Meri Everitt
Leicester, England, United Kingdom | INDIE
Music
Press
"This petite female tells you how it is and makes no apologies for it!" - Radio Reverb
It was a real pleasure to catch Meri’s set at the Nelson.
She is one of those performers who seems like she was born playing the guitar, it all seem so effortless. Her playing allows the instrument to accompany rather than dominate her songs. The reward is that you get the full benefit of her beautiful, emotionally charged voice.
She may look angelic but that belies a songwriter who has real edge in her work - the lyrics shock and amuse while being sung with honesty and not a little humour. By her own admission her music is punk inspired, so despite the resemblance to Joni Mitchell, she delivers a performance that has real intensity.
Challenging and affecting, I highly recommend you catch Meri Everitt as soon as you can.
http://www.myspace.com/merimusic
by Steve Simpson, MyVillage, 02nd May
- Myvillage.com
i listened to your stuff and i can understand why you think you're so fu*king great - The Real Music CLub - Trev
Lovin the tunes, Get the Fukc off, excellent! They're all great, love the pixies, Kim Deal would love it!
Dochan From Glasgow's Free Candy Sessions - Promoter from Glasgow
Discography
Hands Together 2011
Hardcore dance track with Andy Vilo
Lonely 2010
Hardcore dance track with DJ SY and Al Storm
- Remixed recently and included on a 5CD compilation for release soon
- Reached No.2 in UK Hardcore charts
-Played on Radio 1
SIYR EP 2009
5 Tracks - acoustic and rock - were to be released on 2 indie labels but one label folded and the other will do a release of more recent tracks soon.
Wanted (album) 2007
13 songs - available to buy on bandcamp.
- Many song played on podcasts and internet radio
- 'lovelovelove' on CD on front of 10,000 print run magazine
- 'Beautiful Unused' played on BBC radio
Love Love Love/GTFO Ep 2007
100 LTD Editions sold out very fast so she made the album above.
America EP 2006 - 3 tracks recorded professionally as first prize in competition - 250 copies made - sold out
AngularVelocity 2006 - The country Retreat EP - unreleased
AngularVelocity 2005 - The demo - 4 track demo (Record Deal, This Life, Hurting, Just Like The Movies)
The Celestine Sessions 2003 - A 5 track EP now included in 'Wanted' above
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Bio
Meri is more than just a voice in the gallows. Behind the echoes and deceptively angelic looks lies the pounding heart and rousing voice of an army.
Brought up by folk singing parents who split up leaving her listening to the Buzzcocks, The Pixies and Nirvana with her dad over dinner and Joni Mitchel and Bob Dylan at her mum's, Meri took to electric and acoustic guitar, singing and songwriting at 16 with plenty of things to express.
The hard knocks life continued to deliver and the desire to be 'normal' seemed to have taken over meri's energy for a time, then when she encountered buddhism she suddenly remembered she was a musician and hasn't stopped grafting since then. She played every show and open mic available for 6 years, winning competitions and silencing many a noisy bar! She played in various bands in the different cities she made home (London, Norwich, Brighton, Leicester) (acoustic, folk, rock, alt), always as the songwriter and front woman, always playing her beloved guitars.
With the versatility and experience of playing throughout the UK on both electric and acoustic guitar, as a solo artist and band member, it is no wonder that this songstress won the attention of UK Hardcore legend DJ Sy, whose remix of 'Lonely' hit No.2 in th UK Hardcore charts and earned the pair BBC Radio 1 airplay. Meri is also the winner of The Norfolk Acoustic Competition 2006 and the 2009 Leicestershire Sunflower Songwriting Competition and opened the well known 'Big Session' Folk Festival in Leicster in 2009. 'Hands Together', with Andy Vilo, was released in August 2011 on Trackmaster Records with more dance tracks in the pipeline.
in 2010 despite breaking her thumbs skiing and getting small nodules on her voice, she had her first official release on a label and radio 1 airplay. Speech therapy and physiotherapy has put her back on track to start welcoming new shows into the calendar. She is running and playing the acoustic stage at the UK's Nottingham Ladyfest and has other shows lined up in London and other UK Cities.
Live, Meri is one of those performers who seems like she was born playing the guitar, it all seem so effortless. Her playing allows the instrument to accompany rather than dominate her songs. The reward is that you get the full benefit of her beautiful, emotionally charged voice.
She may look angelic but that belies a songwriter who has real edge in her work - the lyrics shock and amuse while being sung with honesty and not a little humour. By her own admission her music is punk inspired, so despite the resemblance to Joni Mitchell, she delivers a performance that has real intensity.
Challenging and affecting, I highly recommend you catch Meri Everitt as soon as you can.
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