Arab Strap, Belle and Sebastian, the Beautiful South, Malcolm Middleton, Clearlake, Suede, Mull Historical Society, the Stone Roses, the Housemartins, King Creosote, Camera Obscura, Cracktown, the Proclaimers
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Arab Strap, Belle and Sebastian, the Beautiful South, Malcolm Middleton, Clearlake, Suede, Mull Historical Society, the Stone Roses, the Housemartins, King Creosote, Camera Obscura, the Proclaimers, Cracktown
Jocky Venkataraman makes tunes which are meant to sound like his, ahem, heroes who include Malcolm Middleton, Peter Tatchell and the Beautiful South. They are basically DIY folk rock.
Jocky Speaks: "I hope that people on myspace.com will enjoy my tunes. I certainly do. I've got an album, Motorways Died Young, which is available if you contact me. The reason that motorways died young is, in my opinion, that they could never last- some things really are too convenient to be true. In turn, please feel free to send me your music so that I can see what I'm up against. If you live nearby and want to come and watch a JV gig, then hopefully I'll be able to help. There's also another album called My Heart's In The Humber.
The reason why my heart is in the Humber is that I lived in Hull for three years from 2001 to 2004 as a student and wrote many of the tunes in that period. It's a lovely place, Hull, but I moved to Glasgow anyway (sob), 'cos that's where my friends and family are. Also, the Housemartins and Cracktown are great."
Hi, just stopping by to let you know about a couple of gigs we're doing this weekend. Also come and listen to our album tracks, click the flyer below. x
Hi Jocky, just downloaded your free album, really love it!
I remember i saw you ages ago at a gig at Tchai Ovna with Andrea Marini and i think you had a line that went something like "who are you to compare me to jaap stam"...just wondering if you had a recording of that song anywhere, one of the best lyrics i've ever heard!
Aye ive been over here fucking about with Czech films and whatnot. Good times and cheap pints. Keep me updated about Stereo, hells yes etc. Now with added violins and whatnot.
All right Dukey, greetings from Prague and all that.
Are you planning on gigging during the summer? I'm hoping to record some new tracks and get back into the loop, so to speak. Regardless of both these things we should drink sometime when i'm back, which will probably be in a month's time.
If so, that has to be a better Glasgow sound than buckfast fuelled partys in a bus stop with happy hardcore blasting the out a mobile phone.
Liking the song on your page - I can picture it as a soundtrack to a series of short orientational flims on all thats wrong with the world. I might just write to my MP........
Fancy checking out my page? Theres songs here for everybody! whether you like hip-hop or grime, i do both! If your interested in working with me, just take my myspace songs as a guidline because i never upload my BEST songs. If you want my BEST songs add me Joe--holton@hotmail.com Got new beats up too :)
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