Rossanne Hamilton - Official Website

'Attic Tapes/Live At The Thunderbolt 09’ (Double EP, self-released) "Classically trained Bristolian pianist-singer Rossanne Hamilton here offers a beautifully packaged (black lace-bound booklet, original illustrations from a variety of profit-sharing artists…) showcase of her talents. It’s ambitious and higher-educated fare full of words like “reticence” and “innocuous”, Hamilton’s light and acrobatic voice given to many an expressive twist and turn. The remorseless girliness of everything (“It’s a big, big world when you’re on your own” – ‘Delicate Wires’) is mercifully zhuzhed up by bursts of Regina Spektor-ish eccentricity, while the live half of this double EP package suggests a live setting affects Hamilton like a shot of the purest endorphins – she is sweeter, sharper, more finely modulated, more alive, and must snatch the audience’s breath clean away. A charmer." - Anna Britten, Venue Magazine "crystal clear voice...arty songs...as wordy as those of Ani DiFranco, and she sent her melodies on unexpected twists and turns that continued to surprise. It was a very impressive performance with a great deal of charm that made you want to hear more." - Keith Clark, from the Bristol Evening Post. Read the rest of the review here - http://www.crackerjack.co.uk/bristol/review/furlined-thunderbolt/music
I'm Bristol-based (UK) and classically trained in singing and piano, but now I have to write minimalistic piano parts and use a loopstation because I have developed nerve pain in my hands and arms. Sometimes I just think "sod it" though and put in some hectic Beethovenesque stuff. The album “live at the thunderbolt” was recorded at the Thunderbolt in Bristol in 2009, where I was asked to perform at late notice as a warm up act for Furlined. I'm currently giving copies of the album away for free since the gig was a week after an operation which left my throat raw from the general anaesthetic tube and my brain high on codeine. Some of the time I play with Charlie Rose - violinist extraordinaire. But occassionally Bernadette Pike will join me on stage for some harmony action. ABA records, Jelli records and NP records have shown an interest in my music, but I remain unsigned and I'm planning to record my first proper album (bedroom recording doesn't count), which will be called “Strange Creatures”.