The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Tim Buckley, Nick Drake, Leonard Coen, Little Richard, Eddie Cochran, Syd Barrett, Neil Young, Youth, Bob Marley, Frank Sinatra, Tom Waits, Ron Sexsmith, Ed Harcourt, Elton John, Elvis Presley, Etta James, Miles Davis, Otis Redding, Prince, Love, Ray Charles, James Brown, Kings Of Convenience, The Glimmer Twins, Simon & Garfunkel, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, John Lennon, Beck, Billie Holiday, Bob Nolan, Slas, Sture Dahlström, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Bebbe Wolgers, Monty Python, Peter Sellers, B.B King, Tommy Cooper, Buddy Holly, Bill Murray, Stanley Kubrick, Tim Burton, Wes Anderson, Terry Gilliam and a few more.
These days everything spins faster and faster, individuals are becoming more important than the collective. Edward's musical ambition is to find the way back to genuine joy, both on a musical level and on a human level.
Naive, life-affirmative, and simple are words that describe Edward's music. Melodies that get stuck in your mind be it consciously or not.
What about influences? Everything that comes in your way turns into an influence one way or another. Edward grew up on a very limited diet of mainly English and American music from the 1960's and 70's. Since then the rest of the world has been discovered. Good music, movies, books and love have added exciting new dimensions to Edward.
Some years ago Edward was almost violently struck by love, leading to music in the shape of feather light pop songs becoming the immediate way to express his feelings. The songs streamed into a recording machine, luckily without any consideration or hesitation. In a dream-like existence the cassette was transferred over the sea, to England. Traditionally the English acclaim strong melodies and so they did even in Edward's case. An EP was produced via Rough Trade Shop (London) own label ForUs. The project was then labelled Polyester.
It still took a few years for Edward to realize the value of the material he'd created, or rather the value of how the songs materialised. As a consequence, an EP and a CDsingle were made available by Edward's own label Change The Wind Records. This is a good introduction to the forthcoming album that waits just around the corner.
We put a new song on our page called: "Candy By Another Name"...If you have two minutes and forty-two seconds of spare time we would love to hear what you think of it...
September 1:st our 1:st single, Dare To Lick (Hunter's Red Sleeve), from our upcoming album SILENT REVOLUTION,was released and is available on iTunes but also on our MySpace of course!
The album will be released October 1:st and later that month we go on tour in Germany with The Movements.
HEAVEN AND HELL Göteborg - 2nd and 3rd October, 2009. 8 fantastic live bands and 10 top deejays at a venue with two floors in the middle of Gothenburg, Sweden.
BAND LINE-UP: THE INCREDIBLE STAGGERS - Austria CIRCULUS - England FOX MACHINE - Gothenburg HORISONT - Gothenburg THE MOBSMEN - Norway TEASPOON - Gothenburg DAVID PETER AND THE WILD SECT - Denmark THE DON DARLINGS - Gothenburg
DEEJAY LINE-UP: KIM - WOODY WEST GBG EMMA RAND - GBG HOLLY - SCOTLAND SARAH - SCOTLAND ERIK - FRICTION GBG THOMAS - NORWAY SIMEN - NORWAY GAZZA - ITALY BIG T - GBG ALE - CLUB RADIO LONDON PETER - CLUB RADIO LONDON
VENUE: STARS N BARS, GÖTEBORG DATES: 2 OCT - 3 OCT, 2009. HOURS: 20-03 AGE: 18+
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