Hello!

I've added 3 songs from the new album to the Orange Unsigned Act competition. Never done one of these before, but thought I'd give it a go.

If you visit www.orangeunsignedact.co.uk all bands are in alphabetical order. I believe you get 3 votes.... obviously I'd like to ask if you'll vote for me... if you like the music of course!

Please find us on there and vote!!

Thank you

Much love x

Cara x

Hey guys,

cheers for tuning in... was a great evening

So last night we did a gig in London and had an extra audience online!

Here is a link to that online recording (it wont be up for long so have a look!)

Cara x


www.ustream.tv/channel/freedom-of-expression

Resplendent in a floral dress, Cara takes the stage of the sold-out High Barn for this highly anticipated show where tonight she debuts her new band and much of the new material she has been writing over the past year.

Starting the set with two solo songs, she then introduces the first of the new band, cello player Nick, for the delicately beautiful 'Six Years', from her debut album 'Butterfly'. The full band are then brought on stage along with guest backing singer Joanna Eden for 'All I Love'.

Leaving the comfort zone of her piano behind, Cara tentatively steps up to the microphone to take centre stage for 'Deal as a Man' and shows off that dress in full to rapturous applause from the audience. She takes the transformation from solo performer to front-woman in her stride and looks increasingly confident in front of the capacity crowd.

Her strongest and most definate track yet, 'Roll Up, Roll Up' featuring Joanna Eden and Dean Austin on backing vocals and a wonderful looped harmony, proves that Cara has the skills to write material of the calibre that will take her far. Equally dark and brooding but with an almost playful skippy piano line and infectious melody that undulates cleverly to illustrate the lyric. Cara finishes the song with a burst of accordian that completes it perfectly.

'Take it in turns' is a live favourite and warmly recieved this evening, before the short but perfectly formed 'All she said', about Cara's equally short but seemingly traumatic period at university. We can only assume that the demon she's trying to exorcise here is too painful to complete the piece, but she should as the song is beautiful and worthy of any of her famous contempories.

Cara's use of live effects, the live band and her array of instruments she utilises this evening have transformed her live show into a visual and aural delight. She has a wonderful talent and I'm certain it won't be too long before she's attracting a wider audience as she deserves to be hugely sucessful. An enchanting evening.

Simon Baker, Music-zine (www.music-zine.com)

If it is I, who cannot act at all on stage
You will behold,
That when that curtain doth slowly fall
I speak of a lover -
Desperate fool,
Whose words now seem to make sense to him
Understanding every syllable and pause.
Each 'But' and 'Sigh' are backed by real life, real loss
The bells of truth now ring clear
And make once false tears,
Run down ones cheek.
Drops of grief and fear
And salty with release.
Now, act I do not -
But re-live and act out what I thought I had forgot.

(for Shiela)

8/7/07

Butterfly Cara breaks out of her cocoon

The history of rock'*'roll is littered with memorable image changes from David Bowie to Bob Dylan and on Friday at High Barn, Cara Winter attempted one of her own.

Her shift from solo piano player to front woman of a full band was, in fairness, more of an evolution than Bowie's and Dylan's respective revolutions, but a radical one nevertheless.

Throughout the evening, musicians hopped on and off stage to flesh out Cara's whimsical, moving songs.

On the occasions that the full line-up was in place, Cara stood at the microphone flanked by piano, double bass, cello, drums and two backing vocalists.

On the night's most memorable song Roll Up Roll Up, that heady mix was augmented further by Cara's own accordion playing.

Her best material has always been other-worldly, ethereal, almost spooky and Roll Up Roll Up is her finest hour.

Alongside the new material, her set was sprinkled with a healthy selection of older songs from the promising debut album Butterfly, with Cara returning to her more accustomed position at the piano and providing a clear demonstration of just how far she has already come.

Having said that, she is still very much a work in progress, an artist finding her voice and brave enough to do it in public.

A couple of later songs barely breached the two-minute mark and, in honesty, were little more than demos, but you could hear the kernel of fine songs and they gave a further indication of the evocative avenues she may choose to go down.

Leaving the security blanket of her piano to one side to step into the full glare of the lights with just a microphone was a bold move and one that, on the evidence of this gig, will pay off handsomely.

leachc@hertsessexnews.co.uk



17 May 2007

To be upon that wanton prayer
To lay her down beside me bare
To understand the truth down there
To fill this hole I have.

To sit upon his step and see
All that has forgotton me
To long for times washed out to sea
To want more than I own.

To laugh and cry both inwardly
To want and have simultaneously
To breathe and die most graciously
To stand outside myself.

I hold a heart quite possibly
Between my palms for all to see
I want to treat it gently
And never see it break.

I hold her close and willingly
I hold him for eternity
I've lost me somewhere in between
I'll see me soon my love.


18/07/05

Rebecca

I will go down and wait by the sea for you
Knowing that back at the house you will haunt me still
Never been close to being comfortable in your shoes
I will kneel, helplessly, in the sand knowing you are still...

In my husband's hair,
Still in my husband's hands
Still in my husband's plans

Attending the rose will not liken me to you they say
And writing at your desk, with your ink isn't easy for him
Why am I so damn threatened by you?
Here in a house that is no longer yours, but you have it still

Still in my husband's bed
Still in my husband's stance
Still in my husband's dance

Rebecca
Rebecca
Rebecca...

I will go down and wait by the sea for you
Knowing that back at the house you will haunt me still
Never been close to being comfortable in this dress
I'm here in a house where the man that I love loves you best

Rebecca, Rebecca

Why is he hiding from you?
Why are you hiding from us now?

We are working on a new website design... complete re-vamp of greenslippers.com! it's still there with gig listings e.t.c... but a new and more exciting one is in the making!

will let you know when its up!

Man on the Moon
Smile,
Down,
On me,
I am in love with light

Someone paint my face
White
To hide the marks,
You left,
On me,
Last night

Then I'll know, that you are all I know
So nevermind

Someone hold the sails,
Tight,
To catch the breath,
Of life
And loss
And flight

Then I'll go
You're all I know, so nevermind

If beauty takes a subtle road

If beauty takes a subtle road,
We sometimes do not see the rose
Amoung the leaves and bushes grow,
A seedling cold and bare.
She sleeps upon the ground at night,
And tries to stretch before the light,
For life, she holds on very tight-
For she is very small.
If curled into a ball, she'll go
Carried, if the wind doth blow
And settle? Well, she will not know,
She'll have to wait and see.

22/01


Satisfied, I've eaten it all -
The head, the heart, the hips.
I took them down whole,
And mulled it around for a bit
And thought what a bitter taste
To touch my lips,
To touch my lips,
And keep me up,
And keep you up.