The Questionnaires

The Questionnaires Bio:

Cool, elegant, beautiful sophisto-pop. Critically acclaimed and as classy as it gets. The Questionnaires just want to express a few shared feelings long held about politics, relationships and the human condition. Content with that, they wait with patience and confidence for quality to come back into fashion.

After receiving superlative reviews and attracting major label interest in the late 1980s, personal circumstances drove Jane Wade and Steve Hall their separate ways. They re-formed in 2002 and produced their debut album, Arctic Circles. It was released independently in early 2003, and will be re-released by independent label Salient Recordings on September 16th. On Arctic Circles, The Questionnaires combine rock, soul, jazz and funk, a sort of Portishead-type artiness and lyrics that transcend the norm in a totally unique way. Those with the confidence to ignore the corporate fads need look no further for cool, intelligent, timeless songs, great musicianship and one of the best female voices in the business.

The Questionnaires nucleus is Jane Wade and Steve Hall. They're interesting characters.

Jane is a renowned singer in her home city of Newcastle upon Tyne. She performed one-woman shows at Live Theatre about Alma Cogan and Lotte Lenya, and Tina Turner's guitarist Jon Miles wrote a show specially for her - she's that good!

One of Steve Hall's early bands was produced by ex-Jimi Hendrix manager Chas Chandler, and he has played alongside Ray Charles, Robert Cray, Freddie Hubbard and Herbie Hancock. He is now an internationally-known social philosopher, with work published alongside Jean Baudrillard and Georges Bataille.

"Every so often you get an album that you want to play over and over again ... far and away the best album to come out of our corner of the planet in many years ... songwriting of the highest quality, and I mean the highest quality ... these songs are getting better by the spin ... this album does really leave me lost for words." Charles Holley, Get Rhythm, UK.