Sarah Eaglesfield

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Sarah Eaglesfield
Birth nameSarah Quin Eaglesfield
Born (1979-05-20) 20 May 1979 (age 41)[ citation needed ]
Origin Birmingham, England
GenresAlternative Rock, Synthpop
Occupation(s)Musician, singer-songwriter, digital innovator, news analyst
InstrumentsVocals, synthesizer, keyboards, bass
Years active1992–present
LabelsBang Boom Krash, suddenvibe
Associated acts Flightside
Website twitter.com/zenxv

Sarah Quin Eaglesfield (born 20 May 1979) is an English singer/songwriter in the alternative rock band Flightside and a conspiracy theorist.

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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,[ citation needed ] and also assisted him with the Missing Persons Lost Tracks album. [8]

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. [9] [10] [11]

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 [12] [13] , and Flightside had a short reunion, releasing two EPs. [14]

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 [15] . 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 [16] , and she is a founder of the "Yes, Less Censorship" movement on Twitter. [17]

In November 2020, Eaglesfield crowdsourced a project to Audit the Vote in the 2020 US Elections. [18] [19] . Sarah claims that Donald Trump's legal team and representatives of Sidney Powell approached her to submit an expert witness statements for their cases across multiple states, and she states that her aim is to Audit Every Vote in the 2020 Election by the end of December 2021. She has no formal background nor noted experience in data science or political analysis.

Solo releases and collaborations

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