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Photo by William Laviano
The story so far...
Mary Leay and guitarist Greg Sinden
start composing in 1999, escape from native East Grinstead to play virtually every acoustic night in the
country and gain startling early praise for the
EPs 'who will miss mary…?', 'Without You' and
'Live at the Kashmir Klub'.
Bassist Ian Holdaway and drummer Tim Thornton completed the line-up in 2002, followed shortly by the release of the mini-album
'Safe', constant gigging and major events such as the London City
Showcase, where The Guardian pronounced them
“the highlight of the day," adding that “singer Mary Leay’s range, delicacy and power would shame any Pop Idol contestant."
The summer of 2003 saw the Marys play the Sesiwn Fawr
festival followed by a stupidly fantastic tour of New York
City in the autumn to enormous acclaim, and in 2004
came 'Over', followed by the Off The Tracks
Festival and the Uncut Stage at Guilfest
2004, their first major festival performance.
2005 saw the arrival
of Dom Goundar on drums, a huge gig at the Garage and an obvious
re-booking for Guilfest 2005, supporting Hayseed Dixie
back on the Uncut Stage. Following the departure of the
lovely Tim and Dom that September, and the introduction of
Jonny South on drums early on in 2006, the band played
gigs throughout the year with new material including
another glorious summer Sunday at Guilfest 2006 on the
Ents24 Stage with The Waterboys to complete their
hat-trick!
More recently there
have been some exciting changes. Greg & Mary have
decided that after 7 fantastic years of recording and 159
gigs it's time to explore different avenues of music
and take a few chances. Mary heads towards the path of
solo artists and songwriting along a more country/bluesy style whilst Greg is looking forward to recording
'Lay Down', 'Sooner Or Later', 'Go', & 'Heading For
A Fall' under the WWMM? banner with a few twists, some
friends new & old and a variety of vocals. Mary and
Greg most sincerely offer each other the best of luck with
their future projects and are sure one day their paths
will cross again in some musical form or other. Good luck!
We'd both like to
thank everyone who over the last 7 years has given their
support to the various WWMM? line-ups. Firstly Ian &
Jonny for being very patient whilst we all work out what's
going on from here, those who have come to our gigs,
played with us, promoted us, recorded us, considered
signing us, done legal stuff, given us advice, let us play
at their venues, financed us, bought the CDs and kept us
going with a few pints and a chat every now and then! We're very grateful.
Watch this space
over the next few weeks for more news, take care and enjoy
2007...
Greg
xx
Contact (e-mail) : Greg
Sinden Tel : 01273
708820 Mob :
07941 336829
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