Shawn Lockie  is an actor and lives in Los Angeles. She  sings with Listing Ship. She also caters Listing Ship functions like no one else can. If it weren’t for her we might all starve. She likes gardening, making stuff, fishing, and hanging out with animals.

Heather Lockie is a violist and singer based in Los Angeles. In addition to touring with national acts such as Spiritualized, Eels with Strings, Arthur Lee/LOVE,  Lockie has backed up Scott Wieland (STP), Brian Wilson, Sparklehorse, Dave Pajo (Slint), and has recorded on diverse projects from Macy Grey to Lavender Diamond. Some local favorites that she has played with are WACO, Bodies of Water, F-Stop Serenade. She writes for Listing Ship and coordinates things like shows and practices, and has a solo project as well. She teaches kids when not playing and likes to garden in a disorganized fashion.

Julie Carpenter is a violinist based in Los Angeles. She has toured with national acts such as Spiritualized, Eels with Strings, Arthur Lee/LOVE, and has performed with local Los Angeles bands such as Bodies of Water, WACO, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Lavendar Diamond. She plays violin, sings, and writes the occasional song for Listing Ship. She knits great scarves, likes to garden and study squids, is a good sound engineer, and likes “Animal Planet”.

Laura Steenberge plays acoustic bass in Listing Ship. She studies piano and bass at CalArts and does her own solo work as well. She plays in the childrens’ group The Hollow Trees as well as records with various performers in Los Angeles, such as Ferraby Lionheart, etc etc. She gardens in pots, wanders off quietly before and after shows to roll cigarettes in alleys.

Kyle C. Kyle plays drums with Listing Ship and is a website designer. He has played with The Motels, WACO, The Wild Stares, Wafflebutt, others. He likes to garden and smoke, and generally stand about looking like he’s up to no good. He doesn’t like tamborines or folk music but really likes funk and good rock ‘n roll.

Lyman Chaffee is a math professor who lives in Los Angeles. He plays guitar, banjo, and sings for Listing Ship. He also writes songs for the band and does a fair amount of coordination, loading of gear, and night driving. He is a good conflict manager. He can also build stuff but he doesn’t like to garden. In fact, he may hate it.

About the current players:

     Listing Ship’s music is both delicate and powerful, rooted in old time Americana. They play their own original brand of folk-rock in the Los Angeles area. They recently toured Italy and have shared the stage with bands like Low, Pedro the Lion, Lou Barlow, Imaad Wasif, DOS (Mike Watt, Kira Roessler) Carla Bozulich (Geraldine Fibbers). Founding members Lyman Chaffee and Heather Lockie have played in bands  together since they were teenagers.

         Chaffee/Lockie are joined by friends and family on their new record, "A Hull Full of Oil and Bone", release date Oct. 14 ’08.  “'A Hull Full Of Oil And Bone' is a massive jingling bag of folk booty, a treasure from well beyond the form, a splendid gift of joyous music from an innovative band of like-minded folksters dedicated to revitalising the folk idiom to bring you, at last, proper nu-folk.  Utilising richly woven voices that lie at almost opposite ends of the vocal spectrum Listing Ship fill their songs with change and surprise as dynamics are toyed with and tested to the limit... the end result is breathtaking and oh so rewarding!”                                    

                                                                                                    - www.toxicpete.co.uk/listingship.html - Sept 08

      About “Time to Dream”: Says Marc Horan of www.indieworkshop.com, “Time To Dream contains fourteen hallucinations of traditional folk that stroke your hair with one hand while the other is beating you relentlessly about the face and neck area. It's the way folk music should be. The album is creepy and dark and unsettling, but with the right amount of charm and beauty to make it all go down a little easier.”

Photos Julie Paterson

Michael Whitmore is a guitarist and lives in Los Angeles. He plays many instruments in Listing Ship, including vibraphone, tenor guitar, banjo, mandolin, and of course his mighty 10-string guitar.  He has played in other LA-based projects such as The Lullabies, and does his own solo project. He is a DAD. He is also a great long-distance driver and is practically unassailable.