARE LEAVING BRISBANE'

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/3/2006
Band Website: tarasimmons.com
Band Members: I am always performing with different people... but the usual suspects include.

Tara Simmons - keys, voice, laptop and cello
Briony Luttrell - cello
Sophie Adamus - cello
Chris O'Neill - drums
Robert Davidson - double bass

Influences: juana molina, ed harcourt, the books, anja garbarek, clogs, bjork, boards of canada, fiona apple, the beatles, fantomas, the notwists, ani difranco, sigur ros, stina nordenstam, gorecki, sia, gomez, radiohead, neil finn, elbow, portishead, the cure, massive attack, battles, autechre, sufjan stevens, the church, kings of convenience, turin brakes, joni mitchell, the rachels, corneilius, manitoba, mum, goldfrapp, brian eno, david gray, tujiko noriko, anything mike patton comes within range of and so many many more...
Sounds Like: electronica meets pop meets folk meets experimentalism
Record Label: Independent
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Video Clip

So.. to be honest I've been a bit of a slacker and should really have posted this a bit sooner.. but anyway. A few months ago the director from the film All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane (which is s...
Posted by Tara Simmons on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:03:00 PST

Video Clip

So.. to be honest I've been a bit of a slacker and should really have posted this a bit sooner.. but anyway. A few months ago the director from the film All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane (which is s...
Posted by Tara Simmons on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:03:00 PST

Video Clip

So.. to be honest I've been a bit of a slacker and should really have posted this a bit sooner.. but anyway. A few months ago the director from the film All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane (which is s...
Posted by Tara Simmons on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:04:00 PST

and so we begin....

Today my co-producer/engineer Briony and I begun the long jaunt of recording my first album. We had been sitting and staring at her new 24 inch iMac and my new studio monitors feeling a little overwhe...
Posted by Tara Simmons on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:07:00 PST

Its a bit late but anyway...

So, at the beginning of September the band and I flew to Melbourne and played a few spots down there. I have finally gotten my act together and uploaded some photos here. I'm heading down to Sydney th...
Posted by Tara Simmons on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:16:00 PST

my inner butch

I'm not usually the type to go and blog about random non-music related or non-life changing events.. but I do have to say.. I am a little bit surprised by my drive home from the post office, from whic...
Posted by Tara Simmons on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:11:00 PST

about time for a blog.

...so for those of you who don't know.. My song, The Recycling Bin Song, has been selected as one of 8 finalists for the Qsong Courier Mail Peoples Choice Awards this year. If you have opened the Cour...
Posted by Tara Simmons on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:16:00 PST

karma

remember that time you were hanging out the window of a 70 story burning building and I ran inside with no shoes on and came and rescued you?????well its now time you can do something back... though n...
Posted by Tara Simmons on Sun, 13 May 2007 07:53:00 PST

A Few Reviews

I'm a late poster on this one... but today I'm sick and thought it would be a good time to get some shit done that doesn't really mean having to do anything.. I had a few good reviews this week. One f...
Posted by Tara Simmons on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 05:45:00 PST

Review of 'All the Amendments' from Time Off.

here is my first review for my new EP 'All the Amendments' TARA SIMMONSAll The Amendments (Independent)The simply brilliant star of Tara Simmons continues to shine brightly on this, her second release...
Posted by Tara Simmons on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 04:42:00 PST