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 via Wise Blood Industries, itunes, or 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 (i.e. convenient things in general). 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."
Did you know there’s a kind of jellyfish that is virtually immortal? While most life forms begin to die after they reproduce, the Turritopsis Nutricula jellyfish is able to revert back to its juvenile form after mating. These jellyfish can perform this miraculous feat indefinitely. In other words, unless they fall prey to some outside attack... they never die. There may be jellyfish swimming the ocean right now that have been alive for millions of years and will be here for millions more.
Ha ha! When done the performance on RnG, it took place in the festival office for HebCelt, so there was a crowd of folk watching whilst they got their tickets, so it's probably one of theirs.
Thank you for the comment :-) Cool tunes here! I love love love Belle and Sebastien (the life pursuit is one of my favourite all time albums) and Beautiful South I love too. Thank you for getting in touch :-)
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