Big Linda
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Big Linda is 22 year old Rob Alder (born in Bishop Stortford, “a singer who genuinely looks like a young Jim Morrison” – Sunday Times), Patrick Murdoch (born on the Wirral, grew up occasionally in Hong Kong, a guitarist who shreds his strings by playing them with a drumstick), Vezio Bacci (born in Rome, epicurean and bass sophisticate) and Geoff Holroyde (born in Peterborough, hair by Rock Manes Inc, a ringer for the Muppet’s Animal) and their story goes like this: Holroyde bumped into Murdoch at Metropolis Studios where they decided to jam together. Producer Andy Wright subsequently introduced the pair to a mystery man who offered to fly them both to Antigua to record some songs at the island’s palatial Pelican Lodge Studios. Blithely, brilliantly they agreed, thereby necessitating a course of events that would see them bump into Bacci at Antigua’s main airport terminal. They recorded nine songs in the hills, came up with an amazingly “ludicrous” name (after hearing that their mysterious benefactor occasionally, ahem, corresponded with a Madame with just such a name) and then came home. Back home and some time after this, Holroyde noticed the quiet, unassuming Alder locked in his own thoughts in a corner of Townhouse Studios. He looked like a young Jim Morrison and something about him made Holroyde wonder whether he sounded like him too. And when Holroyde heard him sing, Big Linda knew they had their man.
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Pauli_ wrote:
All I've heard from this band is the cover of The Beatles' Glass Onion, and it must be one of the best Beatles covers I've heard, alongside with Fiona Apple's Across the Universe. I have to check this band out.
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ScottRose wrote:
Too bad their record has been discontinued so it's stinkingly expensive, I only now got into them..
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pearlkate wrote:
One of the best up and coming bands I have seen in London in the last 6 years. Album is on itunes... have no hesitations! Which reminds me I have to do it myself...
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swingereight wrote:
Hey guy.
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LifesSweetDrug wrote:
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant like them, which is good enough for me :)
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Babs_05 wrote:
NNME recommends : )
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JDonovan wrote:
Pretty decent band.
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