Music

Yes, Fran also sings, writes songs and produces! I have been working with genius Richard Newman for three years. He has written most of the 45 songs, his guitar playing is better than most and his mixing and production are exemplary. All you need to do is listen.....

The concept for this body of work is all from Fran May. It is a look at relationships from both a woman's point of view and features insights into emotions as seen by one woman. It is in fact audio imagery. Story boards became songs, which create pictures with sound as much as they use melody. They use atmosphere as a fundamental pallet to paint emotions into the songs. As much as anything else, it's about what it means in our times to be feminine.

The first album is titled ' Emotional Exorcism'.

This is a cross-arts project between the rock music art form and fine art photography.

The album will be released concurrently with a fine art photography show of images by Fran May at the Royal College of Art- 18th-24th October 2012

Fran May attended the Royal College of Art for photography, where she won the Vogue Prize for portraiture and the Minor Travel Scholarship for her dissertation on current Photographic Philosophical Theory.

Fran May was taught by John Hedgecoe, Michael Langford, Tom Picton, Fred Dubery, Peter Blake, Derek Boshier, Bill Brandt, Alan Jones, Philip Jones-Griffiths, Fred Lammer, Paul Overy and James Wedge.

Fran May has collaborated with producer, writer and journalist, Richard Newman.

Richard Newman wrote the book about the making of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, has written and presented his own Channel 4 documentary on the origins of the London Blues Rock scene, and while in his early twenties, produced albums featuring Geoff Bradford and Brian Knight, two of the people, who along with Cyril Davies and Alexis Korner,  started the whole of the London Blues Rock scene in a room upstairs at the Roundhouse Pub.

Along with Keith Scott, the piano player, in the late fifties and early sixties, this was the well spring that eventually flowed through the Marquee Club, the Ealing Club and the Station Hotel, at Richmond,and that provided a context for The Who, The Rolling Stones, the early Cream, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, to emerg; and we all know where that stream led to next.....