Demi Marriner

 Biography...

Demi Marinner is a bubbly, up and coming Pop/Country singer, songwriter and guitarist

who is originally from Birmingham but is now living and studying a music course in

Cheltenham. Her influences are combined by the Nashville country scene and her UK midland

roots and her voice compliments the story telling nature of country music perfectly. Demi has

always had a huge love for country music and is extremely passionate about music. At the age

of only 19, Demi has done everything from musical theatre to working alongside a variety of

bands, and has been hired for numerous residency jobs all over the country. She has been

successfully performing and building up a valued reputation in and around the UK for the last

3 years, playing hundreds of shows both in the UK and internationally, including Ireland,

Venice and Amsterdam, where she was fortunate enough to get several radio plays on the Netherland stations. Since joining University Demi has really found her roots with her music and has now set up her own five piece band that compliment her music wonderfully. The band include drums, bass, guitar and keys and have recently finished recording their EP ‘Tracks and Trails’ in the studio, which followed with three very successful EP launches in Cheltenham, Birmingham and Wolverhampton. After only 48 hours release of being on iTunes, the EP went to number 1 in the UK Country Music iTunes chart, which was a huge success. Demi is inspired and influenced by many artists and different genres of music which has led to her own original songs. Demi and her talented band have a lot to offer and are extremely passionate about playing live which is greatly important to them, which you can see in their performance and they get better each time they play!

Introducing the band…

Jack Quance is Demi’s very talented drummer. He met the band attending a music course at

the University of Gloucestershire in his hometown, Cheltenham. He has been playing in live

settings since the age of 14 in a wide range of genres - from musicals, to heavy rock, to live

hip-hop. Initially, he got into drums playing funk, but his playing tends to take influence

from whatever he’s listening to at the time - so a lot of country at the moment. However he

always comes back to D’Angelo, Jose James and Jeff Buckley. Jack has said “It’s a dream

playing with Demi and the boys, their ear and musicianship is incredible and it’s a genuinely

exhilarating experience creating and playing music with them.”

                                                     Adam Hodges is Demi’s brilliant pianist who is also very  passionate about country music. Adam                                                          grew up in Conflation and moved to Cheltenham in 2014 for a 3 year course of Popular music at                                                          the University of Gloucestershire. He takes his main inspirations for music from artists such as                                                                Florida Georgia Line, Zac Brown Band and Luke Bryan. He is currently exploring the production                                                          side of music and is very much enjoying it and thinks it may be something he would like to                                                                pursue after he graduates.  

Tomasz Williams is Demi’s bass player who shows great passion in his play. He has a huge interest

for funk and soul music but ultimately, he loves playing live. As well as the bass Tom also plays the

double bass, which always brings more soul into the live playing. Similar to Adam, Tom also has a

huge love for music production and it is something he would like to pursue. Tom has said his favourite

Demi Marriner song is ‘C You’, a song that always gets the crowd moving and singing along to. 

                                                     The final member to the band is Demi’s guitarist Will Mawer, who with out a doubt knows his                                                          way around a guitar. He’s a Sussex boy born and bred with four years of live performing                                                                    experience in the music pubs of Sussex, Dorking and Cheltenham. His main influences come from                                                          iconic blues musician such as John Mayer, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Jimi Hendrix. He enjoys playing                                                      the musical dynamics of the band and has said that “it’s incredible to work with such fun, talented                                                        individuals, and I’m always excited to know where we're going next.”