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Thea Gilmore
Background information
Birth name	Thea Gilmore
Born	November 25, 1979 (age 27)
Genre(s)	Rock, Folk, Singer-Songwriter
Occupation(s)	Musician, songwriter
Instrument(s)	Guitar
Years active	1998-present
Label(s)	Hungry Dog/Flying Sparks, Sanctuary
Website	theagilmore.com

Thea Eve Gilmore (b. November 25, 1979) is an Oxfordshire-born British female singer-songwriter. She began her career working in a studio, where she was discovered by her now long-time collaborator, producer and sometime co-songwriter Nigel Stonier, who became her husband in a ceremony in October 2005.

She became interested in music as a result of her father's record collection, which included work by Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Elvis Costello, and Tom Waits among others.

Gilmore released her first album as a teenager, entitled Burning Dorothy, in 1998 and over the course of the next four years, released increasingly well-received albums that earned her a reputation in the UK music press but no chart success. She finally made a breakthrough at 23 with the release of Avalanche in August 2003, which became her first album to break into the Official UK Album Chart, at #62, and spawned two minor hit singles, "Juliet (Keep That in Mind)" and "Mainstream", for which she garnered acclaim for producing a low-budget music video filmed in a local Virgin Megastore. The video received exposure on the BBC's flagship music show Top of the Pops.

Increasing radio support and acclaim from the music press led to a lucrative tour of the US in 2004, in support of legendary folksinger Joan Baez. During this time, Gilmore was diagnosed with clinical depression and also split from her personal relationship with Nigel Stonier after seven years, although they continued touring and working together.

In 2005, Gilmore continued touring commitments, for the first time not releasing a new album (the covers collection Loft Music was widely released during 2004). In October 2005, she and Stonier, who, in the light of Gilmore's depression diagnosis, re-started their personal relationship, married in a ceremony near their home in Cheshire.

Gilmore finally returned to recording with the release of Harpo's Ghost in August 2006, after a three-year absence of new material. This was her first album on major label Sanctuary Records after many years of independent releases. The album was once again acclaimed in the music press and UK radio lent their support to the single "Cheap Tricks". Gilmore has been touted by Uncut magazine as "the best British singer-songwriter of the last 10 years...and then some" and has gained steady acclaim for each of her albums.

On November 14, 2006, Gilmore gave birth to her first child with Stonier, a son named Egan, having conducted a UK tour in the autumn while heavily pregnant.

Subsequent to the release of Harpo's Ghost she parted company with Sanctuary Records and released the EP The Threads independently on her March 2007 UK tour.

Contents 1 Discography 1.1 Albums 1.2 EPs 1.3 Singles 1.4 DVDs 2 External links

• Burning Dorothy (1998)
• The Lipstick Conspiracies (2000)
• Rules For Jokers (2001)
• Songs From The Gutter (2002)
• Avalanche (2003) *UK #62*
• Loft Music (2003)
• Harpo's Ghost (2006) *UK #69*

• Instead of the Saints (1998)
• As If EP (Limited Edition) (2001)
• The Threads EP (Limited Edition) (2007)

• "Saviours and All" (2001)
• "Fever Beats" (2002)
• "Juliet (Keep That in Mind)" (2003) *UK #35*
• "Mainstream" (2003) *UK #50*
• "Cheap Tricks" (2006)

• Harpo's Ghost - 3 track acoustic performance (2006)

• Official site
• Profile on MySpace
• Summer 2006 interview in Wears the Trousers Magazine
• 2004 interview
• Thea Gilmore at Discogs
• Thea Gilmore at MusicBrainz