Mike Freear - Guitar, drumz, bass, piano, loops & production
Johanna Simonsson - Vocals
Influences
Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Clint Mansell, Explosions in the Sky, Portishead, Joy Division, A Silver Mt. Zion, UNKLE, Mogwai, CRASS, Boards of Canada, New Order, Ramones, Beck, Pixies, Death in Vegas, Orbital, Lamb, Massive Attack, Air, Avalanches, Andrea Parker, DJ Shadow (NOT his new stuff tho), Martha Wainwright, Sin City, Katus Young, Aphex Twin, Asian Dub Foundation, The Simpsons, Bjork, Boom Boom Satelites, BT, Chemical Brothers, Beatles, Dust Brothers, Chicane, Beastie Boys, Cirrus, Primal Scream, The Crystal Method, Ghostbusters, Michel Gondry, Daft Punk, REM, Jonny Cash, Sasha & Digweed, Royksopp, Lemon Jelly, Darren Emerson, Frontside, FSOL (Future Sounds of London), Jean Michel Jarre, Spike Jonze, Lemon Interrupt, Les Rythmes Digitales, Meat Beat Manifesto.
Sounds Like
You have ears don't you? Ok, how about: A runaway train from Jupiter slowly burning up as it enters our atmosphere.
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Hiya, I'm Mike Freear from Leeds and here's a wee collection of my chilled music. It's my way of trying to make some sense of things and allows me to keep (relatively) sane. I'm starting to put this together as an electro-acoustic band so if anyone wants to get invlolved giz a shout :)
I'm a 26 yr old artist/producer born in New York and raised in the UK. Moved from Lancaster to Leeds last year and lovin it!
I'll be hosting charity gigs throughout the UK this year. Raising money for STEPPING STONES NIGERIA, to build a school in Nigeria and are now fighting the stigmata of 'child witches', and I've written music for an African hiphop album entitled MAPITO with all proceeds going to The World Swim for Malaria Foundation.
Hope you enjoy my sounds and photos,
Cheers!
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Hiya We’ve been working on some new songs and are in pre-production for the recording of our first commercial CD release which will be recorded over the summer, with a hopeful release October time,
Our last live performance before our summer holiday will be at the Selby outdoor festival at the James Street 'bowling green' in Selby on the 21st June, the event starts at 1pm and we’ll be on stage at 5pm others on the bill are Dirty Secrets, Chantel McGregor, The Beautiful Sound, Last Gang and headlining is the Bryan Adams Experience, we hope you can be there.
Hiya It’s been busy in the K&Q camp and we’ve a few gigs coming up in the next few weeks. We are starting with a couple of gigs in York, Fibbers 23rd April and Speakeasy 28th April before moving on to the New Roscoe in Leeds on 25th May and then onto Nottingham Trent Students Union, Brackenhurst Bar, NTSU Brackenhurst Campus, Southwell on the 29th May, It would be great to see you at one of them if you can come. love K&Qs xxx
Hey Mike i didn't know if you were still interested in me adding some vocals to your tracks. I've been so busy at the moment and my deadlines are getting closer so i will finally be free! if you would like me to....you know where to find me! Comedown is awesome by the way! Happy Easter x x
Hiya We are playing at the Junction in York next Sunday on March 8th and the Wardrobe in Leeds on the 19th March. These gigs will be the first outing for Katie and the Questions with our new Drummer, Guitarist and Bass Player so we hope you can come and check us out love K&Qs xxx
Hiya We are playing at the Junction in York on Friday 21th November; it would be really nice to see you there but we understand if you can't make it
We are also playing The HOWDEN-RiBFEST-2008 on Saturday afternoon doors open at 1pm at Howden Working Mens Club 36 Bridgegate, Howden, Goole, DN14 7AB Cost: £3
We’ve put some of the new live recording up on our Myspace and are re-mixing our mini album ‘Kitchen Drums and Turn-up Tantrums’ which will be freely available from us at gigs soon Take care
..Hey Lensflares! If you happen to be in Los Angeles this December...
..The Nutcracker Electronique Goes LIVE in LA This Christmas!..
For the first time ever, The Santa Monica Contemporary Ballet and EarthWalk Dance Company will be presenting The Nutcracker Electronique live in Los Angeles December 18-21, 2008! ..
.."Sexy! Stunning!"..
..I've created three brand new tracks for the performance. One of them, Pas de Deux, is up on MySpace right now!..
Hey Mike, MInty here.. man i loved your sounds. I'm so into Boards of Canada and Explosions in the sky at the moment. Yeah i'm definately up for adding vocals on some of your tracks. They're amazing! If you still want me just contact me on here and i can pretty much be yours.. depending on how my filming schedule is.... but i'm free thursdays to mondays! Dont know if you're avaliable but i'm playing at an unplugged night at the grove inn tonight on back row.. if your avaliable.. bit short notice i know.. but it might give you some idea of what my vocals are like now, considering the recordings are pretty old and shite!! Catch you soon! x x x
Hi We’ve enrolled in the Orange UnsignedAct competition and we’d like you to vote for us. The voting is from now until midnight on the 14th September, you will be able to vote for us once each day, as a thank-you for voting for us, we’ll give you our new 7 track mini album (download or CD) which we are just in the process of finishing.
You will need to sign up with Orange UnsignedAct as a fan http://orangeunsignedact. co. uk/ to be able to vote, e-mail us once you’ve started voting to let us know and remember to vote every day until the 14th September.
Also we'd love see you at any of the following gigs: Fibbers, York 13th Sept (£5 flyer on our Myspace) The New Roscoe, Leeds - 15th Sept (£3 flyer on our Myspace) The Stone Roses Bar York – 18th Sept City Screen, Basement Bar York – 20th Sept (Acoustic gig)
More Psychotic Fun at your fingertips from your friend at the fringe!
The fully animated WASP FLIGHT Video is Finally Out and a complete blast!! (produced by SongFire Studios)
Poor little Wendy Wasp gets chased down by a pair of horndogs lookin' for love: Yellow Chopper Wasp and Jet Green Wasp. Little do they know, someone else wants all three of them for dinner. Who's coming out on top?
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Drop by and Shout Out! You know how lonely I get. Hehehehehe ;)~
Brète
PS: I love to share, so, if you like the vid, I've enabled embedding. Just click Menu on the vid player and copy the embed code to your profile.
thanks guys, yeah, i heard your music ages ago and was well impressed, keep it up! hope you get a chance to listen to our stuff, abit different to yours, but see what you think! xxx
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Hiya, I'm Mike Freear from Leeds and here's a wee collection of my chilled music. It's my way of trying to make some sense of things and allows me to keep (relatively) sane. I'm starting to put this together as an electro-acoustic band so if anyone wants to get invlolved giz a shout :)
I'm a 26 yr old artist/producer born in New York and raised in the UK. Moved from Lancaster to Leeds last year and lovin it!
I'll be hosting charity gigs throughout the UK this year. Raising money for 
