Trevoracious: Songs, Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Piano, Human Beat-Box, Inadvertent body sounds, Varying degrees of enthusiasm.
But without the following, Trevoracious admits that "I'd still have my head up my ass, a dangerous place to be for all musicians";
Kat Cross: Production, Sound Engineering, Mixing, Programming, Vocals, Procurement of Enthusiasm, Glitchy drum rolls and kool keys,
Andy Richards: Guidance, Programming, Producing, Sound engineering, Inadvertent body sounds and a rather excellent acoustic guitar that sounds remarkably like a harp.
Paintings, Artwork and Visual Misdirection By Mr. Niall Murphy (www.myspace.com/nialloviolence). Niall's Art fits the 'Beat The Knave' universe like a glove.
Influences
Mark Kozelek, Cathal Coughlan, Vic Chesnutt, Mike Patton, Morrissey, Women, Jeff Buckley, Mike Leigh, PJ Harvey, George Lucas and all the cast from Star Wars, Modest Mouse, Nick Drake, Bret Easton Ellis, Pathos (not a band), Lee Ranaldo, My Psychiatrist (not a band), Matt Johnson, Colleen, Maudlin Street, Lhasa de Sala, Beer, Black Francis, Liz Frazer, The Cure, Travis Bickle, Mark Hollis, Loners, Don McKellar, The National, Michel Houellebecq, Elliott Smith, Joe Harnell, Patrick Watson, Josh Rouse, Christian Bale, Empathy, Brockwell Park (never been there), Kaada, Catholic Values (not a band), Philip K. Dick, B-Movies, Midlake, Alain Bashung, Milan Kundera, My Reflection, Trees without Leaves etc.
'Beat the Knave' is Trevoracious, an Irishman living in Toulouse, France since 2001.
'Beat the Knave' is inspired by a well-known children's nursery rhyme, the knave being a cheeky thief that steals tarts from the King and is therefore beaten "full sore" for his troubles, in an effort to show him the 'right' way (whatever that may be).
'Beat the Knave' writes songs with very basic means i.e. in his head. Over the past few years, he has been lucky enough to cross paths with some very talented composers/producers (mainly Andy Richards from Uniform Motion and Kat Cross) who heard promise in his lo-fi recordings.
Kat is currently helping him to reanimate some songs which, at first, were just promising bones but are now developing and becoming a lot more fleshy.
Trevoracious also works with Andy for live work with Uniform Motion and with Kat Cross for her solo project. These are great people to work with and have brought him a lot of inspiration. On we go...
Juste un petit coucou pour vous annoncer le concert du jeudi 18 juin à CASTANET avec SIMILI C. (Un singe en hiver), LHOMA (Boudu les cops), BABE FALCO (My favorite dentist is dead) et LUCA (ex SWAN). ça commence à 21h et c'est 4 euros. VIENDEZ!
yes in deed sir. hand is smashed for another 12 weeks. they had to break it again. but i am thinking about recording an ep..im driving to the wedding sir. so can you mail me the bleedin address? much love . td
Hope you and your family had a very nice time over Christmas and New Year's Eve!
I'm coming over to the pink city on the 16th of january for about a week or so , was wondering if you would like to meet up for some tea while I'm over :)
Pris en flagrant délit ! T'en fais pas, j'ai dormi après. J'espère que j'ai pas été trop offensant avec mes blagues à répétition sur les courgettes hier. Elles étaient très bonnes.
I'm great thanks and you? Finally on holidays for a while and really happy about it. I'm spending christmas in Dublin this year, my parents came over a couple of days ago. how are you doing? Are you in Toulouse or Dublin for Christmas? :)
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