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PRESS
"Rachael's music hits you straight away...Extremely talented!" - BBC Radio
"Rachael's voice is pure & her songs skilfully assembled, beautifully arranged & performed impressively." - LIVE! Magazine.
"Musically & vocally Rachael turns in a performance that is smooth to the point of being flawless ... she effortlessly captivates the crowd" - De Bees Music Bar
"Rachael left each & every member of the audience spellbound with her beautiful songs & gorgeous voice. Her songs posess the kind of magic that cannot go anywhere except to your heart & soul. The only thing to do is to surrender to their beauty!" - www.absolutemediadesign.co.uk
"This music is more important than eyes!" - Colonel Dave Owen.
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BIOGRAPHY
I found a mini disk recording the other day of my first ever gig at Gladstones café and it got me thinking... I was about 19 and had not long left my French degree at Uni, knowing that despite only being able to play about 6 chords and being terrified of singing to my boyfriend, let alone anyone else, it was what I wanted to do. I wanted to write and sing.
At that time my choice of vocation was more than a little surprising to most people who knew me. My previous musical experiences included terrorizing my family with a violin when I was about 9, barely getting past grade 1 on the piano, and moshing to Status Quo in the back of my dad’s Volvo with my brothers & sister. I would walk miles listening to Alanis Morissette’s ‘Jagged little Pill’ when I was a teenager and grew to really love music from that point on I guess, but I never thought it was something I would end up doing…
So back to that first gig…The recording was hilarious to listen to. The first song has an intro of about 72 bars because I was so scared of opening my mouth to sing. After the gig me and Tim drove down to the Mersey river and listened to it in the car accompanied by some spring rolls. I cried my eyes out because it sounded so terrible. Hee hee…Pride can be so painful. The memory is poignant though. I listen to my first album of songs after a few years of writing, gigging and working out what I’m trying to do, and I’m amazed at where we’ve got to and feel so thankful. I love the album. I love listening to it. I sing along to it in the car! The songs themselves mean so much to me. Often borne out of troubled thoughts and experiences, tested relationships and lots of yelling (literally) at God, they capture pieces of a personal journey and a musical one.
Tim has been with me from the beginning. I played him my first song and he ferociously encouraged me to write more. Bob joined us on bass a while later and that’s the way we’ve played most of the time. I would hide away in my room for a few days and then show them what I’d written. They’d then write their own parts and we’d arrange the songs together.
Over the past few years we’ve gigged all over the U.K, highlights including supporting the Blind Boys of Alabama at the Liverpool Philharmonic and the Levellers. We’ve made an EP called ‘Cover My Dreams’ and finally got around to making our first album. So many amazingly generous people have encouraged me to see myself as a songwriter and helped to make this album possible. Hopefully the songs capture the spirit of community with which it was made.
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