Who is Jane Lane?
Jane founded Fluance with Philip in 2017 and provides Songwriting, Arrangement, Piano and Keys.
Jane's interest in music began at the age of 5 when she used to come home from school and play what she'd heard in school. Lessons followed, but playing by ear has always been her thing. A songwriter from an early age, she was a winner in the Observer Songwriting Competition in 1976.
After University and a period a long way overseas, Jane returned to the UK in 1995, when she met and married Phil and worked alongside him creating music for others, and building with him the reputation of the Beehouse as a prolific and highly commercial studio in the area, as well as bringing up two children.
Jane first started writing again "properly" in 2015 for Henry's Machine,
alongside fabulous singer, Kes Collins.
In 2017, Hookstick was then formed, heavily influenced by the age of disco and soul. Interestingly, the music was played by metal guitarists, due to a local dearth of soul musicians in Wales. The Album "Refugee" reflects this degree of virtuosity. At this point, Jane began to use her existing skills in Cubase for writing her own music, and created many tracks from the bass up.
After the first tour of Hookstick, Jane moved over into the Fluance project, for which she has written a sizeable number of tracks. Major influences have been Heatwave, Earth, Wind and Fire, Bowie, Cat Stevens, Queen, The Stranglers, Elvis Costello, Radiohead, Pink, Daft Punk and Wolf Alice.
Jane is currently focused on the conceptualisation of the two forthcoming Fluance albums, Narratives and Shortcuts, where she has a particular leaning towards psychedelic-based tracks.
