Member Since: 4/20/2006
Band Website: under construction - watch this space!
Band Members: Eleanor Hamilton Reid(the vegan one) : vocals, piano, saxophone, Guitar , flute.Alison Dowling : Vocals, keyboard, appalachian mountain dulcimer ,
drum programming , percussion, sundry other sounds.
Influences: Influences : Japan , Tori Amos, Cocteau Twins, Celtic Roots, All About Eve,
Janis Joplin , Magazine , Kate Bush , Stevie Nicks , Blue Nile, Bjork with Dave Arnold , Oscar Wilde, Mozart, Bavarian Women's Choir, Blade Runner, Solaris, George Orwell, Tolstoy, Flaubert, The Tartar Steppe, Catch 22, Charlie Brown, Kirsty MacColl (the top, r.i.p), Beatles, John Peel, Billy Connolly. Really lumpy peanut butter, BIG sunglasses, babies - lots of babies , ma' wee brother, Cathy Tate, Nighty night, Grimsby Collier Brass Band, 23rd psalm(sung backwards, sweet lucifer!), Descartes( just for laaaaaaaarfs), Zygmunt Bauman, All of our songs, Sundays in bed,Black toast and butter, Joy Division's easy listening, Roger Wittaker, Ray Bradbury, black bananas, lipstick-bruised fellatio, God's orgasm, Bow wow wow, Debbie Harry, Tight Fit, The Cure, Carmen, Ziggy Stardust, a REALLY BIG washing machine ( or REALLY tiny garments),fresh basil, lemon thyme, Derek and Clive, laptops, the shipping forecast, Massive Attack, stevie wonder, funny girl, aretha franklin, billie holiday, toastandbeansandacuppatea, baccarach and david, prince, annie lennox, nat king cole, ella fitzgerald, echo and the bunnymen, kubrick, jack nicholson, the sound and smell of the sea, sex in the city/frasier R.I.P, hendrix, a really great wig, smells like teen spirit, fine wine and belgium chocolates, fresh oysters, nippy haggis, pingu, magic roundabout, sunrise, smoothies, creaking doors, 5am's video, bed, silence, screaming she devils, liberty, great jeans, fish soup, the odd couple, E.T.,Chopin, terror, freedom, The Moonlight Sonata, Aphex twin, JG Ballard, crash, major seconds, good intention, kindness. sandi thom, whats up doc? (charm, charm, charm....), richard prior, mel brooks, laurel and hardy. Dylan, Blondie, ian dury and the blockheads, dave gilmour, pink floyd, pete shelley, the buzzcocks, the clash, simon and garfunkel, sly and the family stone, john denver, the stranglers. Bowie, Tony Visconti, roxy music, the buggles, advocado, Maria Callas, Tammy Wynette, Jeremy Irons, damage, Marquis de Sade, fresh oysters. Donnie Darko, ethereal moments. Grace Jones, Leonard Cohen, This Mortal Coil, Morecam and Wise, The Who, Keith Moon, Jeremy Vine. Gene Wilder, Woody Allan, Mash. Oscar Wilde, Jenny Chapman, Tracy Chapman, Slazenger, Ant and Dec, Alien 1 & 2. The human league, gary numan and the tubeway army, prince and the revolution, wendy & lisa, sheila e, talk talk, talking heads, giorgio moroder, some like it hot, seven year itch (after all, you cant fly on one wing) marilyn monroe, jack lemmon, walter mathou, the sunshine boys (putz!), the Tube, Kenny Everett Video Show, Fame, scritti politti, Little Shop of Horrors, The Neverending Story, bill murray, rick moranis, john williams, tchaikovsky, marvin gaye, dusty springfield, run dmc, vangelis, tim burton, scorsese, manic street preachers, sir david attenborough, einstein, Married With Children, Philip K. Dick, women, boobs big and small, Glasgow, Scotland, England, Ireland. Jonnathon Ross, The News Quiz, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Dead Ringers. Kraftwerk, Fleetwood mac, The Shining, Usual Suspects, John Irvine (keep passing the open windows), Orwell, thomas dolby, laurie anderson, visage, psychedelic furs, peter gabriel, jean michel jarre, blancmange, grandmaster flash's white lines/the message, The Big Lebowski, Oprah Winfrey, Esther Ranzen, Benjamin Zephaniah, John Mayall's first time, being 40, big soft goonies, The wizard of Oz, water, cold mirrors on skin, Aphex Twin, jumping just before falling asleep, My Space, Brief Encounter,Brave New World, Wild Swans. Jamie and the Magic Torch, Spirograph, knitting, Lucifer, almonds, The Big issue,the voices in my head,Milan Kundera,Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?,Andrew Lloyd Weber, Jacqueline Du Pres, thin lizzie. Bush Tucker Trial Man. Steely Dan, Dead Kennedys, Sensational Alex Harvey Band (next!...), Streisand, Denis Penis. 10, 000Maniacs, Edie Brickell (HAPPY NOW?!!). The Kitchen Sink.
Sounds Like: The bastard love child of Donnie Darko and Sally Bowles.
Record Label: 3Monkeys
Type of Label: Indie