Ailie Robertson is a musician in the broadest sense: composer, arranger, teacher, improviser and harp virtuoso. “Her synthesis of Irish, Scottish and contemporary harping technique into an individual style represents the realization of otherwise unimagined possibilities for the Celtic harp” (Niall Keegan, 2006). Although just 24 years old, she already has some of the most impressive credentials in the Scottish harp world.
Jadis is formed in 1982 in Southampton by Gary Chandler on vocals and guitar, Les "Ledge" Marshall on guitar (ex Lens), Trevor Dawkins on bass and Mark Ridout on drums (ex Lens). Marshall joins IQ in the late 1989, before he dies in August 1990 which brings the IQ members to put the band on hold for nearly two years. So from the start of Jadis it is already clear they have a tight connection with IQ, also since for quite a long period Chandler is the guitar roadie of IQ.
Thrillingly unpredictable hip hop/jazz/punk/rock n' roll, this is a new London band who won the Diesel-U-Music 2005 award (previous winners include Tom Vek and Mylo). There is also japanese skinhead band named Shuffle.
Since his emergence on the creative jazz and new music scene in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, Joe McPhee has been a deeply emotional composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist, as well as a thoughtful conceptualist and theoretician. Born on November 3, 1939, in Miami, FL, McPhee first began playing the trumpet at age eight. McPhee continued on that instrument through high school and then in a U.S.
From Ramsay Midwood's website: "Ramsay Midwood is a miracle and a mystery. There is almost no usable information about him." It is known that he sings, he plays guitar, he resides in Austin, he has, on occasion, acted and/or played with The Gourds, and he's big in Germany.