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(York)
Wednesday 29 Mar 2017, 12:24am
I split my time between Truro and Edinburgh as work permits. I'm new here and I know no-one in the area. I have been musing on joining a band for ages and 2017 will be the year I pluck up the courage to try. Initially it would be great to have someone to play and get some experience and practice motivation with when I'm down here, or even just talk records to get in the groove (ha!) and go to gigs in the area.
I'm no wizard but can pick up most things on the guitar with a bit of practice and can find my way around a bass and keyboard too. I could probably give Paul Westerberg a run for his money in sleazy drumming if really pressed.
My musical taste runs the gamut. Current listening and why I like it:
-Frightened Rabbit - fantastic. A guitar band can still have it.
-Paul Simon - a genius songwriter. Isn't Graceland perfect?
-Sleaford Mods - I'm sometimes as angry as they are.
-Everything But The Girl - Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt did some wonderful things.
-Massive Attack/Bristol Sound - great soundscapes.
-Brian Eno - both before and after his ambient epiphany.
-The old bluesmen (and women): Blind Willie Johnson, Washboard Sam, Big Mama Thornton &c. - old stuff is good stuff. Also old Bermudian Calypso.
-Beautiful '80s sounds from Soweto.
-Alan Vega/Suicide - I can see Alan as a precursor to Nine Inch Nails et al.
-Jens Lekman - I saw him when I lived in Sweden. A songwriter for our times.
-Steve Knightley/Show of Hands - Brilliant live and making relevant folk music.
-Talking Heads - David Byrne may be very peculiar but he could certainly write some songs.
-British Sea Power - I think their earlier stuff with the energy was the real deal.
-Gil Scott-Heron - He's new here too.
If you like Radio 3's Late Junction we'll probably get on.
We then move into jazz and classical but I'm not looking to audition for a string quartet or to replace Terje Rypdal.
If I've had a few I can be persuaded to entertain the company with 17th century drinking songs.
I don't listen to metal or EDM.
I'm aiming at eventually writing and recording my own songs (perhaps collaboratively) in some sort of folk/punk/rock/low-fi/experimental idiom. Perhaps that means tape loops, a capella, distorted guitars, mandolins, noise or tuneful, well written songs. I suppose the intensity is the important bit!
If it matters, I'm 27.
Does any of that sound fun?