Wayne Myers: Guitar, bass, keys, vocals, drum programming.
Influences
John Martyn, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Leonard Cohen, Paul Simon, Stan Webb, Loudon Wainwright III, Eric Idle
Sounds Like
An unholy cross between Elvis Costello, The Foggy Mountain Boys, Tom Waits, Engelbert Humperdinck and Wayne's old music teacher who you never heard, but trust me, who has to take a lot of the blame here.
Fit and the Conniptions is a combined band / webcomic project by London based singer songwriter Wayne Myers. An album, Bless Your Heart, was released in July 2007, followed by a live acoustic EP, Live At Monkey Chews, in November 2008. Wayne is currently working on the second album, which he hopes to release in 2009.
Wayne has been bashing his head against the brick wall of eclecticism since 1971, though it took a good thirteen or fourteen years until he actually started picking up a guitar and writing what he euphemistically refers to as 'songs'. Stylistically parked squarely in the middle of blues, folk and jazz without actually being any of those things, the tunes deal with Wayne's favourite themes of love, loss and computer games, though it might take a closer reading of some of the texts than is normally reasonable to really justify the latter.
Wayne has been fortunate enough to have played with some excellent live guest Conniptions since the beginning of this project including the following:
Dear Friend, finally it is out! The LONG expected release of our EP "Interrupted (Triptych I)" !!!
"you wonder why get interrupted / was life too fast / the nights too long / you give a fuck / get interrupted / you want no break / keep speeding on..."
Watch the music video on our MySpace, created by the young & wild Japanese video artist Yukihiro Taguchi. Be Surprised! You will also find some wicked REMIXES on Youtube and iTunes ;-)
Learn more about our current project "Triptych I-III" on our MySpace site...
Come and enjoy - A unique and charming evening of original blues-tinted jazz with
Magdalena Reising and the Blue Cafe Jazz Ensemble ' to warm the heart and a soul on a winters night '....
Magdalena Reising- vocals/harp (v) Terry Seabrookes - piano (p) Steve Thompson - double bass (b) Alex Eberhard -drums/percussion (d)
November 2009 Sat 14th Nov - 8 30pm, Jazz Cafe Posk, 238- 246 King St, London W6 ORF Bookings 02087411940 v/p/b/d Sun 15th Nov - 830pm,doors open 8pm, The Brunswick, Holland Rd,Hove, BN3 1JF;Bookings 01273 733984. v/p/b/d Tues 17th Nov - 8pm start,set menu,The Artisan,197 High St,Lewes,BN7 2Ns, Bookings 01273 479 713 v/p/b Wed 18th Nov - 815pm ,The Hawth,Crawley,West Sussex RH10 6YZ ,Bookings 01293 533362 v/p/b Sat 21st nov- 8pm, St Mary's Church,Vicarage Lane, Hailsham £7 entry v/p/b
December 2009
Wed 23rd Dec - 8pm,Xmas Special,set menu,The Arisan,197 High St,Lewes,BN7 2NS Book early !! 01273 733984 v/p/b
' The similarly charming and talented Corinne Bailey Rae became a Grammy nominated sensation and a major presence on the U.S. pop and jazz charts, and there's no reason why Reising couldn't follow suit .....' Jazz Monthly
Thanks for being a friend! Do you know about the Electric Ball in London on Wednesday November 18? JEFFERSON STARSHIP + QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE + TOM CONSTANTEN (original Grateful Dead pianist) + more! Please try and make it. It’ll be a ball! Details and tickets from: http://www.rhythmgigs.com
Sorry for not having been in touch awhile - been rather busy! Just wanted to say that your valued friendship continues to be appreciated. Have you checked out my MySpace and web site (www.faberoptime.com) recently? Oh and did you subscribe for my free newsletter (using the form on site at page right - high quality, low quantity, no spam!)? You might also like to take a look at some of my vids on my YouTube channel too! www.youtube.com/faberoptime Take care and keep in touch. Best, Faber. "Just a guy trying to make the world a better place."
HELLO THERE. JUST A LIL MESSAGE. I NEED TO KNOW IN THE NEXT YEAR OR SO 2009/2010 ARE U PLANING ON DOING GIGS IN MIDLANDS IF SO COOL I HAVE VEUNES I COULD SEND U IF NOT HUN IM GOING TO HAVE TO CALL IT A DAY AS A FAN OF YOURS IM UPDATEING EVERYBAND AND SINGER I HAVE ON MY MYSPACE BECAUSE I THINK ITS ONLY FAIR TO ME I KNOW THE ONES IM GOING TO SEE AND THE ONES I WILL NEVER SEE
ONE THING I CAN TELL U IF YA NOT PLANING ON EVER COMEING TO THE MIDLANDS AND I DO CALL IT A DAY JUST REMMBER WHAT U DO MEANS SO MUCH TO MANY OF YOUR FANS BUT I DO NEED TO KNOW IF U ARE PLANING ON COMEING SO MESSAGE ME BACK PLS
Debut night = Sept 4th @ The George Tavern, 373 Commercial Road. E1 OLA. 8 till late * WE WANT SEQUINS * WE WANT SHOULDER PADS * WE WANT POWER BALLADS * WE WANT IT ALL... * AND SOME!! * PHOENIX NIGHTS * MEETS * VEGAS * MEETS * 90S GHETTO SLAGS * LOOK OUT! * GET YER GLAD RAGS * GET DOWN THE GEORGE * HAVE IT!!!
HI AND THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE ADD ON YOUR PAGE ...I HOPE YOU GET TIME TO LISTEN TO MY NEW SONGS AND MAYBE LEAVE A COMMENT IF YOU GET TIME !!!!!..I WISH YOU WELL AND HOPE YOU ENJOY MY MUSIC THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT ...YOUR FRIEND PATRICK K
Hey.. my track 'Deep Down Inside' has been selected for the MP3 Music Awards..... -check it out... and if you fancy voting for it I would really appreciate it.
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