Million Pebble Beach is the nom de guerre of Portsmouth's solo artist, Claire Baker. Claire is a keen supporter of the local music scene and community, often popping up at open mics, recently performing in 2023 for Portsmouth's prestigious Future Folk, in 2022 she supported Ellie Gowers on her tour at Groundlings Theatre, Portsea, played at Southampton's Music in the City, Hayling Island's HI-Fest, Southsea's Black Balloon Sessions, The Front Room, Open Ya Mouth, Weekend Offender Records Live, Shine Radio's Summer Showcase Music Festival, and at Victorious Festival in 2019 and 2022. ​

Her voice and musical style has been likened to Aldous Harding, Kate Bush, Björk, Regina Spektor, John Grant and Cate Le Bon.

Her songs are whimsical - "Grimm's Fairytales on piano".

They are played on Portsmouth's Express FM, Victory Radio, The Flash, and Petersfield's Shine Radio.

One Day We'll Go, a 5 Track EP, released to all streaming platforms on 23rd February 2023

Next gigs:

Saturday 11th March, The Legion, Hayling Island
Thursday 27th April, The Front Room, Hunter Gatherer Coffee, Portsmouth
Sunday 7th May, Special Guest at Mo's Forte at the Hatch, Winchester
Sunday 14th May, Special Guest at Golden Lion, Southwick, Portsmouth
Saturday 22 July, HI Fest, Hayling Island.

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Thanks for listening!

Focused on recording with fairly limited equipment but sometimes a determined effort leans towards finding the best in a situation.

A bit of history? I was in a band during the late 90's, We all split to pursue Fine Art Degrees, a least that's the short version of the story. 
I helped set up a small venue in 2001, I think it's still going, at one point it was on the map with old touring groups. I used to work the sound desk but the hard work was setting up and installing the sound gear, the actual stage, the lights and the backdrop, all minutes before the punters were let in.

I played various Bass guitars with a band between 2002-2017, we made numerous unreleased recordings, had a change of faces and a revolving door of drummers for a few years before getting good, played a few gigs alongside some really great bands.

At the moment I’m playing some revolting samba drums with a group, I love all the percussion especially I like playing the snare drum, some of the patterns I picked up from a book called ‘the art of the drummer’ in about 2015. Never quite managed the whole drum kit….
I’m singing in a Choir, they’re a protest group based in the States. They’re coming to the UK to tour, ending with the COP26  in Glasgow. 

I’ve also played Flute, broken Trumpet, bass, 6 string bass and I just got an electric piano.

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