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....
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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Hey! Just letting you know that we released our new album, Nightmare. You can hear some new songs on our MySpace page, and the album is available on iTunes and at http://www.LivingInANightmare.com. If you order the CD from http://www.LivingInANightmare.com you'll receive a signed copy of the album!
We would really like to hear you opinion on it! Please send us a MySpace comment, and it would be awesome if you could review the album on iTunes or on AbsolutePunk.net at http://www.absolutepunk.net/calendar.php?do=getinfo&e=19682&c=3
We're also on Twitter and Facebook! Become a fan of our Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/buildingrome) or follow us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/buildingrome - we follow back!).
Thanks, -Jon, Brandon, Brian, and Tom (Building Rome)
OK SO YOU KNOW THAT I'M JUST A GUY ON MYSPACE WHO WRITES SONGS, SOMETIMES IT'S LONLEY NOT KNOWING IF I WILL EVER SELL A SONG TO A SUCCESFUL ARTIST WHO CAN SING THEM BETTER? BUT AT LEAST I KNOW THAT I HAVE YOU, AND IF NOT FOR THAT I WOULDN'T BE ON HERE. I HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT WEEK BECAUSE WHEN I LOOK ON MY PAGE AND SEE YOOUR COMMENTS I KNOW THAT I AM DOING SOMETHING GOOD WHICH MEANS THE WORLD TO ME! GOD BLESS YOU AND THANKS FOR BEING SUCH A GOOD FRIEND, SINCERLY YOURS DAVID TSUP (SMILE)
Hi Richard, Its been a while and we thought it was about time we updated you on what we've been up to. Our debut EP Little World is now available at our gigs and will soon be available from our myspace and facebook pages, you will also be able to download it from itunes, but we don't have a release date for this as yet. To celebrate the fact that we have now reached 25,000 plays on myspace, we are giving you a free MP3 of Rockabye Baby. All you have to do is send your email address to queen.elvis@yahoo.ie and we will send it to you. We have spent the last year rehearsing with a full band and are now ready to bring it on the road. You can get a look at us when we appear on Balcony TV this week with the full line up. We are currently taking bookings for gigs/concerts/festivals and can be contacted on the email above, or through our myspace and facebook pages. Thankyou for your continued support in what has been a great year for us! Best Wishes Caroline and Colin
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