Member Since: 01/05/2006
Band Website: last.fm/music/Nya+Shelley
Band Members: Nya Shelley writes songs, sings and plays acoustic and classical guitars.
She has been assisted by sound engineer James Marinos, who plays keyboards, leaves and rain.
Influences: The very first ones
Alice In Wonderland/Through The Looking Glass (Lewis Caroll)
Where The Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak)
Edward Lear's Gromboolian Poems
Katie Laura & The Dream Boat (Elisabeth Foster)
Scottish Tales and Legends
The musical ones
Kerry Andrew, Anthony & The Johnsons, Baby Dee, Born Heller, Robert Burns, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Leonard Cohen, Karen Dalton, Sandy Denny, Alela Diane, Ruth Etting, Josephine Foster, Liz Green, Annette Hanshaw, PJ Harvey (White Chalk album),Jefferson Airplane (Grace Slick's vocals), Low, Scott Matthew,Joanna Newsom, John Jacob Niles, Karine Polwart, Regina Spektor, Bessie Smith, Laura Veirs, Wob, Caroline Weeks, Pamela Wyn Shannon
Joan Armatrading,Anne Briggs, Joan Baez(early), Syd Barrett, Marc Bolan, David Bowie, Kate Bush, John Martyn, John Cameron Mitchell, Nick Drake, Jackson C Frank, Bob Dylan , Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Bert Jansch, Robert Johnson, Adam Masterson, Freddie Mercury, Joni Mitchell, Nico, Pentangle, Queen, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, Stephen Trask, T-Rex, Traditional/folk songs
Sounds Like:
"...a unique alternative folk artist whose music and lyrics are somewhat dark and brooding with an ethereal quality that will take you on a journey through your imagination ...a true story teller." - James Marinos, Audio Engineer on 'A Different End' E.P.
Type of Label: Unsigned