Biographies

Amanda

Amanda has always enjoyed singing and her past experiences have been varied; from warbling in the school choir to yelling out cheerful backing vocals for a local rock band down in deepest Devon ("Ooh Aarrh!"), graduating on to briefly fronting another band of a similar ilk before it expired due to it's not being very good! Since then her singing skills have been mainly deployed in true Mary Poppins fashion, while working in a children's nursery, singing wholesome renditions of 'The Wheels On The Bus' and other such classics. Encouraged by the enthusiastic, if not terribly discerning enjoyment her singing has prompted from the children, she decided to return to her love of singing, for a wider audience.

Amanda

Anni

Anni is KiS' Scandinavian, a requirement of our constitution if we want to perform "Super Trooper". By day, she works as a Punch and Judy artiste on Brighton beach, placing the boot firmly on the other foot in a bizarre but touching psycho-sensual reworking of this great British amusement that paints Mr Punch as a sales rep for Linda McCartney, and Judy as a slavering, stick-waving crypto-capitalist shoe-fetishist. You couldn't make it up. Well actually...
Secretly, she's very moosical.

Cat R

Cat is our very own in-house contortionist, and can fit herself into an empty jam jar at will. Which can play havoc with the dynamics during rehearsal. An active Pastafarian, she firmly believes in the existence of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and hopes to be present at the second coming, to which she will be bringing large quantities of garlic bread and a large glass of red.
When she is not busy worshipping pasta-based icons or stuffing herself into empty household receptacles, Cat also enjoys boules, extreme ironing and fondue.

Cat is always very flavoursome because she makes herbs and spices. When she parachuted down from Leeds, Cat was desperate to find a choir to land on. She found KiS, and the result has been harmonious ever since. When not parachuting, she speaks with a broad Northern brogue. When parachuting she might also affect a strong accent, but it would be hard to tell due to the whistle of the wind.
Cat makes her herbs and spices from vacuum cleaner dust. It's dirty work, but somebody's got to do it. Where did she get that hat!

Cat R

Catherine

Catherine makes television. It all sounds rather funky, but we're assured it's dull as dishwater. She would know, since she also collects dish-mops. Catherine is often to be found staring at her fingertip to see how small she can see. According to current estimates, it is about ten times smaller than this full stop. Catherine always seems busier than average, being one of those working supermums who make us wonder how they fit it all in their day!

Catherine

Ian

Ian has been singing with choirs since he was six years old. He's currently in two of them: KiS and a choir that tours the UK singing in cathedrals ("Cantus"). He loves singing in KiS because it's a great opportunity to meet up with lots of his friends. He enjoys making the earth move with his resonant base notes. His greatest performing moment: being killed by his Dad who was playing "Death" in a local performance of "Everyman" when he was in his early 20s.

Ian

Jana

Jana likes to squeeze the zest out of life and recently, puree it and make it into an exciting oat cake. She auditioned for the school chamber choir when she was nine but was turned away, thought that she couldn’t sing and that was that. Until a friend was singing in the University College London Chorus (Carmina Burana) and Jana discovered that there wasn’t an audition! Frantic sight reading of a sort followed, and then performing in the Russian opera, Russlan and Ludmilla, then great fun the London branch of the rock gospel choir, Revelation. The founder of Revelation also founded another choir called Respect which Jana joined. Paul Heatley took over Respect and later founded KiS. The rest is history! Jana is a member of KiS mainly for the rotating pelvises and occasional wild hairdos of the men.

Lis

Lis works at the international institute of luggage testing. The key qualification for a job like that is to have one arm distinctly longer than the other. This attribute also comes in handy at KiS rehearsals, where Lis generally helps strong arming everyone into position.

Three times a washer-woman, but always a lady, Lis counts amongst her interests rastafaianism, chocoholicism and doodling.

Lis

Mark M

Anyone for pudding? Mark is. Pudding is his favourite dinner, lunch and tea. If Mark doesn't get pudding when he needs it, terrible repercussions repercuss. A Kitsch bass, assistant beatboxer and move-master, Mark also knows a thing or two about parcour. This means we have to be very very careful when selecting rehearsal venues so that he doesn't, like Shirley Bassey, wind up tangled in a web of chairs (or was it a web of sin?). Either way, the results could be extremely messy.

In actual fact, we have recently discover that Mark is made of pudding. And you can't tell from his photo can you? Quite remarkable really. Quite.

Mark M

Melanie

Mel likes putting on a show, especially when travelling on any form of tran, tube, train or omnibus. Ths has caused more than one run-in with the law, but she doesn't let that get her down. Her prized jersey potatos are something to savour, and her creations in crayon-art are known throughout the low countries.

Melanie

Paul T

Imagine a small enthusiastic puppy. Boundless energy, constant inappropriate barking, endlessly wagging tail and totally lovable by all…. That’s Paul. Having recently sailed in from Irish shores, his dayjob consists of responsibly for improving the wellbeing of poor unfortunate sick children in an accident and emergency department near you. Though we still haven’t managed to housetrain him and still continues to chew our slippers and do his business on the kitchen floor.

Paul T

Sam D

Sam is Kitsch in Sync’s Northern Soul. For a living, Sam invents the flavours for the glue on the back of stamps. Her personal favourite flavour is ‘nearly earwig’.

Sam is so loud that she has been banned from within 5 miles of all libraries, mouse sanctuaries and pin-dropping laboratories by the National Institute for Shushing. When not singing Alto with KiS, Sam likes tending to her Auricula Theatre.

Sam D

Sarah B

Why does KiS have so many people with the same first name? It's part of our one out, two in policy. Sarah was obliged to join when we realised we already had a Sarah. This Sarah is a gamer. Never happier than when battling through World of Warlords, she also has a vast interest in medieval matters. Having previously made a cameo apperance on Jackanory as a magic wand, KiS was Sarah's natural choice when looking to join a choir. In the moments she disconnects from multi-player heaven, a little Kitsch lite relief is in order.