Richard Brooke (guitar/vocals)
This is the video to the version of Playground that Alex Life (in my top friends) has recently recorded. Alex did the video too.
Influences
Beatles, Beach Boys, Daft Punk, Underworld, Air, Pink Floyd, Byrds, Flaming Lips, Engineers, David Bowie, Suede, Marc Bolan/T Rex, Slade, Police, The Kinks/Ray Davies, Donovan, Oasis, Supertramp, Blur, Stone Roses, Paul McCartney, Ride, Cocteau Twins, XTC, The Eagles, 1960's Psychedelic rock/pop, The Bee Gees (Especially their 1960s stuff - great writers)Travis, My Bloody Valentine, The Monkees, Jesus And Mary Chain, George Harrison, anything produced by Phil Spector, ELO, The Move, Donovan, Burt Bacharach/Hal David, Orchestral Maneuvres In The Dark, 10CC, Jefferson Airplane, John Lennon, Kate Bush, the list goes on.......
It's been a long time getting to this point but over 18 years later I have finally decided to foist my music onto an unsuspecting public. Love it if you want to. Hate it if you want to but it would be preferred if it was loved - even the rough edges. I record everything at home straight onto computer (no more messing with inefficient cassettes)using a cheap acoustic guitar recorded through a cheap microphone which is then fed through an equally cheap cassette deck (even inefficient cassette decks have their uses)before finding it's way onto my computer hard drive where I then either mix the results or delete them in total devastation at the results. I still have a lot to learn about recording and mixing - writing songs and then recording them is the easy bit. Still when you're a solo artist you have to learn to do everything yourself and this does give an extra sense of achievement. Some of these results can be found here on my corner of MySpace. I have tons of other songs I want to put up here. All I have to do now is actually motivate myself to record them and improve my recording techniques. I am very proud of the songs themselves even if the actual recordings are rather rough but who cares about perfection? Far better to make an awful recording of a good song than to make a good recording of an awful song....
The Toronto music scene's pretty great, although Toronto audiences can be some of the toughest to connect with - it's not uncommon for people to play their hearts out to distracted or unresponsive crowds. Since Toronto and Hamilton are where we started out, at first I just thought that people didn't really like our music, but as I've talked to other groups and played in other cities over the years, I'm starting to see that it's not just us - Toronto audiences are hard to impress. That being said, we've also had some of our warmest receptions in Toronto, so it really varies; there seems to be a fair bit of luck involved in how a show goes down.
Doing Something with Jazz House, Soul & Jazz Alternate Wednesdays
Some house, a bit of soul, a touch of funk and a load of jazz (influence at least). Blend that lot together and the result is something a little bit different, laid back and refreshing. Every other Wednesday afternoon (14:00-16:00 gmt) on SS Radio Deep and Soulful.
Thanks for stopping by! Things are going very well for The Rest right now - over the weekend we hosted a show in Toronto that was lots of fun, and we've just spent two productive days in the studio.
Thanks for the kind words and thank you so much for being our Myspace friend. Myspace friends are like beer; you can never have too many. Myspace friends are better than actual friends because they never call you to complain about their jobs or ask you to help them move (or move bodies). Stay Thirsty my friend!
Kind regards, O'Kane Mutiny
P.S. Do you know who stole my two quarts of strawberry ice cream? (click, click)
YO! Richard Brooke This is my interview on WWW.US1MAGAZINERADIO.COM Part1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyDjlUKUrqA Part2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoH0VOfHfK0 Part3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnj4C_4p6DU Im also featured on the cover of "THE COME UP" section.click this link to view my article http://www.us1magazine.com/article_details.php?aid=774 www.us1magazine.com has over 11,000,000 subscribers!!Check it out and let me know your thoughts! www.twitter.com/mansiontut
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