jeremy holtom
(near Vrackley)
Saturday 12 Feb 2022, 8:41pm
Callum I sent you a message but the bloody comoputer shut down so I don't know if it went so I will send it again, apologies if it comes twice!!
When I read your page I had a really strong feeling that you are looking for precisely the same as me.
I have been in the music business since 2002. We got a taste of early success in that after first coming together in 2002 we had a manager and our first album in HMV IN 2003. Then we began our climb in earnest which has taken till now as all the best stories have long journeys. The original band members have long since moved on but I am here ready to relaunch the band with new and potentially some of the old members because our time has now come and despite the fact that I am the age of the Beatles song When I’m 64 which has to be a message for me I feel I am incredibly edgy and now ready to conquer the world and wake everyone right up with you and others if we find that we have that magic connection which the original five members had. Much of our music is multi genre and like The Beatles we also all sang which like the Beatles covers multiple genres from classical, jazz and dance to punk, and progressive rock.
I am sending three links the first to a track called Traveller created in the moment without any rehearsal or discussion even the time or key it literally appeared from nowhere and we were so as one in the zone and had we had almost no recollection of what we had just played so when we played it back we couldn’t believe it and were overcome particularly as it came through on only the third day after we had first played a note together. I was so aware that we could never repeat this that a minute into it I stopped playing the piano for about twenty seconds which we covered up with a cymbal and what I said to the drummer who had still not joined in and was recording everything “ I hope you are f***king recording this”. Fortunately he was
https://www.n1m.com/beyondrealitymusic/song/874776-Traveller
The second track was created more recently and is highly prophetic in that it was first played to an audience at an art exhibition at my house in 2010 where about 100 guests gave it a standing ovation. It is so prophetic of the pan demic and the children singing about the state of the word that they are inheriting reminds people of Another Brick IN The Wall by Pink Floyd.
https://www.n1m.com/beyondrealitymusic/song/1032367-WHY
There’s lots more on this site for you to get more of a feel of how extraordinary is the range of the music we have created, Its all ready to rehearse and pull together to perform now. There’s over 300 hours of unmixed and often unfinished music recorded so there’s lots to work from the outset.
The last track is a video that is very edgy as is the track and the album its part of was described when we released it in 2015 as anarchic punk. Its deeply scathingly anti political and politicians long before this recent sh*t!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6OD9pSlklI
I am the Grandson of the designer of The Peace Symbol which became the heart of every battle for a better world in the 1960’s particularly when John Lennon of The Beatles got behind it very publicly!! I want it to resurrect for the world post covid as we deal with the all the aftermath and the sh*t that is coming following the madness of it all!
Get back to me if you’d like to get together talk further and perhaps play together soon and see if the magic is still there!
We have featured in two prime time docymntaries over the years but there sio much more to tell!!
All the best,
Jeremy Holtom