Ged Kingsford Mississippi Burning and Deja Voodoo Years

GED KINGSFORD HAS BEEN HEARD ON

Locally

Pirate F.M with blues band Mississippi Burning. Also can be heard on the soundtrack of the Cornish film festival winner Kernow Kung Fu Kick Arse Queens, a comedy. Plus many recordings for local artists on drum kit and congos.

Nationally

In Dec of 2005 was featured as part of a live show broadcast from Penzance Arts Club on Radio 4. The late John Peel. Show broadcast Ged's Avant Garde Rock Band Metabolist on two occasions. Ged was on Radio Birmingham having played on an early instrumental rap track. Meanwhile the E.P Ged featured on whilst being in Metabolist, was selling steadily in the U.K. The band went on to sell overseas, reaching no.4 in "Sounds" Euro Rock Chart on the band's Dromm label with extensive internet coverage. The year 2003 saw Ged playing drums in the famous St Just production of the Ordinalia; performing the entire three hour act for the first time in over three hundred years. This was also featured on radio 4.

Internationally

Ged was heard on radio Paris as part of The Barely Legal Concept album. He is soon to be heard in America, playing on the recently released album by the singer from the Church. He is currently heard on the internet with his band the S.G.T. Project, an all instrumental jazz funk outfit. They have reached no.7 in the unsigned band category worldwide; and have featured as band of the day on three occasions; and were very well reviewed by the shadow's bass player for their recent recording Manhatanite.

WRITTEN ABOUT

Locally been featured in:

Times and Echo	The West Briton	The Cornishman
The Falmouth Packet	Falmouth Arts Guide

Nationally:

Mojo	The Rare Record Guide (every year)	Record Collector
Sounds	The Stockport Express	Kerrang
N.M.E.	Various London Fanzines	Melody Maker

Internationally: France, Mexico, Holland and America.

PERFORMANCES

Currently teaches drums and performs and promotes solo percussion concerts, featuring his own compositions. Ged also drums and performs with the S.G.T. Project. Ged first wrote for percussion at the age of nineteen.

He has been seen in solo concert performed at the St.lves Theatre Cornwall performing his Symphony in Cut Glass (D.V.D. Available) 2003.

The Promenade concert filmed live at the Queens hotel Hastings

Drumming for Rock Blues band Route 66.

Metabolist live at Middlesex Polytechnic.

Barley Legal live at Lees Cliff Hall, Folkestone.

Featured on Spotlight B.B.C. Local televised concert at Penzance Arts Club, playing hand drums with local poets C.D recorded live.

METABOLIST YEARS

Released two E.Ps, one album on tape and two albums on vinyl and are something of a collectors item. In the late seventies they gigged in London and were featured in the music press and the John Peel show, having been discovered by luminaries such as Brian Eno from Roxy Music, Pete Townsend, the band Can, British Avant Garde band Henry Cow and members of the band Gong. The band was described to by the British music press circa 1977; as one of ten most interesting bands in the country together with the Soft Machine. It was the drummer from the band Gong, Pip Pyle, circa "Camanbert Electrique" period who very nearly replaced Ged when he left the band to leave London.

MISSISSIPPI BURNING YEARS

Article MOJO September 1998

Mississippi Burning Article MOJO September 1998

DEJA VOODOO YEARS

THE CORNISHMAN, THURSDAY, 27 JUNE 2002

Like a bat out of Hayle

WELL not Hayle, Camborne actually and it's Scott Maltloaf.

But no matter. Scott is just as rock'n'roll as his American counterpart, has the blues everyday and now fronts Deja Voodoo.

He joins Ged Kingsford (drums), Polly Garland (bass) and Tony Farmer (guitar), who got together following a jam session last year in St Ives.

"I'd seen him sing before and thought he was very good," jays Ged of Scott, who also sang in Blues Busters and Reality Check. "So when I heard he wasn't in a band, I thought ‘great!’’’

Since Scott joined, Ged reckons the band has 'relaxed much more', and found its feet so to speak.

Already, they're planning to 90 into the studio to make their third album, as well as play in Devon and further upcountry throughout the year.

In the meantime, the blues rock band have a busy weekend ahead. You can catch them in the Mazey Day marquee, Penzance, on Saturday at 2 pm, and at the First and Last Inn, Sennen, on June 29, or at the Docker's Rest Cafe back in Penzance on Sunday at 3 pm, also as part of the Golowarn Festival.

Anyone interested in booking or Managing Deja Voodoo should contact Ged on 0173363394.