Alastair Bruce Friend (known as Ali Friend) is a bassist based in London. He is best known for his work with Beth Orton, and was a founder member of trip-hop band Red Snapper. Friend now plays bass in Clayhill, along with Ted Barnes. London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... Elizabeth Caroline Orton,[1] commonly known as Beth Orton, (born December 14, 1970), is a Brit Award–winning English singer-songwriter. ... Trip hop (also known as the Bristol sound or Bristol acid rap) is a term coined by British dance magazine Mixmag, to describe a musical trend in the mid-1990s; trip hop is downtempo electronic music that grew out of Englands hip hop and house scenes. ... Binomial name Lutjanus campechanus Poey, 1860 Red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) is a reef fish found off the Atlantic coast of The Americas and in the Gulf of Mexico. ... Clayhill are a British 3-piece folk band comprising of long-time Beth Orton collaborators Ali Friend and Ted Barnes, and vocalist Gavin Clarke. ...

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One track on Beth Orton's 2002 single release, Concrete Sky, Ali's Waltz is written for Ali. For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...