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LIVE AT HOMEGAME(with the MEN DIAMLER CHOIR)
men diamler
Influences
Too many things - good and bad. The concept is ill.
So, i thought i'd take down the list and use this space to rave over some of the musicians i've shared stages with & deserve a worthy mention. These include:
Rose Kemp
Z+
Simon Finn
Joolie Wood
Team Brick
Brendan Casey
Ratface
Bela Emerson
Hawk & A Hacksaw
JM Kados
Blanket
Wooden Spoon
Wild Billy Childish
Charlie Parr
Chris Cundy
Alex Ward
Longstone
Brickwerk
The Great Park
Diamond Family Archive
Josephine Foster
Birdengine
Animal Magic Tricks
Fiona Crawford
Parge
SJ Esau
Knowledge Of Bugs
Marissa Nadler
Sunburned Hand Of The Man
Alasdair Roberts
Curtis Eller
Thomas Truax
Arrington De Dionyso
Alex Neilson
Mary Hampton
Ignatz
Caroline Martin
Serious Sam Barrett
Chris T-T
Micah P Hinson
Lacuna
Golden Disko Shio
Betika
David Thomas Broughton & 7 Hertz
Elizabeth
Rozi Plain
Rivulets
Benjamin Weatherill
Chris Corsano & Alan Wilkinson
Tony Allen
Dave Pearce
Clayton Blizzard
Stanton Delaplane
Scout Niblett
Voice of The Seven Woods
Rob & Jez Howard
Kitsu Killjoy
Edd Donovan
Sequins
William
Korova
Honeytrap
The Empty Set
The Bellows
Puppy Bucket & Donny Choonara
Dash
Cath & Phil Tyler
Ice Bird Spiral
Pekko Kappi
Mr & Mrs
Anni Rossi
RG Morrison
Peter Broderick
Al Libby
Rollin Hunt -
loads at Shhh! I can't remember their names
Pirate Ship Quintet
Kathryn Sawers
"Mad Jimi"
Pmanassah
Freeze Puppy
Timberwolf
Little Sparta
Gerry Mitchell
John & Jehn
Lawrence Wasser
Gareth S Brown
Meursault
Withered Hand
Starless & Bible Black
Nadine Khouri
Little Pebble
The Pictish Trail
King Creosote
David Garland
The Hand
Ichi
Hardsparrow
Yaard
Little Boat
Seadog
Pyktron
Gary Goodman
Jo Burke
Art Pedro
Horse Feathers
Honey Ride Me A Goat
Tubelord
Richard Lomax
Christov
Aaron King
Boxcar Aldous Huxley
DJ Scotch Egg
Zan Lyons
Ben Reynolds
Eric Carbonara
John Lewis
and so many more that my brain will explode if i continue.
Sounds Like
these albums:
THE HEATHEN SOUNDS OF (s/r 2004)
SEA SHANTIES FOR THE FAR INLAND (Dulcet Thud,2008)
LON CHANEY VS DANDELION BATMAN (s/r 2008)
TOUR ALBUM IE "Faster Than The Beatles, Slower Than Mccartney"(s/r 2008)
MEN DIAMLER plays live regularly as a (sometimes) guitar-accompanied singer. to contact Men Diamler email
mendiamler at googlemail dot com
12 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT MEN DIAMLER...
1.Men Diamler is from the Southwest of the Northeast.
2.Books tours with a bucket of cement and a mechanical drill - ie DIY
3.Sells tickets for tribute acts,spiritualists and retired cricketers when he is not Men Diamler.
4.Dislikes London, he has now quit playing there for good.
5.Likes the fact somebody once described his singing voice as akin to "Roy Orbison with two punctured lungs", and is glad it wasn't an iron lung.
6.Has covered Jacques Brel, Elvis, Son House, Trad Arr & Swans live. He likes all those acts quite a bit, too.
7.Has a song about a horse who is starved by his owner so that he can use it's ribs as a xylophone. The horse gets naturally gets revenge.
8.Makes drone/noise/improv musick under the name FRANZ REICHELT. If you don't know who the inspiration behind FRANZ IS, look on youtube.
9.Men Diamler divides the audience. Sometimes this happens right down the middle, which is good as it makes it easier for him to walk around while singing a spiritual/hymn.
10.Considers the dead poets are better than the living ones, and the gulf increases everyday.
11.Can't tell if the glass is half empty or half full - because it is a can.
12.Doesn't like writing his own press releases. The code is chilly.
THE PRESS(OR AT LEAST THE GOOD ONES)
"Men Diamler is a young man with a cult reputation in the South West who will not be tamed by the powers that be, reconfiguring a English/Welsh soul music through woozy operatics and wild and weird song/stories. Sweet and darkness have never sounded so close or so intense in such performer. Despite his tender age he is a channel for old thyme ways - footstompin' blues, two string serenades, backwoods drinking hollers, horse play and pagan folk all get exorcised. Psychosis never sounded this good and people clap" Qujunktions
" .. tears away at your singer/songwriter preconceptions, replacing them with black humour and visceral gore" Rottenmeats
"imagine Roy Orbison with a two punctured lungs and John Fahey with a fractured hand?well, he sounds better than that"
"Mr. Diamler's music seems to carve its initials somewhere between Son House & Syd Barrett on the musical park-bench. That said, this is fiery and unapologetic music that lives in a fucked up, peculiar world of it's own. Lopsided folk music that leaps at you, sometimes very literally" Thora Zine
"Men Diamler cannot be ignored. He looks a little like electric-era Bob Dylan, and it's just him and his guitar, and sometimes it's just him, a cappella – not even always in front of a microphone – but his voice is so astonishing that traffic literally stops. Yes, I know what I've just said. He makes sure we know we're watching a performance of spiritual-gospel-blues, but it's authentic as it gets. Again, I know what I've just said, but it's true. It's ridiculous, in all honesty, because somebody with much more influence than I have should be writing about him. FACT MAGAZINE
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Hey Richard! Hope you enjoyed Thursday! Twas a brilliant show you put on and folk are still talking about it and will be doing for some time I reckon! Thanks so much for playing and see you soon! Have a great summer! Baz
hey rich! Just posted you bristol gig on the fence records beefboard, think there's quite a few bristolians so mebbe get a few wot saw you at homegame. x
Can't wait to see you in Edinburgh - when you get to Buxton please give Graeme a big kiss from me (well, ye know..... mebbe shake his hand and pass on my greetings!?)
We are playing at The Nursery Tavern, Coventry on 25th June with Wes Finch & The Dirty Band and Scattered Sons (featuring members of The Treehorns and Shackletons)
Riiiiiiiiiiich. How very bloody lovely to hear from you.. Yes, that sounds splendid... you fancy a wee trip back to the neuk i have a spare bed what i can tuck you into. Mucho smoocho a te. xxxxxxxx
