Description: Indie/Pop

Last Standing Band Member 2016
Vivienne Louise Tatnell - guitar - Vox - drums - song writer - composer 

SALT LAKE CITY Band Members 2014

Vivienne Louise Tatnell - Guitar/Vocals/Songwriter 
Ruth Rogers Wright - Poetry / Vocals
Allira Jade Preuss - Flute / Violin
Natacha Dupuy - Piano
Peter Kearney - Acoustic guitar/ electric guitar / banjo / drums 

Recording Artists for Album 
Guitar/Vocals/Songwriter 
Allira Jade Preuss - Flute / Violin
Natacha Dupuy - Piano
Peter Kearney - Acoustic guitar/ electric guitar / banjo / drums 
John Considine - Bass 
Vish Vadivelu - Drums

Recording Artists for EP "One Step Off The Ground"
Vivienne Louise Tatnell - Guitar/Vocals/Drums/Piano
Drums - Vish Vadivelu
Piano-Natacha Dupuy 
Vocals-Ruth Rogers-Wright 
Double Bass-Sean Hamilton 
Tim Coughlan - Electric Guitar/ Cello

Recording Artists Forbidden Rhyme Single: 
Allira Jade Preuss
Basil Rizo
Mark Fischer
Lachlan Bruce 
Vish Vadivelu
Sean Hamilton
Natacha Dupuy 
Sally Baulch 
Louise Tatnell 

Individual Musician information:

VIVIENNE LOUISE TATNELL
http://www.facebook.com/VivienneLouiseMusic

ALLIRA JADE PREUSS - FLUTE
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Allira-jade/106180889486404

PETER KEARNEY 
https://www.facebook.com/peter.kearney.562?fref=ts


VISH VADIVELU (Drummer on EP recording)
http://www.facebook.com/vishvadivelu
Biography
Initially starting out in Bakehouse Studios, Richmond with Cellist, Double Bassist, Pianist and a backing vocalist to die for. Salt Lake City's first ever 6 songs was recorded at Studio 52 in Collingwood releasing their sell out EP Launch "One Step Off The ground" @ The Evelyn in JAN 6 2011. The band evolved and grew from a 5 piece ensemble to a 10 piece explosion in no time and the dreamy pop vibe was replaced with a big band style show with catchy horn lines, screaming guitar solos and intricate flute melodies. During this time in 2012 the band went on their first ever "Make Famine History Tour" upon returning to Melbourne having achieved what no other 10 piece band could have conquered in that amount of time. Consistently playing one show a week around town to get to Sydneys most renowned music venue The Vanguard ~ Newtown, Lizotte's ~ Deewhy and made it as far as the Port Macquarie Hotel. Now in 2013 the band has taken on a new turn with a stripped back quartet featuring the humble simplistic sounds of the songs themselves with grooving bass lines, funking guitar licks and tight stripped back beats. Narrowing it down to one show a month the band will be able to make the time this year for a small hiatus to gather the arrangements together 2014 will soon to be recording their first ever 12 song Album (name to be released).

Description
Eclectic and genre-defying are two terms bandied around when describing a band with alarming frequency, but Salt Lake City are genuinely exactly that. Salt Lake City meander through genres, not afraid to explore their musicality whenever so inspired with references to the intricacies of human tendencies and emotions. The instrumental layering gives a depth and warmth that draws in the listener in with an acoustic guitar vein that runs through all their music.

Artists we like:	
Bjork, Portishead, Radiohead, Massive Attack, Jose Gonalez, Dirty Three, The Necks, Madeleine Peyroux, Yann Tiersen, Sigur Ross, Sebastian Tellier, Andre Segovia, Meshell Ndegeocello, Sarah Blasko.

Band interests	
Recording, gigging, playing festivals and touring.

SALT LAKE CITY
viviennelouisetatnell@gmail.com
0407401347

Website	
http://www.myspace.com/saltlakecitybandm...
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/one-ste...
http://www.soundcloud.com/saltlakecity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwpGbc82TWk 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw6Ngy89aUE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZVxxOzko...

Documentary

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwpGbc82TWk

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw6Ngy89aUE

Film Clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZVxxOzkop4&feature=player_embedded

Zoye Blacc is an emerging artist who embodies nostalgic elements from the golden era of Hip-hop. Accompanied with soulful sounds from the nations capital (DMV), Zoye seizes the attention of hearers with his simplistic tones that display a depth and unguarded honesty about his current realities. 

Bringing Light And Changing Culture (Blacc) is a movement that brings people from outer fringes of the ordinary into their extraordinary potential. Zoye is the voice of and for the people! His audience and fans are a part of new culture that is emerging through art.

Sometimes you gotta do what you WANT to do... so we did.

By putting aside the compromising constraints of past projects, the members of Shotguns & Shakedowns have forged a driving mix of punk, rock n' roll, and rockabilly. With no worries as to the outcome, except the introduction of one question... "Do WE like what we're doing?" Yeah, yeah we do. And, we hope our combination of melody and simplistic anarchy will take you down that long forgotten path of pure, un-fucked-with punk rock.

These are songs for your everyday life... listen to them while you drive, work, fight, and any other part of your day that may need a little of that old-school attitude... They say music soothes even the savage beast... Well, we hope the uptempo chants and rants of S&S's sound will create some new ones!

Miahluzion is a vision, a fresh outlook, and a lifestyle.

Not having all the tools necessary to do things in life that are considered artistic and creative is a part of picture. When you say you need, just remember, having is a luxury not a must, so open up your mind and allow the freeflow of creativity to fill the atmosphere. You automatically hold yourself back from true potential when you allow simplistic ideas to run into your thoughts. Ingenuity and are some of the biggest counterparts in being intuitive and embellishing the pleasures of arts and beauty in nature.


I'm a folk blues guitar playing singer/songwriter
 I'm signed to malicious damage records both my albums (THREEFOLD RETURN) and (ALL THIS IS THAT) are available on line at www.maliciousdamage.co.uk/ or at the usual outlets.
 what the press say:.......
 Bridging the great divide from South London to the Deep South, Bob Meyer is one of those individuals who, while showing no desire to crave the spotlight, assimilates and homages his influences to emerge with statements of unadorned and unrelenting honesty.Sounding like they could be recorded in your front room, the songs on his second album, Threefold Return, intimately straddle anyone from Nick Drake to Blind Willie Johnson but what shines through is the man’s honest and restless, questing musical passion.Bob’s also a shit-hot guitar player, first picking up the instrument at the age of ten courtesy of his older brother, who built them. Maybe put off by his own left-handedness, Bob didn’t touch a guitar again until the age of 31when he did a Hendrix by turning the instrument upside down along with his teach yourself handbook. Within a month he was writing songs, later recording his 2006 debut album All This Is That in one afternoon at the Chocolate Box in Wood Green – all tracks first takes with no overdubs. AmericanaUK described the album as, “Primordial blues, tough and dirty, that harks back to Robert Johnson's template and at times comes close to being as powerful. Meyer has a real feel for the music and delivers real blues in a classic style.” Guardian Unlimited called Bob, “an extraordinarily talented acoustic blues guitarist, a man who sings like his heart is buried in a Mississippi swamp…”.Although the album didn’t catapult him into a position to give up his day job as a truck-driver it paved the way for a second outing which throws out an uncanny timeline with America’s 60s troubadours lashed with the stark guitar stylings of the blues musicians he reveres, particularly Blind Gary Davies, Leadbelly and Son House. This blues fixation surfaces on tracks like Tilt and the stridently atmospheric I’m A Fool. Southwark Bridge recalls the drowsy observations of Nick Drake while As She Flows and When I’m Gone recall Greenwich Village singer-songwriters like the Tims Rose and Hardin.The most enthralling excursions are instrumentals like Rollin’ Part 3 and stunning Fast River Of No Return which recall nobody so much as the late John Fahey, the mysterious American genius who revolutionised the six-string steel guitar in the early 60s, inspiring names like Leo Kottke and Robbie Basho to develop their own individual styles. It seems as if Bob’s quietly become one of the few contemporary UK guitarists to do the same, emerging as Streatham’s answer to Blind Joe Death while as equally at home on the dark blues holler of Mary Lou as the gentle instrumental Escondedo. By the closing Time To Go the album has simply cemented itself as a modern folk album without hype or unnecessary trimmings: these days something of a rare beast, as is its creator. you'll be hard pushed to find another artist like him this side of the Mississippi. If the blues is about anything, it's about the raw passion that flows into both the voice and guitar. "Threefold Return" is imbued with that passion and spirit. The loose, deceptively simple guitar drags you right back to the basics, get the notes right and the rest follows. You don't need layers of instruments if one guitar and a voice is enough. It's bang on the mark....... www.fatea.co.uk Threefold Return has manifold rewards, This is a hypnotic slow burner that demands repeated listening. Bob speaks of deeper truths than mere plastic materialism and is touched by the left hand of God...... JDC He is a musical extremist, a radical player, somebody from whom the music simply flows and allows us to participate in it....... BLUES NEWS Even Nick Drake would have been proud of the sense of ominous portent Bob Meyer creates on this acoustic offering. A simplistic description of Threefold Return would be miserabilist. These, most certainly aren't songs of joy designed to electrify...... BLUES IN BRITAIN "...primordial blues,tough and dirty,that harks back to robert johnson's template and at times comes close to being as powerful ...meyer has a real feel for the music and delivers real blues with classic themes.....from south London maybe,but unadorned and untarnished the real thing"....AMMERICANAUK "Bob's songs are modern folklore,backed up by guitar picking of a different age....it is unpretentious,and allows for your mind to move through the songs...his music rises and dives with assurance and manages to create bonafide country blues out of his obviously fresh brain....." BLUES IN LONDON "one undoubted star at the recent clock machine gig was the extraordinarily talented acoustic blues guitarist bob meyer.a man who sings like his heart is buried in a mississippi swamp".....NEIL PERRY THE GUARDIAN

Iliad Stone and the Monarchy is comprised of an eclectic group of talented musicians brought together to make the genre-bending music that defines them. Singer-songwriter Iliad Stone spearheads the group with gripping lyricism and a powerful voice. Electric guitarist, and pseudo-adopted brother is guitarist, Prince Parker who battles each song with guitar in hand until every tone and note is perfectly impactful. In Iliad‘s words he makes the songs actually sound like songs. The rhythm section is comprised of Adam “The Bee Guy” Barnes, bass player and brains of the operation, providing guidance and know how to make band members ideas come to life. On drums is the tireless Stephen ”Freddy” Cole who provides the long lost heartbeat to the music and the band. 


2018 
Iliad is playing many local venues as she works on her first EP.

Iliad describes her music as follows: 

A lot of music has a landscape that it somewhat matches and when you’re in that place you can feel it. Grunge was written to the soggy gloom of Seattle, Delta Blues to the humid heat of the south, Rap in varying bustling cities. One of the reasons I’m so attracted to the Southern Gothic sound is that I can see it around me, it fits the landscape. Another part of me though loves the passion and drive behind more aggressive styles of music. So in my mind, when I play acoustic it fits into southern gothic, deep and heavy, but I also want that to transfer over to a more grungy sound. I want to sound as if grunge had been cultivated in the south. Rather than a rainy cool atmosphere I want something swealtering, intense, like the relentlessly hot and humid nights that I grew up with. To put it in sound terms, I want a heavy bass sound, both guitar and drums, almost tribal in sound and in simplistic intensity. When everything comes together I’d like it to rumble through your bones like the sound of thunder off of heat lighting.

Astralayne is the brain-child of Norwegian sounding, lead singer Pas Democrat.
It is extremely unlikely that you would have heard of Mr Democrat as it is only in recent months that he has been able to obtain (through an administrative blunder) permanent release from a 10 year spell from a secure Mental Health Institution.

Being locked up 24/7 has hardly dented Pas’s appetite for electronic pop beat meets poor vocabulary as he has ideas for a number of tracks that will never see the light of day!

Pas first came to prominence with the completely unknown Punk band the London Gestapo and was credited on their first and only single (unreleased) and unfortunately entitled, Gas die Bastarde!  This would eventually reach thankfully, nowhere in the charts!  

It is widely reported that many of the mid 70’s punk bands were described as three-chord wonders!  This was due to their simplistic sound and ‘go forth and form a band’ attitude.  Gestapo however had a ‘unique take’ on this theme and were subsequently described as the one-chord 'Weirdo’s!'. This was simply due to a lack of any recognisable musical talent on their part and of course their unusual dress sense – although wearing a dress became predominant a short time later with the ‘New Romantic’ movement.  This proved conclusively to many (actually no-one!) that Pas is/was for a time a unique visionary!  Conversely this was prevalent to audience participated gang-rape for a mid-70’s punk band.

A little known fact about Pas is that as well as penning the lyric for the Gestapo song, he was also credited on the single as Percussionist/Programmer.  At the time this consisted of little more than pressing the start button on the bands second-hand Drum Machine.  Unfortunately however  this became a reoccurring theme in Pas’s life; as his total lack of understanding regarding anything electronic would later come to light, ultimately resulting in the ill-fated, tragic death of band member Taz Fazer and which would in turn lead to Pas' eventual incarceration.

This however was not the only near brush with stardom the luckless Pas has encountered.  He was ultimately (partly/not at all) responsible for the success of synth-band, Depeche Mode. Pas regularly rehearsed with the vertically challenged Synth-Meister, Vince Clarke and introduced the reluctant Clarke to the sounds of their one-time Manager/Record Producer Daniel Miller. Much to Pas’s dismay he was the only other person present at their first meeting at the Bridge House, Canning Town in the early 80’s.  Both Miller and Depeche Mode vigorously deny this and subsequently there is no recorded historical account of his participation.  However, Clarke once described Pas’ input to the genre of electronic pop as ‘out of time’ (Some see this comment on Pas’ visionary contribution), but most say that it was due to his inability to sing, play or dance in time.

Not to be disheartened Pas formed his own band, Pas Democrat and the Synfz; this did not go well!  Reez Robot a former member and dyslexic celebrity described the experience in his, ‘yet to sell a copy’ autobiography as ‘Shti!’ The Synfz however did release a track on the ill-fated 101 International, Dream Sequence album entitled, Across the River which was co-written with Pas’ brother Nadz.  Pas was not to be deterred and  toured extensively with the Synthz culminating with legendary 80’s concerts at Tiffany’s, Harlow New Town, Raquels in Basildon and somewhere on the outskirts of Southend-on-Sea.

But in the now, Pas is a key member of Astralayne! Astralayne are a three piece Synth band which includes Si Bollik and Jez McVitie (both to be recruited, contacted or met). Their key aim is to make the world a much darker, drearier place, but much more importantly to meet girls with low self-esteem.

Finally, since his rehabilitation and subsequent release Pas is now, once again legally able to acquire a variety of sharp objects and put pen back to paper.  So sit back, pin back your ears and enjoy! You are in for a real treat with Pas's mix of 80's Electronika meets completely unintelligible lyrics. With their first single complete and aptly and imaginatively entitled, ‘Astralayne’ (Yes, it's a made up word) Pas feels that there is a real expectation of success for the band.  The boys are currently working on their second single entitled, 'I.T. Jesus' which will probably raise a few eyebrow and lower the tone on any environment that it is eventually played in. Furthermore, Pas and the boys would especially like to thank musicians, Vic Ticious, Guitars, Froggy, Bass and the indomitable Bennet on Drums for taking time out from their busy drinking schedule to contribute to the track, thanks!

On a cautionary note; I would advise fans of Pas’s work not to, contact, communicate with or at any time send Pas Democrat any of your personal details, thank you – Astralayne!

This was written on behalf of Pas Democrat by Dr Edwin Crow, Senior Psychiatric Consultant at Bradmore Clinic for the Criminally Insane.

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