rachel
singer/songwriter/performer
rachel singer/songwriter/performer
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She, and her management, wish to express the most heartfelt thanks to Kenny Moreland who has helped make the last six months enjoyable, successful, passionate and worthwhile. Kenny will be out and about in the Brighton area gigging in support of his stunning debut album, Cloudburst. Check here for more Kenny Moreland details ..
A change of pace brought us the
second
‘Best of Brighton’
band of the night,
Just Bizarre.
Consisting of the aforementioned
Rachel Innes; on vocals,
keyboards and tambourine, as well as the ultra-talented
singer/songwriter/guitarist
Kenny Moreland .. we were
presented with an acoustic mix of Celtic, soul, r&b and jazz. Being sandwiched
between two full-on electric bands can’t have been easy for JB, but they won
through with flying colours.
My memories of the Doug Hoekstra Spring 2002 England/Scotland Tour are an unfading collection of images, each one sharper than the last. From the granite architecture of Glasgow to the blood red sunset in Portmahomack, each image evokes a memory of the places and faces I encountered. Click here to view images from Rachel's week in Scotland
Sometimes actions are born from necessity. In this case Virtual Brighton Magazine deemed it a screaming necessity to kick-off its season of monthly Best of Brighton events with the best line-up of local bands currently waiting in the wings for bigger things. Agent J, Just Bizarre and Garrett will all take to the stage of The Hanbury Ballroom, during the evening of Thursday 27th June 2002, and seek to prove their hard-earned credentials as the Best of Brighton.
On the second night of their Scottish jaunt Rachel & Doug Hoekstra appeared on BBC Radio Scotland's 'Celtic Connection'. The interview and session is archived @ http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/radioscotland/audio_clips_2.shtml#celtic .. Click on Doug Hoekstra link .. (The) City's (Brighton) rising daughter Rachel Innes, wrapping her soulful vocals around his simple yet perfectly constructed songs, which provided eloquent evidence for why (Doug) Hoekstra's already bagged three Grammy nominations. Innes has a voice that fits neatly between Aretha Franklin and Portishead's Beth Gibbons .. (Taken from the Guardian Online..)
The Greys, Brighton, is known locally as the make-or-break performance-epicentre for aspiring upwardly mobile duos & singer/songwriters . As Just Bizarre shed bucketfuls of adrenalin, Jon Pratty, former Sunday Times journalist and present Editor of 24hourmuseum.org, snapped away happily as he tried to capture the moment that will be immortalised on the cover of the imminent 'Just Bizarre Live @ The Greys CD.'
Rachel Innes is joining the Doug Hoekstra combo for the Scottish leg of his tour (dates below). She'll be spreading the Just Bizarre word through the lowlands & highlands. Rachel will be adding backing-vocals to Doug's whispering gems .. future mailing will include a feature on the Nashville-based maestro. Check out Doug Hoekstra's 'Live & On Tour' section @ http://www.doughoekstra.com for his latest tour itinerary Monday, May 27 - The Village, 16 South Fort Street, Leith, Edinburgh. (w/ ). Doors at 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 28 - Celtic Connection, BBC Scotland, 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 28 - Cafe, 50-60 King Street, Glasgow, Scotland, 141-553-1638 (w/John Miller of ). Doors at 9 p.m. Wednesday, May 29 - , Glenfarg Perth Scotland, 1577-830-216 (w/John Miller of Radio Sweethearts) Thursday, May 30 - The Blue Lamp, 121 Gallowgate, Aberdeen, Scotland, 1224-647999 Friday, May 31 - , 5 West North Street, Aberdeen, 1224-647999 – 1 p.m.  Just
Bizarre Set For 45 Minutes @
The Greys
Rachel's new band,
Just Bizarre, mark their
official launch @
The Greys, Brighton, on
28 April. Tickets are priced £6, and
Just Bizarre
will be playing a 45 minute set.
Check out the band site @
http://www.oocities.org/justbizarreuk, and
http://www.greyspub.com
Rachel's band, Just Bizarre, wanna exclusively let you in on a little secret. On the evening of Sunday 19 May, Rachel & Kenny will be headlining the Hanbury Ballroom, Brighton. Yup, a potential 180 punters screaming and shouting for more. Could it get any better? Well, yes, apparently .. Because, opening the evening is non other than the mega-talented and truly gentle, Doug Hoekstra. He of 'Around The Margins' fame has tipped his hat and recognised that in their town, Just Bizarre call the shots. Brighton & Hove truly is a one band town .... Watch this space!!
Kenny and myself were blessed with glorious weather, so resulting bike-ride wasn’t too cruel on either the soul or voice. Arrived @ Strummers Studio and stood anxiously waiting for the arrival of proprietor, ‘Ken’. With things going so well within the band, & these weekly rehearsals, I wanted in! Kenny Moreland & myself posed for pictures .. Watch this space .. and then it was down to business. With gigs imminent @ The Greys & 12-Bar we needed to be tight & up-to-speed.
As first gigs go, a late Monday @ The Evening Star was never going to be easy for Virtual Brighton Magazine’s (VBM) featured band, Just Bizarre. For the uninitiated, The Evening Star, Surrey Street, Brighton, is a homely non-spit-and-polish (in the current climate of fake plastic trees, that’s a compliment) one-level drinking den. It offers rocket fuel (lager is for Hove Softies) to its clientele, and plays regular host to a Monday night open-mic for the up-and-coming & the just-plain-brave.
"Hello, would you be interested in sitting in on one of our recording sessions?" "Um, thanks, but who are you?"
You know we get busy here @ Virtual Brighton Magazine (VBM) and sometimes
it's hard to keep the old interest levels fuelled to max.
Innes/Moreland © 2002 Clicking on Virginia Woolf (illustration by Mandy Hills), above, activates an exclusive clip of 'Remember'. The track was recorded, as a demo, @ Metway Studios (home to The Levellers) during March 2002.Just Bizarre
Play Acoustic Night
You've been asking in your droves .. so here, as promised, is your first
chance to catch
Rachel Innes &
Kenny Moreland's new band,
just bizarre, live.
Thursday 4
April:
OPEN
HOUSE/PERFORMER
146 Springfield
Road
Brighton
BN1 6BZ
Tel.
No.(01273)605789/502446
Fax
(01273) 502471
It's a Metway
acoustic night: "Stripping three Brighton bands to the bone."
Just Bizarre on first @
8.30pm. £5/£3.50nhs/nus/conc.
All-round-gentleman and extraordinarily talented,
Doug Hoekstra,
has agreed to lend his support to a forthcoming Rachel
Innes promoted event.
Doug will slot into the bill, at a yet to be announced
venue on 19th May, that's all set to include:
Rachel & Kenny
Moreland's exciting new band, Just Bizarre,
The
Jake Rousham Blues Band, a performance of flamenco at
its best, featuring Anna
Leon, Jon Pratty's exclusive
showing of his new '1930s classically styled' shots of Rachel,
brightonwrites.com
literary extravaganza, Mandy Hills' display of illustrations (set to
appear in Rachel's forthcoming book
'Red As The Fire In Me', free food
& drinks and much more ..
Jake Rousham, a professional sound engineer @ Metway Studios, Brighton, has given Rachel three backing tracks, with a view to Rachel writing lyrics and then recording the numbers for possible future release. To read the whole feature .. CLICK HERE
Kenny Moreland, a renowned singer-songwriter in his own right, joins Rachel's band-in-the-making, 'Just Bizarre'. To read the whole feature .. CLICK HERE
During the first half of this year Rachel Innes will be lending her support to the UK's largest arts-based Festival. Brighton Festival 2002 will include a Young People's Multimedia Day, based around digital video, music, web pages, photography, writing, dance for camera & more. Rachel's ecommerce site, R.I.B Music, is named as one of the sponsors of the event, which has been organised by Sussex Community Internet Project, under the banner, Virtual Festival 2002.
Mike Bell has completed Electric Girl (Lost Nebula Mix) - the definitive version of his popular Rachel Innes collaboration. Mike urges you to: "Follow Electric Girl as she enters her melancholy years, abreast of too much sorrow, wishing for the world where horror is no more. "She travels through the nebulas, seeking comfort in their myriad arrangements of colours, and dreams..."
Following on from the critical success of 'Electric
Girl', Rachel's second second collaboration, 'This
Feeling', recently peaked at No.3, on the Besonic UK Dance
& Electronic chart.
Rachel
describes the hit song: "The lyrics to 'This Feeling'
have a kind of Sade feel to them, as they drift over the interwoven musings of
Mike
Bell's clever dance music.
"The hook is a catchy combination of vocal highs and lows.The thought behind the lyrics was about falling in love and how it feels. "How did your first boyfriend/girlfriend make you feel? Did your heart melt when they touched you? Falling in love, the anticipation and excitement of a first date."
To purchase a copy of 'This
Feeling' send £5.00/$10.00 to:
Mike Cobley RIB Music c/o NTD 9 - 12 Middle Street Brighton England BN1 1AL 
mike.cobley@btinternet.com
Are you able to get to Rachel's forthcoming gigs in the South of England? If you are .. entrance may be free! All we ask is that you surf over to Rachel's Music Page, listen to as many Rachel tracks as you can, and let us know what you think of them. Be honest .. a bad review won't make you a marked man or woman! Drop your words of wisdom to mike.cobley@btinternet.com and I'll forward a list of gigs, as they're confirmed, for you to chose your free pair of tickets. Oh! You'll get to meet the beautiful Ms Innes back stage as well. Wow .. I'm scribbling already!!
A big thank you goes out from Rachel to all those who voted for the cover of Rachel's forthcoming book of poetry and lyrics, Red As The Fire In Me. We now have a winner .. Cover 1 .. Intrigued? Pop over to Rachel's official site and have a look @ illustrator Mandy Hill's excellent work.
From The Sound Of Music to the magnificence of her sound - Rachel Innes talks us through her creative journey from ballet and classical piano to the release of her debut CD, Open Face, and her forthcoming book of poetry, Red As The Fire In Me. To read the whole feature .. CLICK HERE
In the first part of Mike Bell's feature SeeLife delved into the background of the independent dance music composer .. now we look @ his recent collaboration with SeeLife's featured artist, Rachel Innes, and his feelings on mp3.com and the future of independent online recording artists. To read the whole feature .. CLICK HERE
Rachel has followed up her successful debut ten-track CD, Open Face, with a 5-track EP, Space Girl. Space Girl features the heavily downloaded opening track, Electric Girl (enigmation dream mix), as well as Electric Girl (radio edit) and three tracks from Open Face. Both Open Face and Space
Girl are available, for £10 and £5 respectively, from INK MUSIC, PO Box 51, Falmouth,
Cornwall TR11 4YU.
Interested in booking Rachel Innes
for a show in the UK?
RIB Music
© R.I.B Music Limited 2001 & 2002
Recent Media Coverage of Rachel Innes
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Rachel
Innes is taking a well-earned sabbatical and will be back with a new sound,
new set, new website and all new-team. 
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Open Face Track Lisiting And Details 
