Flaming June will be releasing a new album - Hope in a Jar - in Autumn 2021. This follows 9 EPs. Previous releases, "Freedom's Fairytale for Girls"  won praise from Eve Ensler and  "Rumpelstiltskin" received air play on Tom Robinson's show on BBC6 Music and the FATEA Magazine award winning EP from 2011 'Nerves of Steel'.  Louise recorded, mixed and produced the album during the lockdowns on 2020/21 having enrolled in the Home Recording Academy to learn music production skills.

On January 1st 2011 , FATEA Magazine announced out of the blue that the EP ' Nerves of Steel ' was their EP of the year.
"Nerves Of Steel" is one heck of an EP over the course of five tracks it runs the gamut of folk, folk rock and acoustic pop, pausing briefly to dabble in the worlds of rockabilly/skiffle.Flaming June write strong songs that can go really deep addressing social issues and emotional blackmail and then switch to something that has a lighter almost jokier feel.. A glorious combination of shade and texture, delightful.

Maverick Magazine "This quartet led by singer-songwriter Louise Hamilton on vocals and guitar, bring a contemporary vibrancy to the somewhat staid traditional English folk music."
"Catchy...addictive and also rather dark....a truly brilliant band, I hope to hear more from them" Bliss Aquamarine (fanzine www.blissaquamarine.net)
"Next up were Flaming June who absolutely blew me away. Indie rock with a strong dash of folk plus angry female vocals, dark intelligent songs with plenty of punch....absolutely ace" Drowned in Sound
"during their half-hour set Flaming June did little less than completely command the Boat Race stage" Aboutthemusic.com

"We really enjoyed your set last night, Thanks. You're definitely all madder than a box of frogs, Thats a big plus in our book" -High Barn Folk Club - Oct 2010

Great British Life.com
“It’s hard to define Flaming June – the phrase indie/folk only begins to cover it. They are also rhythm-driven and full of energy, blending classical training with a rock attitude, and they were on fire at last night’s Hidden Rooms gig”
My dad rocks fanzine
“As usual from this Cambridge/Newmarket alternative folk band, the tracks evoke a passion and urgency which is missing in much of today's music. That's not to say their music is not commercial but it's obvious that the music comes from the heart rather than popular formulaic writing
The EP is astonishingly good with the promise of great things to come. Louise has been writing songs since a child and with her heartfelt lyrics and catchy choruses may she never stop"

Flaming June have supported Eliza Carthy, 6 Day Riot, Moulettes, Ed Sheeran, John Otway, The Men They Couldn't Hang, Ellen & The Escapades, TV Smith, Uk Subs, Blyth Power, My Drug Hell, Patricia Vonne and more.

Gigs in London and East Anglia include The Monarch & The Dublin Castle (Camden) Lodestar Festival, Ely Folk Festival, Cambridge Rock Festival, The Strawberry Fair Cambridge, The High Barn, Stowfest and Ipswich Music Day.

Louise has self-funded and released five EPs on her own record label Anchoress Records.

Rejoice 1999
Bad Dreams 2002
Bright Shiny Things 2003
Under My Skin 2010 - available on iTunes/Amazon etc
Nerves of Steel 2011 - available on iTunes/Amazon etc

She is currently working on her 6th EP with sound engineer Rob Toulson, percussionist Paul Richards and guest musicians. The EP will be released in 2013.

Previous musicians Louise has worked with include :
Richard Hamilton, Brian Jones, Jayne O'Hara, Hannah White, Steve Scott, Jim, Fritz, Lorna Teifholz, Nicky, Helen Lake, Chris Wilson, David Tiplady, Andrew Dance, Franco Caprio, Diane Llewelyn, Ozzy Phil, Steve Calder, Clare Calder.

Original Songwriter - With an emphasis on Lyrics.

Singer songwriter with Flaming June - Alt/folk -  FATEA Award Winners - Played on BBC 6 Music.
Biography

This is my mucking about and experimental page. Please also visit http://www.soundcloud.com/flamingjuneuk to hear stuff I have relased.

Life is not about who you once were. It is about who you are now and who you have the potential to be.  About having fun. 
Throwing out the rule book! Thrilled to have had some lovely support from various unexpected quarters.
Teaching Darkness How To Fly was a lovely pastoral excursion, where I set some prose by Ian McMillan to local found sounds. It found a home on BBC Radio 3 (thanks to Elizabeth Alker on her Saturday morning show), and on Cery's Sunday show on 6 Music, who also shared my first 'bird as soloist' experiment Song Thrush Serenade on national radio.
These two tracks are on my debut album, Nature's Grace.

'Who Do You Wanna Be' attracted the kind attention of Tom Robinson and was honoured to make it into his broadcast mixtape on 6 Music. 
BBC Intro Channel Islands (a remix I did for Michael Donoghue) and featured in Fresh Faves from Fresh on The Net as well as on the super independent shows such as WorldWideFM thanks Nitin Sawhney, Anna Phoebe and Kayla Painter, Tim Willett's New Music Generator, Neil March's Trust The Doc show (who have both invited me to share my music at their events,) Andy Sharman's KYN Show, Amazing Radio, Rich James Electro Show, Chris West's The Tripwire, Slava and Trev's show, Russ Evans Electro show and more, many of whom play me week after week and have me as their opening or outgoing show tracks. I am so grateful. 
A collaboration with THE Jackie Weaver earlier in 2021 resulted in national TV, newspaper and radio coverage, which was huge fun.

I'm creating a range of music, from what could be viewed as classical for a modern era I guess? telling a story through notes rather than words. I also love a beat, prose and some simple phrase work (either my own voice, samples or spoken prose) and I love a bop!  so my genre is not really defined or fixed BUT people say they can tell it's my work. I've also been honoured to be asked to do remixes by a number of artists and these have been going down well.

This piece for the Featured Artists Coalition was fascinating to research and write - Ageing and Raging: https://thefac.org/news-directory/fav-insights-by-helen-meissner

Grateful to LA based magazine for this comprehensive interview!: https://shoutoutla.com/meet-helen-meissner-music-producer/

How did it all start?
A glitch in the matrix meant that Garageband ended up in my lap! (I have since moved to Logic)that's Lockdown for you!! never had any desire to write or produce before but love what's coming out in the mix and hope you do too.  
Supermassive black holes in my production knowledge of course. Happy to be guided by anyone who cares to get in touch!
It's a bit like having a baby without realising you were pregnant! There's plenty more where that came from, from other dance to more chill. The world is my oyster. (Boring bits, based in Herts, legend in my own lunchtime). Wrong side of 50, right side of life, left of centre, off of the strip. 

Old enough to know better, young enough not to care

Bring it on!!!

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