Million Pebble Beach

Poetic and original story songs on piano.

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Million Pebble Beach is the nom de guerre of Portsmouth's singer-songwriter and pianist, Claire Baker. 
 

Her songs have been described as whimsical wisdom, they are vividly imagined dream-like stories and journeys .

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Her voice and musical style has been likened to Aldous Harding, Kate Bush, Björk, Regina Spektor, John Grant and Cate Le Bon.​

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RELEASES:

"Forest Finds" released in 2024, a collaboration with London Producer, Jo Atari.

"Find Me in the Forest", a stripped back album produced by Simon Gray, 26th November 2023, with a "Forest Imaginarium" to launch it.

"One Day We'll Go" - a 5 track EP Released in February 2023, accompanied by the video for "Witches"

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REVIEWS

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"She is an excellent pianist and singer...very interesting lyrics...This lady is an artiste writ large, and is definitely one to watch." - Mark Kelly, Brighton and Hove News, 2 Sept 2023 review of Victorious Festival LIVE performance

https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2023/08/31/uks-biggest-metropolitan-festival-is-victorious/

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"A unique and talented performer - Portsmouth is lucky to have you" - Promoter (book.events)

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"Once in a blue moon you get to hear something very special, and this is it"  - Phil Letchford, review of 2020 demo album "The Adjacent Impossible" and Million Pebble Beach live  http://www.antifolk.com/

 

PAST PERFORMANCES:​

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2024 Saw performances at Portsmouth's Future Folk at Portsmouth Guildhall, Supporting Group Listening for Calamity Cratediggers at The Wedgewood Rooms, The Candlelight Sessions, Gosport, Refugee Week and Portsfest,

Victorious Festival for The Front Room on the Peoples Lounge Stage and The Piano Tree for Portsmouth Music Academy, 

The Arc Cafe, Winchester, Escape to the Farm Festival, The Clerkenwell ARTSlab at The Betsey Trotswood, London, Havana Bar Singer-Songwriter Showcase, Chichester.

She also dropped into open mics in Leeds, Bordeaux and Gosport. 

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2023 - support to Mad Dog Mcrea for Square Roots Promotions at Portsmouth's Wedgewood Rooms, Isle of Wight's Ventor Fringe Festival, Hayling Island's HI-Fest, Old Town Live (Stevenage, Hertfordshire), a support slot for Rachael Sage at The Art House, Southampton,  Portsfest and Refugee Week, Portsmouth Creates and People Lounge Stages at Victorious Festival, CIDERFEST and Escape to the Farm Festival. Victorious Festival, 2019 & 2022, supporting Ellie Gowers  at Groundlings Theatre, Portsea.

2022 ,Southampton's Music in the City, Hayling Island's HI-Fest, Southsea's Black Balloon Sessions, Future Folk, The Front Room, Open Ya Mouth, Weekend Offender Records Live and Shine Radio's Summer Showcase Music Festival.

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Claire began performing solo as "Million Pebble Beach" in Portsmouth in 2018. Her career in the space industry, her love of the coast and of dreaming up impossibilities inspire her musical work. Claire's past musical adventures as a singer-songwriter, before moving back to her hometown, include fronting indie-pop band amanaboutadog, based in Hertfordshire and performing at Rhythms of the World Festival, Club 85, Bedford Esquires, The Bull & Gate, airplay on BBC Beds Herts & Bucks and a live session on Hertbeat Radio.

She had an absolute blast as lead singer of rock-pop band Monocle Rose, in London's iconic grassroots venues including The Dublin Castle, The Camden Eye, 12 Bar Club, The Borderline, The Kilburn Arms, 93 Feet East, The Fiddler's Elbow, releasing singles "Lolly" and "Alley Cat" in 2008, and an appearance on Camden's Balcony TV in 2009.

​Artwork is from Hannah Horn, https://www.hannahhorn.com/About , Graphic Design from Ben Froggatt.

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