Sarah Nixey

Sarah Nixey is best known as the singer in Black Box Recorder. She met John Moore (ex Jesus & Mary Chain drummer) and Luke Haines (ex The Auteurs frontman) while singing in folk band Balloon. Moore and Haines asked Nixey to sing in a band with them and Nixey, amused at their promise to make her famous, took them up on it. Black Box Recorder released four albums: England Made Me; Facts of Life; Passionoia and the b-sides/rarities collection The Worst of Black Box Recorder.

When BBR entered a comatose state, Nixey began collaborating with producer James Banbury, writing and recording her first solo album. The songs are modern tales of poison-pen letter writers, dysfunctional relationships, disappearances, secret love affairs and city life, providing the ideal contemporary pop backdrop for Nixey’s distinctive, Queen’s English voice. Whilst BBR songs are often about characters stranded without navigation tools, Nixey’s album occasionally offers an exit route.

Nixey's debut solo album is due for release on 12/02/07.

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