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Anne Clark was born in Croydon, South London on May 14th 1960 to an Irish mother and a Scottish father. She left school at sixteen. The constraints of her school education however couldn't quash her voracious appetite for music, books,an inquisitiveness and practical need to be involved with the world around her.

She took a number of jobs including working as a care assistant in a psychiatric hospital and then taking a job at Bonaparte Records, a local independent record store and label.This indeed was good timing! The punk rock scene was just about to explode into life in London. With her need for communication and disregard of formal institutions, along with so many people at the time, punk led the way to a whole new approach for dealing with music, arts, society itself.At that time anything and everything seemed possible.

Next door to Bonapartes was the Warehouse Theatre, another independent venture that was constantly under threat of closure due to lack of finances. For 18 months Anne went to them with the idea of putting on shows/acts that were emerging from the punk and new wave scene. Not only bands like The Damned, Siouxsie and The Banshees and Generation X were part of the local scene but there were numerous theatre, comedy,poetry and dance projects filtering through. At first the theatre bosses were terrified of having leather clad, pierced punk rockers swarming over the Warehouse but eventually they conceded and Anne worked as an unpaid administrator there for almost 2 years - selling out nights at the theatre featuring acts such as Paul Weller, Linton Kwesi-Johnson, French & Saunders, The Durutti Column, Ben Watt etc etc...

The Smallest Acts Of Kindness 
Releasedate: September 26th, 2008

01 - Nothing Going On
02 - The Hardest Heart
03 - Waiting
04 - Psalm
05 - Know
06 - As Soon As I Get Home
07 - Off Grid
08 - Boy Racing
09 - Zest
10 - Prayer Before Birth
11 - Full Moon
12 - If

Recensie / Persbericht

Anne Clark has released her first studioalbum in over 13 years! Also, Amazon has a special limited edition version available of the album.