Folk: Eliza Carthy, Waterson/Carthy, Bill Jones, Kate Rusby, Chieftains, Boys from the Lough, Joan Baez, and Dylan.
New Order, Stone Roses, Snow Patrol, Chilli Peppers, Coldplay, Green Day, Pearl Jam, Keane, Killers, Raconteurs, Nirvana, Neil Young, Clash, Buzzcocks, Embrace, Radiohead, Elbow, The Fall, The Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand.
West African music via WOMAD, and Senegal. Baaba Maal, Habib Koite, Ali Farke Toure, Omou Sangare, and Mansour Seck.
Sounds Like
Smashing Pumpkins I believe. Actually, I never heard them. Most people say folky, but also New Age, whatever that is. Basically, it's all me you hear.
My name is Ian Duncan Smith. I'm a singer songwriter from Manchester now living in Wiltshire. How are you doing? I recently did guest vocals on Umami, a great CD by Murat Ses.
When Dylan walked into the Wah! Cafe for the first time, he saw a man playing a guitar and a basket being passed round for money. No one was listening to the man playing guitar, and there was no money in the basket. But then along came Myspace, and here I am writing songs about the end of 20th century rock and pop. Rock and pop are dead. Long live The Hexyl Circle. A number of things have happened: Top of the Pops, a long running music show, was axed by the BBC after 42 years on air. The first edition of the show was broadcast on January 1st, 1964, when The Beatles were Number One with I Want to Hold Your Hand. The show was presented by Jimmy Saville (pictured). In the 1970s, Top Of The Pops was watched by just under 20 million people. However in recent times the viewing figures fell as low as 1 million. The programme switched from BBC1 to BBC2, but failed to increase its ratings. The final episode was hosted by Jimmy Saville on July 30th. This year, Dylan released a new album. Then it dawned on me-the man survived the pop era. He was there at the beginning, the middle, and the end.
The song, September 73, came when I saw this guy playing to an empty bar. It was the end of the month, and everyone was out in their cars trying to make their targets. Bad time to play, the end of the month. Salaries haven't come in, and targets haven't been met. It also made me dwell on the nature of commodity, pop, rock, myspace, and the selling, the machine. Nice time to write a song when you're utterly pissed off about how this shit works.
Somebody Will Pay - same thing. In the end, someone will pay, nothing's free. All these songs go out on Myspace for nothing, and that's got to have a knock on. I haven't bought a CD in ages. I don't need to. I listen to Broadjam and Myspace. In this song, there are two tribes, those that take things for nothing, and those that live off the land. And I'm in the middle.
Who Am I to Disagree? isn't about the end of 20th century rock and pop. It's about a feeling of not being heard. Artists need audiences. Hi audience.
And the last one, Whatever It Is I Want It. I was struggling with a riff, and I thought what would McCartney do. So I played Yesterday, and then I came up with this idea of taking each 20th century icon: Holly, Presley, Lennon, McCartney and I tried to get into what they would do with the song. The Whatever It Is, simply is songwriting skill, but it grew into something much bigger than that.
Please take a look at my Forthcoming Shows. They're actually links to my published stories.
I was thinking of setting up a website for bands to sell their music and put it up top in the search engines. I wanted to ask all of the bands on my friends list what they thought.
Then as each band refered their frieds to the site to download their music, the other bands might gain some exposure in the process, Like a big network of friends that love music.
JUNE / JULY U.K. TOUR - ON SALE TODAY!
www.seetickets.com / www.gigwise.com/gigs
go get 'em!
14 June : PORTSMOUTH - The Wedgewood Rooms
15 June : STOKE-ON-TRENT - The Sugarmill
16 June : SHEFFIELD - The Leadmill
18 June : NORTHAMPTON - Soundhaus
20 June : COLCHESTER - Colchester Arts Centre
21 June : BRIGHTON - Komedia
24 June : HOLLAND - ParkPop Festival
26 June : BIRMINGHAM - Academy 2
27 June : READING - The Fez Club
28 June : BELGIUM - Werchter Festival
30 June : LIVERPOOL - Academy 2
1 July : MANCHESTER - Jabez Clegg
2 July : LONDON - ULU
4 July : BRISTOL - Thekla
5 July : NOTTINGHAM - Rescue Rooms
9 July : LEEDS - The Cockpit
12 July : BOURNEMOUTH - The Opera House
Just dropping into to let you know about this week's FAME GAMES, edition 128!
As always, we featured 4 unbelievable independent artists -
and in Indie Inside Information, we discussed
the *all new* PEER REVIEW GROUP being added to the show!
A great opportunity for music lovers and musicians to get in on Fame Games!
Hope you'll tune in on-line -
and hey, let me know your thoughts on the subject!
Top MySpace Personality: PlasD
Top MySpace Bands: Sangsara/cherry ghost/vano/skank agents
Top MySpace Song: Fire -killingfolk
Top MySpace Activity: Acoustic Forum Collective
Top MySpace Comments: moleskin/Silent K/Hundred Year Flood/The Hexyl Circle
Top MySpace Artist: Billy Splatts
Top Live Friends: Soul Exertion/Terrence Hensen/Slouch
Top Personal Performance: Hard Rock Cafe - SLC
Top Live Band: Wolf Parade
Top Live People: Colm Richardson/Just Pete/Denny Breese
Top Commercial Recording: Dear Mr. President -Pink
Top Uncatagorized: Identical to Leonard/T.Beck Music/ollie byrd
Thanks very much, we do try write lyrics that mean something and not a load of shite that most bands do!! really appreciate your thoughts and views
thank you
hi thanks for your comments an in reply yes all you here is my own work all written an composed by me. i'm likin your songs an tunes especialy "i don't kno what to do " some great melodys goin on in there keep it up likin it all .All the best
stu
Hello mate Just dropped by to say thanks for the comment and that i really like your guitar melodys especially on setting sail Your voice is quite unique as well. I will definetley give all the tracks a second and third listen.
Folk: Eliza Carthy, Waterson/Carthy, Bill Jones, Kate Rusby, Chieftains, Boys from the Lough, Joan Baez, and Dylan.
New Order, Stone Roses, Snow Patrol, Chilli Peppers, Coldplay, Green Day, Pearl Jam, Keane, Killers, Raconteurs, Nirvana, Neil Young, Clash, Buzzcocks, Embrace, Radiohead, Elbow, The Fall, The Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand.
West African music via WOMAD, and Senegal. Baaba Maal, Habib Koite, Ali Farke Toure, Omou Sangare, and Mansour Seck.
Smashing Pumpkins I believe. Actually, I never heard them. Most people say folky, but also New Age, whatever that is. Basically, it's all me you hear.
