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Kathryn Smith, vocals
Kathryn had the pleasure of meeting Jamie & Scott in a dodgy bar somewhere in Bournemouth, and joined Secret Shine on the eve of recording of Loveblind. Prior to this Kathryn’s singing career had been restricted to singing in the car. Kathryn also currently sings with the strange but true The Great Admirers. Musical taste – Placebo, Star Sailor, Keane, Foo Fighters, Girls Aloud, and that’s all she’ll (proudly) admit for now. Oh, I also liked Secret Shine, before joining them, so that’s worked out rather well.
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Scott Purnell, guitars
Scott is guitarist and founder member of Secret Shine. With Jamie he started the band in 1991 and has played on (and co-written) most of Secret Shine’s material. Musical influences include sixties bands – Beatles, Byrds, Velvet Undergroud, Kinks, a large slice of eighties new romantic until finally arriving at noise bands in the nineties, such as MBV, Jesus and Mary Chain and The Pale Saints. More recently fallen under the spell of Belle and Sebastian (having religiousy collected most of their releases) amongst many others. Scott is an avid record collector and has also played in the Panda Pops (who later became Tramway), Dreamscape, Junkie and The Great Admirers.
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Jamie Gingell, bass and vocals
Jamie is bassist, vocalist and founder member of Secret Shine. Started the band with Scott in 1991 and has either played or sung (and co-written) on all of Secret Shine’s material. His love for distortion in music found a natural home with in the band which he’s keen to see evolve in the future. He currently produces the band’s sound in the studio, which suits his experimental side nicely. He previously played with Scott in Dreamscape, Junkie (briefly), and Lebowski (who!!?).
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Dean Purnell, guitar and vocals
Dean joined Secret Shine just after the release of After Years. Also played guitar, sang and wrote most of the songs for Junkie with Scott and Tim. Musical influences include, Ride, These Animal Men, Marion, Strangelove. Currently listening to Fields, The Automatic, Levy and Mew. I also hate queuing up in the post office and my biggest fear is dying.
