It all started when I was born, which in many ways was the beginning of the end. I began playing drums at school and getting involved in Amateur dramatics before deciding it wasn't for me I did however learn the guitar during a production of the Sound of Music, and my future was sealed. I decided to write two or three minute melodic narratives shrewdly combining chords with lyrics in the same key, making sure to repeat certain sections again and again so that people would remember them and perhaps sing along, next I had a wave of the brain and combined these songs with other instruments like electric bass and drums, making sure that all the instruments are in time with each other. I had stumbled on a silvermine of possibilities!! Leaving the house one day I realised that I was not the first one to have done this. In short I was shocked and it has taken me about 10 years to be comfortable with this and come to the conclusion that even though I didn't think of it first, I could still do it too. Thus Spencer McGarry- the Life the Music... the Legend
It goes like this
I'm doing 6 albums each with a diferent theme The first one will be called Episode 1 and will be a rock record in the style of my favourite Rock records,
more than that I cannot tell you
Hey Guys - thanks for the add! You're a pro outfit with a great image and fine, fine pop tunes! Would love to hear your sound expand - strings, horns maybe - wherever the mind takes you! Oh Leonard! Love it! D x (Defiance of god)
heat was hot - glad to pop over now i heard that. well old gorbals chum, hope you're going from strength to strength. we got a NEW SONG, come and hear beam on, beam up, beam out beam team
COLORAMA turnham green STEVELESS AND SYD HOWELLS obi wan kenobe killed james dean THREATMANTICS little bird VATES pws fawr dub SWEET 'N' TENDER HOOLIGANS [session track] i have scene LLYGOD FFYRNIG [llanelli] n.c.b. SEAN PARKER spirits PICTURE BOOKS IN WINTER open heart surgery BEEFCORE theme for kidnap SPENCER MCGARRY SEASON the heat was hot RED STRIPE [session track] reggae cymraeg THE PENNY DREADFUL lemonaide I AM AUSTIN zombie town MEILIR TOMOS bydd wych THE TOY HORSES and it was you MR PHORMULA & LEWS TEWNS how me 'n' lew do MR PHORMULA ocean of music META AND SON CAPSON mr i.b. hacking SOULDOUBT from snowdon to the sea HOUDINI DAX fizzy moon RED STRIPE [session track] pipes of pan
Alex Paterson's Words of Wisdom HIGH FREQUENCY BANDWIDTH hitchcock's first bugle
FUTURE OF THE LEFT i have four names THE CROOK FAMILY to do, for you THE YELLOW MOON BAND chimney DUFRAINE okinawa THE JOY FORMIDABLE the greatest light is the greatest shade
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TALONS the tragic decline of buff orpington JOHN MARTYN go out and get it SKY LARKIN beeline RED STRIPE [session track] full moon blues
TICKETS NOW ON SALE... Dave McPherson lead singer from INME will be playing an acoustic set at Le Pub in Newport,South Wales on Saturday 21st March. Tickets for this event are £5 and are very limited (so get them early) you can purchase them from: www. livesoundpromotion. co. uk or Rockaway Records (Newport Indoor Market)
I'd love to hear what you think about the show & the other 48 songs / artists featured in it.
Please keep your music coming.
We start a new feature on the show next Sunday night [4th January] -- the F.A.Q. where we get authoritative industry people to answer *your* questions about any aspect of music making / recording / mastering / distribution etc. etc.
For example, next week, a representative from the Glastonbury Festival will be telling you how *you* can play there in 2009.
Other questions we will be answering over the weeks will include:
What is publishing?
What is PRS / MCPS?
How do I get my music onto iTunes?
How can I make a home recording sound 'professional'?
What are the do's and don'ts of sending a demo to a record label?
Please send music as a high quality .mp3 to: themysterytour@gmail.com
RED LIGHT COMPANY scheme eugene ROGUES not so pretty [feed me remix] THE SCHOOL in the snow HELEN LOVE john peel roadshow GLOBAL PARASITE worship CAL ROBERTS [session track] fit SKAMMA jago STABMASTER VINYL lol potes maip KLAUS KINSKI caesar [demo] EL GOODO she turtle THE MIRRORS cure for cancer OWEN CHAMBERLAIN spiders [demo of the week]
** DEMO OF THE WEEK ** FRIVOLOUS LAURA a lullaby [demo of the week]
SPENCER MCGARRY SEASON tell me what's shaking [except this building] KID KEEP DANCING hometown heroes [live for radio 1 introducing in wales] SWEET 'N' TENDER HOOLIGANS don't be afraid of the mirror [or you] CAL ROBERTS [session track] lovebites and black eyes 808 STATE ancodia SAID MIKE the ballad of peter devine [demo] CIRCA REGNA TONAT atta THE BINARY KIDS kitkat VERNON ELLIOTT intro and dialogue LITTLE ERIS who let the alien in HALFLIGHT dry my eyes HEAL THE LAST STAND love sun KUTOSIS you told me devro decides
** AKIRA THE DON'S YULE BLOG ** AKIRA THE DON still bankers AKIRA THE DON monthly blog AKIRA THE DON in the morning
808 STATE 808080808 CAL ROBERTS [session track] on your tv RED STRIPE houses of joy
This year Meltdown is proud to offer you 2 completely contrasting seasonal specials!
Sun Dec 14th Mr & Mrs Clark present a Christmas Cabba Hey! Milgis Lounge Bar, City Rd, Cardiff. FREE! Exorcise the ghosts of everything that’s excruciating about Xmas. A surreal, funny journey into all our festive fears featuring the globally renowned performance duo, the magic of the Milgis YURT, plus Satellite City star Boyd Clack and more surprise special guests. “like Terry and June on crack”. Amy Stackhouse www. mrandmrsclark. co. uk
Sat Dec 20th Meltdown & Secret Garden Christmas Cavalacade A snow-Globe of sumptuous seasonal shennanigans in aid of award winning mental health charity Mind in the Vale of Glamorgan brought to you by two of Cardiff's most adventurous promoters - Meltdown and Secret Garden Soundsystem and including a a 20-piece jazz/ska wall-of-horns, sassy cabaret, top DJs, a seductively bizarre Mancunian collision of hip-hop, folk and scat, and Santa.
Acts include: Gideon Conn, Wonderbrass, Radio 1’s DJ Huw Stephens, Lilywhitesass Dancers, Kareoke Carols with the Helium Choir, and much more. All in a splendid new 350 capacity venue: The Globe, Albany Rd, Roath, Cardiff. £8. All the fun of the annual Secret Garden Xmas Bash with added Meltdownery.
Last night's show featured: Anthony Reynolds & Charlotte Greig in session, Spencer McGarry talking about his taut, inventive and melodic debut album 'Episode 1', Huw Williams dusting down the 'DC-10's', Soundhog eulogizing 'The Meters', Peppermint Patti talking about Sŵn and their forthcoming gig at 'sub 29' [this coming Wednesday night], Bethan Elfyn with one of the Arteries session tracks from last week's Radio 1 Introducing in Wales show *AND* a brand new Demo of the Week from 'Billy Gone Bad'.
Listen to the show via our iPlayer at the link below:
Please send music [with a short bio & a contact number] for next week's show to: themysterytour@gmail.com
Many thanks!
THE HEPBURNS if i was a hairdresser THE ME ME ME'S skin between us THE JOY FORMIDABLE cradle ANTHONY REYNOLDS [session track] i know you know WHITE OVERTONE WIZARD om shanti SOLUTIONS young hearts DAN DUNNE AND THE REELS ghost city blues DC-10's bermuda SILVER GOSPEL RUNNERS would you settle for less? SAID MIKE it'll be fine at christmas [extract] THE ARTERIES 3 cats DEAFDUBZ dub the blues CONVOI EXCEPTIONNEL beats on the deli CAL ROBERTS fit BILLY GONE BAD file under reject PEEL YOUR OWN SPUDS let it pour ANTHONY REYNOLDS [session track] twin stars THE METERS look-ka py py DIE CHIHUAHUA DIE! stuck pig ENDAF PRESLEY AND EFA THOMAS byw mewn bwrlwm SPENCER MCGARRY SEASON oh leonard SPENCER MCGARRY SEASON the reason not the meaning SPENCER MCGARRY SEASON when stupids come to town SPENCER MCGARRY SEASON leader of the chain gang [album version] GWAWR cantre'r gwaelod AMANDA PALMER guitar hero FRIVOLOUS LAURA the reds are coming to town KANIA TIEFER saturday BENNETT BROTHERS waspmen ANTHONY REYNOLDS [session track] like the sun feeds from flowers THE METERS here comes the meter man
It is the Spencer McGarry Season Album Launch this Wednesday in Clwb Ifor Bach in Cardiff (I play Bass in this band)
I, Sweet Baboo, am then playing in Northampton this Saturday, then in Caernarfon (North Wales) week Friday and Llanfrothen (North Wales) a week Staurday
If this doesn't break your computer please spread the vibes of love and tell your friends.
Hi Spencer - thanks for your brilliant Milgis set back in Sept! Meantime ...
Magical multi-instrumentality, superb songcraft, new comedy and award winning performance poetry, all from some of Wales' most charismatic women performers in the biggest Yurt in Wales, on an Autumn evening! And no credit crunch excuses for not being there - the price is whatever you want to put in the Meltdown Hat!
STACEY BLYTHE A one-woman meltdown, Stacey Blythe plays harp/whistles/keyboard/ accordion etc in internationally acclaimed Welsh folk band Ffynnon. Stacey has performed with Billy Bragg, Meredith Monk, Michelle Shocked, and rising American singer Pamela Wyn Shannon (at last months amazing Meltdown) to name but a few. "Blythe's versatility shines at every note" Radio 2 Folk Reviews.
RACHEL TAYLOR BEALES Her latest album Red Tree - produced by Welsh troubadour Martyn Joseph - takes British folk as its starting point, adding in hypnotic, echoing vocals, subtle strings and country/blues tones to create something entirely new. 'Highly Recommended" BBC Radio 2's Bob Harris "hauntingly beautiful’ Acoustic Magazine www. myspace. com/racheltaylorbeales
CLARE POTTER One of Wales’s most successful performance poets, lived and taught in New Orleans for many years and has won the John Tripp award for spoken poetry. "Crackling with wry humour, affection and defiance".Rachel Trezise
