The Governess
Based in the UK, The gOverness is the side project from Adam Henderson of Inkubus Sukkubus, Neil Cocks a Doctor of children’s literature at Southend University, Marcus Gilvear formerly of Gene Loves Jezebel & Karen Weight a performing arts student & teacher. Occasionally other selected musicians are involved too. The themes poetically explore romantic tragedy & despair, salvation & beauty, love & demise, all with inch perfect subtlety. Through Neil’s exquisite lyrical genius, Karen’s captivating & haunting vocals & the bands superb song writing & vision the music stands alone as truly original. They were voted demo of the month at Mix magazine with their first mail out &
these demo trax are exclusive to Soundclick.com
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
Neil & Adam have been writing in bedrooms & basements since they were at school so there were lots of ideas & lyrics on God knows how many 4-track tapes & folders. Marcus is a pal of Adams through the Goth Rock thing & Karen just happened to be in a nightclub looking sexy one night. We hired out a practice room & this gracefully dark music just came out!
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
We have played live once & when the time is right we'll do a proper tour
Your musical influences
far too many to say... PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Leornard Cohen, Hendrix, pretty much any thing punk, Placebo, The Cure, Tom Waits, Diamanda Gallas.. those with out thinking
What equipment do you use?
traditional set up + old emu samplers & versions of cubase. record players & odd things to make noises. a Roland VS880 16 trak to get the demos
Anything else?
please dont send us any junk!
