Destroying Something Beautiful

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Released: Jan 1, 2007

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Genre: Acoustic / Alternative / Folk
Location Near Cambridge, UK
Profile Views: 33479
Last Login: 9/1/2012
Member Since 6/14/2005
Website http://www.destroyingsomethingbeautiful.co.uk
Record Label Red Letter Day
Type of Label Indie
Bio
...... .. ..Jamie.. was born in an ambulance as fireworks went off on the ..5th.. of ..November 1984..... ..16.. years later, at the beginning of ..2001.., he started recording music under the name ..Destroying Something Beautiful.... .. I put the first sentence because it sounded good. .. ..Jamie lives in ..Essex.. and currently works at Blockbuster to make ends meet. Which is more boring than anything ever. .. He records & releases music at the same time and when he gets his act together, also plays some gigs (usually in the ..Cambridge.. area). .. He thinks he tries to do a lot of what he loves (music), but his little sister tells him he is going nowhere and no one buys his CDs and he takes up too much room and his stuff is all over the house and he should get a f-cking life. .. In ..2003, Jamie.. met a scarily like-minded friend at music college called ..James.. who quickly became his best friend. With a mutual love of do-it-yourself recordings and other such things, the duo began recording under the moniker ..Since I Was A Little Girl... ...... .. First they had a song on the transatlantic release ..I'm With Cupid.., which was an indie ..Valentines Day.. compilation released in the ..UK.. and the ..USA............. .. Then they released a ..5 track EP.. in ..November 2003.. and followed it up with an album in ..2004:.... .......... (check the Drowned In Sound review out here: ..http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/10709.html..). Released on the ultra-hip indie label ..Where It's At Is Where You Are... (Purveyor of many musically gifted people such as ..Psapp, Weevil.. and ..Actionbiker..).......... .. Sadly, tragedy struck before the first ..EP.. was even released. .. ..Jamie.. and ..James.. were both passengers in a car which was involved in a terrible car accident in the summer of ..2003... ..Jamie.. suffered broken ribs and a collapsed lung and ..James.. passed away in hospital shortly afterwards. .. The label still released everything planned which got lovely reviews from everyone who heard or bought it. Sadly, the obvious impossibility of gigging meant the ..Since I Was A Little Girl.. name couldn't get around and the album seems set to drift off into obscurity (hopefully to be resurrected and re-released some day in the future) .. Since then, other than recording his own music, ..Jamie.. has recorded with two friends under the name ..Lostboy... They make ambient/beathop/English/pianocore/guitarlaced/hiphop with ..Jamie.. on guitars, bass, keys, whatever else comes along. ..Luke.. on piano and keyboards ..and ..Gozz.. on the mic, loops & samples......... .. An ..EP.. was released in ..May 2005.. on ..Where It's At Is Where You Are... .. ..Jamie.. also does all the artwork for the releases on his computer at home. .. He is also currently in a band called ..Emma Frost.. with two of his closest friends. They make beautiful post-rock music and have the best rehearsals ever. Their first gig was ..terrible.., but the next ones will hopefully be much better, because they are ..actually pretty good..... ...... .. ..Jamie.. is also the creator of DIY independent record label named ..Red Letter Day.. and has released the ..debut EP.. of the incredible and amazing ..Bobby Baby.. from ..Malmo, Sweden.. (..http://www.bobbybaby.net..) in the month of ..June.. in ..2006.. .. ...... .. ..and let's not forget the wonderful ..Last Dinosaur.., which was born early ..2007.. by ..Jamie.. and his musical life partner and very tall friend ..Luke Hayden... It's ..beautiful... Check it out. ..Seriously....... ...... .. He also plans to release a ..Destroying Something Beautiful CD.. at some point. .. ..Destroying Something Beautiful.. is songs about friends and life and parents splitting up and being happy and being sad and losing people and being miserable at Blockbuster and not understanding anything and breathing and running and loving and hating sometimes and having a fat cat that lies on her back and licks her tummy and staying up late recording in the TV room and late nights in Cambridge with friends and driving home early in the morning. With human things like mistakes, and background hiss, and people interrupting songs, and coughs and sneezes and aeroplanes going over head.. .. It's a ..story.... but it's ..not really... .. It's ..real life.. but it's ..more interesting sometimes... .. It's ..music.. that's not about being better than other people or sounding like other people, just about being ....yourself..... .. ..Because that's all anyone knows how to be... .. ..Short Version:.. .. ..Jamie, 21, records songs in bedroom in Essex..... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
Members
Jamie Cameron - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Backing Vocals, Piano, Glockenspiel, Casio SK-1, Laptop and whatever else I can pick up and make a sound with... ___ .. Luci Ducker - Female backing vocals.
Influences
.. Inspired by: Talk Talk, Jim O'Rourke, Sparklehorse, Karl Blau, The Books, Deftones, Sigur Ros, CS&N, The Blue Nile, Menomena, Kelly Joe Phelps, Elbow, Ben Kweller, The Constantines, Bobby Baby, John Martyn, Red House Painters, Psapp, Daniel Johnston, Stina Nordenstam, Savath + Savalas, Sufjan Stevens, Laura Veirs, Regina Spektor, Traffic, The Sundays, Explosions In The Sky, Joel RL Phelps, Juana Molina, DCFC, Since I Was A Little Girl.
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