Janet Roddick


Janet Roddick’s powerful and individual voice has inhabited a multitude of characters through a long musical career that has ranged from improvised jazz, musical theatre, opera and pop, to latterly, composing film scores.

“I like strong characters and situations,” says Roddick. “I always want to know the whole story behind a song. I want to know the person who’s singing, that way I can inhabit the character.”

Janet Roddick performing at Clare's, Wellington, late 1980s.
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Big Fiddle in the early 1990s: From top left clockwise - Ian Morris, Jackie Clarke, Callie Blood, Janet Roddick and Nick Bollinger
The Brainchilds, 1994.
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Janet Roddick and band, Threepenny Opera.
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The Six Volts - The Hills Are Alive (Braille, 1989).
Braille Collective, c1985.
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Jungle Suite, c1986.
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Janet Roddick in Fiona Samuel's short film Song of the Siren.
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Janet Roddick, Threepenny Opera.
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The Four Volts performing Come To The Sabbat. Janet Roddick, David Donaldson, Anthony Donaldson and Neill Duncan. Directed and edited by Andrea Bosshard and Shane Loader
Four Volts - Something's Burning, 1986.
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The Six Volts c1990 - Janet Roddick, David Donaldson, Anthony Donaldson, David Long, Neill Duncan.
Four Volts, 1985. From left: David Donaldson, Neill Duncan, Anthony Donaldson, Janet Roddick.
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Janet Roddick, Songs of Kurt Weill.
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Song of the Siren, 1997 short film by Fiona Samuel starring Janet Roddick.
Six Volts, 1989. From left: David Long, Janet Roddick, Neill Duncan, Anthony Donaldson, David Donaldson, Steve Roche.
Janet Roddick and Gerard Crewdson, c1985.
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