NAME:
Bev Lee Harling

VOICE TYPE:
Alto

INSTRUMENT:
Violin/Citern/Recorders/Guitar

PLACE OF BIRTH:
Hastings, UK

MUSICAL BACKGROUND:
Started playing violin aged 5, then piano aged 7. Led the Hastings Area Youth Symphony Orchestra, and led 2nd violins in the East Sussex Youth Orchestra, touring Europe extensively Gained a BA Hons Jazz Degree, first study singing from Middlesex University. For last four years have been touring and recording with own solo project. Played violin and sung in many other jazz, folk and tango projects. Have written and performed the music for Channel 4 film "Thinspiration", showing in April 2008.

WHY DID YOU START PLAYING & SINGING?
My big sister Ali was always playingthe violin when I was little. She used to take me to her orchestra rehearsals and I remember sitting there completely bowled over by the amazing force of sound that all those people could make when they worked together with their instruments. I started singing seriously around age 17 when I heard my sisters old
records of Frank Sinatra.

WHAT WOULD BE YOUR JOB IF NOT A MUSICIAN?
I'd have to do something else in the Arts. My constitutions not made for 9 to 5 work. My Dad owns a Foundry, so maybe I'd like to get all hot and sweaty with some molten metal!

DESCRIBE YOURSELF WITH 3 WORDS:
Creative, optimistic, energetic.

WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN 10 YEARS?
Still making as much great music as possible, selling lots of albums, performing shows all round the world, and
pushing myself musically as much as I can.

WORST HABBIT:
My inability to recognize my worst habits.

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
The Mighty Boosh.

HOW DO YOU KILL TIME ON TOUR?
My trusty I pod.

HOW DO YOU PREPARE FOR A SHOW?
A glass of red wine.

WORST NIGHTMARE ON STAGE:
Instruments going weird.

WORST NIGHTMARE IN GENERAL:
I like nightmares.

WHICH BAND WOULD YOU LIKE PLAY WITH?
The Mod Foxes from the Mighty Boosh.

MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT OF YOUR CAREER:
Being a plague victim in a school play, and wearing a skirt that was too big for me. It took me five minutes
to realize that my skirt had fallen down and I was standing in my knickers in front of the entire school.

HIGHLIGHT OF YOUR CAREER?
All of it!