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.

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.

Chris A

A former child actor turned male model, Chris has recently done front page covers for Men's Health and Mr Gay UK. He collects antique toilet cisterns, specialising in Victorian rear drainage models. His favourite actors are Judy Garland and Rupert Everet, and his favourite films are Labrynth and Clueless. He works at Burger King in Liverpool St Station and votes for the Natural Law Party. He has a good sense of humour, which is why I'm hoping to stay alive when he reads this.

George A

George has been singing since a small child and has always appreciated a good audience, her parents used to find her happily singing in their field surrounded by a ring of cows. She progressed to singing in choirs and productions at school and university but gave up the stage in favour for the Alps and a snowboard. She however still kept her love of singing and it was not unusual to hear her impression of Julie Andrews in the summer months. When not singing in KiS, she can be found creating something in the kitchen usually with a large glass of wine in hand.

Emily

Emily has all her housework done by Colin and Justin because she's the kind of busy / mad scientist that still hasn't learnt to tie her own shoelaces. Whilst not devling into the inner workings of the cosmos, Emily plays football for the all England pro-celebrity XI. She does all her own moves, and recently walked all the way to Africa and back in aid of nothing in particular. Her friend Anni introduced her to KiS in the belief that she was a stray reindeer.

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.

Cristiana

Cristiana adds the tropical spice to KiS. This Brazilian nut swans slinkily between London, Rio and The Priory. A head-banger at heart, she sang along to Rush, Led Zeppelin, and Spinal Tap in those forgotten days when bands penned great tunes and radio DJs played them. Cristiana has a PhD in newts. She can extract the DNA from a kiwi fruit with tequila, vodka, or gin, depending on her mood. She is also searching for drugs to eliminate the need to exercise, and is keeping in shape by eating and breathing.

Katie

Katie is a book-binder, and her hero is Nietzsche. Very much the Earth mother, she is a fabulous laundry-bag of a lady, who's always finding hedgehogs hibernating under the ruffles of her many petticoats. She lives nearer to the country than to London and farms geese. How we admire her delightful demeanour... And the fire-throwing. Don't forget the fire-throwing.

Adrian

Adrian likes to sing tenor – and we would like to think so too. When not with KiS Adrian can be found hard at work trying to get companies to think about their responsibilities. A difficult job, which fortunately doesn’t get in the way of singing

Lucia

Lucia was born somewhere in Italy, but she always suspected she arrived there after being abandoned by a gypsy camp.
She has always been known for and recognised by everyone for her massive hair.
Lucia sang with various choirs all over London and when she ended up with Kitsch in Sync, she decided that that was it, she had to stay with this group and shake her big big hair on their stage.
She is a Soprano, i.e. she says she sings as a soprano, but some choir members think she is actually Tony Soprano's sister.

Chris L

Chris got drunk at his old housemate’s Mrs’ bad taste party and accidentally got dragged into Kitsch In Sync. Apparently he was looking around for something completely different after being leader of the Liberal Democrats. Like Biggles, he lives in Tower Bridge. His parents having been shipped off to Australia for a crime they didn’t commit, were later charged with wearing socks with their sandals.

Incidentally, he’s also responsible for this site. If it looks bad, and it doesn’t look like intentional, then it’s his fault. You can telegraph him here

David

David was born in London and has stayed there ever since. He found out that he had an entrepreneurial spirit, when at 10, he found the old lady upstairs was dead, and charged his friends 50p for a guided tour. He now has an AudioVisual Hire company http://www.av2hire.com which gives him copious amounts of free time to persue a non-profit making career as a musician.

David was destined to be a singer when his mother named him and his two sisters beginning with D, so that they could start a group called the 3 Ds. Sadly, his sisters had other ideas. He joined a church choir at the age of 6, and now sings tenor with KiS, as well as lead vocals and guitar in a four piece band. David also plays Tuba and deps for various bands and orchestras.

Richard

Mild mannered TEFL teacher by day, Richard spends much of his time brooding over great schemes, most of which will result in a properly sign posted Britain, the disappearance of people who say ‘look on the bright side’, and a world without rap music. When not brooding, he has been known to tread the boards, make droll but dry remarks and grow large hair He also cultivates an odd and eclectic collection of friends. Working on his first novel due out in 2010, Richard is a guitar owner, raconteur and firm-but-fair older brother of two. Oh, and he sings a bit.

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.

Paul B

Paul collects Georgian side-boards, and doesn't own a bed. He forms a sizable part of the bass section and freely admits to commiting the cardinal sin of Rugby. He has some connection with a Small-holding in Ireland, but that was when she was big in M-People, and the ransom was hefty. Rock-On!

Alice

Life is short, so Alice spends hers wisely: collecting shoes, kittens and 80s compilation CDs. She adores music by Kate Bush, All About Eve and Duran Duran. She sings with Kitsch in Sync and also in the bath, the shower and on the Tube. Her favourite food is dumplings and her favourite polygon is a triangle. She writes for a living but would rather paint. She is scared of daddylonglegs, fireworks and alarm clocks. The rest is subject to change without notice.

Kat

KiS' current MD, Kat has her hands full trying to cope with the demands of a chorus that has a special place in all its member's medical histories. Her efforts to steer KiS away from a belief that an arrangement of "Step-On" by the Happy Mondays would traslate well to four-part harmony are admirable. Whether they will suceed or not will all depend who wins that crucial arm-wrestling contest. After all, she is world-champion.

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.

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.

Sarah

Sarah has been in KiS for a little while. She's not bad at singing and quite enjoys it too! Her first performance was at the age of five, in primary school, as a wolf in "The Jungle Book". Since then she has looked back, but decided it wasn't worth crying over. She enjoys kitsch (of course) and can sometimes be seen ferreting around for bargain archaeology books, or quaffing champagne in expensive bars with showbiz pals Burt Bacharach and Andy Williams.

Anna

With her solo debut as the donkey in the school nativity at the tender age of 7, Anna has kept the bar high in the years that followed. Her singing career encompasses a stint as Mother Abbess, some rather dubious pub gigs, and, of course, the mighty Kitsch In Sync.

In her free time, she enjoys such wholesome pursuits as cake baking, bass playing and gin drinking. She enjoys the convivial atmosphere that KIS offers. And the wine.

Stephen

Following a mis-spent youth playing pool in West Berlin, and making a one-off appearance on Radio Saarland as a bi-lingual voice in a new-music produciton Stephen has settled down in London. His singing career started with performances in the upper register with such classics a Carmina Burana and the Dream of Gernotious, following the on-break of puberty and a more hirsuit complexion he is now more comfortable in the bass register – oh yeah!

Paul H

"Kitsch in Sync" was founded by arranger and conductor Paul Heatley on Thursday 11th January 2001. His dream: to celebrate classic music from his childhood by performing a-cappella arrangements of favourite songs from the 1980s. Paul has been a familiar face on the London music scene for some years firstly as conductor and arranger for the "Respect" gospel choir, and with the rock band "Unity".