The only full time member is David Reilly....whilst occasional members include or have included James Jamieson, Andrew Wilson, Stuart Cobley, Craig Sutherland, Alan Brodie, Jim Park, Stewart Robinson and many others
Influences
Laurie Anderson; Asia; The Beatles; Adrian Belew; David Bowie; Belinda Carlisle; The Church; Ornette Coleman; John Coltrane; Alice Cooper; The Cure; Miles Davis; Del Amitri; Dio; Dream Theater; Bill Bruford's Earthworks; Emerson Lake & Palmer; Brian Eno; Falco; Die Fehlfarben; Bryan Ferry; The Flower Kings; Robert Fripp; Peter Gabriel; Genesis; Gentle Giant; Golden Earring; Grand Funk Railroad; Herbie Hancock; Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel; Roy Harper; Hawkwind; Joe Henderson; Allan Holdsworth; Freddie Hubbard; Ian Hunter; Icehouse; James; Keith Jarrett; Jethro Tull; Lucy Kaplansky; King Crimson; Kraftwerk; Udo Lindenberg; Madredeus; Mahavishnu Orchestra; Marilyn Manson; Marillion; John McLaughlin; Jackie McLean; Joni Mitchell; Hank Mobley; Moby; Lee Morgan; Morrissey; New Order; Pet Shop Boys; Phish; Pink Floyd; Radiohead; Lou Reed; Rheostatics; Roxy Music; Rush; Terje Rypdal; Mathilde Santing; Wayne Shorter; Jane Siberry; Horace Silver; Simon & Garfunkel; Simple Minds; Soft Machine; Sparks; Spock's Beard; Supertramp; David Sylvian; Talk Talk; Tangerine Dream; The Tubes; Uriah Heep; U2; Herman Van Veen; Suzanne Vega; John Wetton; Dar Williams; Paul McCartney & Wings; Yello; Yes; John Adams; JS Bach; Beethoven; Brahms; Chopin; Phillip Glass; Handel; Haydn; Mozart; Schubert; Shostakovich; Tchaikovsky; Vivaldi; Sibelius; Wagner...
David started making his own music back in the mid-seventies. He played euphonium baritone in his school's brass band before starting to experiment using his father's Bontempi Electric Organ. He would spend hours creating drones by sellotaping down specific notes on the keyboard. This was called "The Drone Effect"...
His first "popular music" instrument was a bass guitar and, soon after, he added his elder sister's nylon string acoustic to his orchestra. For percussion he used his mother's knitting needles and Tupperware boxes. His first live appearances were to the neighbourhood children, accompanied by his younger sister in their back garden during the summer holidays...
The purchase of an ancient electric guitar and fuzzbox from a junk shop and the influence of Fripp & Eno's "No Pussyfooting" and The Velvet Underground's debut album, led him to start making his own recordings in September 1977, double tracking back and forth between two mono portable cassette recorders....
As a songwriter and ambient instrumentalist, David has been involved in over 200 releases in one form or another, contributing as, variously, lead-singer, guitarist, bassist, synth-ist, soundscaper, drummer or producer...
You've probably never heard of Cloudland Blue Quartet - he's never resorted to PR or management manipulation of the media but he is, quite frankly, the best music artist in Edinburgh, Scotland...just testing you'd read this far....it's true though...
Cloudland Blue Quartet's Friend Space (Randomized)
Hello, If you have time, come and listen my track "Ne pas s'asseoir S.V.P." (Don't Sit Down, Please), in the little red player, on the left of "my friends". Give me your opinion. Thanks, One Sug' Salut, Si vous avez un peu de temps, venez écouter "Ne pas s'asseoir S.V.P.", dans le petit lecteur rouge, à gauche des "mes amis". Donnez-moi votre avis. Merci, One Sug'
Hey there!!
Thanks for being my friend :) Hope you manage to figure out the complexities of MySpace as we know it...!!! Catch up with you at OOTB soon :)
Fionna x
