My name is Jamie Cruickshank, a 16-year-old singer/songwriter from Bristol. I started playing guitar when I was left one by my uncle at 6 years old. I got into my band, Newcut at 11, when I started writing music. My first influences were Hendrix, Syd Barrett, Robert Wyatt and the early White Stripes. I first got into acoustic when my dad’s friend introduced me to Magnet’s album "On Your Side". With that album something clicked. That way the whole of the music is your own, but everytime you play it, something changes. These recordings are just ideas of what the song could be. I got into Elliott Smith, M. Ward, Iron and Wine, Nick Drake as well as further into my original influences, especially the Soft Machine and Syd Barrett. At WOMAD 2005 I played the open mic competition and won, winning a slot at WOMAD 2006. I started writing songs about everything I could think of: the guy at the top of Park Street who plays the penny whistle, girls, and ’nature and shit’.
I am currently focussing on my band, The Go Pogs but am still writing profusely and improving my technical abilities on the guitar.
We realise how this is quite obviously automated and you will probably consider it as spam and ignore it.. but if you are feeling the need for a some fresh new music please visit our page and give our new EP a listen. We've worked really hard on it and had some excellent feedback so far and would love to hear what you guys think.
"Exciting, Striding and assured. It has an energy reminiscant of everything that was good about the Klaxons debut album.." - BBC Radio Bristol.
"The overall sound echoes that of Bloc Party but with great conviction and sophistication. Go see them live if you can." - iTunes review.
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ey dude not bein funny and i know that they are ur songs but dont u think that u should leave jerome and that and golden v for the go pogs and if u are gunna do an accoustic version do it for the go pogs not bein funny but what do u think? x
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