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Kimberley Charles Rew (born 3 December 1951) is an English rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was a member of Katrina and the Waves from 1981 to 1999 and of Robyn Hitchcock's Soft Boys from 1978 to 1981. For Katrina and the Waves, he wrote "Walking on Sunshine" and "Love Shine a Light".The latter was performed as the United Kingdom's entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1997, taking the ...
Kimberley Rew's prolific songwriting includes a slew of very English, albums and singles, including the huge Katrina and the Waves hit Walking on Sunshine. ... Anton Barbeau- Plastic Guitar – 2009 Allyson Seconds- Bag of Kittens – 2009 Steve Logan- signs and wonders – 2014
The Waves featured guitarist Kimberley Rew and drummer Alex Cooper. This incarnation of the Waves did not issue any recordings, and broke up when Rew left to join the Soft Boys. A more direct ancestor of Katrina and the Waves was the band Mama's Cookin', a pop cover band from Feltwell.
AllMusic's Mark Deming retrospectively called it "a good pop album," and wrote: "Kimberley Rew's guitar work is as stellar as ever, and his songwriting is clever and taut on each of these ten tunes." The Rolling Stone Album Guide called it "a masterpiece of guitar pop," and Trouser Press said that it "flows magnificently from start to end, and subsumes individual accomplishments into a true ...
Multimillion selling songwriter. Kimberley Rew first came to notice in the late 1970s as a member of Robyn Hitchcock’s Soft Boys. In 1981 Rew made a solo single backed by American band the dBs before helping to form Katrina and the Waves, and writing 1985’s evergreen Walking on Sunshine (produced by Pat Collier and Scott Litt).
The album is rich with guest appearances, Kimberley Rew of the Soft Boys, Gabe and Greg from CAKE, Woodstock legend Barry "the Fish" Melton and the lads from Stornoway all contributing to the mix. Barbeau has collaborated with the Bevis Frond on King of Missouri and with the Loud Family on What If It Works?
1 de sept. de 2015 · Kimberley Rew, guitarist and songwriter. I’d love to say Walking on Sunshine relates to a significant event in my life, like walking out of my front door, seeing a comet and being inspired.
