Shannon Hope is a South African born piano-based vocal artist who writes her own version of Art Pop that is intriguingly powerful, yet delicately moving in its artistry. “Music has the ability to take you to places that you can’t always access in everyday life and this is why we need artists like Durban-based Shannon Hope. Her music is emotive, evocative, and delivered with such honesty that you can’t help believing every single word.
Hope is an exceptionally honest performer. She gets into those emotional places we often block out, with such ease and sincerity that you wonder if she doesn’t perhaps live there permanently. Watching her performance, her honesty is so obvious that it seems at times as if she stops performing. There are moments where she forgets the audience, and becomes lost in the music itself ; the effect is simply mesmerising.” (Channel 24 Review)
[www.shannonhope.co.za]

ANDY LUND [MUSIC]

Listening to Andy Lund’s music is like watching your favourite film that has never been made. The music rolls out like a visual soundtrack, driven by passion and emotion.

Lund describes his music as, "as much Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits and Neil Young as it is Radiohead, Depeche Mode and Jeff Buckley". It has a melancholic edge to it, but the music itself pushes with a feeling of dirty romanticism. I guess you could say it leads the listener from the gutter to the stars.

[www.myspace.com/andylundandthemissionmen]



ANDY LUND [PHOTOGRAPHY]

PEOPLE PLACES TIMES REASONS is Andy Lund’s way of interpreting what he does.

Filled with a love for beautiful photographs and the thrill of capturing moments in time, Andy Lund is a devoted photographer through and through. He is passionate about portraiture and documentary/photojournalism and in love with interiors and food photography.

Andy Lund’s work has been published in House and Leisure, Oprah , Cosmopolitan,

Shop, Colour, Stage magazine, Journey Magazine and Blunt as well as on the cover of various albums and books by artists/ authors such as Robin Auld, Taxi Violence and Roswell Kings, to name but a few.