Gena Dry
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General Info
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Genre: Acoustic / Alternative / Indie
Location London and South East, UK
Profile Views: 11287
Last Login: 4/16/2010
Member Since 2/28/2006
Website genadry.com
Record Label One Step Ahead Records
Type of Label Indie
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Bio
.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. Gena Dry. 1963 - 2010. Gone but never to be forgotten. .. .. She's a pre-glitz Polly Harvey mapping out the uncharted emotional territory between nights out and moving in; a smoker-songwriter with a larynx as elastic as Diamanda Galas (if you push her hard enough), the B52's cruising over the Velvet's late nite New York. Just don't ask her to agree with you about any of this, that's all. The strange name, then: brought up in deepest South London by a mother forced to flee Hungary (and her aristocratic privileges) on the arrival of the Russians; the teenage Gena found herself fitting in with the sleepy hang-ups of suburbia about as easily as, well, an exile. Having secured an escape route via a degree course at Goldsmiths (Blur/Damien Hirst) she enrolled in as many bands as any student union can hold before realising that there was only going to be one way of doing this: hers. The obligatory twilight period soon came calling. Here, deep in the singer-songwriterly otherworld of Denmark Street's legendary folk-club hangout the 12 Bar Club, Gena started playing solo and attracting the attention of the rock-biz royalty wing of artist-management (Queen downwards, basically), who saw her as a 21st Century Kate Bush. Shunning the suffocating deals put to her-all along the lines of Gena ditching the spiky, brutalist approach of her songs for a more 'commercial' sheen'- she decided there was only one thing these would-be Svengali's 'hadn't' suggested: form a band and play her acid-tinged Patti Smith blues at every dive-bar that would have her. Which is where you come in. Mystery and longing. Late nite romance and diamonds in the gutter. Hang up 'and' people hanging up. Gena's here to tell you about it, and all in a voice you've never heard before. Not to be missed. Paul Moody (NME) .. .. .. .. .. -
Members
Gena Dry - vocals and guitars Andy Miller - guitars (Dodgy) John Frennett - bass (Laika & Moonshake) Daniel Strittmatter - drums (High Llamas, Mike Scott & Ian MacNabb) ...... ...... -
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P J Harvey, Sinead O'Connor, Alanis Morissette, Bjork, Patti Smith, Velvet Underground, Jeff Buckley, B52's, Blondie, Talking Heads -
Sounds Like
P J Harvey, Kate Bush, B52's, Velvet Underground (Paul Moody NME)
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