60's Psych, Country music, Blues, Experimental Electronica, twisted Rock 'N' Roll and The Who!.. Carlsberg Special Brew, Tuborg Christmas Ale and pretty much all Belgian Beers...so much so, in fact, that I once went on a drinking holiday to Brussels, one of my favourite cities in Europe... Playing my guitar (Pink, Paisley, Fender Telecaster) and writing songs.
Playing with my band 'The Psych'Clowns! (yes, that's EXACTLY how it's spelt and it's pronounced as it's written), Djing and presenting my radio show('BONANZA') on Resonance 104.4FM... Discovering interesting and beautiful records never fails to thrill; taking them home, lovingly placing them on the turntable, opening a bottle of wine, pouring over the covers (not the wine) and hey presto:HEAVEN... The same could be said of a certain interesting and beautiful girl ... Well apart from the turntable bit! Oh, I don't know though! Recreational drugs can be enjoyable too especially when combined with the aforementioned!
Retro Effects Pedals and amplifiers especially Germanium transistor fuzz/Wah pedals, Moogs and Phasers etc.
Music
... Well it all started one morning in the early 70's with 'Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep' by 'Middle Of The Road... or was it 'Killing Me Softly' By Roberta Flack?.. anyway I was playing with me Action Man whilst listening to an old transistor radio (obviously radio is very important as I'm now a Disc Jockey (BONANZA) on Resonance FM). I was blown away when I first saw T-Rex on Top Of The Pops again in the early 70's. I remember later being impressed by Slade and Gary Glitter! Suzi Quattro blew my fucking mind with 'Devil Gate Drive' and that leather jump suit! Jeezus wasn't Top Of The Pops good back then?.. It pretty much went quiet until one long hot summers eve in 1977 when I saw one of the 'big' kids from off of our estate in our local chippy (fish 'n' chip shop) wearing a huge home made badge that read 'The Sex Pistols'... I thought it sounded rude and exciting I wanted to know more but I didn't hear their music until much later... Again it went quiet until 1979 (well apart from me Mam blasting out Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Waylon Jennings, Glen Cambell and Neil Diamond ) but I'll come to that later!)... tantalising isn't it? Why?.... because it's honest and it's from the heart... Yeah, as I was saying in the summer of 1979 I heard 'When You're Young' By The Jam on 'Juke Box Jury' and I went out and bought it the next day on 7inch from WH Smiths! It blew my fucking mind! I'd never heard anything like it and it spoke to me, it was about ME, it was for 'ME'! It was like hearing 'My Generation' or 'Satisfaction' or The Sex Pistols for the 1st time. It was that pure adrenaline rush of Rock 'N' Roll... It changed my life FOREVER... I became obsessed with all things JAM... I became a Mod... and whatever I look like at any time or whatever music I happen to be digging I will ALWAYS be a Mod, "They'll bury me a Mod!" (as some bloke from Woking once said!)... Anyway things took a logical path... I discovered The 'Orrible 'OO! 'Fuck me', My Generation is THEE ultimate disaffected youth anthem. NOTHING comes close and The Who stay with me to the present day as thee ultimate band. The perfect balance of pure energy, musical brilliance,working class heroics, disaffection, art, anger, exhuberance, disatisfaction, dissent, skill, vision, truth and yet contradiction... logic?... My 1st gig was The Jam and my second was The Smiths... Oh and I lied to me Mam about the 1st gig as I went on my own but I told her that I was going with some big lads from off of our estate who'd protect me if there was any trouble (not the badge maker in the chippy from '77, he died of a heroin overdose alongside his wife in the toilets of the local McDonalds in the mid 90's whilst their 2 year old kid wandered around looking for Mummy and Daddy! Is this getting too much for your pathetically weak pain threshold? No? Oh good then you're 'worth it' and I'll continue... I blame Thatcher... for everything! Milk snatcher bitch who went on to destroy the miners and the British coal and steel industry... oh and then sold weapons to Iraq... that's a bit strange, don't you think? Question, question, question! Jesus the 80's were a fucking nightmare!.. But of course The Smiths came along not long after the demise of The Jam (every credit to Weller for not turning into a sad fucker and dragging it out... he ended it at their peak... even if I did cry for two weeks!) The Smiths made the 80's slightly more bearable... As did The Jesus & Mary Chain and early Primal Scream especially 'Screamadelica'
The Paisley Underground bands such as The Rain Parade, Long Ryders, Green On Red etc did it for me as did The Butthole Surfers(possibly the 2nd best band ever), The Janitors, The Godfathers, The Screaming Blue Messiahs, The Meat Puppets...
Mid to Late 80's discovered Cannabinols, Psilocybin, Amphetamines, Lysergic Acid diethylemide25 and Led Zeppelin WOW!... Unfortunately (or maybe not?) Rush, Jethro Tull and The Grateful Dead followed closely on their tails!... It was pretty much Led Zeppelin non-stop for two years (I still listen to 'em occasionaly but I despise them for not crediting the old blues players they so obviously ripped off!)
The Beastie Boys and Run DMC were a slight distraction...
Oh yeah as I mentioned earlier me Mam blasting out Country Music when I was a nipper... Well it all came trundling back in the mid 80's like a truck down a dirt road when I discovered Steve Earle, Dwight Yoakam and even John Cougar to some degree! I just realised how good dirty Country music is and how much I always loved them old songs...
The next big deal for me was in the late 80's in the shape of The Stone Roses, The Happy Mondays oh and something called Ecstasy... Stay tuned kids! Jeezus, I'm up my own arse aren't I?
Movies
Billy Liar... My fave film... it mirrors my life... Except 'I' actually got on that bloody train to London(eventually!) with Julie Christie... 2nd bestest is 'The Pawnbroker'... and then in no particular order... 'Angels Of The Universe', 'The Anderson Tapes', Quadrophenia, Last Night, anything by Woody Allen, anything with Paddy Considine or Sissy Spacek.
Television
'It's the banality of evil!'... The only Tele' I need is made by Fender, it's pink and it's Paisley!... I have my T.V. hidden in a cupboard (Try it you might like it!) I rarely get it out because it's inane and soul destroying! ... Oh and I refuse to buy a licence. Come and get me Mr Fucking TV detector man! I despise you and everything you stand for!... and that goes for bailiffs too!
Books
Very little fiction but then I don't consider 'Catcher in The Rye', 'Crime And Punishment', 'Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas', 'The Overcoat' or 'Inside The Penal Colony' as fiction, do you? Biog's of my, well I don't have heroes but... compadres?..'The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner', 'Das Kapital', 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test', 'Where Is Britain Going'... Currently Reading Wolfgang Flurs' autobiography 'I Was A Robot'... It's fantastic!
Heroes
Working class ones (it's something to be)+ 'Super' ones and 'Uber' ones and 'EXTRAordinary ones... Do you know any?
Oh, go on then... Nina Simone, Bobbie Gentry and Arthur Scargill but that's it!.. But gather round friends and consider this for a moment if you will... Once upon a time Che Gueverro was viewed in a similar light to that which Bin Laden is seen today and nowadays some people even wear Che' on their t-shirts or go to see second rate films about him without giving it a second thought. I think some people should have a good, long, hard look at themselves and ask themselves some questions... 'Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? The epitomy of evil or Political soldiers?'... What do you think?
Creator of Bonanza, DJ, Promoter, Artist Management & record company, Radio Presenter (BONANZA on Resonance FM)... Oh and Artist apparently!Guitarist/Songwriter and founder of 'The Psych'Clowns!'/The Bojangles...
Cosmic Psychedelia 4 the
Creator of BONANZA and 'Martyn Myers Music' as in Mmmmm: A promotions and management company + Radio Presenter on Bonanza on ResonanceFM, DJ, Promoter + some other stuff... Like managing the mighty Sleaford Mods (not a mod band! please check him out in my top friends) Also busy with my club nights: 'Tripping In The Country', 'Countrier Than Thou' and 'The High Chapparal', 'The Cosmic Film Club + upcoming: Record label/putting a compilation together and UK Country Revue/tour...
For all upcoming BONANZA events please go to:
www.myspace.com/bonanzablues
For all upcoming Sleaford Mods gigs/MartynMyersMusic Events please go to:
www.myspace.com/martynmyersmusic
Here are a few flyers for upcoming events...
UPCOMING:
When I was a little boy I asked the adults a couple of big questions:
like 'Why are there rich people in the world when there are starving people?' Or 'How come one country can have nuclear weapons and yet demand by force, like a playground bully, that another country relinquish theirs?'...
The adults couldn't answer these questions and it has affected me ever since!
The adults still can't answer these questions BUT I FUCKIN' can!..
My honesty is brutal!.. Let's see if you can take it!??...
Firstly I set up this Myspace 'cos I'm a Narcissistic cunt just like you!..
So if you are here solely for networking can I direct you (that's another way of saying fuck-off!)to : www.myspace.com/bonanzablues... for my club nights and radio show
or: www.myspace.com/thepsychclowns...
for my songs but otherwise...
I'm the nicest person you could ever wish to meet... and yet a complete b*stard! Is that an oxymoron contradiction? It's all relative ain't it Einstein? Oh, you'll just have to wait and see won't you? And I sincerely hope you do!... I'm a right 'So & so' and yet you 'WOULD' want to meet me up a dark alley 'cos I'm 'The Good Samaritan' who's a bit of a 'Have-A-Go-Hero', which is probably not in my best interests in this God-forsaken town!??
I give up my seat on buses for elderly folks and pull funny faces at little kids to make 'em laugh and yet I scoffed at 9/11!.. work that one out!?
I don't eat meat 'cos I think it's immoral to hurt small, defenceless creatures and yet 'Our boys' coming home in 'body bags' doesn't tweak much emotion... It just elicits a considered and philosophical debate... 'Live by the sword die by the... Put the kettle on love, I think it's gonna rain... and when the rain comes, they run and hide their head, they might as well be...' What I'm trying to say is I consider 'ALL' wars to be immoral and unethical and that greed and power are the 'ONLY' motivation and NOTHING to do with religion... Bulls goring matadors also give me immense pleasure! Ad infinitum... I prefer cats to people generally...
What else? Well, burnt-out artist who finally accepted that music really is the true art-form (see Tolstoy)although I have actually started painting again!!!
So I'm a promoter, DJ & Radio Presenter (BONANZA), around town and on Resonance104.4FM... listen online www.resonancefm.com Sundays 12Noon-1.30pm)
and a bit of a songwriter
My band are called 'The Psych'Clowns!'/The Bojangles... BUT I appear to be the only member!
www.myspace.com/thepsychclowns...
currently recruiting band members:keyboard player to make weird noises, Bass player(preferably John Entwistle on chisel with a stripper in his hotelroom) and possibly another guitarist... oh and a drummer!.. (Preferably the new Keith Moon!).
Funnily enough my dj name was 'The Psych'Clown!'. but I've settled for DJ BONANZA
At BONANZA I spin the best in Country, 60's Psych', Blues, Folk, Twisted Rock 'n' Roll and whatever else takes my bloody fancy... People seem to like it and I hope you will too...
My radio show is also quite popular...
As for 'my' songs well why not go to my other 'MySpace', have a listen and tell me what you think.
I like to think of it as Cosmic Psychedelia and Avant-Country juxtaposed against beautiful harmonies and hook 'em in melodies for the computer generation: all after us 'Psych'Clowns!' souled our sales at the Satanic, interface, crossroads of the Internet, Super-Uber Highway.(Copywrite 'The Psych'Clowns!')
Who I'd like to meet: My Daddy... and your Momma,
Well, yeah firstly my fucking Dad, secondly people who are aware of others around them and sensitive to their feelings... People who question EVERYTHING and have a mind of their own...
I prefer cats to people generally!
BONANZA on ResonanceFM every Sunday at 1pm…
Resonance 104.4FM or online at www.resonancefm.com
‘Tracing the roots and subsequent influence of the pioneers, outlaws, mavericks and renegades of Country Music’s past present and future.’
Hope you can make our party on Friday... It's credit crunch FREE! X
'BONANZA IS 5 YEARS OLD'
Bonanza is five years old this month and to celebrate this momentous occasion Bonanza in association with TouchWood Events is throwing a very special FREE party just for you this Friday 12th September @ The Slaughtered Lamb.
We are also relaunching and relocating Tripping In Country at the same event.
Live acts include: Piney Gir & Emit Bloch Country Roadshow + surprise acts + guest djs for drinking & dancing til late.
Tripping In The Country will then go monthly @ The Slaughtered Lamb on first Sat of the month from November 1st.
yea fuck him to.fuckin musical historian these days.honestly they run out of steam and decide to dedicate they're twilight years to boring everybodys arse off with fuckin morbid facts about morbid fuckin bands....
Howdy Martyn,,Reno here from the MCF.Ive mislaid me phone so need you to get in touch. We all enjoyed Bardens last Thursday and look forward to the next time. Speak soon dude,,x
