Wendy James - The Shape of History UK tour

Wendy says: "My 10th album! My songwriting has always been a wide mix of sounds, which naturally reflect the different music and references I have and love. My sweet spot is mid-late 70's downtown NYC New Wave Punk: CBGB and Max's Kansas City. It is from this sound that my taste for sequenced and dark NY and Euro electro and no-wave evolves, original punks 'The Stooges', glam rockers the 'New York Dolls', English Punk/Pop the 'Sex Pistols', French Yé-Yé Girls, American 1950's Rock and Roll, Rockabilly and 60's Motown, Girl Groups, Phil Spector, Brian Wilson. Also Hip Hop music, original B-Boys the 'Beastie Boys', East Coast versus West Coast, Dr. Dre! The King of New York Lou Reed and 'The Velvet Underground', black rhythm and blues from 1930's depression era America,

African American slave era Spirituals and therefore Country and Bluegrass music, Willie Nelson and his fellow Outlaws! Bob Dylan, Jamaican Ska, British Northern Soul and movie soundtracks! Big scores! Big opening numbers! George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein and the New York Skyline 'Rhapsody In Blue'. London and The Kinks 'Waterloo Sunset' or Paris, Saint Germain and Serge Gainsbourg 'Initials BB'. Movies, movie directors, literature, authors, artists, activists, all filtered through the prism of my adventures and experiences in life and in music.