Hummingbird
There is more than one band with the name "Hummingbird."
1) Hummingbird are Amy Wadge, Cathy Burton and Edwina Hayes. They met on the festival circuit in the UK over the last five years and decided in late 2005 that there was safety in numbers, and so formed a band. This is not a collection of doe eyed teenagers, whose mother sent them to a stage school and are now looking to marry a footballer. These are three professional musicians, who make a living, almost, from music as well as doing a multitude of other jobs (dog walking, working in a crouton factory, barmaid etc etc).. Anything that needs to be done, to get a collection of battered Japanese cars to the next gig.
They have amassed 9 record deals, 11 lawyers and 14 managers between them. They could write the Beginners guide to the music biz if someone thought it would sell and if they could find a manager, lawyer, publisher and agent. They teamed up with the Mighty Vibration production team in January 2006, and made their debut album They Dont Make Mirrors Like They Used To. Somewhere between Kirsty Macoll and a female Crosby Stills and Nash. This is a collection of 11 songs that really do show that a combined thirty years on the road, means practise makes perfect and believing Richard Thompson to be a sex symbol is no shame.
2) Hummingbird was a British band, formed in 1974 by Bobby Tench of The Jeff Beck Group and Streetwalkers fame. Hummingbird recorded three successful albums, released by A&M using Ian "Sammy" Samwell as their record producer. The original line up included members of the second Jeff Beck Group, vocalist and guitarist Bobby Tench, keyboardist Max Middleton, Clive Chaman on bass, Conrad Isidore on drums and second guitarist Bernie Holland. After the first album Bernie Holland was replaced by guitarist Robert Awhai and drummer Bernard "Pretty" Purdie replaced Isidore on the next two albums. They had success mainly in the USA, also in Europe and Japan. Linda Lewis sang backing vocals on their first album. Vocalists Madeline Bell and Liza Strike were brought in to compliment the band on the next two albums.
