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"Kelsey James's voice can make the grandest theatre and the most beer-sodden dingy pub into an intimate epiphany. Over three decades, she has been a joyful nomad, traversing the varied lands of jazz, blues, electro, rock and musical theatre, but has now found a true home. Those who need a label might call it something like chamber-folk or classical-pop, but it's much more organic and wild than that.The lyrics are both disarmingly confessional and casually matter-of-fact, the poetry of everyday disillusionment and joy. The sounds transport you to a weathered, welcoming old couch in Kelsey's sunroom, the air filled with piano, glockenspiel, brushed drums, subtly treated guitar, and the warmth of friendship, the sun filling the room even as the day fades into brilliant dusk.Behind these heart-breakingly intimate yet whimsical songs, you can almost make out the sounds of fractured bones healing themselves. Who knows if they are hers or yours?"(Andy Jackson, 2008)I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4 I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

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Member Since: 31/07/2006
Band Members: Kelsey James - Voice, Piano & Guitar /// Tim Coghill (Georgia Fields Band) - Drums, Percussion & BVs /// Ryan Monro (Cat Empire) - Bass /// Eamon McNelis (Flap!) - Trumpet /// Kynan Robinson (CW Stoneking) - Trombone
Influences: When i was little - Sandi, Keith, Amy, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Audrey Hepburn (Moon River in Breakfast at Tiffany's), Shirley Temple, Danny Kaye, EVERYBODY in The Sound of Music /// when i was a teenager - Deloris, Alanis, Madonna, Mariah, Whitney, Lauryn Hill, Beach Boys, Beethoven, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Alice Cooper, Public Enemy, NWA /// from twenties to now - Bjork, Sigur Ros, heartfeltself, Aimee Mann, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Yes, Art Of Fighting, Kanye West, Michael Jackson, The Jackson Five, Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Julie O'Hara, Edith Piaf, Michael Nyman, Neil Finn, The Mills Brothers, Not From There, Mark Of Cain, Something For Kate, Bill Withers, Aesop Rock, Django Reinhardt, Freddy Taylor, Beyonce, Barbara Streisand, Miss Behave, Leonard Cohen, Sounds Like Sunset, Yma Sumac, Beth Orton, Death Cab For Cutie, The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Lady Smith Black Mambazo, Kirk Franklin, Cat Power...
Type of Label: Unsigned

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