The Beginning

Hazel Winter took her first musical steps clad in leopard skin playing guitar for all-girl R&B band Gorilla My Dreams.

Solo

Hazel’s solo debut album Put Away The Sharp Knives was released on Bristol-based independent label Clearwater at the end of 2000, and met with instant national critical acclaim. Produced, overdubbed and mixed by John Parish (P.J.Harvey, Eels, Tracy Chapman) and Adrian Utley (Portishead).

“…Winter pulls you into her deliciously paranoid world …an extraordinarily unsettling persona…one to watch, but with the lights on…”

MOJO

“…jagged and dangerous…angular…soulful…a thrillingly raw debut…”

TIME OUT

“…oddly seductive…sexual magic…Hazel Winter will be unstoppable…”

Q

“…bluesy, viscerally exciting ride…thrillingly uneasy listening…”

BIG ISSUE

“…dark and broody….a contemporary classic…”

EXPRESS MAGAZINE

“…slinky, schizoid, off-kilter groove…jagged, edgy, rare and brilliant…”

GUITARIST MAGAZINE

Death Row Bride

She went on to release three more critically acclaimed independent albums on her own Death Row Bride label...

“…the sound of a quite unhinging ferocity…a terrific burst of whispery nastiness…”

ROCK SOUND

“…The West Country’s first lady of noirish guitar blues…vocal witchiness and bile-spitting make a convincing dent”

Q

“…Hazel Winter purrs and crows … facing her demons …twatting you over the head with a shard of buoyant riffage…a thoroughly disturbing, thoroughly compelling listen …”

LOGO

“…doomed romantic masterpiece…but best of all is Hazel’s provincial non-singing Northern voice picking at death/love metaphors like scabs that won’t be left alone…”

KERRANG

“…abrasive folk rock hybrid…incredibly captivating and irresistible…is likely to be one of the most intriguing of the year…”

Devil has the best tuna

“…a unique brand of folk-tinged dark rock ….subtle dynamics…the guitar….emits a brash and gloriously dusty sound that is suitably paired with Winter’s smoky, fainting voice…Endearing beauty and musicianship…”

The Music Magazine

“…a commendable solo artiste and rich purveyor of scintillating-yet-caustic folk/punk …dark and idiosyncratic British charms with an increasingly melodic sound …her most potent album to date…brutal uncompromising and intelligent punk…”

Fresh Deer Meat

“…Hazel has set about creating a wildly powerful and uncompromising new album…”

Female First

“…Your Mother and I can’t hear the lyrics…”

Hazel’s Dad

Hazel recorded an album with The Flux Capacitors in 2018

Courtesan

“The band is jointly lead by Hazel Winter and the Commander who as well as being different genders are separated by an age gap of more than 30 years! For the young Commander it must be like having a mad old Auntie in yer band! That said, she is the coolest, boho songwriter in Bristol, a former Blue Aeroplane and a lo-fi version of PJ Harvey being intermittently possessed by the spirits of Victoria Wood and Ian Dury”

Louder Than War

Hazel has twice played in Adrian Utley’s guitar orchestra , here with conductor Charles Hazelwood (http://www.watershed.co.uk/dshed/mail-maps-and-motion).

She lives in Bristol where she is currently playing with the Flux Capacitors and The Jesus Bolt