Rachel Hill

Rachel Hill is a freelance artist, songwriter, and choir director based in St Neots. Her music has been featured across regional and national radio, including BBC Radio 1. Rachel was awarded ‘Best Acoustic Act’ at this year’s Cambridge Bands Competition 2025. She is set to complete her third international solo tour this year. As a live performer, Rachel is best known for the captivating use of her vocal loop pedal, creating enchanting performances with layers of live-recorded harmonies. Having only recently moved to the area, Rachel is excited to be a part of the Neotists community and to connect with other local creatives. So if you are reading this, click on one of her social media links and say hi!

Christian Payne

Christian Payne specialise in creative technology and communications. Working with multimedia creation, social media documenting and amplification. He also consults. Working with large and small businesses, news agencies, charities, NGO’s and the arts and corporate sector.

He likes to travel light and share stories and interactions in realtime and blogs as @Documentally and occasionally writes about technology for The Guardian.

Some of the workshops he delivers focus on documenting and sharing stories with networked devices. From getting to grips with Twitter to Mobile Video Production.

Ross Millership

Ross Millership has spent 10 years mixing a wide range of broadcast TV in stereo and 5.1 spending the last six years at the award winning post facility ENVY. He’s mixed series such as the BAFTA winning Grand Designs, The Undateables, Tattoo Fixers, Drunk History, Heston’s Great British Food and the multi award winning Wild Things. Ross has also mixed numerous documentaries such as the BAFTA winning Graffiti Wars, American Animal Hoarder, Extreme Brat Camp and Christian Louboutin: The World’s Most Expensive Shoes. He’s also had the pleasure of mixing a feature football mockumentary United We Fall which enjoyed a nationwide theatrical release.

He spends most of his time mixing but love’s getting his teeth into sound design, working most enjoyably on Strip The Cosmos and Rise of the Machines where he conceptualised, supervised and mixed the sound design into the 14 diverse episodes, each with roughly 25 minutes of complex 3D CGI needing sound design.

Dave Fleet

Dave Fleet is a field recordist, electronic musician and photographer in so much as that he can point a camera at something that catches his eye in the same way as he point’s a microphone at something that catches his ear.

Mark Wingfield

Mark is a multi-award winning musician and audio engineer.  He has played concerts across the globe and his albums have received critical acclaim in over 300 reviews in more than 20 countries.

As a mixing and mastering, engineer Mark has received many accolades from audiophile magazines on both sides of the Atlantic. Mark is the mixing and mastering engineer of choice for the NYC based MoonJune Records (Downbeat readers poll third favourite jazz label in the US) and the audiophile label Greydisc Records.

Mark has also worked with the museum sector, recording and editing audio guides and other multimedia audio for Arts Council London, The Fitzwilliam Museum, The Cambridge Museum of Zoology and Kettle’s Yard.

Chris Clifton

Chris is a vocalist, actor, presenter, and project manager. As well as founding The St Neots Singers, the town’s first secular community choir, he has also broken a number of proverbial legs on stage with a number of theatre groups. He has spent far too much time in front of a camera and does his best to generally avoid them nowadays. He is currently the frontman and lead vocalist for the local band, The Roxton Press, turning his hand (or rather his vocal cords) to a wide and diverse range of music.

Will Rixon

Will has been playing, composing and performing music since childhood, first on the piano and later, on a variety of other instruments. Though a founding member and writer for folk-rock band Garden State, his first love is classical film soundtracks and he has composed for several short films including Flea, I am Thou, and Virgin Shorts finalist, The Big Idea.

Will was trained as a classical pianist, but considers himself formally untrained, as he composes entirely by ear and by instinct. With this organic background in composition, his music feels both familiar and unique.​

His debut classical album, Acinematic, is a selection of 10 pieces, intended for films that are yet to be made. Each song represents a sub-genre of film composition that Will feels passionate about as both a film-lover and film score enthusiast.

Julie Stark

Julie is currently appearing as Sister Mary Lazarus in the spectacularly fun UK and Ireland tour of Sister Act.  Tour dates can be found here!

Earlier this year, Julie rocked Manchester as Queen Gynecia in the European premiere of the brilliantly funny Go-Go’s musical Head Over Heels and made her TV debut as DC Halliwell in Eastenders. She has performed in many musicals throughout her career, both in the West End and touring the UK and she got her break in We Will Rock You in London’s Dominion Theatre, returning there in 2018 to perform in Jim Steinman’s Bat Out Of Hell.  

Julie has been a huge fan of the iconic Les Miserables since it started, so it was a great day when she was cast in the 25th Anniversary tour, and subsequently, the feature film.  Other shows include Chess, City of Angels, The Witches of Eastwick, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Love Story and Shout plus stints in the pantomimes Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella and also the Eugene Ionescu play, The Lesson. 

Julie has sung all over the world.  She started her singing career fronting many soul, disco and funk bands, which she still does today, alongside pop and rock bands.  She has performed as both Agnetha and Freda in many Abba tributes, rocked huge crowds whilst performing with The Music of Queen, and appeared as a solo artiste at functions, casinos, clubs, restaurants and on the occasional ship.  She performed at the 02 in the Les Miserables 25th Anniversary concert, and has backed names such as Kenny Thomas, Thelma Houston and Jaki Graham.

James Tortise-Crawford

James has experience of strategic planning and project management across arts and culture, higher education and community engagement. He managed projects at the Royal Opera House including the official London 2012 Olympics exhibition and BP Summer Big Screens relays and led on operational planning for Hull UK City of Culture 2017. He coordinated King’s College London’s local engagement with charities and community organisations, and currently heads up strategic projects at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.

Ben Pitt

Ben Pitt cut his creative teeth as a musician and concert promoter in London. Since moving to St Neots in 2012, he’s worked as a video producer, music teacher, community development officer, journalist and town and district councillor. He is the director of St Neots Festival.

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Dario Amadori

Dario is a saxophone player who loves to improvise on different music styles. He has been playing sax for over 20 years and joined different bands playing in the UK and Italy. His passion is rockabilly and swing but he also enjoys playing romantic songs at weddings and partying with the crowds, sharing the stage with house/disco music DJs. A versatile player whose goal is to bring positive vibes. The sax players he gets inspiration from are: the great Ray Gelato (the “Godfather of Swing” who is also his mentor), Leroi Moore (Dave Matthews Band), Arnett Cobb, Maceo Parker, Candy Dulfer. He also loves dad jokes.

Clair Slade

Clair Slade has a background in radio, sound engineering, marketing, graphic design, health and childcare and is fired-up by learning new skills. She currently volunteers with local charities and is working as a marketing coordinator for an international telecoms company.

Adrian Storey

Adrian Storey aka Uchujin (Alien in Japanese) is a freelance video producer, cameraman, editor, photographer and a recovering ex-pat who recently returned to the UK after a 20 year absence, the last 10 of which were spent in Tokyo. An eclectic career ranging from fashion modelling to working as a sound engineer for the Dali Lama informs and enriches his work which ranges from documentary to music videos.

Adrian has over 20 years experience, has produced video and shot for a large range of international clients including VICE Japan, Greenpeace and Cascade Records and his photographs have been published in The Guardian, La Revue, Jyllands Posten, Der Spiegel, South China Morning Post and The Japan Times amongst others. He is available for projects of any size and can be contacted through his website or on multiple social media platforms where he spends a little too much of his time.

Chris Parker

Chris studied a music and sound design technology at university in both under and postgraduate with the aim of being a musician with flexible technical skills. He saw this as a way to diversify and stay ahead of the traditional performance only roles in a changing industry.

Chris feels he has been lucky to do something that he enjoys so much. He says, “It’s been incredibly rewarding making bands sound louder and look brighter across the world.” He has toured the USA, Europe and Australia with well-known bands and artists and shows like Lanterns On The Lake at Islington Assembly Hall, The Amazons at Brixton Academy, Mark Feehily (Westlife) at The 02 Arena and Yonaka at Alexandra Palace have been personal highlights, to name a few.

Chris now works at Patchwork London as a production manager for touring bands and performers.