Jamie Flett on guitars, vocals, words, (they're the same thing as vocals but different) accordion and harmonica, among one or two other things such as the Ecuadorian Armadillo and - on special occasions - some Oriental Chiming Balls.
Graciously and occasionally assisted by:
Andy Flett (guitar and vocals, he is Safety Nett, other half of Feltt)
Don MacBride (cymbals and sometimes full kit)
Dave MacDonald (electric guitar, he is Pavid)
Ryan Buchanan (banjo and occasional singing)
Dochan Macmillan (mandolin, banjo, lap steel, slide guitar, he is Dochan)
I am a sponge. A completely uncomprehensive list might contain such luminaries as Neil Young, Crazy Horse, Tom Waits, King Creosote, James Yorkston, Alasdair Roberts, Tam Ford, Mogwai, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Seasick Steve, Led Zeppelin, The Green Man Festival, Kurt Vonnegut, George Orwell, Bob Dylan, Sigur Ros, Joni Mitchell, Bela, Primal Scream, Bruce Springsteen, The Faces, Iron and Wine, Sufjan Stevens, Jimi Hendrix, Mark Lanegan, Little Feat, The Band, Teenage Fanclub, Old Aged Persons, MacAllan, Cupboards, Brian Eno, Gorecki, Uncle John and Whitelock, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Spike Milligan, Nina Simone, Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Jeff Buckley, Steve Earle, The Stone Roses, The Cure, The Beta Band, Nick Drake, Bert Jansch, Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Patti Smith, Dinosaur Junior, Nirvana, Pavement hence Stephen Malkmus, Bach, Cream, Coffee, Tea, Sugar, Radioheid, Dishwashing, Townes van Zandt, The Be Good Tanyas, Aidan Moffat, Tinariwen, Ivor Cutler, Radio 4, Captain Beefheart, Gram Parsons, Richard Burton reading Dylan Thomas, Simon and Garfunkel, Spritualized, Velvet Underground, My Bloody Valentine, Kings of Leon, Ry Cooder, Richard Thompson, Jim O'Rourke, Steve Earle, Werner Herzog, Peter Rowan, PJ Harvey, The Mighty Boosh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, London, Paris, Berlin, Aboyne, this could go on....
Sounds Like
Defiant urban alt blues or melancholy acoustic folk or woozy DIY bluegrass that’s "Close enough for jazz, far enough away for folk"
(Quote from "BluesBunny" independent music reviews: www.bluesbunny.com)
'Cold But Bright' Album Released Friday 2nd October. CD and download available on CDBaby (click link below.) Digital downloads from iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, Rhapsody, Napster etc coming soon..
I play in the bar room and try to inhabit the characters whose stories can cast the spell that stops a sentence for a little while and can’t quite be shaken off when the bell rings and the doors get locked again. I also try to inhabit my own skin and memory and the stories I know, so that I can make these others here full of their own stories and memories know that I am laying something on the table for them, trying not to tell them any lies while not having to tell them the whole truth.
I play in the living room by the fire with instruments and I like it when a recording sounds like I played in the living room by the fire with instruments. But I also like it when a suspicion is created that the living room has slipped its moorings and is being carried on inexplicable currents to indistinct destinations where the shapes of the coffee table and the lamp lose their mundane character as they become foreign objects in different surroundings.
I am full of contradictions, just like the rest of us here, but I’m not trying to resolve them all now because the tension between each side of the story seems to be roughly where the truth of it resides.
And my brother's alter-ego Safety Nett has different pages but here's the acoustic one because I had a hand in producing a couple of the acoustic tunes:
Hey up friends...the last two shows of 2009 are upon us.
SUNDAY 6 DECEMBER @ TUNNELS Rogues + The Elizabeths + Echo Red + The Audiokicks 7.30pm - £5 - 14 + show - on sale now One Up, Belmont St and www.ticketweb.co.uk
and then WEDNESDAY 16 DECEMBER @ TUNNELS Luke Leighfield + Cast of The Capital + Marionettes + LightGuides + Nicky Powel 7.30pm - £5 - 14+ show - on sale now One Up, Belmont St and www.ticketweb.co.uk
Hope you can all make it to end a great year!!! AGP xxx
New DJ mix available to download from Deep Space Orchestra recorded exclusively for the Clinical Operations Podcast. You can get it at http://www.clinic82.com/podcast.htm
01 Lerosa - Tempio (Real Soon) 02 Nacho Patrol - Twinotters (Rush Hour) 03 Kuniyuki - All these things (Theo Parrish remix) (Mule Musiq) 04 Duminie - No Demons, No Majik (Sound Signature) 05 Frank Booker - Get On (Untracked) 06 Cosmic Force - Chocolate Starfish (Truth & Soul) 07 Shoes - Me and my Diva (Shoes) 08 The24Seven - SF UR (Dissident) 09 Schatrax - Restless Nights (Schatrax) 10 Floating Points - Truly (Eglo) 11 Shirley Lites - Heat you up melt you down (Melt down mix) (West End) 12 Morgan Geist - Lullaby (Environ) 13 Reggie Dokes - Dream Catcher (FCL Edit) (We Play House Recs.) 14 Ron Trent - Pop, Dip & Spin (Prescription)
Tune in and turn on. Episode 18 features the long awaited return of Ben Folke Thomas, from his hidden island lair to continue his evil plans to take over the world, an interview with, performance by, exclusive album track play, and give away, by noir-folkists 'Juniper Leaf', and many more goodly musical gifts to be bestowed upon you dear listener by the noble Lantern Players.
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ta for comments, sir. nae gigs lined up, though i did a couple last year if that counts....am a bit of a stay-at-home.... good sounds u have here, like the drums and gtr sound on this town. vocal almost peter gabriel-ish at times? cheers for noo, k
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