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Apart from singing karaoke on girlie night outs as a teenager Lexie Green had never sung in public, never written a song and had never strummed a guitar let alone owned one. After settling down as a Mum and housewife she became aware that there was something missing in her life. One December evening 2006 she sat down at her kitchen table and penned her first song Bored Housewife’. (A mickey take of the popular TV programme on at the time 'Desperate Housewives' and peoples seemingly perceptions of her leaving a career in database programming to become a full time Mum and housewife). Recording it using the very basic of hardware (samples downloaded from the internet, an old karaoke mic dug out of the shed and the family PC) she uploaded it onto the Internet and was completely amazed by the incredible response it received. So, driven by the immense encouragement she bought a guitar, learnt a few chords and wrote some more songs. Finally making her first live appearance eleven months later in front of 250 people at a song writing final for the homeless charity Axiom.
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Fast forward a handful of years and many more songs she quickly made a big impact on the Cambridgeshire music scene with her Rock & Blues influenced ‘Tex-Lex’ originals. Lexie has supported UK blues song stress 'Bex Marshall', LA based girl band 'The Like', BBC Actress & Singer/Songwriter 'Heather Peace' and Quentin Tarantino's favourite Texan murder ballad Queen 'Miss Izzy Cox'. Along the way she has gained international song writing awards (Semi finalist and Commended entries 2009), Festival 4 Starz finalist 2010, publishing and TV interest, regular worldwide Internet radio and BBC Introducing Cambridgeshire play and live performances. In 2011 she was awarded the Best Original Song Award by Cambridge’s 30,000+ attendance annual festival, The Strawberry Fair 2011. This award brought a personal invitation for Lexie to record at The Vertical Rooms with Peter F Brazier aka ‘Zombie Boy’ (Cambridgeshire’s answer to Brian Eno). Pete’s prestigious client list includes Parlophone, E.M.I. and artists including John Martyn, Dannii Minogue and Mark Owen to name a few.
With comments such as "Wow Lexie, you have a great voice! I know I will be hearing more about you in the future." from the well known and respected producer Jack Douglas (John Lennon, The Who, Miles Davis, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Super Tramp, George Harrison... need we go on?) Lexie remains modest and honest when it comes to her music; simply stating "I'm not a guitarist. I'll leave that fancy stuff to Danny. I just love writing and singing songs, if you enjoy listening to them then that makes the two of us very happy"
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April 2009 Danny Moore stood in on a rehearsal. Incredibly Danny (originally a covers band drummer) had only played guitar for 12 months. His playing instantly blew Lexie away and from that moment Lexie considered the Lexie Green Blues sound to be fifty percent Lexie Green and the other half very much Danny Moore. The debut album ‘Twenty Ten’ released October 2010 (available on all major download and streaming sites) featuring Danny on lead guitar received excellent reviews with Danny and Lexie’s performances especially being credited.
3 years on Danny & Lexie now perform as the duo 'Lexie Green & Danny Moore'. 2012 will see the eagerly anticipated release of the new album produced, recorded and performed in-house by the Green & Moore team.
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"Lexie always puts on a good show..." Elme Hall Rock & Blues Club
Strawberry Fair Cambridge Band Contest 2011
"Lexie Green is an awesome 0 to 60 in 3 seconds rock lady. Strawberry Fair salutes you!"
"Wow Lexie, you have a great voice! I know I will be hearing more about you in the future."
Jack Douglas - legendary producer (John Lennon, The Who, Miles Davis, Aerosmith,
Alice Cooper, Super Tramp, George Harrison...)
"Lexie has a great rapport with her crowd and does a great job of getting them moving down the front.
Her voice at times has tinges of Tanya Donnelly in her prime and the band do a great job of backing it
up. A great way to warm up for the main act and I expect Lexie to become a bit of a hero on the blues circuit."
(Supporting Bex Marshall. Review by Craig Brindley, Art & Soul Magazine, Issue 34 March 2010)
"Impressively, Lexie bought her first guitar in 2007 and in less than three years has managed to
pack in more than most musicians could hope for in a decade. Pure delight!"
(Randall Rootz Festival 2009)
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