The Grey Lady Music Lounge, Sunday 21st October 2018

Alana’s presence is truly mesmerising. Alana delivers an abundance of heartfelt lyrics which create a meaningful and powerful work of art. Each song has a lasting emotional affect which deeply connects with the audience on a personal level. Alana’s unique tone and faultless vocals, coupled with her ability to generate a captivating melody from her emotions and personal experiences, produces a hypnotic experience for the audience when she sings. Alana is an artist with exceptional talent and skill who manages to leave an audience lost for words, purely by the sound of her voice and lyrical creativity.

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Zoe has been singing and song writing from the age of 13 and first picked up a guitar when she was 11 and hasn’t stopped playing since. Anyone who knows Zoe knows her biggest inspiration is the incredible Sia but she also loves Taylor Swift, Bastille, Lily Allen and Gabrielle Aplin. Zoe is a prolific songwriter and is constantly inspired and writing new material. Lyrics can come to her at any place and any time, even in her dreams! Music and lyrics are part of Zoe’s DNA, part of her identity; song writing is just as important as breathing to her. Zoe has performed her original songs at The Grey Lady many times since she started performing there at just 13 years old. She has also performed at numerous other venues, one of her favourites being Folking in the Strawberries every summer and her ambitions are to put together her first EP and to be signed to a song writing label.

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Born in the Kentish town of Maidstone, singer/songwriter Gary B Lucas spent his formative years studying English and American Literature at the University of Kent with the intention of later training to become a Secondary School English teacher. Music however had other plans. Influenced during his teens by the likes of confessional lyricists such as Alanis Morissette and Tori Amos, Lucas’s songs are sensitive and heartfelt with a pop sensibility.
 
In 2010, after graduating from University, the then 21-year-old started work at Wrotham Secondary School as a teaching assistant and quickly found himself supporting the music teacher Andrea Magee in the school productions. Outside of school they continued working together at local gigs around Kent as well as hosting hundreds of open mic nights. This culminated in Andrea’s appearances on X Factor in 2013 for which Gary produced the backing tracks at each stage of the competition before her exit. In 2014 the pair joined Ben Jones and Josh Roots on a 3 month tour of America, eventually joining forces to form Beat Root Revival.
 
In recent years Gary has focused his efforts back onto his original songs in the UK. In 2015 he released “The Way My Story Goes”, a collection of songs recorded, mixed and mastered entirely from his home. When he isn’t providing tuition for piano, guitar and English GCSE, Gary has been working on the follow up to “The Way My Story Goes”, scheduled for a December 2018 release. 

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