Beach Boys to Bjork, Black Dog to Bob Log, Carter Family to Kevin "Bloody" Wilson, Poets Of Rhythm to Pentangle, Faith No More to Fence Collective, Smog to Vashti Bunyan, Ramones to Drexciya, Boredoms to Banhart, ISB to KLF, AFX to AMT, Leo Kottke to Kool Keith, Papa M to Mama Cass, Sun Ra to sun set..
Hardsparrow wishes it to be known that he swears an undying blood allegiance to
all schools of electro.
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"In its latter stages, it saw .. a chap called Hardsparrow drunkenly slur a lengthy, crumbling song about crab fishing, by which point it was definitely time for bed." THE SCOTSMAN
Following his critically-acclaimed appearance as a singing fish, at Stoke Damerel School at the dawn of the 1980's, Hardsparrow seemed destined for a glittering career in Show Business. But, tragically, the pressure of public expectations instead forced him to retreat into a terrifying dream-world from which he has never fully emerged.
With this in mind, it was perhaps inevitable that, when he finally made his official return to public performance in Winter 2005, it would be a critical and commercial disaster. The marine references were still there, but the trademark sequined cap and foam-filled tail were gone, replaced instead by a stream of inane songs, apparently written by himself, without any of the professional help other modern pop artists might sensibly employ.
Shielded from the truth by a close circle of concerned peers, he has continued to "perform" musical concerts, notorious in the cultural fringes for their excruciating pathos, and has even been offered the chance to release some of his confused cries-for-help on an imaginary Scottish micro-label, complete with convoluted and improbable back-story, set up solely to appease his delusional and violent fantasies.
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A BRAND NEW WEEKLY "OPEN MIC NIGHT" LAUNCHES THURSDAY 22ND OCTOBER AT THE GREEN ROOM / PORTMAN
HOSTED BY "NACHO JASE"
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