Music Facts

• Fiona wrote a lot of songs on the road between the South West and the Midlands on her way to visit family.  As her car radio kept getting stolen she sang to herself to make the journey go quicker.  After running out of the songs she knew she began to make up some new ones and at six hours there and back every weekend that's a fair few songs - over 200.
• She frequently has no room on her phone to send texts as it's full of bits of new songs she's recorded onto it!
• Fiona recorded Fan Club of One album herself on her computer after teaching herself to play from Beginners Book One.  She also did the album artwork and the website and got herself onto iTunes to see if she could do it.  From start to finish it took just over a year.
• The CD Fan Club of One came about after Fionas' mum told her she had to do something with her songs as at that time she was her 'fan club of one'.  The songs on it are Fi's slower ones as after teaching herself for a year they were the only ones she could change chords fast enough for....she can play a bit faster now :-) and has just started recording the next cd.
• Her songs have been described as across between, folk, country and blues.....and she's been described as a 'female Jack Johnson' -  but that's by her friend Jo, who is fab and always says nice things.  Chris Barnard says she sounds a bit like Lisa Loeb, her mum thinks she sounds like Dusty Springfield (Fi wishes!)

Non Music Facts

• Fiona once announced the trains at Loughborough Train Station while she was waiting for a train.
• She has been studying martial arts since she was 16 and has lived in a dojo....
• Fionas' dream job would be a Blue Peter Presenter ………or International Woman of Mystery.
• She once welded her mums car back together.
• When she was 16 she had a crush on Marti Pellow from Wet, Wet, Wet (apparently it was his vocal talent not his tight leather trousers…..;-)
• If she didn't work in IT and had to be an animal Fiona would like to be an Eagle…… or a Koala....
• She once got locked inside St Pauls Cathedral in Rome....
• In the eighties Fiona had a ‘very dodgy’ perm and ‘Bet Lynch' earings....
• The first time she sang in a band she was really nervous and banged her tambourine so hard it broke, the discs scattered all over the floor and she didn't notice and couldn't understand why everyone was laughing.....
• She sees friends shes had since primary school....
• Whilst a student Fiona was lent a car for a year by a very kind woman who was a complete stranger....
• At school she was kicked out of sewing and into the woodwork class after accidentally sewing the cushion she was making to her skirt...... and finding it funny......
• She recovered and as well as working and doing music stuff she makes glass jewellery with a group of  fantastic ladies in the South West all of whom have gangsta names and enjoy a bit of jewellery making, followed by something to eat and a spot of robotic dancing.....
• Fiona lived in France for a while without having taken French .....her top tip…. “never get your hair cut in a country where you don't speak the language”