{"id":160,"date":"2010-08-10T10:27:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T10:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skamonics.wordpress.com\/?p=160"},"modified":"2010-08-10T10:27:15","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T10:27:15","slug":"meet-the-band-2-leah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/10\/meet-the-band-2-leah\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the band 2 – Leah"},"content":{"rendered":"

Name<\/em>: Leah Elisabeth Thomas<\/p>\n

What instrument(s) do you play?<\/em> Saxes (Piano, Clarinet, Recorder, Flute, Vocals….)
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\n\"Leah\"<\/a>Do you have any other role in the band?<\/em> Person who counts people in, wears high heels, woops a lot, and jumps up and down. And provides the tenor skank.<\/p>\n

Do you have a favourite tune in the Skamonics repertoire?<\/em> Gangsters, the Madness stuff…oh it all depends on the mood!!\u00a0 love it all.<\/p>\n

What’s the best gig you’ve ever played with the Skamonics? with other bands?<\/em> Hootananny is great…love playing 100 Club with Big Band – love the Gospel Piano in church on a Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

How did you learn to play?<\/em> Piano at the age of 5, sax at age of 10…and was made to practice.\u00a0 Brilliant.\u00a0 I was in every music club going, was in recorder club in sixth form.\u00a0 Then came the music degrees.<\/p>\n

What else do you do musically?<\/em> Music company with beautiful fellow Skamonic Steve: Blue Flamingo Entertainments….gig with Big Band, Rockabilly, Quartet, Gospel….have been known to do some madrigal singing…<\/p>\n

Who are your musical influences on your instrument – and more generally?<\/em> Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Lockjaw, Pete Long…
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\nAs well as ska, what other types of music do you like, and who are some of your favourite bands or musicians?<\/em> Anything that has a great horn section – LOVE jazz, old school rhythm & blues, grew up on country, ADORE rock’n’roll.\u00a0 Good pop.<\/p>\n

What’s the best gig you’ve ever been to (where you weren’t playing?) <\/em> Some fab nights at Ronnie Scott’s, or for that matter Big Band Britannia @ Barbican, or just some great contemporary jazz in dingy venues.<\/p>\n

What do you do when you are not playing music?<\/em> Talking about music.\u00a0 Going to church.\u00a0 Going to see gigs.\u00a0 Organising music.<\/p>\n

What about you would surprise other members of the band?<\/em> I’d never listened to ska in my life before I played the first time as a dep.\u00a0 Ooo, I went to Bible College in America for a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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