Cat Green Bike is the musical guise of Ukulele, Saw & Zither playing Xenia Randle. Xenia picked up the Ukulele at the tail end of 2007 and had her first gigs in February 2008, the second of which being Urban & Eastern's Ukelear Meltdown in Newcastle. So far, Cat Green Bike has predominantly been a solo affair with occasional guest assistance from various friendly musicians, including El Heath and Robert Glover of Epic45. However, in January 2009 Cat Green Bike acquired a second member in the form of Mr Joseph Urwin on guitar. The sound subsequently expanded into an enchanting wee jaunt where the harp like plucking of the Ukulele is wrapped up in the warm quilt of the low C-major tuned bass notes of the guitar. Team Brick wrote about Cat Green Bike: "Hailing from Bristol, Cat Green Bike's minimal micro-epic ukulele sub-balladry brims with the wry witticisms of a closet English Eccentric. Gingerly plucked melodic lines that nod as far east as Canterbury with prog-rock spines are interwoven with a satiric, dryly humored vocal counterpoint in hushed home-counties tones. Cat Green Bike will laugh at the slugs she pours salt on." Links and such: www.myspace.com/catgreenbike www.catgreenbike.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/catgreenbike
