Sarah Eaglesfield

Sarah Quin Eaglesfield (born 20 May 1979) is an English singer/songwriter in the alternative rock band Flightside. She is notable as an innovator in digital music space.

Sarah Eaglesfield
Birth nameSarah Quin Eaglesfield
Born (1979-05-20) 20 May 1979
OriginBirmingham, United Kingdom
GenresAlternative Rock, Synthpop
Occupation(s)Musician, singer-songwriter, digital innovator, news analyst
InstrumentsVocals, synthesizer, keyboards, bass
Years active1992–present
LabelsBang Boom Krash, suddenvibe
Associated actsFlightside
Websitetwitter.com/zenxv

Musical career

Eaglesfield first shared her music online for free in 1994[1][2] on the webserver at Brunel University, using webspace assigned to students who had left their courses to accommodate the large filesizes. The URL on Flightside's first EP linked directly to her username. She made a number of guest appearances on the UK ITV show cyber.café.[3][4]

Eaglesfield contributed lyrics to Dave Stewart's track, Love Tower[5], and co-wrote a song called Ex Facto Ring with comedian Matt Richardson during X-Factor UK, which was screened on ITV2 in the UK in September 2013. She also regularly collaborated with her mentor, Nikki Sudden, in the final years of his life.[6]

Eaglesfield has listed her early influences as These Immortal Souls, Swell Maps, The Damned, Robyn Hitchcock, Jellyfish, James, Suicide Blonde and The Wonderstuff.[7]

Digital Platforms

In 2001, she co-founded MusicAndSex TV, a direct-to-fan music video member website with Duran Duran guitarist Warren Cuccurullo[8] and also assisted him with the Missing Persons Lost Tracks album.[9]

In 2007 she established RockAffairs as a digital platform where artists could share their music without any fees and receive a profit share from paid membership, with funding provided by Duran Duran's Andy Taylor.[10][11][12]

In November 2011, Eaglesfield received funding from the Chilean Government through their Start-Up Chile scheme to establish a record label to aid Chilean artists break into Europe[13][14], and Flightside had a short reunion, releasing two EPs.[15]

News Analysis and Political Activism

Since 2013, Eaglesfield has occasionally appeared on television and radio as a news analyst. In 2013, she appeared on I Love Chile News, breaking down conspiracy theories surrounding the Boston Marathon Bombing [16]. In 2018, she provided commentary on the Russian Collusion for WION TV.

She has also been politically active, with a focus on protection of freedom of speech. Eaglesfield's tweets were used as evidence by the defence in the PJS v News Group Newspapers Supreme Court hearing regarding an anonymised privacy injunction[17], and she is a founder of the "Yes, Less Censorship" movement on Twitter.[18]

Solo Releases and Collaborations
  • Love Tower (October 2009), (Dave Stewart & the Tweets)[19]
  • Ex Facto Ring EP (September 2013), suddenvibe (Eaglesfield, solo)[20]
  • 20 Yards (February 2015), suddenvibe (Eaglesfield, solo)[21]
  • Winter Could Be Summer (December 2015), suddenvibe (Eaglesfield, solo)[22]
  • Angel (February 2016), suddenvibe (Eaglesfield, solo)[23]

References
  1. "Music on the Internet: Flightside Guide Us Through It". (April 1994). X Magazine, issue 2.
  2. "Flightside go Free". (May 1994). Kerrang!, issue 493 .
  3. "S01E04". cyber.café. 15 May 1996. ITV.
  4. "S01E08". cyber.café. 13 June 1996. ITV.
  5. "Dave Stewart – Love Tower"Eurythmics Ultimate
  6. Sudden, Nikki (2010). The Last Bandit. A Rock'N Roll Life, Arcana, London. ISBN 8862311788.
  7. "Can't Sing, Must Write". (April 1993). Waxstreet Dive, issue 4 .
  9. "Missing Persons Lost Tracks"Discogs.Com
  10. Taylor, Andy (2010). Wild Boy: My Life with Duran Duran, Orion, London. ISBN 0752897276.
  11. "RockAffairs launches"Sane PR
  12. "Andy Taylor Studios Ibiza"Andy Taylor Official Blog
  13. "Meet The Women Founders of Start Up Chile".TNW
  14. "British entrepreneur turns rockstar in Chile". This Is Chile – the official website of Chile
  15. "BBC Introducing"Flightside on BBC WM "Introducing"
  16. YouTube: RockAffairs Investigates: Why a Facebook Page isn't Evidence of a False Flag Event. RockAffairs. 19 May 2016. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  17. YouTube: PJS v News Group Newspapers Ltd. UKSupremeCourt. 19 May 2016. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  18. "YouTube Struggles to Police Its Channels"CBS News, Retrieved 7 March 2018
  19. "Love Tower on Musicbrainz". Musicbrainz. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
  20. "Ex Facto Ring EP". Musicbrainz. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
  21. "20 Yards". Musicbrainz. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
  22. "Winter Could Be Summer". Musicbrainz. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
  23. "Angel". Musicbrainz. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
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