I will be recording solo material and publicising it here.
Alongside solo material, I am also currently priveleged to working with some hugely talented individuals to create some great tunes:
Roused To Burning Homes (www.myspace.com/rousedtoburninghomes): Blistering space rock... kinda like Hawkwind meets The Stooges... Get aboard the mothership!
You?: Anyone with something to say or play and an open mind will be welcome to collaborate on the Coopah manifesto. Coopah as a "group" was concieved initially as a collective - as and when we meet / find people on the same wavelength, we will be happy to work together to create something... come on, dive in!
Influences
Minor Threat, Terminus, Stiglitz, Fugazi, Billy Bragg, The Evens, Dr Octagon, Nick Drake, Egg Hunt, Propagandhi, John Pilger, Antelope, Generic, Cub Country, Pelican, Will Oldham, Mastodon, Antidote, R. L. Burnside, The Dead Kennedys, Maurizio Bianchi, Godflesh, The Bronx, Hunter S. Thompson...
Sounds Like
"...some genuinely very beautiful tunes... Melodic hooks...subtle guitar interplay to keep the listener's attention, and banter from the frontman is delivered with warmth and wit..." John Waugh of The Tea Monkeys)
"...Coopah mix it up and it makes for a more complex, interesting sound..." G of Red Star Radio fame (www.myspace.com/redstarradioband))
"...he cannot be crushed..." - mr vitriol himself: Jackbomb (www.myspace.com/vitriolicbastard)
"...quite different to much of what we see on the acoustic scene..." - the honourable lord spite - Pes (www.myspace.com/tlfacousticsoda)
Coopah is a non profit "group" centred around the vision of creating stripped down, honest, freely available music. Taking cues from the folk / punk / post hardcore movements that have spanned many decades - Coopah will make music that, hopefully, adds to this tradition.
Coopah was formed sometime in 2004 / 2005 in a pretty rancid bedroom in digs near a football stadium after I saw Ian Mackaye's The Evens. Soon afterwards I was embroiled in the sordid and confused world of Deus Machina's (www.myspace.com/deusmachina666) Lee burns: a man who pretty much embodies UK punk. His awesome ear came in handy polishing my scrappy folk-esque output and we played many a gig together (with sometime bassist Simon "Magus" Ball of FNMUK).
Times change.
I am capricious and am blessed with a paralyzingly short attention span.
So now Coopah exists in a few schizoid guises... a folk band... an acoustic "lounge" act... a post hardcore loop n guitar minimalist experiment...
I hope you enjoy.
Whether the songs are based around history, emotion, experience or the will to protest - Coopah will wear it's brass plated heart on a tattered sleeve.....
...Salut!
Some Footage of me giving it some pure, unadulterated stick on vox and guitar for the best band that never was - The Pissed Virgins (www.myspace.com/thepissedvirgins) covering Helmet's utterly timeless bit of aggro rock UNSUNG.
We have just uploaded some songs from our forthcoming album 'Kill or Cure' to our MySpace page and we also have a new download area at http://rockrecordsuk.co.uk/music.php from which all our music can be downloaded for free.
Thanks a lot if you get a chance to listen and hope you enjoy it :)
Thanks for adding Sinister Research Facility. We make interesting things and we want to tell the world about them. Stop by and check out our redesigned page and new artwork. We also have our steam/breaks musical project at www. myspace. com/goodsoldiersvejk and our wonderfully puerile, extremely dubious animations at
Happy new year and thanks for the add from T. Edward Devilish and Sinister Research Facility! We've great art on our page, fine literature, and we'd like to announce the arrival of our new, offensive film site
howdey mezbo- me and adam are gonna work on some new licks n riffs over xmas for some new songs to turn the ep into a bit of a longer ep. he was only asking me about it today! need to know when you are free so you can add your input and get a feel for the new stuff and some ideas for lyrics. plus we need to decide on what songs we are doing from the 1st cd so you can learn em....
