Sarah Eaglesfield

Sarah Quin Eaglesfield (born May 20, 1974) is an English singer/songwriter in the alternative rock band Flightside. She is notable as an innovator in digital music space.

Eaglesfield first shared her music online for free in 1994 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.cafe.<ref name"cyber.cafe">

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In 2001, she co-founded MusicAndSex TV, a direct-to-fan music video member website with Duran Duran guitarist Warren Cuccurullo and also assisted him with the Missing Persons Lost Tracks album.

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.

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, and Flightside had a short reunion, releasing two EPs.

In December 2017, Eaglesfield announced on Twitter that RockAffairs would be return for a 10th anniversary special broadcast during summer 2018, lasting one week.

Eaglesfield contributed lyrics to Dave Stewart's track, Love Tower, 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.

Eaglesfield has listed her early influences as These Immortal Souls, Swell Maps, The [...], Robyn Hitchcock, Jellyfish, James, [...] Blonde and The Wonderstuff.

Solo Releases and Collaborations

  • Love Tower (October 2009), (Dave Stewart & the Tweets)
  • Ex Facto Ring EP (September 2013), suddenvibe (Eaglesfield, solo)
  • 20 Yards (February 2015), suddenvibe (Eaglesfield, solo)
  • Winter Could Be Summer (December 2015), suddenvibe (Eaglesfield, solo)
  • Angel (February 2016), suddenvibe (Eaglesfield, solo)