As for 'band members', well, Er. me. In the main. Although some of the ever changing tracks on here will be bands and projects that I've been in or musically involved with. I play drums, bass, guitar, and keyboards, with fluctuating degrees of efficiency. Basically I'm an old skool punk, self taught and flawed to hell, getting by on the odd half decent melodic idea!
Influences
Glam rock, Early punk, Gaye Advert, Jimmy Greenhoff, The Stranglers, Stuart Copeland, Paul Weller, Early Electro, Northern soul, Bowie, The Smiths, Tony Wilson, Midge Ure, LS Lowry, SAW, Bryan Robson, James Jamerson, Jim Steinman, Julian Cope, Sid James, JJ Burnel, Mick Karn, Nick Beggs, Mark King, Pino Palladino, Heinous Bosch, Leonard Cohen, Frank Tovey, Frank Sidebottom, Michael Head, Reg Varney, Marc Almond, Scott Walker, Runrig, Colin Vearncombe, Francis Frith, Steven Lindsay,Levi Stubbs, Tori Amos, Neil Hannon, Kate Bush, Patrick Wolf.
Hmmm, where to start? Ok then, from the top: I aint a band. Nah, ’Mamucium Son’ is, just me. Chris A. Intermittently sardonic musical anorak, with a nifty line in dramatic irony and a constant crutch of reverie.
Mamucium ?
The year AD79. The rather esteemed Roman General, Julius Agricola, set up a Northern gaff in an area crossed by two rivers Medlock/Irwell, and named it ’the place that looks a bit like a tit shaped hill’. Or rather more snazzilly - Mamucium. Later to become known as Manchester.
Son ?
Yeah. proper Manc me mate. Born in the Old St Mary’s which stood right opposite the Palace Theatre on Oxford Rd in the city center. So was my dearly beloved / sadly departed father ... and HIS dad, etc. I’ve served my time too. I stood on the hallowed Old Trafford terraces at 7 years of age. I’ve studied Mancunian history, from it’s embryonic Roman occupation, to Peterloo .... to the dodgy loo’s on Peter St, and know too much about this blighted old mill town’s rather underrated contribution to the industrial revolution for my own good. And it rains here, ya know? Sweeping down from the Pennines, over the infamous and paradoxically beautiful Saddleworth Moors, making haste to the first major city thereafter - Republica Mancunia. And the music .... I know the music. Of course I do. I was there *. On the ride. From the late 70’s until, well no, STILL!
* I got lucky in the early 80's, when at 14, the punk band I drummed for, were offered the support slot with Billy Idol’s Generation X. This tour took in all of the UK and parts of Europe, Jeez, I think I learned everything about life on those mad 6 months! Subsequently, and over the years, I've learned and played other instruments, in other bands, in other genre’s - with varying degrees of minor success - and composed computer music for commercial music software, plus tasted life on the wonderful northern cabaret circuit. Now, I'm a husband, and dad to 2 mint girls, mortgaged up to the eyeballs, and intermittently knocking up new tunes in Cubase SX.
Anyway, that's enough blabbing ..
My Songs 'n' stuff.
I have a pretty large back catalogue of material. A lot of it is of Godawful recording quality, and a lot of it is frankly just Godawful period. Still, for reasons of posterity, I'll change the song selection from time to time to reflect my old attempts at writing, my new attempts at writing, my old bands, from punk to shoegazer, from synthpop to cabaret, and hell yeah, maybe even some of the stuff I wrote for Amiga A1200 music software demo disks! So, thanks for stopping by, and I hope you find some enjoyment - on whatever level - in my stuff.
Hi. Just letting you know I'm back in the studio recording the next two albums. Details on the Max X Blogs. I won't be able to answer many myspace messages for the next few months, so please be patient with me.
Things have been going great! With all your support & the help of some internet radio play the site is up to 10,000 Friends! Yay! Shooting to release the new stuff at the beginning of the 2009. Hope you're well. - Max X
At another time this was another place - twisting together we were liquid and safe and small From the depths of a serpentine ocean to the edges of untouchable skies We didn’t understand what held us together But paint doesn’t know when it dries
Chris, can you do a bass gig for me mate? You only need to learn 5 tracks - Starboy, Genius on heat, Lucy Brown, Maybe someday and Football elbow. I think you may know at least three of these already? Free beer all night, etc. Please????
Alright Wrighty boy? Good Xmas? Managed to finally get off with that Sarah bird, so be nice to meet up sometime for a update chat? What you doing New years eve?
jeez... some weird buggers out there! have deleted it! why would anybody do it? do you think the 'hacking' is computer generated spam? since it was a 'link' to a site.. were the other friends sent the same link? not to worry! Maz x
Hiya Chris. Bloke at my work thinks he's Elvis. Willing to pay some idiot to write and record a cheesy 50's sounding track for him to warble on. I thought of you. (arf arf) up for it?
I agree Chris Danny Wilson are super ,Mary..s Prayer was and is a fav of mine ...never heard Aberdeen before as I don..t have the album.....thanks for that.....Jane
Alas, I'm not SX-ed up yet! I think Ryan is planning to recover his masters track by track from DAT. On the plus side, he thinks he might be able to recover the master for Vapour Trials that way too.
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