Ross Palmer - guitar, vocals;
Dan Keeble - bass, vocals;
Eleanor Jones - piano, organ, bass viol, violin, vocals;
Rob Mells - drums, vocals.
Other known associates include Rebecca Goldsworthy (double bass), Enrico Borra (drums), Greg Box (guitar, production), Dan McKean (lead guitar) and Dan Lea (production).
Influences
John Martyn, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Nick Drake, Fred Neil, Joni Mitchell, The Band, Tom Waits, The Beatles, Van Morrison, Laura Nyro, Randy Newman, Tim Hardin, Neil Young, Bert Jansch, Fleetwood Mac, Steely Dan, Elliott Smith, Nirvana, Lou Barlow, Mark Lanegan, Aimee Mann, Throwing Muses, Mark Kozelek, REM, the Delgados, Gillian Welch and many more.
Sounds Like
Rather like the selection of songs on this page, really.
I started playing guitar in 1995 and joined my first band (a group of endearingly awful sub-grunge racket-merchants called Mesh) shortly after, also playing with friends in various short-term bands all through my teenage years. I began seriously writing songs when Mesh fell apart, shortly before I went to university. I read English at UCL, graduating in 2003. While there, I wrote songs, drank a lot of beer and got very good at pool. I read some books, too, but only when the pool table in the Blind Beggar was taken. London was rather big and scary and while at college I only played a few gigs outside the student union.
In 2004, while I was spending a year back in Leigh-on-Sea, I was asked by my college friend Yo Zushi if I'd join his new band, Great Days of Sail. I agreed and stayed long enough to play a few gigs and an XFM session before my short attention span got the better of me and I left to plough my own furrow again, which I did until summer 2006.
On a whim, I asked Rob Mells - an old friend and Southend's riffmeister general - if he and his band wanted to back me for a one-off gig. His band, Gardenia Sky, were agreeable so we set about rehearsing. However, Rico (GSky's drummer, who actually played on the version of 'Sail' on my player) decided to move to Finland, which ended Gardenia Sky at a stroke. After we spent time wondering what to do, Rob switched to drums and, with GSky bassist Iain White on bass, the Fourth Wall was born.
Early in 2007, Iain left the band so, after Rob and I had scoured all four corners of the globe, we decided there was only one man for the job - Daniel Keeble, who was singer and guitarist in Mesh, the first band I was in. Late in 2007, we were joined by pianist Eleanor Jones, who also plays bass viol and violin, expanding the band's potential hugely.
As well as playing in the Fourth Wall, I still play solo gigs, and make recordings of me singing and playing my guitar in a fingerpickin', altered tunin' kind of way, sometimes at home and sometimes in the studio with double bassist Rebecca Goldsworthy (some recordings already in the can, more to follow as soon as possible). I also play sessions for Yo Zushi (buy Yo's lastest album, 'Notes for "Holy Larceny"') as and when our respective schedules allow.
On this page are six of my solo recordings. Some are home demos, some studio recordings and a couple are something in between. I swap songs in and out every now again so check back to hear new things. And it goes without saying that you should add the Fourth Wall and have a listen to our tunes. You'll find the Fourth Wall in my top eight friends.
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!
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New Boe Weaver single out today....
As always a double A
Monster Maker -
Wailing psychedelic guitar versus smoked-out keys... man versus monster... the big final battle that sees blood shed on the desk, the eyeball to eyeball... amped up, beefed up sonic attack sees the victor stood cold sweats. Blooded, victorious and damned.
I Think You Two Should Leave -
Funk, as imagined by Tortoise taking on The James Gang... white boy distorted funk meets gonzoid electronics, all shot in Super 8 with Bruce Lee.
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Also see a few of the photo's from the IFA launch party in my photo's
Medes is the solo project of producer AJ Cookson. Known for his remix work under alter-ego Forma (tKatKa, Death From Above 1979, The Knife, Matthew Rozeik, Score One For Safety), and formerly as the frontman for the explosive band The Montauk Projekt (“…some kind of locked on noise-bastard two-piece” – Organ Magazine), AJ has been a regular contributor to 100m collective projects since the label’s inception and has collaborated with many of the collective’s acts. He now delivers this outstanding and long awaited debut solo collection.
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