Belinda O'Hooley

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Belinda O'Hooley
Born Leeds, England
Genres Folk, chamber folk, singer-songwriter
Instruments piano, vocal
Years active 2004–present
Labels No Masters; Rabble Rouser; Hum Records
Associated acts O'Hooley & Tidow; Jim Boyes; Nic Jones; Jackie Oates; Lucy Ward; Chumbawumba; Rachel Unthank and the Winterset
Website www.ohooleyandtidow.com

Belinda O'Hooley is a British singer-songwriter and pianist with Irish roots,[1][2] who was born in Leeds[3][4] and went to university in Huddersfield,[4] where she is now based. Formerly a member of Rachel Unthank and the Winterset (now The Unthanks), she now records and performs with fellow Yorkshire singer-songwriter Heidi Tidow (pronounced Tee-doe), who is now also her wife, as O'Hooley & Tidow.

Professional career

O'Hooley comes from a long line of County Sligo musicians and performed alongside her cousin Tommy Fleming, a singer who was formerly with De Danann.[2][5]

Rachel Unthank and the Winterset

From 2004 until 2008 she was a member of Rachel Unthank and the Winterset (now The Unthanks).[4] Nic Oliver, reviewing their 2007 album The Bairns for musicOMH, described O'Hooley as "the ace in the pack throughout The Bairns. Her background in cabaret (intriguingly, she had once appeared on Stars In Their Eyes impersonating Annie Lennox) adds a left-field edge to the music, with her jazzy piano chords lending a sing-along feel to the live favourite Blue's Gaen Oot O'The Fashion. O'Hooley also contributes the two original tracks to the album, although the casual listener could quite easily mistake both Blackbird and Whitehorn[nb 1] for traditional songs".[6]

Solo album

In 2005 O'Hooley released a solo album, Music is My Silence, described by reviewer David Kidman of Netrhythms.co.uk as "a commanding and defiant set of thoroughly contemporary-sounding songs"[5] and by FATEA as "a highly polished collection of songs that gently sway between folk and jazz".[7]

O'Hooley & Tidow

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Main article: O'Hooley & Tidow

She has issued four albums with Heidi Tidow, performing as O'Hooley & Tidow, and a fifth album, Shadows, is scheduled for release at the Cambridge Folk Festival in July 2016.[8] Three of the albums have received four-starred reviews in the British national press.

Other musical contributions

O'Hooley plays piano on Jackie Oates' albums Jackie Oates (2006),[9] The Violet Hour (2008),[10] Hyperboreans (2009),[11] Saturnine (2011)[12] and Lullabies (2013).[13] With Heidi Tidow, she also features on Chumbawamba's album ABCDEFG (2010)[14] and DVD Going, Going (2012),[15] Lucy Ward's debut album Adelphi Has to Fly (2011)[16] and Patsy Matheson's Domino Girls (2014).[17]

O'Hooley also accompanied Nic Jones at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall on his 2011 comeback tour[18] and on further tours in 2012 and 2013.[19][20][21]

In 2015 O'Hooley accompanied Jim Boyes on his Sensations of a Wound tour, telling a little-known story of the First World War.[22] An album of this music, Sensations of a Wound: The Long, Long Trail of Robert Riby Boyes, was released on the No Masters label in February 2015.[23][24]

Discography

with Rachel Unthank and the Winterset

Title Format Release date Label
Cruel Sister album 11 May 2005 Rabble Rouser (RR005) (UK); Cortex (CTX392CD) (Australia)
The Bairns album 28 August 2007[25] EMI (50999 504 3802 0) / Rabble Rouser (50999 504 3802 0)/ Real World Music (USCDRW158)

Belinda O'Hooley

Title Format Release date Label
Music is My Silence album 13 June 2005 Rabble Rouser (RR001), distributed by Cadiz Music

O'Hooley & Tidow

Title Format Release date Label
Silent June album 22 February 2010 No Masters[26] (NMCD32), distributed by Proper Records
"The Last Polar Bear" single (download) 21 November 2011[27] No Masters
The Fragile album 9 February 2012 No Masters (NMCD 39)
"Gentleman Jack"/"The Last Polar Bear" single (download) 4 November 2012[28] No Masters
The Hum album 17 February 2014[29] No Masters (NMCD 41)
The Mark Radcliffe Folk Sessions: O'Hooley & Tidow MP3 mini-album 4 May 2014 Delphonic Records (DELPH094) Contains three live tracks: "Summat's Brewin'", "The Hum" and "Two Mothers"[30]
"Summat's Brewin'"/"Peculiar Brood" single (download) 20 July 2014[31] No Masters
"Peculiar Brood" video (live performance) 7 October 2014[32] Filmed by Minster Studios at Holy Trinity Church, Leeds[32]
"The Pixie" video (live performance) 2 November 2014[33] Filmed by Minster Studios at Holy Trinity Church, Leeds[33]
Summat's Brewin' album August 2015 Hum Records (HUM01) Released in a limited edition of 1,000 signed copies.[34] Includes a live version of the song "Summat's Brewin'"

Notes

  1. ↑ The song is actually called "Whitethorn", as O'Hooley explains in an interview with David Peschek: "It's about my great-grandmother, struggling to survive in a tiny village in Ireland...She was pregnant 15 or 16 times and only two babies survived. Because they hadn't lived long enough to be christened, they weren't buried in the local churchyard, but under a whitethorn bush, actually near where my dad lives now. It really brought home to me the history of women's struggles, and made me want to write."
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