Marc Shearer on vocals,guitar,samples,glockenspiel,omnichord etc.
Influences
Texture, hidden melody, obvious melody, vapour, love, joy, decadence, existance, the absolute belief in music as a universal force. Psychedelia,Krautrock,Electronica,Folk,Spacerock,Unashamed Pop and Baroque Bedsheet Biscuit-Tin Beats. Mountain Machine.
Haruki Murakami, The Scottish Enlightenment, Huxley, Brigette Riley, Huysmans, Cocteau, Roeg, Maya Deren, Herzog...ach on and on...
The Beatles, Brian Eno, My Bloody Valentine, Nick Drake, CAN, Bowie, Biff Rose, Kraftwerk, Bjork, The Fall, The Smiths, Donovan, John Martyn, Eric Satie, Cocteau Twins, Love, Syd Barrett Floyd, T-Rex, Stereolab, Beach Boys, XTC, Leonard Cohen, Skip Spence, Kate Bush, Talk Talk, Aphex Twin, Bob Dylan, Boards of Canada, Captain Beefheart, etc etc...one of my favourite tunes ever is Witchi Tai To by Harpers Bizarre but like much of my record collection, to start really honing in is madness...really like Baggy Trousers and One Step Beyond.
Sounds Like
I WROTE ALL THESE POP RECORDS...
Stuff my fingerprints are all over (playing/co-writing/producing etc...)
-OCTOPUS...Syd barrett influenced pop on Food/Parlophone. Was my first band. I wrote the songs but didn't do the dishes. 4 singles. 1 LP. Lots of touring pre-carbon footprint hint.
-----------------------------------------------------THEY CAME FROM THE STARS, I SAW THEM (Lo Recordings)...produced debut LP & singles and played live with them (may still do.) This was always going to work as I had my own denim spacesuit.
------------------------------------------------------ADEM (Domino Records) asked me after an improv session for Sam Britten (Icarus, who I also supplied guitar rips for laptop mashery) if I'd like to help him play live. Did lots of work up to and after his Homesongs LP. I played guitar,sung BVs,glock,harmonium and colouring-in book.Toured extensively as a duo and 4piece.
-------------------------------------------------------JIM REID (Jesus & Marychain) produced his debut solo single "Song for a Secret" and played stuff on it too. Jim sings Ikea instructions...it's Rock n Roll. Played live with Jim until he drunkenly kicked the bassist and I offstage. I thought it was funny. The audience threw glasses.
--------------------------------------------------------MENTASM...Legendery night I started with Tom Barwick and Pete Fowler amongst many. Originally at my studio in Stoke Newington. Will resurface soon.
-------------------------------------------------------EMILY WARDILL, Artist I collaborated with on "A Lake of Blood" on the LP "Remove Celebrity Centre." This is an integrated performance/film piece first aired at Espace Electra,Paris.
--------------------------------------------------------MARC MEON is me. I've been producing solo work for years, some of which will be released this year. Available from Rough Trade Digital soon.
----------------------------------------------------------Have done soundtrack work for ICA London, Channel 4 (I did the Daisy Donovan theme tune!) IBM Interactive, Edinburgh Festival, Ringtones for Karmarama etc.
I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)
North Atlantic Oscillation's "Hollywood Has Ended", from the forthcoming album Grappling Hooks, is featured in this month's Police Box compilation from TenTracks. It's here:
In case you haven't heard, TenTracks is a new music delivery service where you can buy exclusive 10-track compilations for £1, i.e. a mere 10p per track.
This month NAO are in the illustrious company of the excellent Found, Orkestra Del Sol, Fence Collective luminaries James Yorkston and King Creosote and exactly 5 others. Once again, that's £1 for ALL TEN TRACKS. Not bad, really.
Big City Redneck Presents the third installment of our ongoing series of showcases for up and coming swellegant, magnificent and downright stupendous bands on Thursday April 17th (this thursday!!) at the Buffalo Bar in Islington.
Interviews with the band will be available on www. bigcityredneck. co. uk shortly!
Big City Redneck Presents! Doors: 8:30pm - 1am Nr. tube: Highbury and Islington £6/£5 concessions
Rosalita http://www. myspace. com/rosalitaband http://www. rosalita. co. uk/ "Madness meets the Mode/Depeche Madness. On Manga Girl the singer even yelps, you know, like Adam Ant used to. They love 1981. " - Paul Lester, Guardian
The Laurel Collective www. myspace. com/thelaurelcollective ***Just signed to Domino Records!*** “The Laurel Collective are 6 nice, affable young bachelors and two sick, ultraviolent delinquents who play a simmering stew of musical influences. ” – Channel 4
The Great Statesmen http://www. myspace. com/thegreatstatesmen ***XFM Unsigned/BBC6Music Unsigned WINNERS*** “The Great Statesmen live show is more than just a gig - it a full body workout with a massage at the end. Go and see them!” – Clubfandango
awwwwww, i remember when you made that one, it's beautiful, calling calling. i keep finding the song file and having a listen, maybe i'll do a version of it...
