positive:
Fruit Sandal
Melody Jones, vocals
Mickey Rayner, electric guitar
Miles Heathfield, acoustic guitars, backing vocals, songwriter
Mark Diacono, bass, six string bass and mandolin
Huw F. L. Akiba-Jones, bass, songwriter
A band from Yorkshire that sounds a lot like The Sundays and Australian band Frente. Beautiful songs, and wonderful female voice by Melody Jones, a candidate for a title of Sandy Denny of today. Now the I mention that type of singing, you should also check out Heather Nova. They recorded their album in Martin Barre's studio, the guy who dealt with The Jethro Tull. I would also point out that all of the songs posses a great guitar coloring by Heathfield and Rayner, who seem to be influenced by Clive Gregson, but the whole thing is a bit more discrete. They are maybe a little too repetitive for my taste, but they make it up by the beauty of sound that you simply don't want to stop.
Contact: meechan@tinyonline.co.uk
Listen to these nice songs taken from their "Exotic Town" cd to get a better picture...
Images: Mike and Mark in action and Huw and Mike disgracing themselves in a Tokyo bar. Karaoke? :)
