MACHINE BOY aLive is the live project of Birmingham artist Machine Boy (pretty obvious really!), its based around Machine Boy mainman Dean & Newbie Rob, in the aLive situation (ie a gig), Dean plays a big fat white Ludwig drum kit while doing bits of synth playin, he also runs aLive electronics & occasionally gets off his drum stool to play live synths & do a bit of guitar & vocal, while Rob does a LOT of live synth playin (he's a clever git), does a shedloads of guitar & even does some drum groovin while Dean's doin his synth, guitar thang, ROK ON!
Machine Boy over the last few years have been doing their thang and getting lotsa radio airplay, BBC radio one, 6music....lotsa podcast plays including The BBC best of unsigned Podcast & the Mighty Best of myspace iCast podcast from the luuuurvelee Gill Mills, Machine Boy tracks are also being used in various MTV progs such as Road Rules & Real World and Machine Boy's self animated promo films are being aired by our favourite tv station MTV.
Machine Boy aLive will be starting to gig in 2009, if you have an event you would like the chaps to play at please send us a message at this myspace.
The bands current aLive tools of the trade be:
Ludwig Drum Kit
Fostex VF16
Alesis Micron
Novation X Station 25
Korg MicroKorg
Korg X5D
M-Audio Oxygen 8v2
Korg Mini KP Kaos Pad
13" Apple MacBook
Reason software
Apple iPod
Mackie Mini Mixer
Fender Jaguar Guitar
Yamaha Electro Acoustic Guitar
A Stylophone
A microphone
2 silly hats & lots of enthusiasm!!
A man like Machineboy in the area! Good to have you on board mate. I'm Sendspacing you some lyrics. There's a lot of them so let me know what you think... if it's too much, if it's underdeveloped or if I need to re-record them.
You’re on this weeks Brumcast! The No.1 show for midlands underground sounds! Please promote/plug/whore it!
Brumcast 116 ‘Nerve Gas Jazz’, featuring the best new music from the midlands is now ready for listening and FREE download. Go to http://brumcast. podOmatic. com for download & audio stream links. Download it free and direct from http://brumcast. podomatic. com/enclosure/2009-02-06T08_59_26-08_00. mp3 Here's this show’s playlist :- 1. Squashed Cob - No Way I'm Letting Go (4:43) 2. Governors of California - you have 3 digits, i've got four (4:41) 3. flaw5 - The Arm (4:45) 4. Yelps - Brains on Fire (3:17) 5. Machine Boy aLive - Building A Better Boy (3:26) 6. Mr Bones and the Dreamers - Time To Rest (4:06) 7. Outburst - Figures (4:21) 8. The Conscripts - Nerve Gas Jazz (4:04) 9. This Burning Age - Everlasting (4:26) 10. Idiosync - dir.T. nor.T vi.O.lent, Nature (Alex Singh remix) (4:45) 11. Your Biggest Fanclub - Keep The Change (1:56) 12. The Fores - It Took Me Years (3:34) 13. Claire Obscure and The Nocturnes - chantra (3:57) 14. The Late Arrivals - Head Blood & Bones (3:46) 15. Wiseacre - Menace to Society (4:04) 16. Trademark - MASTERS OF DISASTER (3:11) 17. MyzA - Tooled-up -washed up (5:27) 18. Future Daze - Oxygen (5:07) 19. The Yipes - Take It Or Leave It (2:47) Enjoy! Little Chris
hey man ...great ... i mean... awesome! the live thing threw an extra punch to the already cool sound! and the video gave me the desire to watch a full set of you guys! pretty amazing... want some more! cheers!
This has been a long time coming and we were beginning to ..well....get old....but we're glad you've finally come out to play whilst we're still YOUNG! ha ha
Glad you managed to catch it, i'm not the best presenter in the world, hopefully I will improve as I go along.
That live video was superb you were both well in to it, live your stuff is going to go down a storm, if you get in the right place at the right time I really do think things will take off for you.
