Band Bio: Biography. At seventeen Angie turned down a place at Art College and left England for Europe to follow in the footsteps of folk troubadours, and ended up in Paris for seven years busking a living...   Read More »

Band Bio: Biography. At seventeen Angie turned down a place at Art College and left England for Europe to follow in the footsteps of folk troubadours, and ended up in Paris for seven years busking a living playing bars, cinema queues and the Metro. Whilst living pretty much ‘down and out’ in a Paris commune on the Rue Nesle and mixing with some “strange and interesting people; writers, artists, premonitionists, and old ‘68 revolutionaries”, Angie married the artist Jean-Phillipe Serigny, whose mental health and drug addiction led him to commit suicide less than a year later. One of those twists of fate led her to meet her writing partner, Paul Mason, a philosopher from Manchester Metropolitan University, in a Cafe Philosophique in Paris and together they began to write songs and returned to England. Back in the U.K. Angie’s third CD Road gained 4 and 5 star reviews and earned her comparisons with Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell thanks to lyrics described by reviewers as “intelligent” and “literate”. For others her potent mix of country, blues, and folk served up with equal measures of aggression and tenderness has led her to called the “British Lucinda Williams”. Road made it on to the long short list for the Mercury Prize in 2004. Angie’s music is being championed by Bob Harris and she has appeared on his Saturday night show twice and her electrifying live performances have taken her to most of the major festivals in Britain and Europe: Glastonbury, Cambridge, and Montreaux Jazz amongst them. Her last CD Tales of Light and Darkness (which also made the long cut for the Mercury Music Prize 2006) continued where Road left off, mixing strong narrative songs with smaller, more personal reflections. HMV Choice said “Not since Bob Dylan’s mid-60’s output has a singer jammed songs with so many high-culture reference points”. Recently her songs Fishtails and Premonition Blues, have featured on film soundtracks in both England (Call Me) and France (In the Heart of Others.)   Read Less »

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