GIG! At the Ship in Christchurch FRIDAY 30th AUGUST 22:00 - 00:00

Lorna (one half of Wireless Operators) has spent summer 2013 performing at various music and theatre festivals (HatFair, Camp Bestival, Green Man, Shambala, Larmer Tree not to mention Bestival) performing with her Theatre Company Gobbledegook Theatre as well as working for Angel Exit Theatre and Treehouse.

So, it's a relief and a pleasure to announce that Wireless Operators are playing a local gig at The Ship pub in Christchurch Dorset on Friday the 30th August 2013. From 10pm to midnight.

Sandbanks featured on the Guardian website!

Ahhh - rather pleased to have been featured in the band section of the Guardian!

https://witness.guardian.co.uk/assignment/51af6748e4b0ae18e994afeb/345968

I Wanna Dance With Somebody

This is our cover of the Whitney Houston classic track

Click on the link to hear it:

https://soundcloud.com/andy-hannaford/i-wanna-dance-with-somebody

We're taking over Sandbanks....

Here's the new offering from Wireless Operators.

Sandbanks is a small area on the Dorset Coastline has the fourth highest land value in the world. House prices on the two-mile Sandbanks peninsula overlooking Poole harbour are higher than in Singapore, New York or Paris.

We're just sayin'.

Wireless Operators are Lorna Rees and Andy Hannaford

Written and produced by Andy Hannaford

Guitar, vocals and spit by Andy Hannaford

Vocals by Lorna Rees

Additional vocals by Adam Coshan, Luke Hannaford, Harry Hannaford, Rufus Rees-Coshan & Dylan Rees-Coshan

Love in a Time of Consignia

 - written by Andy Hannaford

Click on the link below to hear it:

https://soundcloud.com/andy-hannaford/love-in-a-time-of-consignia

Moves Like Jagger Cover

Our 'dusty velvet French smoky cafe' version of Moves Like Jagger, (originally written by Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera). We've spliced in a bit of Donna Summer for good measure.... Andy Hannaford on lead vocals and guitar and Lorna Rees as, ahem, 'Christina' and on the baby accordian.

Portrait

 

This gorgeous image of Wireless Operators is by Hazel Evans, Visual artist - Artist Collaborator and Arts Events Coordinator, Artist in residence Lighthouse, Centre for the Arts, Poole. Hazel drew us while we played at Lighthouse earlier on this year.
Do have a butchers at more of her lovely work:
www.hazelevans.co.uk

facebook.com/HazelEvansArtist

Gig @ Lighthouse (in the acoustic space)

On the 12th January we played the 'closing gig' for the Arts University College 'Music Architecture Poole' in the Acoustic Performance Space as part of their exhibition - you can also hear a little bit of us on their video about the exhibition, footage they filmed of our first public rehearsal (we feature at 11:25):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKn3BVE25ys&feature=channel_video_title

We love playing the shed - it's a really intersting space to work in - especially for public rehearsals!

For more information about the MAP project please go here: M.A.P www.musicarchitecturepoole.com

19th November 2011 - 14th January 2012

An exhibition presented by AUCB Architecture

Follow the Developments at:

www.buildingthemap.tumblr.com

The type of songs we like singing....

We rather like doing slightly unusual covers of pop songs, we're a bit partial to 80's Pop, but have succumbed to the charms of Kraftwek, Maroon 5 and even the Foo Fighters.

Absolute Beginners; David Bowie
Fifteen Minutes; Kirsty MacColl
Save a Prayer; Duran Duran
The Model; Kraftwerk
Walking After You; Foo Fighters
Moves Like Jagger; Maroon 5
I Wanna Dance With Somebody; Whitney Houston

We've also a wealth of our own material which we regularly draw upon!

Hello - we're Wireless Operators

Hello - we're Wireless Operators, a band who come from the beautiful county of Dorset.

Andy Hannaford is a singer songwriter born in Somerset but who has lived all over the place
(namely Spain and Edinburgh) before moving back to the South of England.

Lorna orginially hails from Essex but she's lived in Dorset for most of her life (though she also spent a fair spell in London too). Lorna is a Theatre Producer and Artist.

Wireless Operators take their influences from far and wide, but we're a wee bit folk, a wee bit pop a wee bit of whatever.

We also really like to collaborate with other musicans and artists.