George Pringle
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George Pringle is an artist, performer and writer from London, U.K. She is best known for her stream-of-consciousness style poetry and prose delivered over backing tracks which she creates on GarageBand
music software.
in Worcestershire after winning the Art Scholarship (the school has now merged with a neighbouring public school and is called Malvern St.James). Pringle studied piano between the ages of seven and fourteen and was a member of the choir. She first started experimenting with home recording at the age of 16 when she pinched her older brother's guitar and started making demos on a shoddy two deck Karaoke machine at home during the holidays. She then started recording tracks on a French Oral examination tape recorder in the school hall at night using the assembly microphone. She formed a punk band named Scrappy whilst at Malvern with two local boys: Tom Fulcher and Brinn Jardine. in the band, she wrote songs, sang and played guitar. Scrappy split up and she then embarked on a solo career, writing acoustic music and playing open mic nights in Worcester.
Despite her scholarship, Pringle was advised against taking art at university by her teachers but with an increased interest in photography, graphics and video, Pringle applied to Oxford Brookes University
and gained a place on an A level portfolio composed of life drawing and comic sketches alone. It was at university that she tired of guitars and acquiring Garageband music software which came on her iBook, she started composing electronic music to accompany the poetry and prose that she writes. Pringle has graduated and continues to record and perform, having recorded BBC Radio 1 sessions and featured on The Verb, a poetry programme run by BBC3. She has played Music and Literary Festivals and continues to tour and record. Pringle has now returned to London where she currently resides.
At the beginning of 2010, she supported the French band Air on the European leg of their tour. She is currently recording her second album and continues to sell limited editions copies of her debut album through Rough Trade stores and online.
", September 2009 (self released)
"Poor Ep. poor EP without a name", March 2008 (self released)
GarageBand
GarageBand is a software application for Mac OS X and iOS that allows users to create music or podcasts. It is developed by Apple Inc. as a part of the iLife software package on Mac OS X.-Audio recording:...
music software.
Biography
Pringle was born in Westminster Hospital in London in December 1984 to architect parents. She grew up in World's End, Chelsea (listen to S.W.10). Pringle drew constantly from a young age and at the age of 11 she went to board at Malvern Girls' CollegeMalvern Girls' College
Malvern St James is a leading independent school for girls in Great Malvern, Worcestershire, England. Renamed in 2006 from Malvern Girls' College following a succession of amalgamations with other independent schools for girls in the Malvern area, it continues to occupy the same campus as...
in Worcestershire after winning the Art Scholarship (the school has now merged with a neighbouring public school and is called Malvern St.James). Pringle studied piano between the ages of seven and fourteen and was a member of the choir. She first started experimenting with home recording at the age of 16 when she pinched her older brother's guitar and started making demos on a shoddy two deck Karaoke machine at home during the holidays. She then started recording tracks on a French Oral examination tape recorder in the school hall at night using the assembly microphone. She formed a punk band named Scrappy whilst at Malvern with two local boys: Tom Fulcher and Brinn Jardine. in the band, she wrote songs, sang and played guitar. Scrappy split up and she then embarked on a solo career, writing acoustic music and playing open mic nights in Worcester.
Despite her scholarship, Pringle was advised against taking art at university by her teachers but with an increased interest in photography, graphics and video, Pringle applied to Oxford Brookes University
Oxford Brookes University
Oxford Brookes University is a new university in Oxford, England. It was named to honour the school's founding principal, John Brookes. It has been ranked as the best new university by the Sunday Times University Guide 10 years in a row...
and gained a place on an A level portfolio composed of life drawing and comic sketches alone. It was at university that she tired of guitars and acquiring Garageband music software which came on her iBook, she started composing electronic music to accompany the poetry and prose that she writes. Pringle has graduated and continues to record and perform, having recorded BBC Radio 1 sessions and featured on The Verb, a poetry programme run by BBC3. She has played Music and Literary Festivals and continues to tour and record. Pringle has now returned to London where she currently resides.
At the beginning of 2010, she supported the French band Air on the European leg of their tour. She is currently recording her second album and continues to sell limited editions copies of her debut album through Rough Trade stores and online.
Releases
"Salon des RefusésSalon des Refusés (album)
Salon des Refusés is George Pringle's debut album, released on 7 September 2009 by her own record label Deth to Fals Metal Records. Demos for most of the songs on the album had appeared on George's Myspace prior to the albums release.-Track listing:...
", September 2009 (self released)
"Poor Ep. poor EP without a name", March 2008 (self released)
External links
- http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=42532550 Music video for "LCD I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down"