🎤 Music has been in my life since I can remember ….My dad had one of the old style reel tape recorders which I’d listen to for hours as a child!

My sisters first boyfriend was in a Band called Nitewolf, they were heavily influenced by Status Quo and I must have been 11/12 yrs old at the time and was allowed to attend their Gigs!

I learnt to play a few Instruments over the years ~ Fife, Flute, Clarinet, a little Keyboard and Singing; I was in the School Band and Choirs, but haven’t played for years!

My son’s father is a Drummer and Sound Engineer – when I was with him I spent 7 years in the Music Scene in Brisbane and London, many times I was their driver come roadie and met some wonderful characters along the way… especially at the Glastonbury & Reading Festivals!

I owned a great collection of Vinyl but about 12 years ago sadly I lost them when they got wrecked in some floods we had :(

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# Some of my All-time Favourite Bands n Albums:-

(When I listen to them… they remind me of great times, places and people ~ and some sad ones  too, but they make up my Tapestry!)

• Billy Holiday ~ The Best Of
• Eartha Kitt ~ Essential Eartha Kitt
• James Brown ~ Star Time
• Elvis ~ 30 #1 Hits
• Wayne Newton ~ Mr Las Vegas
• Tom Jones ~ Gold
• Leonard  Cohen ~ The Essential
• Frank Sinatra ~ Nothing but the Best
• Nancy Sinatra ~ Nancy & Lee, Nancy in London, How does that grab you & Sugar
• Lulu ~ The Golden Collection
• Joni Mitchell ~ Blue
• Beatles ~ Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band, Abbey Road, The White Album, & Revolver
• The Monkeys ~Music Box
• The Who ~ My Generation & Ultimate Collection
• The Kinks ~ The Singles Collection
• Jefferson Airplane ~ Surrealistic Pillow
• Love ~ Forever Changes
• Jethro Tull ~ The Best Of
• Bob Dylan ~Highway 61 Revisited, Bringing it all back home & Bob Dylan
• Van Morrison ~ Moondance
• Eagles ~ Hotel Calinfornia
• Led Zepplin ~ House of the Holly, Led Zepplin, Led Zepplin II & IV
• Creedence Clearwater Revival ~ Chronicles Vol. 1
• Bread ~The Best Of
• The Doors ~ The Doors & LA Woman
• Pink Floyd~ The Wall & Wish you were here
• The Rolling Stones ~ Best Of
• John Lennon ~ Imagine, & Power to the People
• Carole King ~ Tapestry
• Kate Bush ~ Sensual World, Lionheart, Never for ever, The Kick Inside & The Whole Story
• David Bowie ~ Changes, Hunky Dory, Heros, Scary Monsters, Diamond Dogs, Ziggy Stardust n the spiders from Mars & Aladdin Sane
• Gong ~ Camambert Electrique
• Can ~ Ege Bamyasi & Tago Mayo
• Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band ~ Trout Mask Replica
• Velvet Underground ~ Andy Warhol
• Abba ~ Arrival & Abba Gold
• Blondie ~ Parallel Lines
• Patti Smith ~ Horses
• The Pretenders ~ Pretenders
• Radiohead ~ The Best Of
• Madness ~ Complete Madness 
• The Specials ~ Specials
• Sex Pistols ~ Never Mind the Bullocks & The Greatest Rock n Roll Swindle
• The Clash ~ London Calling
• The Dead Kennedy’s ~Give me Convenience or Give me Death, & Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
• The Violent Femmes ~ Permanet Record
• The Smiths ~ The Sound of The Smiths
• The Cure ~ Greatest Hits
• Siouxsie & The Banshees ~Once Upon a Time
• The Scientists ~ Sound Box Essentials
• REM  ~ Monster, Automatic for the people, Out of time & Green
• U2 ~ U218 Singles, Achtung Baby & All that you can’t leave behind
• Jeff Buckley ~ Grace
• Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds ~ The Best Of
• The Birthday Party ~ Junkyard, & Mutiny
• Nirvana ~ Nevermind
• Sonic Youth ~ Day Dream Nation, & Goo
• Dinosaur Jr ~ Green Mind
• The Gun Club ~ Miami, & Las Vegas Story
• Butthole Surfers ~ Hairway to Steven & Locust Abortion Technician
• Funkadelic ~ Maggot Brain
• Cardiacs ~ The Seaside
• UT ~ Conviction, In Gut’s House, & Griller
• Silverfish ~Cockeye & Fat Axl
• The Smashing Pumpkins ~ Siamese Dream & Mellon Collie and the infinate sadness
• Portishead ~ Dummy
• PJ Harvey ~ To bring you my love
• Garbage ~G “Garbage”
• The Pixies ~ Wave of mutilation
• The Breeders ~ Last splash
• The Sundays ~Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
• Mazzy Star ~ So tonight I might see
• Natalie Merchant ~ Retrospective
• Kings of Leon ~ Aha Shake Heartbreak
• INXS ~ Kick
• Silverchair ~ Frogstomp
• The Sugar Cubes ~ Life’s too Good, & The Great Crossover Potential
• Bjork ~ Debut, Post
• Tori Amos ~ Under the Pink, Boys for the Pele
• Dido ~ No Angel, Life for rent
• Des’ree ~ I ain’t moving, & Supernatural
• Tracey Chapman ~ Tracey Chapman
• Deborah Conway ~ String of pearls
• Crowded House ~ Together Alone, The very very Best of
• Powderfinger ~ Fingerprints and  Footprints
• Bernard Fanning ~ Tea and Sympathy
• The Clouds ~ Penny Century, Hieronymus
• Frente – (Angie Hart) Marvin the Album
• Def Fx ~Light Speed Collision
• Missy Higgins – The sound of white, On a clear night, The Ol’ Razzle Dazzle
• George – (Katie Noonan) ~ Polyserena
• Something for Kate – Beautiful Sharks
• Leonardo’s Bride – (Abby Dobson) Angel Blood
• Massive Attack ~ Mezzanine
• Coldplay ~ Yellow, Parachutes, X and Y, & Rush of Blood to the Head

# Some New Stuff:

• Adele ~ 19 & 21
• Alicia Keyes ~ Element of Freedom
• Nelly Furtardo ~ Folklore
• Norah Jones ~ Come away with me
• Sarak Blasko ~ As day follows night
• Lisa Mitchell ~ Oh! Hark
• Evermore ~ Real Life
• The Fray ~ How to save a life
• Florence & The Machine ~ Singles
• Mumford & Sons ~ Sigh no more
• Ed Sheeran ~ +
• Michael Franti & Spearhead ~ Everyone Deserves Music
• Muse ~ Blackholes & Revelations
• Dave Matthews Band ~ Europe 2009
• Matthew Baber ~ Ghost Notes
• Yael Naim ~ Yael Naim
• Damien Rice ~ O
• Josh Pyke – Memories & Dust
• Sia – (Kate Furler) – Best Of
• The Waifs – (Vickki Thorn) – Single
• The Audrey’s – (Taasha Coates) – Collected
• Little Birdy – (Katie Steele) – Single
• Goyte ~ Making Mirrors
• Angus & Julia Stone ~ Down the way