Martin Jackson - vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, bass, drums, piano, keyboard
Piano also played occasionally in some tracks by Rosie Brake
Influences
Opeth
Dream Theater
Katatonia
Porcupine Tree
Sikth
Amorphis
The Mars Volta
Richard Thompson
Jimi Hendrix
King Crimson
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Akercocke
Machinehead
Mastodon
Tool
Pink Floyd
Meshuggah
Muse
Children of Bodom
In Flames
Peter Gabriel
Symphony-X
Oceansize
The Fall of Troy
A long while back i got hold of a copy of Cakewalk Homestudio and i experimented with it, recording easy (and pretty bad) cover versions on it using my variety of instrumental skills and produced two cds worth of them.
I first started writing songs for Irreverence aside from my bands (see The Falling Ashes and I Believe U Have My Stapler) after hearing Machinehead's "Through The Ashes of Empires" and Opeth's "Blackwater Park". The first song i wrote was my 6:40 "Destroy Her" and since then i have recorded many differing songs, which i like to think of as a style of its own, with much originality and expansion, changing as my influences became more interesting and radical. I now have two 55min albums called "Irreverence" and "The Glass Wall". Priced at £5, contact me if u wish to purchase one, either by word of mouth, here on myspace on via email - martin_jackson@ntlworld.com
Keep it up! Also, how's uni going? And i'm not sure if it's your kind of thing, but heard of the David Rees-Williams trio...just GoHO reminded me of them...they're like classical compositions revisited and jazz styled, brilliant musicianship etc...
Hey howz you?? had a gud xmas?? yeh they have gone ace last one know then back to Derby, shame, we r going to sort out a gig at revolution soon in Derby u could come to that.
Friday the 19th oct. @ Five Lamps will crammed full of entertainment featuring....... Gren Bartly Simon Ark Jo Lewis Dave Gibb Lester Norton And there'll be a midnight open mic session to follow; on 'til 2am. Should be great!!! Hope to see you there;-)
WE'VE BOOKED SOME ACTS FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT, THEN THERE'S A MIDNIGHT OPEN MIC SESSION UNTIL 2am. IT'S TOO GOOD TO MISS;-) P.S. thanks for coming along last week, you were great!!! :)
hey dude its warren, cheers for the comment, just listened to Autumn Rain i think, man you understand a good metal song! nice length too, me n mark try not to do things in short, 7mins plus is tasty! laters
Hey mart.
Are you in the area on the 4th of august, because we've been asked to play the exposed band festival thing going on, i think its an all day gig in high wycombe.
HOWEVER, i am on holiday, so you'll have to pick up axe duty as well as vocals (or something, we'll sort it out)
If you're not arround then we wont bother, but if you are then cool!
Mx
We have a gig 5th of may
everything is booked,
it's in didcot which is between reading and swindon (AKA fucking miles away)
It does however have a direct train from maidenhead, so get everyone down.
Mx
FUSION GIG.....
17th of march. british legion high wycombe. 7-midnight. open bar. playing is simply reason, this dying hour, johnny goes west and hopefully doctor eight ball.
tickets are £5. not ticket, no entry.
tickets being sold on saturdays 2:30 till 3:30 outside the church in high wycombe. OR if u go to becky high u can buy them off Vicky Harrild in the common room.
Contact me for more details
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