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Ellewood has decided to go all blues and countrified, working hard alongside Simon Heron (guitars), Martin Slade (bass) and Lee Carroll (drums). They want to create that real, raw, roots sound. She wants to get this album out quickly and swiftly, creating upbeat, memorable songs that ‘stick in your head’. The direction is strong and the content has all the qualities of sound musicianship with eloquent lyrics, catchy melodies, harmonies and great riffs that keep your feet tapping. 

She was introduced to Simon via her good friend Sue (she promotes a fundraising night called ‘Acoustic Dream’), after Ellewood mentioned that she wanted to work on some bluesy music. Simon has the knack of playing the right riffs in the right places! His composition skills are incredible. He can jam to anything she plays him. He also plays 12 string, electric and the banjo. What a find!! Martin was introduced to Ellewood as a flutist by her other bass player Mark Blacoe and they performed a couple of gigs, Martin is also a fretless bass player, playing bass for over 19 years, and happily accepted his new position on the new project. Yet another great find!! (Mark is working with Ellewood on her other project, ‘Wake Up Call’). Is it getting confusing yet? Ellewood bumped into Lee whilst attending a birthday party and gig at Parr Street Studios, mentioning she needed a drummer. Lee works on the desk at Parr Street and fancied joining the band!!

Lee also happens to be an assistant sound engineer and close friend of Mark Reader who runs Tonewood Studios, where Ellewood has recorded before, it does seem spookily amazing doesn’t it?!? She regularly goes to Mark’s jam nights held in Woolton on a Monday evening. She has also recorded at Parr Street and The Motor Museum at Lark Lane.

Everything has fallen into place since Ellewood decided to get the band together, in fact its come together lightening quick! The band have jelled incredibly well. 

Ellewood joined her first band in ’95 called Munro and left in 96’ to form Venus with the help of Colin Mackay, Andy Docherty and Mike Moran. Soon she got management from Spike based at Parr Street and secured a lot of studio time. They did the band circuit, at well-known venues e.g. The Lomax, The Picket, Roadhouse, The Cavern, The Zanzibar, Telford’s Warehouse to name a few. Janice Long discovered her music and she got ‘A’ list airtime regularly on the sadly missed Crash Fm. She then signed a record contract with Sam Brown’s label Mudhut and unfortunately the band split up in 2001.

This was when Ellewood took some time out, due to illness and she decided to take things easy for a while. She went back to college in 2002 on a teacher-training course. She found teaching enjoyable but couldn’t stand the paper work and decided to become a student again. So in 2003 she started a BTec Diploma in Music. She went out and bought a digital 8 track so she could do a bit of recording at home, with no particular direction, and no particular genre. Exploring, experimenting and trying different methods of writing. She was used to writing solely on guitar, the basic rock structure: verse, bridge, chorus and middle 8’s. 

Whilst studying music at the Arts Centre in Liverpool she bumped into an old friend Frank Hawkins, who at the time was teaching sound engineering. He advised her to get hold of an Mbox and Protools, so she took Frank’s advice, saved up and bought them. Frank helped Ellewood get started on Protools along with Graeme Lycett and she blossomed from there. She says she will never forget the support, encouragement and value she places on both Frank and Graeme and will remain lifelong loyal friends and colleagues.

Now Ellewood could play around with grooves, sequence beats and drums and create bass lines first. She messed about with loops and created her own samples. She also started writing on her keyboard and composed string sections and piano parts. There were new flavours, she experimented with dance music, trip hop, hip hop, R&B, ambient, progressive, trance and even pop. 

She was contacted by DJ Alex K in 2005 to record an 80’s track originally written by Jimmy Somerville called ‘Smalltown Boy’ and within a couple of weeks of sessioning for him, the song which featured her new name ‘Ellewood’ hit number 1 top of the charts on the Clubland 8 compilation CD world wide. Eighteen months later was again, released into the charts again on Alex K’s own CD, ‘Ultimate NRG’ and got to number 3.
The song was a massive club hit, and is still played regularly today.

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Much like songbird Edith Piaf, Madeleine Peyroux spent her teenage years busking the busy streets of Paris. Just like the ‘little sparrow’, Madeleine befriended the city’s street musicians and made its Latin quarter her first performing stage. Years later, Peyroux would cite iconic Piaf as an influence on her music and record a rendition of the classic La Vie En Rose, soulfully capturing the tune’s romanticism and melancholy.
 
Born in Athens, Georgia in 1974, Madeleine “grew up in a house filled with music” and from an early age “instinctively realised music’s soothing power” but it was her teenage years in the French capital that turned the childhood notion into an all-consuming vocation for life.

Young Madeleine moved to Paris with her mother in 1987 following her parents divorce. “To soothe me during the upheaval”, she recalls, “I was given a guitar and took to playing in the streets almost immediately.”

Thirty years after her formative busking days Peyroux is the proud curator of nine beguiling albums and an accomplished performer with sell out worldwide tours under her belt. Her atmospheric version of Serge Gainsborough’s La Javanaise was used in the soundtrack of Oscar Winner The Shape of Water and her countless accolades
include the coveted BBC International Artist Of The Year honour.
 
Madeleine’s thirst for creative exploration is unfading and her willingness to face creative challenges remains as solid now as it was three decades ago.

With endearing passion and great curiosity the unstoppable genre-defying virtuoso continues her search for the good and examines life with the treasured William Congreve belief that Music has charms to soothe the savage beast.
 
Madeleine might attribute her success to “mostly luck” but to the industry and loyal fans alike, it is the immense talent and utter dedication to her craft that shines through.
“Peyroux is a tremendous talent and almost a total intuitive” reflects Larry Klein, “she has the capacity to get the magic. When she sings and plays her guitar, great things happen.”

New album, The Love Still Held Me Near - available now on Still Records.

Jason, Richard and Allison join together to discuss TV that they love in the age of digital streaming services. They take it in turns to share, or inflict upon others, their favourite series, old and new. The only rule is that it played on TV somewhere. 

Buck Rogers, Quantum Leap and Boston Legal were the opening throw downs from each presenter. What will they watch next on their patrol of the remote?

Epitaph Records is an independent music label founded in Los Angeles by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz. Early releases from a variety of punk heavyweights spawned what became known as the 90s punk explosion. 

Along the way Epitaph proudly launched its sister label ANTI-, representing unique and distinguished acts. From the beginning Epitaph’s mission has been to serve the musicians on its diverse and creative roster - an artist-first model, radical twenty years ago, and much imitated today. 

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