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Influences
Through no fault and probably no knowledge of their own:
Kate Bush, Frank Zappa, Annie Lennox, King Crimson, Bjork, Radiohead, Thom Yorke, Sugarcubes, Portishead, Tori Amos, Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, Pentangle, Jaqui McShee, Jon Renbourne, Alison Krauss, Beck, Aphex Twin, Dave Gilmour, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, Captain Beefheart
Sounds Like
You decide! All songs are original - no covers! All material is covered by copyright. Read the review on The Sunday Experience.
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Biography
Tabitha Browne (b. 21st May 1980)
Tabitha Browne is a newly debuted musician and singer/songwriter from the UK.
Born in Angus, Scotland, Tabitha’s family live on the edge of an organic carrot farm in a very quiet rural area of Angus, Scotland.
Music has been a permanent fixture in her life; Tabitha began playing piano at the age of five years and has subsequently learned guitar, fender rhodes, wurlitzer, synths and percussion as well as composition, recording, producion, engineering and progamming.
With regards to musical influences, Tabitha’s eccentric, inventor/engineer father played a leadng role in educating her on many genres of music – including Frank Zappa and Pink Floyd among many others. His cousin is married to Helen Cosgrove, mother of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay!
In the early 1980’s, Tabitha’s father part-owned a television retail business with his brother. His personal claim to fame in 1985 was to purchase an immense (at the time) two-metre wide satellite dish from the British Telecom owned Telecoms House in London. He brought this back to Scotland and in a flurry of excitment from the local press, Tabitha’s father installed the satellite on the roof of his shop in Angus.
This gave Tabitha and her family the enviable position of being the first in the UK to have satellite television. This meant Tabitha was to be able to watch her favourite channel at the time – MTV.
For hours after school, and at every other opportunity, Tabitha would sit as on the floor in her father’s shop in front of a wall stacked with televisions and watch with awe the music videos, glitz and the glamour MTV showed. Tabitha cites this as one of her most pivotal influences from her formative years.
With no real interest in learning music and music theory in the conventional sense, Tabitha eventually arrived at her own, personal understanding of music. She was aided by her love of artists such as Kate Bush, Beck, Pentangle and The Cure; this was miles away from the staunch counterpoint her piano teacher seemed to prefer.
In her teenage years, Tabitha wrote music, sometimes recording onto tape. However, Tabitha didn’t send out her first demo until she was twenty-seven years old. She says the reason for is that none of her very early songs were good enough.
Tabitha enrolled at college to study Social Sciences when she was twenty-three years old. Generally a keen and bright student, Tabitha again found she had no real ambition to use the skills she was aquiring to commence a career in the world of Social Sciences.
Instead, because of the subjects she was learning – politics, philosophy, sociology – the course opened Tabitha’s ears to the ‘inner voice’ many songwriters claim guides them through the songwriting process.
Now armed with her new opinions about the world, Tabitha was ready to fit them in lyrical form around the music she still composed in her spare time. In 2005, Tabitha quit college and in 2006 began writing full time.
Using an relatively unsophisticated audio PC linked up to her recently acquired digital piano, Tabitha now found recording demos much simpler than her early attempts with an old upright piano and Fostex 8 track.
In November 2007, Tabitha registered at myspace.com and uploaded the tracks: ‘See Me’, ‘The World Beneath’, ‘I’m a Tornado’ and ‘Your Lucky Stars’. Mr Andrew Maurice, who offered Tabitha her first publishing deal through hearing her on myspace.com, would later tell her that the first two bars of ‘See Me’ were enough to make him get in touch to find out more about her.
Since signing her first publishing deal, Tabitha has been busy in The Suite Studio, Primrose Hill, London recording her debut single which contains tracks taken from her forthcoming album ‘The Lipgloss Grapevine’. The tracks included on the single are the A-side, ‘See Me’, and the B-side ‘The World Beneath’.
Right now, Tabitha is working on a collaberation with Adam Jancsh (son of the world renowned Pentangle writer and guitarist Bert Jansch). Stay tuned for the release date of their single.
Tabitha’s plans for the rest of 2008 are to relentlessly promote and perform her material all over the UK.
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hi tab - hope you can make this show if yer in town, will b playing w full band lemme know if you want list:
emit bloch and richest man in the graveyard opening for paloma faith in catacombs underneat london bridge station known as SHUNT, sunday, oct. 19, 8.30
Thanks so much for taking the time to check us out, let me know how you found us! Now we like it more when our myspace friends actually talk to us so make sure you write back. Then when I've got some free time I'll write back. Also we're playing Reading and Leeds this year if you're there!
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Hey new Friend....we are a young band just trying to promote our stuff as best as possible..so we found you on one of our favorite bands pages and requested you. Now this is where you can help us......listen to our stuff and tell us what you think....we will return the favor with comments back : ) THANK YOU!!!!!
Hope youre having a good week and thanks for the support! We've got a new blog up with some footage of an acoustic version of girl next door...if you have some time please check it out and leave a comment...also check out our new tune 'Postcards' and if your around next Thursday...we're playing at Ginglik in Sheperds Bush...so it would be great to see you down there for a pint and a laugh! Lots of love...
