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"Anthony Wignall is regularly considered the best songwriter in Adelaide. There's a reason for this. Anthony Wignall is the best songwriter in Adelaide. His songs blend blissful simplicity with maturity, depth and poise. His melodies will make you smile, think and feel. He's a pop songwriter, up there with Teenage Fanclub, The Lemonheads, The Weakerthans; even in this illustrious company, his songs stand up." - Ben Revi, March 2010 Anthony Wignall - Vocals, Guitar Jeremy Lake - Drums Jon Wignall - Bass .

She Keeps Bees is a blues rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2006 and consisting of Jessica Larrabee on vocals and guitar and Andy LaPlant on drums. They have been compared to Patti Smith, The White Stripes, The Kills, PJ Harvey, and Cat Power. Larrabee was recording an album as a solo artist under the name She Keeps Bees ("bees" coming from her surname) and met LaPlant when she was his bartender. It is known that her name came from an incident in which a bee stung her in the eye. He helped produce her music and began...

Keeps began in the dead of summer, 2010, when Marc Nelson and Josh Ramon (ex members of Theanti) reunited in the village of Foresman, Indiana (population less than 50). On a 16 track recorder with a handful of microphones, heads-full of ideas, and limited instrumentation they recorded two new songs which showcased a more "pop" structure than their work as Theanti (apparently more suited for the likes of Warped Tour, having been handpicked to play founder Kevin Lyman's Kevin Says Stage in 2008). Deciding to bring in longtime friend/collaborator Eric Parker to thicken the low end on the mostly acoustic...