me - solo artist
email me @ garlic_bread81@hotmail.com
Influences
John Mayer, Bic Runga, Jeff Buckley, Lifehouse, Matchbox Twenty, Athlete, KT Tunstall, Ray Lamontagne, David Gray, Jack Johnson, The Kooks, Paolo Nutini, Damien Rice, Gemma Hayes, Ryan Adams, Tracy Chapman, James Taylor, Liam Frost, Eva Cassidy, Mark Knopfler, Sting, The Police....
Damian has a page on the NME website. Please take a minute to visit and give him your vote. Simply click the banner underneath.
Damian (26), originally from Manchester, spent 2years of his life, honing his skills as a musician and songwriter in Coventry at a music college called Nexus. He was soon making a name for himself in the local bars and getting to know the other talented musicians in the area.
Now being back in Manchester, he is starting all over again in a new place, meeting musicians, promoters, venues but it means so much more as it's his home town, his old haunts but new faces.
With influences in his music coming from a wide spectrum of genres, his musical journey has not been too straight forward. Starting as a lead guitarist in an Indie band whilst only 16, his ever changing taste in music led him down a very wild path musically speaking. But over the last few years, his taste has somewhat mellowed. All this has led to a very diverse and interesting combination of melodies and lyrics, all of which have been infused and blended to create the sound that Damian has and is still building.
Oldham Evening Chronicle – “Peaceful and relaxing, his music requires no effort from the listener apart from letting the sweet vocals drift over.”..."Laid-back solo artist Damian Mercer is a sublime singer/songwriter with a talent to match the likes of high profile locals Stephen Fretwell, Liam Frost and Cherry Ghost"
Lisa Tse (Asian Sounds Radio) – “He certainly has talent. I believe he is the next big thing.”
Paul Obrien (Manchester Online) – “I have a bit of a soft spot for singer/songwriters especially the acoustic kind like Badly Drawn Boy, Elliot Smith and more recently Liam Frost. There seems to be a bit of all that in his music, as well as a touch of Nick Drake with the folky/classical style of guitar. It's very pleasant on the ears.”
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Hey, just to let you know we have uploaded tracks from Ali's new solo album Flying High to his myspace, come by and let us know what you think or if you want to pre order you can get it on his myspace page.
Ali will be on tour in the UK from June 19th – July 4th come and see him and his new band live – they are tearing it up, round the country with a great party vibe!
Big Love Ali's Team x
Hey man. I'm really good thanks. How have you been? I'm been doing a music course in brum for 2 years, graduating this summer. Still got loads of work to do tho, you wouldn't even believe...more than my degree by far. Loved it all tho! Trying to sort out bits of work for next year etc. What u up to now? Hows the music going?
People of Manchester – we’re playing the delightful, Moho Live on Thursday 21st May. Their will be jugglers, taxidermy, colouring in, advanced sock puppetry…In fairness probably just music – but we may pull a few shapes! So get down! X
i'm well thank you. how are you? it's been a long time!!!!! whats new with you? im actually heading to manchester with amy, mari, becca and emily :) xxx
Come join us for our album launch - kicks off at 7pm, will go on till very late, will be very exciting, will be very messy etc etc etc. And not only that, it’s free entry. Recession-busting rock and roll, oh yeah…
Thanks for being our friend. Hope you enjoy the music. Make sure you drop by and say hello! Hopefully we might catch you round sometime. Have a good one.
First we would like to say, we are playing all week in the Uk! View our calendar for show dates:)
Thank you so much for welcoming the woods into your heart (via your myspace page) . It means a lot to us.
Just wanted to quickly introduce us we are Jessie Murphy in the Woods. We are a new pop trio group out of NYC, So if you listen to Pop/Indie/Glam/Lyrical, and you have a minute, you can stop by our page and check out some samples of our music. Please feel free to leave comments/messages. If you like what you hear.
And make sure to stay in touch...we will definitely do the same:-)
~xoxo
Jessie, Amy, and Marcia Jessie Murphy in the Woods
Hi guys just dropping you a msg to let you know what we do. Sugar House Music is primarily a production label working on band demos through to record label releases. We are also currently signing acts to production/management/artist referral deals to help further bands we feel have potential, by working on every aspect of the band, from songwriting, production, recording and passing the act onto our list of industry contacts.
As an offshoot of this, we also have a record label to release bands we like that we haven't produced a recording for.
For a full list of services and rates check our main page.
