Robert james selby
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rack em up
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Genre: Acoustic / Blues / Folk
Location riding the northern line, London and South East, Un
Profile Views: 33956
Last Login: 1/10/2013
Member Since 10/29/2007
Website myspace.com/thepennyballads
Record Label allaboardrecords
Type of Label Unsigned
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Bio
Robert James Selby has the kind of voice that both comforts and excites. You get the feeling you're listening to something important and even better than that; you feel included. lucie barat ..little episodes "Robert James Selby, a man with an Orwellian heart and an Oscar Wilde esque tongue. These comparisions may conjour up a quintessential gentleman born in the wrong era, but his music has a moden twist. Ever present witty and erudite lyrics that make even the most mundane and humdrum activites seem beautiful and gracious. Romantic and hedonistc, armed with his trusty acoustic guitar his timeless music needs to be heard, either at a debauched live gig or on your own, accompanied with a bottle of whiskey and a sense of desolation. " matt barnes ...roundhouse radio "One of the most charismatic strolling minstrels on the London scene, Robert Selby possesses both a visual and aural magnetism that is seldom encountered these days. Filling the void between Dylan and a Hampton Court balladeer, his words speak of a hundred lives crammed into an as yet unfinished one complemented with fantastic melodies. This unhinged troubadour possesses something special indeed." zachery stephenson......speacial needs, i grew up in west and south yorkshire, learnt how to walk and stuff, then learnt how to play a few chords on a guitar, then left home when i was about 16,. played gigs all over blighty, until settling for a while here now in london town, where i'm writing songs, supporting a few of the better known heads, and gigging around europe. neverminding if i'm playing to twelve people in a bar in islington, or a few hundred folk in paris.. i just wanna write songs, sing them to folk then be on my merry way xxx hope you enjoy them xxx much love rob x -
Members
i have a band called penny ballads............ i have had the pleasure with working with matthew poxon. trav eaton, daz shirt, albertino woods, david seal, jake appleby, bruno fitas amongst others on my music x -
Influences
dylan, rimbaud, marc bolan, the doors, bert jansch, cat stevens, john keats, velvet undergrund, donavan, bill hicks, don maclean, woody guthrie, libertines, brian jonestown masacre, babyshambles, pogues, beatles, the streets of london. the fields back home. jack karuorac, henry miller. byron, shelley, shane macgowan, rochester, and don't forget booze is the muse. -
Sounds Like
'Ballads! My masters, ballads! Will you ha' o' the newest and truest matter in all London? I have of them for all choices, and over all arguments too. Here be your story-ballads, your love-ballads, and your ballads of good-life'.
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robert james selby at home singing illuminations
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12 Songs | Nov 5, 2012
