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Born in Port Clarence, County Durham. She has been active in the music business
since age 17. In 1971, she was launched as one of Britain's first female singer-
songwriters and compared by several commentators to Joni Mitchell.
Shortly following the release of her debut album, One House Left Standing, Hamill
went on her first UK tour, supporting John Martyn. She performed at the Concert
10 festival in the United States July 1972 before a crowd of 200,000. By 1973, she
had toured the United States with  Procol Harum  and Jethro Tull, and returned to
Britain to record her next album, October, at Manor Studio in Oxfordshire. She next
toured with King Crimson.
In 1973, she met Ray Davies of the Kinks, who signed her to his Konk label for her
third album Stage Door Johnnies. She toured America for the second time that year
and went on another UK tour supporting Gilbert O'Sullivan. In addition, she recorded
what would be her final album of the '70s and the second one for
Konk, Abracadabra.
In 1979, she provided vocals on the song "Look Over Your Shoulder" on The Steve
Howe Album. In the early 1980s she worked with Wishbone Ash, appearing as a
guest performer on their albums Just Testing (1980) and Number the Brave (1981)
and joining the group for their 1981/82 tour. She returned as a guest on Bare
Bones in 1999.
Hamill had always been regarded more as an album artist [ according to whom? ]  but in
1980 she cut a single called "First Night in New York", which gained favourable
reviews. She formed a group, Transporter (which took its name from Tees
Transporter Bridge), which released one single.[3]
In 1981, she appeared on the Jon and Vangelis album The Friends of Mr Cairo and
also sang with British jazz/funk/fusion group Morrissey?Mullen, appearing on
their Life on the Wire album (1982). In 1983, Hamill recorded a cover of Gene
Pitney's "24 Hours from Tulsa", produced by the American musician Richard Niles.
Another single, "If You Would Only Talk to Me", suffered from a lack of radio
exposure.
By the mid '80s, Hamill reinvented herself as a New Age artist, which gained her a
new audience along with commissions from the BBC and Channel 4. [ citation
needed ]  Her first album of the 80s, Touchpaper, was followed a year later by Voices,
which featured all her own work. Her music was used for the five-
part BBC1 series Domesday, broadcast in November and December 1986. Four
tracks ("Glastonbury (Jerusalem)", "Tides", "Spring: Awaken Lark Rise" and "Stars")
were issued as the Domesday EP on Coda Records, a label featuring many New
Age artists and run by her then-husband Nick Austin.
After the next album, Love in the Afternoon, she cut a version
of Pachelbel's Canon in both instrumental and vocal versions, the latter featuring her
own words as "Someday We Will All be Together". Both this and the Voices album
were used extensively by Channel 4 for a series of music videos collectively titled

The Art of Landscape and shown every morning in the early 1990s. The video for the
instrumental version of Canon, with scenes of Antarctic penguins, was voted by
viewers as the favourite.
In 1992, Hamill went to live in Hastings, found a new partner  in
Andrew Warren, and later cut a new album called Summer at the end of the decade.
Since then, she has released The Lost & the Lovers and a compilation album. Her
song "You Take my Breath Away" from The Lost & the Lovers was previously
covered by Tuck & Patti on 1988's Tears of Joy and that version caught the attention
of Eva Cassidy, whose recording of it was used in a movie soundtrack. [ which? ]
In 2009, she supported John Lees' Barclay James Harvest on their UK tour. Since
2013, she has been a member of the Yes tribute band Fragile, in the role of lead
vocalist.
Since 2013 Claire has been writing new material and playing gigs around the UK
both solo and with other musicians.

One Sided Horse
Formed in 2015 by Mark Whiteside, who up to this point had worked with numerous
singer songwriters and been used as their session drummer on their albums.
He decided that he wanted to stand or sit at the front of the stage rather than the
back.
Following this decision, it was just a matter of buying an acoustic guitar and to start
the process of learning painful chords to sing dark love songs to.
For the next 12 months Mark was a bedroom player and mastered all of 4 chords.
This was to be the continued running joke of his ability. But with those chords he
wrote songs that people said had a simple charm about them and ear worms.
Always wanting to write from the heart his songs were basically about love, either
lost or found.
To come up with a name to go by he decided to take the idea from Sam Beam who
had his own solo name as Iron and Wine. After looking at a drawing he had doodled
of a Horse in simple line 2D style what he could see was a One Sided Horse and it?s
a simple as that.
Musically his songs have been likened to Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, David Bowie
and even Neil Diamond.
A meeting with Embrace bass player Steve Firth in led to him working with the whole
band and in 2015 they released the album acclaimed album Between Light and
Space.
Since releasing the album One Sided Horse has supported Dodgy on a full UK
Acoustic Tour and played solo gigs with The House of Love, Wire and Embrace.

When not playing his own ?Sadder and Emotional? music, Mark is also the drummer /
singer in the cult underground band Evil Blizzard who have released 5 albums to
critical acclaim. He is also the singer with The Opening Song. A two-piece project
that is based around Piano and beautiful soundscape music.
Looking to the future, One Sided Horse will hopefully be playing more gigs as either
a solo artist, a duo with a double bass player Norm Helm or a trio with the addition of
another guitarist Gareth Cole.
Listen to the full band album with Embrace on Spotify
Solo music https://onesidedhorse1.bandcamp.com/

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8 Post Office Ave,

Southport,

Merseyside,

England,

PR9 0US.