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Spit in the Rain
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Spit in the Rain
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Released: Jan 27, 2011
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  • Genre: Acoustic / Alternative / Pop

    Location Augusta, Un

    Profile Views: 6774

    Last Login: 5/6/2012

    Member Since 1/15/2011

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    Singer/Songwriter from the peoples republic of Yeovil,England. I started playing guitar the same day I picked one up which was a Tuesday I believe, Tuesdays are pretty much world renowned as great picking up guitar and playing days. I have heard good things about Wednesday but what with the whole, "Wednesdays child is full of woe!" thing, Tuesdays have pretty much taken 1st place. Anyway, Tuesday I picked up the guitar and by Thursday, I don't know which Thursday, I had learnt all the 3 chords you could ever need, 3 chords by Thursday is pretty much world renowned as being a good time to have learnt 3 chords, 3 chord Friday was being pushed as an industry standard but what with that whole unlucky,"Friday the 13th" thing that the superstitious society we all know and love has going on it was pretty much agreed that Thursday should become the recognised standard. I think I bought my first capo on Saturday. Saturday is and was and is always a great day for buying guitar based add-ons for the inadequatley-talented, 3 chord by Thursday, picked up guitar on Tuesday, type guitarist from Yeovil. Sunday was like, for years,a great guitar based add-on sort of day,for talentless 3 chord Thursday thanks to picked up Tuesdays type people but that whole,"I'm Jesus and Sunday's mine!" shindig was the straw that broke "add-on Sundays" back, so Saturday was the day picked up Tuesdays, 3 chord Thursday type dude, acquired add-on Saturdays capo. Part 2, "Swimming with cholera",follows shortly .................................................................................................................. John Hasnip played in the very Wonderful Urban Folk Collective a band that in the 90's was compared to Neil Diamonds aunt Muriel on more than one occasion. They appeared at many festivals across the south west even playing Glastonbury, the White Hart Glastonbury that is to hardly any notable acclaim. Having written many songs, he was lucky to have one on a compilation CD bound for the Cannes Film and Music festival, the song called, "Don't say its over" proved to have such an international feel it now currently resides on the outskirts of Paris with his wife OoLaLa and there siamese cat called "Twin" His next Band was called Bluejay Way, all songs were written by the classic Woodhouse/Hasnip songwriting team that Lennon McCartney tried so succesfully to emulate 30 years previously. A vocal harmony derived combination with clashing Rickenbacker guitar sounds they were hailed as the "next big thing" gigging exstensively around England playing top venues like, The Mean Fiddler, The Garage, Dublin Castle and the Half moon Putney all London places as well as The Cavern in Liverpool where a very famous band used to play, thats right, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, Birmingham, Portsmouth, Southampton, Bournemouth, they played everywhere and anywhere, proof that £10 quid and a packet of Pork Scratchings can buy you anything!! Next came The Buskings,a formidable duo that played the length and breadth of New Milton.Two guitars and two vocal Harmonies, they pushed the boundries of harmonic guitar based pop in New Milton to the extreme. Still holding the record of "Most gigs in consecutive days with a dvd to prove it by a duo in July," their "8 days a week tour" broke all previous based 8 day tour records. All good things come to an end though and making a wrong turn on the way home from a gig one night he ended up in Augusta Maine,where he now plys his trade. With strong vocals and his trusty guitar he plays songs spanning The Beatles, Del Amitri, Squeeze, Elvis Costello, The Who, Simon and Garfunkel, Nick Lowe, Green Day, The Beat, Van Morrison, Tom Petty and many many more. A top entertainer with a quick wit and a solid catalogue of songs, great vocals, and expressive guitar style. John Hasnip and the American dream, what a combination! One of the Reviews me and the boys from Bluejay Way got,this ones from,"Losing Today" a great magazine that champions the Indie movement..... Blue Jay Way 'The Non-International' EP (Electric Breeze). One of those kind of releases that simply fizzes and pops with each passing play. Blue Jay Way you feel place quality song writing over fashion statements which is fine by us, so it's no hardcore, no post punk, no revivalist electro pop, no garage (punk or otherwise), so what are we left with now the cupboards bare, well good old fashioned songs that's what, and before you start groaning just let me tell you that this is packed full of subtly honed jangling guitars that point visibly to very early Trashcan Sinatras / The High and okay maybe the more thoughtful moment from the LA's superb canon with a spot of Aztec Camera thrown in for good measure. Formed at the start of 2002 and taking their name from a Beatles track, Blue Jay Way court with a timeless framework that has simplistic breezy pop marrying itself to feel good country folk rock, loaded with hooks galore this Hampshire based quartet certainly have a keen ear for a well paced tune. Leading off with 'Non international nobody' primed with skipping melodies that swerve and dip wave like and yet maintains a lazy eyed focus. Personally it's on 'How love should be' that the band come into their own, Byrds-esque softness greets the start of the track laying a reclining summery edge that's soon pulled apart as the pace hottens, lulling clipped 60's vibes that recall the more sedate moments found looming large on old Stone Roses b-sides. Best of the set though is the run out cut 'Wasted' short sharpened chords rustle relentlessly reminiscent of the more visceral elements of the Sarah related stable in particular Hey Paulette / the Orchids and the Caretaker Race, one for the tender starry eyed lovers.

  • Members

    Just me so far but I am requiring a better, faster, skilled, version of me that I like to call you...

  • Influences

    The Beatles, The Squeeze, Del Amitri, The Who, The Jam, The Beat, The Wonderstuff, Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello, Dave Edmunds, The Specials, The Rolling Stones, Slade, Rod Stewart, Men Without Hats, Haircut 100, Tenacious D, The Hollies, John Lennon, Green Day, Bob Dylan, Tears for Fears, UB40, Fourply, Lemonheads, The Chesterfields, The Pixies, The Yurtbirds, The Sex Pistols, George Harrison, The Police, The Men they couldn't hang, The Levellers,Madness, The Waltones, They might be giants, Rush, NEVER NEIL YOUNG! CANADIAN TIT-TURD! The Rolling Stones, Stone Roses, The Sundays, The Cure... there's so many more....

  • Sounds Like

    A semi-consciously trimmed moustache painted neon blue with flecks of opaque jumping with a limp leg sideways around half past the hour before coughing outwardly the words to a song in the key of C with hushed undertones of a scrambled egg sarnie that nobody but somebody fried up with a down sized midget called Colin

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