Artist description Female lead vocals with guitarist, bassist/keyboards and drummer. Striving to be original and melodic with beautiful lead vocalist.

Music Style Electric and Acoustic melodic rock

Musical Influences Everybody and anyone

Similar Artists Fleetwood Mac, The Corrs

Artist History Been together for 12 months. Written and recorded album over last 7 months. Album about to be mixed then released mid February 2002.

Group Members Kirsty McCarrick, Paul Ayre, Chris Picton, Roy Taylor

Instruments Vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, drums

Albums This Is Where We Are

Press Reviews CLASSIC ROCK SOCIETY MAGAZINE.(FORMERLY WONDEREOUS STORIES) - ALBUM REVIEW Quecia - This is where we are POWERPLAY - ALBUM REVIEW MUSICALDISCOVERIES.COM - ALBUM REVIEW Quecia hail from Wigan, you can read an interview with the band in this issue. This is their debut album and there's a second now in the pipeline. Fourteen well crafted songs with intelligent, thoughtful lyrics, a pleasing degree of variety in delivery and some finely worked instrumental backing. This refinement shows itself immediately the album opens with a distinctive, resonant electrified acoustic guitar underpinning Kirsty McCarrick's classy vocals. Brief electric guitar solos play around the edges of the words in Fight For This, and a low keyboard string emulated background is present in this anti-war lament. See me fall is a rockier number sounding rather like Heart. Somebody New sees the reappearance of that pleasantly metallic acoustic guitar sound for this love song. It picks up nicely and rocks gently along in a swaying beat with an effective tempo change around the chorus. The lyric doesn't change much for the next song, wrong kind of love, but heralds a more powerful emotional texture to Kirsty's voice. The title track is a gentle ballad whilst Stay shows a more commercial edge along with the obvious single-candidate Circles. Among many other highlights are the classically-styled Alive, Bitter East Wind, a moving song from the heart by Paul (his only lead vocal) in reference to his late father and the poignant Hunter Street, mourning the loss of the shipbuilding industry. My personal favourite is probably A Winter's Tale, a neatly constructed mix of electric and acoustic guitar, string-synth backing and a vocal line which make good use of tension and release. The album concludes with a bit of a blow-out by the band letting their hair down just to remind us they ARE a rock band at heart. A very refined and varied album which can grace anyone's shelf, whether you are a lover of classic rock or simple love songs. MUSICALDISCOVERIES.COM - REVIEW This Is Where We Are is comprised of 14 tracks spanning singer/songwriter, progressive and alternative rock genres. Recorded away from the commercial studio and today's all-digital production environment, the result is superb. Read more about the making of the album in our interview below. Artwork accompanying the compact disc includes full lyrics and plenty of thumbnail-size photographs. Well-arranged instrumentals, including typical progressive guitar and keyboard riffs support Kirsty's lead vocal parts--mixed way up--throughout the album. Occasional harmony vocal layers add texture to selected tracks. Kirsty's voice is powerful, clear and crystalline across a wide range and is well suited to the band's entire repertoire. The opening track, "Fight For This," will immediately draw the listener into Quecia's music. A gentle progressive rock number, it effectively blends Kirsty's vocal style with Paul's guitar playing and demonstrates the combined strength of these two talented musicians. The style is echoed in the short rock track "Stay" the sweeping standout "Winters Tale" and the much longer, slower and instrumentally dense track "Alive." "See Me Fall" is a rocky track with dramatically soaring vocals and a couple of great guitar solos while the gentler and lovely vocally-layered "Somebody New" certainly evoke memories of All About Eve. "Circles" further develops the sound and its melody includes a well-defined hook. Paul provides lead vocals on the acoustic guitar track "Bitter East Wind" and is joined later in the track by Kirsty. The combination works well and is reminscent of Bryan Josh and Heather Findlay's work with Mostly Autumn (reviews) and similar work by Tiger Dragon (review) featuring Anne-Marie Helder and Chris Woodman. Singer songwriter material includes "Wrong Kind Of Love" an evocatively sung heartfelt tune accompanied only by acoustic guitar while the ballad "Where We Are" builds on the style initially with additional keyboard textures and vocal layers and drums in the closing passages. "Hunter Street (Part 1)" is a brief and gentle acoustic ballad as well. Kirsty's voice in the gentle rocker "Falling" is supported by a lovely acoustic guitar part and subtle rhythm section. Kirsty's vocals soar in the chorus of the more thickly arranged ballad "Walk Away" which includes a tremendous electrified-acoustic guitar solo. The album concludes with the upbeat and progressive rocker "Sleep Walking In Paradise." Kirsty's vocals are mixed way up above the lush instrumentals in the first part. The track then develops into an all out frenzy with a vast electric guitar solo as the track comes to a conclusion. This Is Where We Are is a tremendous album. With superb vocals, well-written arrangements and outstanding production, it is worth a trans-Atlantic journey and is by all means a must listen!

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Location Wigan, Manchester - United Kingdom

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