Sharon Clancy - Vox and locks

Sharon comes from a musical family. Her first music memory is of singing Norwegian Wood with her Dad at a folk club age 6. Sharon's Dad's band - Clancy and the Mojo's - had supported Bill Haley and the Comets on a major UK tour in the 60's, their big break only scuppered by an untimely serious car accident. Similarly Sharon's brother Jeremy is a lifelong singer/songwriter and they have featured in a number of bands together.

The early 1980's saw Sharon in her first band with Jez - Double Identity - playing music influenced by Bowie, Bauhaus, Birthday Party, B-52s, Beatles, other bands beginning with B and ska. At University Sharon was head-hunted to front the usually stoned psychedelic 'Bottom Inspectors' in gigs covering an area from Cambridge to London and back, building a strong local reputation and following and the early recording, 'A Special Kind of Nightmare'.

In 1988 she teamed up with Robb Thompson in a jazz/folk fusion, shared management with Clive Gregson and Christine Collister, appearing at prestigious events like Whitby Folk Festival and releasing their first album, September Slide, in 1988 to excellent reviews and national recognition.Sharon's voice was described as 'inestimable' in a Folk Roots magazine review of the album at the time.

There followed a busy schedule of gigs and bands:

1989 The Jazz Combo
1991 to the mid 1990's Female world music trio. Sharon specialised in Yugoslavian hunting yodels and singing bass part harmony!
1996 to 1998 Bogus Jazz Quartet - a trio with brother Jez and an itinerant sax player known, for tax reasons, as Braham
1998 Duo with Jon Stoppard, a multi-talented piano, harp and guitar player producing two CD's of bluesy folky acoustic music
2000 to 2002 Funk Hog - a 13 piece soul and R&B band
2002 to 2003 Shadowdancer - a musical mime media marvel
2003 to date Jon Stoppard

By the end of 2005 the only gap in Sharon's experience was rock - enter The Amplifires! Sharon provides the velvet tones and contrasting rock voice that give The Amplifires their distinctive, high energy sound.