At Weyfest, we performed, with Sim on electric violin, in the beautiful location of Tilford's Rural Life Centre and enjoyed the festival atmosphere and live music going on throughout the day.

Brentford Festival

Annie, Mike, Sim and Elaine on the main stage at "Basingstoke Live"

Mike, Annie, Elaine and Gavin on the Acoustic stage at the 
Ambient Picnic Festival,

 Annie, Elaine, Joey and Gavin performing at Kingston Green Fair

Its always great to play outside, when the weather's good! We were really lucky to have a window of opportunity with the showery weather on May 12th at Richmond  May Fair, and played our first gig with new, main drummer, Alan Barwise.

We have been making some live recordings straight from the desk at recent gigs and have a range of new duo audio clips from "Elaine and Annie" as well as "Elaine and Gavin" gigs.

To hear these clips, go to the "Sounds" page via the navigation bar and choose the
"Elaine and Annie" or "Elaine and Gavin" options.

Gavin has been playing his new electric violin, a Yamaha SV-100 Silent, with a Boss ME-50 effects board since December last year.
He has now mastered the controls and effects and wowed his local friends and fans at our Barley Mow gig in Shepperton on Saturday, April 21st. (Read news article).  

We have found an excellent folk/rock drummer in the person of Alan Barwise.  Alan has played most types of music including jazz, rock, folk and blues and has played with many bands including the Sutherland Brothers and Clayson and the Argonauts to name but a few. Alan uses Gretsch drums and Zildjian cymbals as well as a range of percussion.

Alan played his first gig with Kindred Spirit at Richmond May Fair on May 12th. Pictured below, you can see Alan was pleased to be performing at Weyfest on September 1st . Find out more about Alan in the biogs. section.

To add to the rock effect on some of the band's heavier numbers, Elaine has acquired a Stratocaster custom built by Andrew Scrimshaw, who works at Chandlers, in Kew, and builds unique instruments to commission. To go with this, Elaine has bought a 30W Vox amp, a clever little beast which sounds great. She is having some electric guitar lessons and played the rig for the first time at the Old Bell on March 24th.

Mike has been playing the bass guitar with us since the beginning of this year and is doing a superb job - with an outgoing style, driving rhythms and even backing vocals! His enthusiasm to play with Kindred Spirit has pushed him quickly to where he is now an excellent team player.

We first met Mike in January 2006, when we played a joint gig with Alistair Mungall's band, "Chaos Theory". We jammed with Mike while we were setting up the PA. You can find out more about Mike in the "Biogs" section of the web site.