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  • Genre: Indie / Pop / R&B

    Location Edinburgh, Un

    Profile Views: 16965

    Last Login: 3/24/2013

    Member Since 1/27/2008

    Website www.morrismajor.co.uk

    Record Label Unsigned

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    (Deservedly) bullied boy turned into angry young man. Angry young man predictably, turned to music and let out his woes through song. Sadly, his poor musical education and immaturity meant that those songs were crap. Slightly less angry young man's education started to improve thanks to radio and internet, and after moving to Manchester, joined a band as guitarist.....Desire to moan at the world through song niggled away at his ageing spirit and eventually pushed him back into writing. Fortunately he was now equipped with a far better musical lexicon (although not it seems, vocabulary - I got 'lexicon' from my computer's thesaurus). Unfortunately, his twenties had also seen his moan gland swell and he had many new things to drain from it, such as general public ignorance, greed, politics and celebrity..... As time went on and more and more people told him they wanted to hear more of his songs, he decided to give it a go. .. .. The end.....

  • Members

    Demos by Matthew Harrison. Line-up: Guitar, Vocals - Matthew Harrison, Guitar - Duncan MacGregor Bass - Grant Stewart, Drums - Mark James Joyce

  • Influences

    Its difficult to say which, if any of these, have crept their craft into my music, but here is a selection of the bands and artists I have been listening to (in no particular order):.. David Bowie, The Beatles, The Kinks, Blur, Pulp, Divine Comedy, Supergrass, Super Furry Animals, The Smiths, The Clash, The Coral, The Cure, Richard Hawley, Talking Heads, Marvin Gaye, Aidan Smith, Arcade Fire, Franz Ferdinand, Reeves and Mortimer, Interpol, TV On The Radio, The Rise and Fall of The Rockets, Joy Division, Chuck Berry, Art Brut, Edwyn Collins, Orange Juice, Camera Obscura, Flight of the Conchords, Smokey Robinson, The Earlies, Tom Waits, Elbow, Duke Ellington, Gomez, Pixies, The Specials, The Spinto Band, Starbase 109, Magic Arm, Kings of Leon, Wire, The The, Ian Dury, Fleet Foxes, The Family Mahone, Midlake, Headlights, Flaming Lips, PJ Harvey, Neil Young, Nick Cave, Belle and Sebastian.

  • Sounds Like

    The antithesis of screamo.

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  • Montesa Audio

    5 days recording in Spain with 6 nights’ accommodation £750 

    That’s £150 a day for quality recordings in a lovely location 

    http://montesaaudio.com/#/staying-with-us/4533023969

    1 year ago
  • Kill Krinkle Club

    2 years ago
  • Gloria R. Ramirez


    Hello,How do you do?

    2 years ago
  • emma dawn

    Looking forward to your gig tonight!:)

    2 years ago
  • emma dawn

    Looking forward to your gig tonight!:)

    2 years ago
  • Future Underground

    Nice background though it is, something has to change; I can't read a buggering word on your page!  It took 20 minutes of blind clicking before I found the friggin' comments bit.  Much love Mr. Sunshine.

    2 years ago
  • The Fort Apache

    how u doin mate? weve jus posted sum tunes have a listen.

    3 years ago
  • The Marvels

    I would just like to pause for a moment... have a ponder... about life...and then thank you for being our myspace friend! it means a lot to us. lots of love  from The Marvels x

    3 years ago
  • Room Tones

    Thank you!

    THIS FRIDAY!
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    Grouper (US) has her latest – Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill – of three albums on Type Records. She has also been involved in collaborative releases, contributing a track to Xiu Xiu’s Remixed & Covered and four tracks to a split release with Inca Ore. Her other contemporaries are Belong, Growing, Tim Hecker, Windy & Carl and Atlas Sound.

    Jasper TX (Sweden), with a hefty back-catalogue of releases on labels such as Miasmah, and collaborations with buddy Machinefabriek, is an essential domestic appliance in the household of conceptual music. He is comparable to artists Fennesz, Sigur Ros, Múm and Tape.

    Intricate and atmospheric songsmith, Danny Saul (UK) performs with different combinations of musicians, making each gig a unique event. His forthcoming release is "Harsh, Final", and he also performs with Greg Haines as Liondialer.

    Fieldhead (UK) music delights in tape hiss, bleak landscapes and decaying analogue loops. He is also a member of The Declining Winter and Glissando. His debut album, "They Shook Hands for Hours" is released soon on Home Assembly.

    3 years ago
  • Room Tones

    Thank you!

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    Tickets £6 adv avaliable from (more on the door):

    wegottickets.com

    Trespassers William (Seattle, US) are the duo of Matt Brown and Anna-Lynne Williams. "Subliminally sublime and pragmatically perfect, you would have to possess an ashtray for a heart not to feel this coursing through your soul" (DSD Music Magazine). A new EP, The Natural Order of Things, is set to be released on Gizeh Records. They will make a church performance with special guests.

    Glissando (Sheffield, UK) “have the kind of atmosphere that can captivate and relax in equal measure- never before has tranquillity sounded so urgent. While track lengths of over 10 minutes may fail to hold the attention of the ADHD sufferers among us, with patience it plays like a majestic dream. And it's one you'll never want to wake up from." NME

    Operations (Chris Anderson) is a Manchester based conceptual music producer and sound artist. He performs and records with an array of analog synths and effects, reel-to-reel tape and casette players, and guitars. Followers of Tim Hecker, Slowdive, Fennesz, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Stephen O'Malley, Type and 12K Records will surely nod in approval.

    3 years ago
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Bio:

Morris Major were founded in late 2009 by songwriter and vocalist Matthew Harrison, having recently left Manchester and his previous band behind for Edinburgh. He'd had little to no creative input in that band but that wasn't such a bad thing; this meant that a full set of songs that had never been heard were ready for a new band.

Harrison writes with no intention to inform, or to impress. Instead, the songs are an outlet for his unruly thoughts and concerns. Being the wrong side of 30 is a weakness but also a strength: concern that the young music fan will dismiss the band is tempered by the confidence that comes from having been there and seen the mistakes that can be made.

Where others blindly copy the latest industry trend, adopt ludicrous accents and spend more time and effort on image than on the songs, Morris Major are instinctively genuine. Influences are audible, but not deafening. Songs are catchy, but not contrived.

It’s taken some time but now with Duncan MacGregor on guitar and backing vocals, Grant Stewart on bass and Mark James Joyce on drums, Morris Major can begin working with renewed purpose.

Update - June 2012 - Grant has left the UK for Cyprus (can't really blame him!) but we've managed to replace him quite quickly with Andy Miller. Andy will add more backing vocals our sound which is something we've always wanted to do. We already have gigs lined up, so watch this space!.

Member Since:

January 27, 2010

Members:

Recordings by Matthew Harrison with drums by Andy Robertson and mixed by Grant Stewart.
Line-up:
Guitar, Vocals - Matthew Harrison
Guitar - Duncan MacGregor
Bass - Andy Miller
Drums - Mark James Joyce.

Influences:

Its difficult to say which, if any of these, have crept their craft into my music, but here is a selection of the bands and artists I have been listening to (in no particular order):
David Bowie, The Beatles, The Kinks, Blur, Elvis Costello, Pulp, Divine Comedy, Supergrass, Super Furry Animals, The Smiths, The Clash, The Coral, The Cure, Richard Hawley, Cherry Ghost, Talking Heads, Marvin Gaye, Aidan Smith, Arcade Fire, Franz Ferdinand, Reeves and Mortimer, Interpol, TV On The Radio, The Rise and Fall of The Rockets, Joy Division, Chuck Berry, Art Brut, Edwyn Collins, Orange Juice, Camera Obscura, Flight of the Conchords, Smokey Robinson, The Earlies, Tom Waits, Elbow, Duke Ellington, Gomez, Pixies, The Specials, The Spinto Band, Starbase 109, Magic Arm, Kings of Leon, Wire, The The, Ian Dury, Fleet Foxes, The Family Mahone, Midlake, Headlights, Flaming Lips, PJ Harvey, Neil Young, Nick Cave, Belle and Sebastian.

Sounds Like:

The antithesis of screamo.

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