aaamusic | On 08, Mar 2012

 

The first single taken from the album was ‘Bedbugs’,

released last year and featuring Florence and the Machine’s harpist Tom Moth who created a stripped down, enchanting version of the track,

 weaving together his intricate harp playing with frontwoman Davina’s sublime vocals. Having previously played in bands

together (including The Divine Browns, who were originally called The Dave Browns before being threatened by a punk band

with the same name) after a chance meeting in a record store,Davina and Tom toured the acoustic circuit being labelled ‘anti-folk’

 by promoters and never quite fitting in, before taking a break in 2007.Shortly after, Tom had the chance to join Florence’s band and Davina

went on to form missdavinalee but they continued to throw ideas back and forth, albeit mostly from other sides of the world due to Tom’s new

touring schedule.

 

“Like Blondie, if they’d come from Camden” – Simon Williams, Fierce Panda

“A breath of fresh air” – Neil Pengelly, Festival Republic

 

“With pop hooks large enough to land Moby Dick, if missdavinalee’s shimmering anthems are not filling the

main stages next year I’ll eat my cardigan” – Richie Vernon, Infadels DJs

 

Davina Lee Cooke is a songwriter from North West London.She grew up listening to Madonna and Salt n Pepa but when she

 heard the likes of Nirvana and PJ Harvey that is when she picked up the guitar.

Roald Hellum Madland is from Stavanger, Norway and came to London in 2005 where he met Davina at LCC studying Sound

Art. Since graduating with a first Roald has returned to Norway and has set up his own recording studio in Oslo. He creates beautiful

soundscapes for dancers and animators and also has recently being laying his producing skills to the band, Ping. Dedicated to

 missdavinalee he flies back to the UK for gigs. Angus Wilsonis a DJ (eames) Radio host (Brighton’s Juice FM) and keyboard

player for ‘missdavinalee’. Working at The Coconut Lodge in South London he also writes music for adverts. Angus met

Davina through a friend she had massaged at a Motorshow.She mentioned she was looking for a keyboard player and they

 havent looked back since working together since 2007.

Gareth Ashton is a Music Producer and Sound Engineer at The Coconut Lodge. He has worked with many artists including

 The Verve, Photek and more recently with Louise Golbey and Rumer. Gareth joined missdavinalee as a temporary drummer

in 2008 and was soon asked to become a permanent member of the band. Gareth also recorded mixed and produced the

 bands first album. Jenny Green is the last member to join the band. She provides backing vocals, percussion, bass guitar

 and keyboards. Jenny used to be in a Roxy Music cover band but has since left to focus on her career as make up artist.

 Not only being musically talented she brings the average age of the band down by 10 years!

For more information and live dates visit :

www.missdavinalee.com / www.soundcloud.com/missdavinalee / www.youtube.com/missdavinalee