Sarah Miller - backing vocals & percussion

• Instruments/Gear
  Voice, a fine jangly tambourine, kabasher and a very tasty Schlag African shaker.
• Joined The Band
  January 2006.
• Formal Musical Education
  Been a professional singer since I was 18.
  Credits include The Christians, Mighty Wah, Oceanic, Peter Coyle and The Lotus Eaters, Simply Red and Robbie Williams.
• Influences Other Than Steely Dan
  Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, Dusty Springfield, Billie Holliday, Aretha Franklin, Candi Statton.
  
• Favourite Steely Dan Songs
  Only A Fool Would Say That, Dirty Work (lucky me!), Cousin Dupree, Babylon Sisters.
  
• Favourite or Interesting Nearly Dan Experience
  Playing The Jazz Cafe in Camden for the first time!
  Gorgeous Robbie Rolph being legless at Big Chill and falling over into large ditch trying to find tent!
• Essential Listening
  Court & Spark - Joni Mitchell
  Solid Air - John Martyn
  Strange Fruit - Billie Holliday
  Soul Mining - The The
  Blue Monk - Thelonious Monk
• Comment
  Playing in this band is like musical Nirvana, apart from the nerve-shredding "Frown Check!".