YOUR SHOUT!

She has links to Yes, Jon & Vangelis, Robert Fripp and more… but how prog do our readers think Claire Hamill is?

"Very fond memories of her Voices album from 1986, using her voice as a musical instrument without words. My wife and I saw her perform some of those songs as part of a vocal group which featured Enid Williams from Girlschool! Great songwriter, and a versatile, emotive voice."

DAVID ELLIOTT

"I only really know her more commercial work such as Touchpaper. Great album. But she has worked with the likes of Nick Magnus and there are definitely prog-like tendencies."

PHIL MORRIS

"Great vocals for Wishbone Ash, and a lovely lady to chat to."

STEVE LORD

"Met her recently. She was singing in the bar at the end of my road. Got her to sign one of my Ash CDs."

DARREN JOHNSON

"I would include her before many that you already include."

SOLENT AREA PROG

"Maybe not as prog as Peter Hammill!"

DAVE SMITH

"Claire Hamill! She sang one tune on The Steve Howe Album, Look Over Your Shoulder. I like that one a lot."

BAS LANGERIS

"Don't know of her solo output, but I do know she sang backing vocals on the Wishbone Ash album Number The Brave, and was very good."

PAUL WATSON

"Claire has a fab voice. If you can find one we did a great compilation in 2007 called The Minor Fall, The Major Lift on Esoteric. Some is folky, some not unlike Tori Amos, some quite proggy. My favourite track is Glastonbury."

VICKY POWELL

"She opened for Caravan at a club called Ebbets Field in Denver around 1975. Rumour is that the band 'pulled the train' with her. If that's not prog, I dont know what is."

JAMES HRESKO

"Let's see… At various times she has toured with Jethro Tull and King Crimson, and she sang on The Steve Howe Album and a couple of Wishbone Ash albums as well. Yet in spite of the prog connections I'd put her more in the folk rock and new-age categories, with the occasional foray into rock and prog."

CLIVE SUMMERFIELD

"Not very. When I saw her supporting King Crimson many years ago, some wag in the crowd shouted 'Interstellar Overdrive!', and she didn't even know what he was talking about."

RICK STARTIN

"Art rock and a bit of an experimental artist. Yes, she is prog in some way."

ELENI ERIKSSON

"Saw her live with Wishbone Ash. And she had her own group call Transporter for a while (great single called Kids On The Run). More light rock than prog…"

NIGEL HOBDAY