Big Note Featured Artist.
Dorothy Dorothy

Brought up on Punk and Classical music, producing sounds like PJ Harvey and Eddie Reader with the energy of Blondie perhaps she's just as confused as the rest of us! Her music combines simple punk chord progressions with jazz harmonies; reggae beats and rock with a Spanish twist. But most of all she leaves her audience smiling and wanting to hear more.

She started her musical career at the age of 12 when she decided to drive her parents mad by learning the violin. After many years of painful agonies over the stubborn instrument (or was it the player that was stubborn) she then put it aside, it's initial charm having dwindled (probably because she'd begun to master it!). Dorothy would say that that is not entirely true; the main reason for changing instruments was a change in musical style. Dorothy became very interested in non serious music, music that can appeal to anyone from any walk of life.

"The only problem with the Classical style, even though it has encouraged much ingenuity and beauty," she says, "is that it often alienates people who feel that they have to be an academic to understand it. This is not at all always the case but I prefer to keep the battles in my lyrics not in getting an audience!"