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The Freudian Slippz ...
We are a four/five piece band playing original music. We play melodic rock
music with influences blending from rock, Latino, classical, folk, blues
and jazz sources. The emphasis is on strong melody lines and chorus with
a dancing, toe-tapping rhythm. Originally formed in 2008 this current
line up has been together since summer 2013. We are:
Bill Beatroot: Bass guitar and backing vocals
Gordon Fraser: Drums and backing vocals
Katey Ann Fraser: Guest Lead Vocals
www.kateyannfraser.co.uk
David Mann: Guitar and vocals
Roy Nelham: Congas and percussion
You can find out more about The Freudian Slippz here:
Video from Angelfest 4 - May 2015
Videos From The Grey Lady 17/7/14
YouTube Video "Gift of A Day"
YouTube
Video "Heartbeat"
My Space
Facebook
“Heartbeat”, our first EP, was Recorded at
The Granary Studio, Lamberhurst 28/8/11
Engineered and Mixed by Guy Denning.
To buy our EP as MP3
downloads with PayPal please click here
Biographies ...
David Mann, “the singing psychotherapist!” plays guitar and lead
vocals and is actually a Freudian psychotherapist in his day-job! For
more information see his web-site:
www.counsellingtherapysoutheast.co.uk At school he played the
clarinet but found his true form of musical self expression when he took
up the guitar. His guitar influences are the usual suspects: Richard
Thompson, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Robert Fripp, Jimmy Page --- but
he honestly can’t play half as well as any of them! His song writing
reflects influences from his wide taste in music: though essentially
rock, there are shades, notes, colours, tones and rhythms from Latino,
classical, jazz, blues, folk and world music. He has always had trouble
writing his own lyrics. In his teens he put poems by William Blake,
Lewis Carroll and others to music. These days he co-writes with his
wife, Michelle, who puts the words to the voice of The Freudian Slippz.
Michelle MacGrath, lyric writer, is a published poet. She has
been translating Russian poetry and writing her own since her early
twenties, initially to record key events, ideas, observations and moods.
She has been writing songs with David since 2009 and in that time they
have written a large number of songs – ‘and now we know how many songs
it takes to fill the Albert Hall’.
Bill Beatroot started playing guitar in the eponymous band,
"Billy and the Beatroots", whilst still at school.
At university he played bass in a band named "Blue Smoke" which
supported acts such as "The Ronettes". Bill still enjoys occasional
musical reunions with colleagues from these earlier bands. Bill
joined the Freudian Slippz, contributing to David's and Gordon's
melodic sound as of summer 2013. Bill’s bass influences include Jack
Bruce and Mark Tobik. You will probably have heard of the former but not
the latter who plays with the incomparable Kate Voegele.
Gordon Fraser, drums and backing vocals, started playing the drums at
school in the 70’s, he was in a couple of school bands and has been
playing on and off with friends ever since. After a period of not
playing but feeling that something was missing in his life he dusted off
his kit and joined The Freudian Slippz in January 2010 and has been
enjoying making music with the band
ever since! Gordon is also a
Computer Consultant, for more information his web site is
www.1canhelp.com
Katey Ann Fraser, actress and extraordinary singer guests on lead
vocals for us check out her web page on
www.kateyannfraser.co.uk
Roy Nelham, I have always been interested in music from the
rhythm/drumming perspective rarely hearing or remembering the words of
songs. In 1990 I attended a drum and percussion workshop in Brighton
held by Vincent Salzfaaz and was hooked. I was given my first drum, a
Gumbe African drum, as a Birthday present from my wife later that year
with the message “stop talking about it so much and go and do it!”. I
immediately started attending Vincent’s weekly group drum classes in
Hastings it wasn’t long before we were on Hastings sea front giving a
“concert”. Alison Surridge, now ”House of Rhythm”, was in the group and
set up her own drum circle in Waldron and I transferred there. The group
grew and I acquired a Djembe drum and with some core members gave one or
two performances. In the late 1990’s, 7 of us, including Alison, formed
"Tricky Beats", a successful Sussex African drum and percussion band. I
preferred base rhythms so I acquired a Bougarabou (African base drum),
Conga drums, Bongo Drums, etc and joined the two others in the base line
up. Tricky Beats gave many performances at weddings, Birthdays,
concerts, Brighton African Night Fever, Heathfield Show and Le Marche
and many others, often with repeat performances. We recorded and
produced two CD’s. In 2012 our lead drummer arranger and drum teacher
decided to return to more instrumental music as well as his drum classes
so Tricky Beats wound up at the end of the year. In 2013 I invited
myself along to a Freudian Slippz rehearsal to see if they would accept
me as percussionist in addition to their successful line-up.
Fortunately, they agreed. |
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Recordings by
The Freudian Slippz |
All songs copyright
Mann, MacGrath
and The Freudian Slippz
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