Dorareever One Gal Band
Not really a band.
Only little old me.
But the fact it's that is open to other people to join if they want to.Usually they don't.So it is a solo act, but it's more of a project than me being all singer-songwriterish...kind of complicated. Kind of hip as well, I suppose. It isn't intentional. I started thinking about this before knowing about Bright Eyes, or Badly Drawn Boy or Iron&Wine and that kind of stuff.
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
I started writing lyrics back in 1993. Then I started playing bass in a horrible way, I started a few punk rock bands with folk, blues, whatever influences that didn't really work at all. I started writing proper songs in 1996-7, singing in 1997, playing guitar for real 1997-8, even though I knew a couple chords before (not that I got much better in all these years). Tried to joined other bands, it never worked, wrote more songs.
On a beautiful day I met John online and we started a band called Kinky Magnets (see page), we put out Ghost which is still available. Then John went AWOL, and I'm now recording on my own with my shitty 4-track.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
I don't play live much.Mostly because is hard to be taken seriously if you don't have a BIG band to play with you and you don't play dumb metal covers.Sad but true.
Your musical influences
Here's a list of stuff I really enjoy,but I don't know if it shows in what I do.
The Pogues,Shane MacGowan&The Popes,The Mollys,Whiskeytown,Ryan Adams,Nick Cave&The Bad Seeds,Neko Case,Edith Piaf,Black 47,Lucinda Williams,The Dubliners,Bright Eyes,Leonard Cohen,The White Stripes,The Clash,The Levellers,Gram Parsons,PJ Harvey,Lou Dalfin,Steve Earle,Mary Coughlan,Vic Chesnutt,Velvet Underground,Lou Reed,Dolores Keane,Uncle Tupelo,The Replacements,Richard Buckner,The Mekons and more that now I can't think of.
What equipment do you use?
mistery brand guitars, a tiny casio and kitchen items. I also use myself I suppose.
