Location : London, England, UK

Band Members :
Amy May (Lead vocals, violin)
Mike Smith (Bass, vocals)
Joe Smith (Drums, vocals)
Paul Reeves (Guitar, vocals)
Ben Lister (Guitar, vocals)
Adria Reeves (Organ)
Fiona Leggat (Viola)
Sali Wyn Ryan (Violin)
Harriet Wiltshire (’Cello)
James Adams (Trombone)

Band Biography :
Amy May’s Paris Motel: Lost Transcript Found at Sea…. We first stumbled across
Amy May riding a broken down steed across the numinous plains of the forgotten
cities, looking for new parts of the world to dominate. And compose hauntingly
ethereal music for. And maybe freshen up a bit - a number of these forgotten
cities had fallen into disrepair and Amy was concerned. We tried to get closer
to her but Amy was flanked at all times by a shifting band of musicians.
Sometimes five. Sometimes fifty. They came and went. She called these musicians,
Paris Motel. If you wanted to talk to Amy you had to get past Paris Motel. Not
because they were overly protective of her but because there could be so many of
them, and only one of her. (As you know, it’s been rumoured for some time that
there is more than one Amy May. But this is not true. We took the opportunity to
count and verify her.) Still, you have to wonder how one person can arrange
music for a mutating band of five to fifty musicians and still have time to wear
pretty dresses AND play the viola, guitar, piano, melodica and accordion We
shouted to her over the top of her many musicians. We said, “Amy how do you
manage to compose individual music for each show? And how is it you can be a
string quartet one minute and a fifty piece orchestra the next? And do you
really orchestrate for all those instruments? And also, who designs your dresses
for you?” (The last question was more for the tabloids, really. You don’t come
across Amy May’s Paris Motel touring the numinous plains of the forgotten cities
very often. We were hoping to sell the story around the world through
syndication.) Amy leant forward over the neck of her horse and said, “What? I
can’t hear over all these musicians. Especially the tabla. Joseph,” she said,
“stop playing the tabla a minute will you.” Joseph stopped playing for a minute
and we asked our question again. “Because I’ve been playing since I was five”,
Amy said. We didn’t think this really answered our question, but we pushed on,
worried that the musicians were about to start up again. “And how would you
describe your music?” we asked, wishing we had a microphone on us. We said, “It
has been described as ‘ethereal music for a spectral hoe-down’. What exactly
does that mean?” (We were aware that the string section was growing restless and
had started to warm up.) “Does it mean that your music, even when it’s modern,
even when you’re playing your own compositions or covering the Yeah Yeah Yeahs,
for example, does it mean that it sounds as if it’s being played by ghosts, in a
field, across the delta, and that the sound floats over you in drifts and
swells? Haunting and yet accessible by boat?” Amy steadied herself on the
rickety steed with its poor spavined knees and said “_________________” History
cannot record her answers here, only her gestures, which were expansive, because
just then the drums, bass, guitars and French horns joined in with the string
section and Joseph started up again on the tabla. NB. A Note About This
Transcript. This transcript was lost, then found, then lost again, then finally
found after a panicked patting down of many pockets. One missing full stop was
never properly recovered and has since been replaced with a new full stop — but
honestly, you can hardly tell the difference. We swear. If you can find the new
full stop and are not entirely happy with it, Amy will compose a piece for a
string quartet especially for you and play it from the top of an elephant,
wearing a pretty dress. Amy, not the elephant. Amy May and the music of Paris
Motel would like to note at this point that it neither endorses nor in any way
condones the anthropomorphic humiliation of wild animals. Thank you.

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Band Website : www.parismotel.co.uk
Contact Email : hello@parismotel.co.uk