Pool Of Sound - Stealing Sheep

Rebecca Hawley, Emily Lansley and Lucy Mercer met while working on Lark Lane, Liverpool and together in 2010 formed 'Stealing Sheep' as an electro pop band. Their line up is Rebecca 'Bex' Hawley on vocals and synthesisers, Emily Lansley on vocals, keyboards, electric guitar and bass guitar and Luciana 'Lucy' Mercer on vocals, drum machines, percussion and acoustic drum kit. They released, 'The Mountain Dogs' and 'I Am the Rain' both in 2011. Those were collected on an EP, 'Noah and the Paper Moon', in 2012.
Their debut studio album 'Into the Diamond Sun' was released in 2012 by Heavenly Recordings with Bearded Magazine describing it as 'Magnificent'. The success of their first album saw them credited with instigating a 'medieval pagan pop revival' and being pegged as folky hippies. Such is the breadth of their influences, their music ranges from pop and psychedelia to folk and funk, or at least funk if it had been accidentally stumbled on centuries ahead of schedule in rural England. 

On stage in Wrexham

The band’s second album, 'Not Real', was released in the spring of 2015. Becky said, "We ended up retrospectively producing the record ourselves, because we did the demos and they organically transformed into the real deal. So it's kind of self-produced, but it wasn’t intended to be!" 

Big Wows

The band returned with their third record, 'Big Wows' on Friday the 19th of April 2018 which had taken shape over a period of nearly three years spent working out exactly what they wanted it to be and creating an album that levitated their identities as individuals.It also helped merge them into one unit as working separately on tracks then coming together in the studio was flagged up as a new thing for them but Becky insists that in a way, it's a familiar 'Stealing Sheep' practice. "Each individual comes with a sentiment for a song or a vision for a song or a chord progression or an atmosphere and usually they're the one that directs where the music goes, we all jump onboard to support that person's vision for the track. To try and make it happen for them." The songs begin at home or in their studio at Liverpool's Invisible Wind Factory, laying down the main body of the tracks, followed by the band working with various producers. Here, as well as composing with traditional instrumentation, they also started songs solely on the computer; sequencing, building sounds, drum machines and responding to that non-emotional binary world. Bex again says, "We like to try new things out and we get more confident about what we like. Now Lucy is working with a full drum kit instead of just toms, Emily is playing bass guitar, Bex is making her own synth patches and they’re all using new equipment, developing and experimenting and moving forward together."

In the summer of 2018 they also performed at UK festivals with a 15 strong all-female procession to celebrate the centenary of Suffrage. Sound City 2018 saw them gather female drummers together for the Suffragette Tribute to coincide with 100 years since some women in the UK won the right to vote. Giving budding female talent a chance led to South Korean animator Gyuri Cloe Lee, who previously did a video for John Grant, making the 'Show Love' video, and Emily Garner aka Pastel Castle from Leeds making nostalgic, kitschy karaoke videos for 'Jokin’ Me' and 'Why Haven’t I?' They were looking forward to 2020, with new tracks, still at a demo stage, plus their first American tour, their return to SXSW and Asia and performing at Sound City, Liverpool.

They have become a brilliant live act and, when you look back at their catalogue, you can see how they have developed and grown through the years.

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