Tim Burness: vocals, guitars, keyboards.
Fudge Smith: drums and percussion.
Keith Hastings: bass guitar.
Monty Oxymoron: keyboards.
Julian Franks: percussion.
Influences
Pretty much everything over the last 40 years. A rough guide: Foals, The Feeling, The Fray, Gorillaz, Arctic Monkeys, Sigur Ros, Steve Thorne, Paul Simon, Daevid Allen's University Of Errors, Tool, Arcade Fire, Terry Riley, Pendragon, Royksopp, Pineapple Thief, Brian Wilson, U2, Blackfield, Orbital, Air, Morrissey, Keane, Porcupine Tree, Roland Orzabal, Dido, Chemical Brothers, Killing Joke, King Crimson, Marillion, Fish, Placebo, Coldplay, Boards Of Canada, Peter Gabriel, Underworld, Supergrass, Enigma, Moby, Tuu, Alanis Morissette, Dubstar, Madonna, The Grid, Leftfield, LTJ Bukem, The Shamen, Blur, Oasis, Stereo MCs, James, Primal Scream, I.Q., System 7, The Orb, Massive Attack, Garbage, Radiohead, Sting, Robert Fripp, Simply Red, Annie Lennox, Tears For Fears, David Holmes, R.E.M., Nitin Sawhney, Natalie Imbruglia, Travis, Astrid Williamson, Crash Test Dummies, Fluke, Kate Bush, The Police, Howard Jones, Icehouse, Crass, Blancmange, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Talking Heads, Rush, The Enid, Dire Straits, Will Powers, Simple Minds, The Fixx, Thomas Dolby, Tangerine Dream, Chris Rea, Level 42, Psychic T.V., Brian Eno, The Pretenders, Eurythmics, Chris De Burgh, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, The Waterboys, Daevid Allen, Focus, Derek And The Dominos, George Harrison, Steve Hillage, Punishment Of Luxury, Steve Hackett, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Sex Pistols, Led Zeppelin, Mike Oldfield, The Wombles, Deep Purple, Paul McCartney, Gong, Kate Bush, Fleetwood Mac, Yes, John Lennon, Peter Frampton, Wishbone Ash, XTC, David Bowie, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell.
Non-musical influences include: psychological astrology (Stephen Arroyo, Liz Greene, Robert Hand, not newspaper horoscopes), my psychiatric and general nursing dayjob, macrobiotics and healthy living, green politics, Bill Hicks, conventional and unconventional religion and spirituality (more of a pantheist than an atheist but maybe I'm both), science, Robert Anton Wilson, Philip K. Dick, guinness, quantum physics, Monty Python, Spike Milligan, The Day Today (Chris Morris), Ricky Gervais, Fonejacker, my girlfriend's cat Domino.
Sounds Like
Tim Burness. A lot of different things, old and new. On the most recent album released in December 2007, some of the more obvious and mostly older influences include: Steve Hackett, Peter Gabriel, The Police, Rush, King Crimson, Porcupine Tree, Pink Floyd, Kate Bush, Howard Jones, Marillion, Radiohead, Tears For Fears, Robert Fripp and there is a Steve Hillage and Gong tribute track.
Tim Burness established himself musically with his band Burnessence, playing a part in the new wave of British progressive rock from 1983 to 1986. During that time the band toured regularly and released two albums through Nuclear Records. Soon after moving to Brighton (England) in 1990, Tim achieved national radio airplay from Tommy Vance and others in England with "Learning To Fly c/w Mumbling In The House Of Commons", a solo single from the "Power In Your Hands" album on his own label. Tim continued to gig and record throughout the nineties, releasing a mini-album "Infinite Ocean" in 1997 and contributing to albums by the successful ambient group Tuu. In 2004 Tim released "Finding New Ways To Love" on his own Expanding Consciousness label. This was the first album to gain significant international land and internet radio play across America, Europe and the rest of the world. Work began on the next album in 2005, another eclectic mix of melodic pop, progressive rock and ambient/experimental instrumentals. The musicians on the new album again include drummer Fudge Smith (ex-Pendragon and ex-Steve Hackett), bassist Keith Hastings (Gypsy Kings tribute band Bamboleo and ex-Alan Darby), psychedelic keyboard maestro Monty Oxymoron (veteran English punks The Damned and Captain Sensible) and also percussionist Julian Franks (countless projects, has worked with Porcupine Tree's Colin Edwin). Following some solo gigs supporting John Young, Strangefish, The Watch and others, "Vision On" was released in December 2007.
Such a beautiful spirit seen through your lovely comment ~ YES! Let us always push through for the best possible outcomes ~ LOVE is key :-) Believing in ourselves and our dreams.............lotsa hope ~~~~> My best to you again and all those you hold dear
Thank you Tim for listening to my music and for the comments. ;) I really like your music and was wondering where I could pick it up? Thanks again, nice to be friends with you!
California says hello as do I .... I hope you are well ~~~ how's things in the UK? Any chance you can come to the US to play? Hoping you have a fantastic week ahead --- filled with pleasant surprises............your friend across the miles ~
Hello ;-) I hope you will have a fantastic week-end ;-) Thank you for your nice words, I hope you are having a very warm and sunny summer !!! Much Love to you from Selvi
