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Artist Name: Lorraine Bowen
Album Name: Songs From the Living Room (2002 hit compilation)
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Artist Name: Lorraine Bowen
Album Name: Songs From the Living Room (2002 hit compilation)
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From http://www.lorrainebowen.co.uk/:
Lorraine Bowen was born in a caravanette in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire in 1961, granddaughter of the famous beekeeper, Arthur Bowen of Bowen's Bees. When she was 17, the family went on a safari in Africa when her mother won first prize in a Shredded Wheat Competition and life was never the same again!
Lorraine achieved a Bachelor of Music degree at Surrey University and a secretarial diploma and thereafter balanced temping with busking around Piccadilly. After bartering her singing lessons for bass guitar lessons, she got into the indie band "See You In Vegas" and played bass for about three years .
In 1986 she joined up with songwriter/lyricist, Mick Jackson and founded the acoustic outfit, "The Dinner Ladies" who made two albums on Hannibal Records, "These Knees Have Seen the World" and "A Tree To Breathe".
During her time with the Dinner Ladies she was spotted by Billy Bragg, auditioned (whilst his regular pianist was on maternity leave) and suddenly found herself playing piano live on stage with him at the Manchester Opera House in the autumn of 1988.
Lorraine continued to play piano with Billy over three European tours and then back in England on his album "The Internationale" contributing recorder, accordion and backing vocals. Next she helped out in the studio on Billy's vocal production of that hit single "Sexuality" and in fact that whole album, "Don't Try This At Home".
Billy Bragg wrote, "You're A Star!" on Lorraine's birthday card and at the end of the album tour, he encouraged Lorraine to start a solo act. Thus the Lorraine Bowen Experience was born - the first live gig being at the Diorama in central London with three songs (on piano, accordion and bass guitar). To date she's now reached the grand sum of fifty five recorded songs! An early review in Melody Maker quotes "in her baggy white jumper she's pure sex!".
A major source of inspiration and hard work in the early days was the Canadian fringe festivals, which Lorraine joined in with for five years. Hour long shows from Winnipeg to Vancouver helped her shape her art of audience participation coupled with humour and her British way of going on and went down really well over there. This led on to tours in the States culminating in headlining the Vancouver Comedy Festival in 1998 and having her fabulous song, "Julie Christie" starring in the Canadian Film "Better Than Chocolate" which is widely regarded as a top film overseas.
Over in England Lorraine's television credits include using her Crumble Song as a theme tune for BBC3's comedy show "Marigold", appearances on Channel 4's The Big Breakfast, The Divine David Show and 2 music videos on Adam and Joe's Take-Over TV. On ITV, Lorraine performed weekly on The Paul Ross Show and on BBC2, she made a guest appearance on the youth pop programme The Ozone. She has also appeared as top guest on the UK Style programme FAB PADS. Radio credits include writing songs for numerous shows including Radio 4's "A House is no a Home", jingles for radio presenters, singing her songs on BBC Radio 4's Radio Shuttleworth and composing and singing songs on Radio 2's hit comedy series, "Heated Rollers" .
Over in Japan, some groovy producers heard of Lorraine's talents and asked her to sing on their cover version of the Eurythmic's hit, "There Must Be An Angel". It became a huge club hit all over the world and got to number 6 in the Japanese charts!. The producers? - top Japanese outfit, Fantastic Plastic Machine. New re-mixes are being discovered every week! Since this session, Lorraine has been ask to collaborate with many British /Japanese and Italian DJs, writing melodies and lyrics for their terrific backing tracks. Look out for TiTiCoCo with DJ Robert Passera, "ZoZoi" on dejavu records with Paolo Scotti and "High Heels" with DJ Taylor.
On her own label, Sequin Skirt, Lorraine has arranged and produced FOUR CDs: Greatest Hits Volume One was made in 1995, Greatest Hits Volume Two in 1998, BOSSY NOVA" in 2000.and Lorraine Bowen's Vital Organs in 2006. Lorraine celebrates the new opportunities the internet has to offer independent artists like herself. It's relatively easy now to self-produce CDs and offer them internationally on the internet via paypal. MySpace is another exciting new venture she is involved with and she is always excited about new technological advancements that can make it easier to hear new music and enjoy what she started producing so many CDs ago!
Lorraine Bowen was born in a caravanette in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire in 1961, granddaughter of the famous beekeeper, Arthur Bowen of Bowen's Bees. When she was 17, the family went on a safari in Africa when her mother won first prize in a Shredded Wheat Competition and life was never the same again!
Lorraine achieved a Bachelor of Music degree at Surrey University and a secretarial diploma and thereafter balanced temping with busking around Piccadilly. After bartering her singing lessons for bass guitar lessons, she got into the indie band "See You In Vegas" and played bass for about three years .
In 1986 she joined up with songwriter/lyricist, Mick Jackson and founded the acoustic outfit, "The Dinner Ladies" who made two albums on Hannibal Records, "These Knees Have Seen the World" and "A Tree To Breathe".
During her time with the Dinner Ladies she was spotted by Billy Bragg, auditioned (whilst his regular pianist was on maternity leave) and suddenly found herself playing piano live on stage with him at the Manchester Opera House in the autumn of 1988.
Lorraine continued to play piano with Billy over three European tours and then back in England on his album "The Internationale" contributing recorder, accordion and backing vocals. Next she helped out in the studio on Billy's vocal production of that hit single "Sexuality" and in fact that whole album, "Don't Try This At Home".
Billy Bragg wrote, "You're A Star!" on Lorraine's birthday card and at the end of the album tour, he encouraged Lorraine to start a solo act. Thus the Lorraine Bowen Experience was born - the first live gig being at the Diorama in central London with three songs (on piano, accordion and bass guitar). To date she's now reached the grand sum of fifty five recorded songs! An early review in Melody Maker quotes "in her baggy white jumper she's pure sex!".
A major source of inspiration and hard work in the early days was the Canadian fringe festivals, which Lorraine joined in with for five years. Hour long shows from Winnipeg to Vancouver helped her shape her art of audience participation coupled with humour and her British way of going on and went down really well over there. This led on to tours in the States culminating in headlining the Vancouver Comedy Festival in 1998 and having her fabulous song, "Julie Christie" starring in the Canadian Film "Better Than Chocolate" which is widely regarded as a top film overseas.
Over in England Lorraine's television credits include using her Crumble Song as a theme tune for BBC3's comedy show "Marigold", appearances on Channel 4's The Big Breakfast, The Divine David Show and 2 music videos on Adam and Joe's Take-Over TV. On ITV, Lorraine performed weekly on The Paul Ross Show and on BBC2, she made a guest appearance on the youth pop programme The Ozone. She has also appeared as top guest on the UK Style programme FAB PADS. Radio credits include writing songs for numerous shows including Radio 4's "A House is no a Home", jingles for radio presenters, singing her songs on BBC Radio 4's Radio Shuttleworth and composing and singing songs on Radio 2's hit comedy series, "Heated Rollers" .
Over in Japan, some groovy producers heard of Lorraine's talents and asked her to sing on their cover version of the Eurythmic's hit, "There Must Be An Angel". It became a huge club hit all over the world and got to number 6 in the Japanese charts!. The producers? - top Japanese outfit, Fantastic Plastic Machine. New re-mixes are being discovered every week! Since this session, Lorraine has been ask to collaborate with many British /Japanese and Italian DJs, writing melodies and lyrics for their terrific backing tracks. Look out for TiTiCoCo with DJ Robert Passera, "ZoZoi" on dejavu records with Paolo Scotti and "High Heels" with DJ Taylor.
On her own label, Sequin Skirt, Lorraine has arranged and produced FOUR CDs: Greatest Hits Volume One was made in 1995, Greatest Hits Volume Two in 1998, BOSSY NOVA" in 2000.and Lorraine Bowen's Vital Organs in 2006. Lorraine celebrates the new opportunities the internet has to offer independent artists like herself. It's relatively easy now to self-produce CDs and offer them internationally on the internet via paypal. MySpace is another exciting new venture she is involved with and she is always excited about new technological advancements that can make it easier to hear new music and enjoy what she started producing so many CDs ago!
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