Rose Elinor Dougall

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Name = Rose Dougall

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Origin = Brighton, England, UK
Genre = Indie, Pop
Years_active = 2003-present
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Rose Elinor Dougall (born March 13 1986) is a solo singer-songwriter. To date, she is perhaps best known as being former singer and keyboardist with The Pipettes.

Biography

Her father, Alastair Dougall, is an singer-songwriter active on the Brighton acoustic scene [ [http://www.myspace.com/alastairdougallmusic MySpace.com - Alastair Dougall - Brighton, UK - Acoustic / Alternative - www.myspace.com/alastairdougallmusic ] ] . She is the granddaughter of former BBC news broadcaster Robert Dougall cite web|title=Pipettes bring touch of class to Academy| work=Manchester Evening News, 13th April 2007 | url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/entertainment/music/rock_and_pop/s/1004] , and attended Camberwell College of Arts as late as mid-2006, and as a student appeared uncredited on the BBC Two show James May's Top Toys in December 2005, drawing the presenter on an Etch A Sketch. [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJo-TL9pkbU YouTube - rose pipette on "james may's top toys" ] ] Her younger brother Thomas is guitarist with Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong, and she is known to have dated Joe Lean of the same band. [ Citation
title="Radar: Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong", New Musical Express
year=7 August, 2007 .]

The Pipettes

Rose joined The Pipettes in 2003 after being introduced to the initial line-up by Monster Bobby at The Basketmakers pub in Brighton. With The Pipettes, Rose took lead vocals on the singles "Judy" and "Dirty Mind". During her time with The Pipettes, she also provided guest vocals for The Young Playthings, Brakes and Dr Colossus. On April 18 2008 it was announced in a blog post on the band's Myspace that Rose and bandmate RiotBecki had amicably left the band "to pursue other musical projects".

olo work

Rose created a MySpace profile for her solo work on May 14 2008 under the name of Rose Elinor Dougall [ [http://www.myspace.com/roseelinordougallmusic MySpace.com - Rose Elinor Dougall - UK - Other / Other / Other - www.myspace.com/roseelinordougallmusic ] ] . As of May 21 2008, she had posted one song on there, titled "Start/Stop/Synchro". On June 6, three more songs were posted - "Another Version Of Pop Song", "Hanging Around" and "May Holiday", with a further three posted almost a month later; "To The Sea", "Come Away With Me" and "I Know We'll Never".

Her first live performance was at Sing Ye From The Hillsides! at the Tan Hill Inn, Yorkshire, a festival curated by British Sea Power [{http://britishseapower.co.uk/index.php?id=227 British Sea Power blog] ] , where she played a thirty-minute set accompanied only by a keyboard [ [http://follyfollyfolly.blogspot.com/2008/09/sing-ye-from-hillsides-tan-hill-inn-day.html Sing Ye From The Hillsides @ Tan Hill Inn - Day Two] ] .

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