Just me, maybe one day a band will play these songs, but for know they are destined for low-bitrates and small speakers.
Influences
Robert Wyatt, Gorkys Zygotic Mynci, Syd Barrett, Illes, Elliott Smith, The Velvet Underground, Neil Young, Anne Briggs, Os Mutantes, Brian Wilson, Tom Waits, Judee Sill, Uc Hurel, Serge Gainsbourg, Aphrodites Child, The Beatles, Wendy & Bonnie, Black Sabbath, The Soft Machine, Aguaturbia, Richard Thompson, Super Furry Animals, Baris Manco, C.O.B, Big Star, Crosby Stills & Nash, Bran, Scott Walker, Deerhoof, Mudhoney, Goblin, The Incredible String Band, Bridget St. John, Omega, Vashti Bunyan, Stravinsky, Osanna, Love, The Pentangle, Meic Stevens, Jean Claude Vannier, Le Orme, Eric Dolphy, Stackridge, Weird War, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Flaming Lips, Low, Einsturzende Neubauten, Chris Bell, Steve Reich, Pan & Regaliz, Caetano Veloso, The Pink Fairies, Sonic Youth, Dennis Wilson, Alessandro Alessandroni, Euros Childs, Kaleidoscope, Neu!, The Beta Band, Amon Duul II, My Bloody Valentine, Pavement, Blue Cheer, The Beach Boys, Bulent Ortacgil, Can, Silver Apples, Clinic, The Liars, Quasi, Manu Dibango, The Webb Brothers, Bob Dylan, B-Music, Kraftwerk, Royal Trux, These Trails, Espers, Blackout / Breakout, Kevin Ayres, Elephant's Memory, Czerwone Gitary, David Bowie, Beck, Billy Nicholls, Morris On, Joy Division, Nick Cave, Paul Giovanni, Stephen Malkmus, Captain Beefheart, Phantom Paradise, Gary Higgins, Nick Drake, Cornelius, Ennio Morricone, Os Brazoes, The Jesus Lizard, France Gall, Daniel Johnston, Linda Perhacs, Grandaddy, Pretty Things, Heatmiser, Mercury Rev, Sarolta Zalatnay, Television, Green Man Festival, Tropicalia, Robin Williamson, Saint Just, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, Animal Collective, Nico...ooh, lots really, they all get in there somewhere.
--The name 'Lord Edward Dark' comes from a character in 'Dark Towers', a Look & Read drama I became marginally obsessed by as a young child.
--I am also a member of 'The Weary Band' and 'The Color of the Sun' (see the first few top friends)
--I started writing as Lord Edward Dark in mid 2005, and from then until October 2006 I recorded four albums, 'Pale & Blue High Mountains', 'SunSeaMoonStarSunMoonSeaFishStarFishCrown', 'Brook Farm & Fruitlands' and a fourth album that never got (or deserved) a title. I've spent the last two years working on other projects so I've done no more recording for LED, but many songs and many, many more fragments of songs have been written in this time.
--More songs can be found at www.leafkickerrecords.co.uk, which was a label I was going to pursue, but lack of funds quickly curtailed this folly.
MOST RAD NEWS ----------------------------- The awesome GANG GANG DANCE have re- scheduled the Bristol show. This will be one of two only headlining shows in the UK this year. The Bristol show will be the official warm-up for their show at Brixton Academy (supporting ANIMAL COLLECTIVE !) Wednesday 19th of August 2009 Qu Junktions & Glaive Concerts presents: GANG GANG DANCE + The Color of The Sun ~ Fleece ~ 12 St. Thomas Street Bristol BS1 6JJ 0117 945 0996 - 8PM - 12.00
Tickets 10 pounds in advance On sale at Bristol Ticket Shop, Here Shop and See Tickets. ------i-n-f-o-------------------- This gang gang from Brooklyn, have emerged from a very fertile, indigenous music scene in their neighbourhood but have branched out way WAY further with their hook ups and hooks. It is a ghetto world music that declines fey introspection but invites in disparate saturated sounds and bang bang dance dynamics. Their multi-faceted music style was first brought to our attention following a series of releases on forward-thinking label, The Social Registry; and subsequently, they have found a suitable home on Warp Records.
The bands assemblage of wonky techno, outer rock, faux arabesque and other strange, spiralling, sinuous music forms that transcend categorisation. Utterly unique and iconoclastic.
“The eclectism is exhilarating” Uncut
“Excellent… a psychotropid mind meld” – Plan B
“Gang Gang Dance may now ascend to the bona fide league of geniuses.” 8/10 – NME
Howdy yer Lordship. Strike it Lucky...New monthly night featuring dj's, bands and midnight cabaret. At THE LANES Bristol's only retro bowling alley and club. VIVA LAS BRISTOL! ..
hey y'all come and check these guys out from baltimore. way to get loose on a friday night! + i play alone but still bring the dirt pop glistening with noise sprinkles x A
Fresh from their show at Barcelona's Primavera festival, Teeth Mountain will be unleash their heavy concoction of new-wave tribal psychedelic sounds on Cube, using driving percussion like other bands use guitars.
Deep, thick layers of rhythms and overlays of ambiance, from the gritty to the sublime, this eight-piece outfit create a controlled mayhem of weighty neo-tribal trance music, part Indian, part African, part Balkan, and part Baltimore, that transforms consciousness and carries the group and their listeners to higher states.
The Wire magazine recently praised their 'refusal to acknowledge any kind of destination point for their jamming, achieving a convincing state of suspension throughout, helped by some engagingly forceful drumming.'
Teeth Mountain pummel with noise and drums but are always inviting and joyous, a new wave of tribal sounds in underground music. Be prepared to witness a heady, peyote-voodoo brew, getting you out of your seats and on your feet. Teeth Mountain will enthrall you in a rhythmic, musical spell.
"I don't know what god or gods you all are praying to but you're praying too fucking loud" Boston Police Department
MONDAY 18TH OF MAY (POST ATP WEEKEND REJUVENATION EXPERIENCE)
Icy Demons is an experimental music project started by Bablicon's Griffin Rodriguez (credited as Blue Hawaii) and Man Man / Need New Body's Christopher Powell (Pow Pow). A project of various Chicago musicians, they have released three albums, Fight Back! on the Elephant 6-associated label Cloud Recordings. Tears of a Clone on the Eastern Developments Music, and in 2007 Miami Ice on Easel (Japan release only).
I've been told that mysterious Lord Edward Dark fellow is set to be at Start the Bus next Wednesday. Nothing has been heard of him for months... although I did come across this image of him cavorting with Timothy the Cocaine Monkey at a recent Hotwells knees-up. Apparently he was assaulted with a banana by somebody calling himself Morpho shortly after this snap was snapped...
THE WEARY BAND - A very Good Friday as The Weary Band return to the live circuit after a long break @ Gimme Shelter! The finest Psych/Folk around and batten down the hatches when they ROCK OUT!
With the Gimme Shelter! club night , John The Mod and guests spinning 60’s Garage & Psych, Northern Soul, Freakbeat, Punk, Rock & Roll and Go Go! against a backdrop of vintage lights, films and projections.
www. myspace. com/gimmeshelterclubbristol
Takes place Upstairs@ The Hatchet, Frogmore St, Bristol 9.30pm-2.00am, Entry £3/£4 (last entry 1. 00am)
RNDM SLKTR RITES OF SPRING ALL DAY-R SATURDAY 21st of March / The Croft £5
the bands DETHSCALATOR GUM TAKES TOOTH THE COLOR OF THE SUN COWMAN
the DJs Antoni Maiovvi (Seed Records) - Italo Disco Future Space Love Party Machine Christopher - Flooded Treehouse Morpho - hard psych, kraut G - Russian Records Reliant - left electroniks, dark swing
THE JELAS Straight outta Yate & Chipping Sodbury, The Jelas play experimental pop songs at breakneck speed for people with short attention spans. A strange and wonderful band.
IRON CREASE Debut show! Dr. Robbie Cooper of Geisha and Mr. Stevie Windows ex of Safetyword employ the ancient art of taking drum beats and adding guitar riffs to create ROCK MUSIC.
THE COLOR OF THE SUN Sample heavy guitar pop from this Bristol via California duo. More effects boxes than you can shake a stick at, and some damn good tunes to boot.
FREEZE PUPPY (acoustic performance) A rare chance to see this incredible songwriter and performer present his songs in an acoustic setting. Absolutely unmissable.
+OLO Radio DJ's & [aZa] RUMBOT on the decks.
FRIDAY 19TH DECEMBER, 8PM TILL LATE MOTHER'S RUIN ALL FOR A CREDIT CRUNCH BUSTING £2 ON THE DOOR.
I had a dream last night. You played me your new album on vinyl. It was called Leafkicker. Side 4 was a mini album called Child. It was good stuff. I'd acquired some magical powers. I could think music into the air and it would bounce around at right angles. It was fantastic. Then I woke up. Halfway through editing this book. My soul is weakened. When it's done I shall record until my ears bleed. Let us indeed race, and not be slowed by the gash.
hi there we are the mega-rad bookends of this coming weekend! come see. x a
ahh the end of "summer" is nigh. it's that time of year when it's so hot you gotta either go up into the mountains and swim in the lakes or head to the beach and surf in the ocean - oh wait, i forgot i don't live in California anymore. we had no summer because we all live on an island in the north atlantic. so if you ain't doing GREEN MAN then you should really come to this. For Realz. the Phantom Paradise nite moves into Mother's Ruin for some friday fuckery on the 15th of August. Under the new title of Death DJ's RIch and Phil will freak you right the fuck out with choice psych, rock and horror film selections from Istanbul to Brecon to Rio. Consider this an Eastern Block Party. you know what i'm sayin? no? then come get educated. YES! then get in the ruin and shake those hips. the other me - [aZa]RUMBOT will be hosting this party and occasionally interrupting the flow with his own selections. please do come
FRIDAY THE 20TH OF JUNE THE COLOR OF THE SUN DJ SET The Southbank Club Dean Lane
phil and i had such a rad time doing an OLO CAST a couple of weeks ago we've decided to take it to the streets (lane in this case). we're gonna be playing from 9 til 12. everyting under the sun that we can squeeze into 3 hours. come by on yr way out and say "hey!" x a
FRIDAY THE 27TH OF JUNE RNDM SLKTR >> ANYONE FOR TENNIS Mother's Ruin St Nicholas Street
Fancy Dress with guests Phantom Paradise (Start the Bus Residents) delivering anything from krautrock, French orch-pop, softcore soundtracks and synthed drone while i bookend the night with the guilty, obscure and irresistible.
Let me know when you are here again and I'll show you the best Gemüse Kebab ever! I'm living at Schlesisches Tor, maybe you've been around that place, too?? See you...
Forsooth Lord Edward! Thy songs are a merry ranting thing, the cloak of genius is a garment not untoward for thy shoolders! For real bro thy songs kick some major ass!
Only 2 days left to go out in proper rock star 27 year old flames. What do you fancy - massive drugs overdose, choking on vomit or drowning in swimming pool? Let me know if I can help. I guess you could always leave it til 40 and get shot before you make any more shit records. Or 45 and do a Freddie Mercury. Or just keep going like Macca and do the shittest jam ever by a once-great band. Just remember, 'John's in Heaven'.
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