Female fronted twenty first century Folk/Rock with haunting harmonies and distinctive rhythm. The Purple shoes talk to their audiences through song presenting a quirky blend of English infused Americana with a Folk/Pop twist. The Purple Shoes share thoughts, dreams and small town fairy tales. 
Marie Dance returned to the UK from Thailand, having spent three years touring and recording, clutching a handful of dreams and a bunch of unfinished songs. She ran into singer and guitarist Michael Bickers who was walking around the south coast waving a blank canvas.
Discovering a mutual love for the 60s counter culture and the traditional values of Rock and Roll, the pair headed for the quaint seaside town of Shoreham-by-sea to surround themselves with likeminded misfits and immerse themselves in the flourishing scene. 
Teaming up with seasoned function player Richard Dadson on double bass and acclaimed STOMP chorographer Theseus Gerard on assorted household percussion, Marie and Michael began performing regular shows and steadily started to build a following across the South Coast of England under the name The Purple Shoes.    
In 2016 the band headed up to the celebrated KSI Studios in rural West Sussex to record Marie’s solo album ‘Things Have Changed’. After a successful launch Marie and Mike spent the second half of 2017 promoting the album on an extensive tour of the UK and Southern Ireland.
With their onstage rapport and quirky stage show, interest in The Purple Shoes band began to develop. Despite the success of Marie’s solo album, Marie and Mike decided to turn the attention to the band as a whole and began writing and recording demos for The Purple Shoes debut album upon returning from their tour.

They are BACK ! After a long sleep, due to the band not only having lost their bassist but at the same time a very close friend, their enthusiasm was thwarted in carrying on as a band. However some years later they awoke from their long sleep, and carried on doing that what their old bassist would probably have wanted them to carry on doing, and that was making music. This tragic loss had also made them stronger, better and more creative in their works, after all they had a good length of time to gather up new ideas for the future! Worth it, it was.

And so again from the original foundations of Cuerock in the 80´s they where back in the scene, being more melodic but also more intricate/extrovert+ intellectual with their new emerged brand of progressive rock. They where joined in 2010 by a very accomplished/professional British frontman who himself was a very highly respected and known vocalist on the U.K. music scene of the late 70/80´s I.e. new wave of British heavy metal, touring and billing with such names as Praying Mantis, Tigers-of-Pan-Tang, Thin Lizzy, Krokus, April Wine and many more. So now Cuerock were finally fully equipped for a furious new start ahead.

When approached and asked by outsiders as to how they would care to describe their form of music, well, the answer would probably be as follows: a melodic, meaningful form of progressive rock with an element of commercialism, music probably better fitting for the more Intellectual music listener/collector, composed by a bunch of very gifted musicians, without becoming extreme technical or heartless.

I twang a bit, compose a bit and sometimes even let people hear the results...
Been a music fan as long as I can remember, early exposure to Joe Meek's sound (Telstar) had a fairly lasting effect. 
Further exposure to a wide range of Country, Folk and Rock (Classic and Prog) further shaped my inner musical landscape... 
Learnt the basics of how to make an  acceptable noise on a guitar.
Got my hands on a Commodore 64 in about '82 to experiment with sound. Things didn't progress much till an Amiga 500 and a copy of MED and eventually MusicX and a JV2080...ahh what fun.
The 90's were when things got to be really fun, The introduction of VST and cheap powerful PC's with decent soundcards changed things forever. No longer was expensive studio time required to create acceptable output...yippeee...
Still make an occasional bleep....Hopefully this Cloudy Thingy will spur me on to let more stuff out.

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