An Artic Circle Players: Bret Phillips - Vocals, Guitars, Keyes, Horns Riley Plumb - Guitar, Lap Steel and more Patrick Nelson - Bass Dirk Jewitt - Drums
Live Band:
Bret- Guitars
Patrick- Bass
Drums- Dirk
Sometimes Guitar- Riley
Influences
the beatles, Sparklehorse, broken social scene, Pavement, sebadoh, built to spill, Husker Du, silkworm, Charles Bukowski, Stanley Kubrick tom waits, yo la tengo, neutral milk hotel, wilco, uncle tupelo, son volt, archers of loaf, dylan, olivia tremor control, radiohead, arcade fire, superchunk, hunter s thompson, the archicture in helsinki, portastatic, smog, will oldham, the replacements, the smiths, the good life, modest mouse, Neil Young, vermont, granddaddy, loose fur, flaming lips, lucero, sonic youth, Nick Drake, Stereolab, Sam Peckinpah, the cure, crooked fingers, silver jews, The Sea and Cake, nada surf, jim o'rourke, camper van beethoven, all things stephen merritt, all of our friends that play music..........
Sounds Like
waking up in blur of cheap wine and demerol on the side of a dirt road with no idea of what happened last night or who you pissed off
Oldmanwinter is the brainchild of Tunesmith/Sound-Architect Bret Phillips. Originally from Peters Creek, Alaska Bret started writing songs at the age of 14 and has played in many bands including: The Sound and the Fury, The Field, Lampshade, Johny Spenard, The Marazene Heartbeat Clock and MonoStereo.
Oldmanwinter started off as a studio project for Bret in 2005 as an outlet for more strange and loud soundscapes. In 2007 Bret used the great talents of longtime friend and drummer Dirk Jewitt, bass mastermind Patrick Nelson and guitar guru Riley Plumb to record his first release "an artic circle",(written, recorded and mixed by Bret at his studio wax poetic) coming out on Athens, Ga indie label Headphone Treats in 2008.
Brilliant - we should tell Ryan. We're thinking about dates in Athens, Charleston, maybe Atlanta, Richmond, Asheville, Raleigh Durham, DC... something like that? Love your sounds, talk to you soon.
hey fellas looks like things are going good for you! we got ourselves a mars bar gig too, have you played there before? if so any pointers? well let us know how it goes for you. see you around.
Hey Congrats on getting "Grip" picked up on National Friggin' Television. Good for you Bret. http://abc.go.com/primetime/menintrees/index?pn=music#t=0&d=39986
Patrick!~ it's your friend from sorentino. I stopped in today for dinner and was hoping you were working...you weren't. How's life? When would be a more succesful drop-by? I'm in need of some good wine and...you know...you! :) peace
OldManWinter just thought we would drop by and tell you how much we love you!! And that we hope you come back and visit our page..especially since our cd is out on the 15th in MAY! Gangsta Gangsta
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the frail
