Me.....
although I have worked with other musicians and will continue to ask good musicians I know to play on my recordings.
The track "r2d2 is sucking my brain" started off as a jam in my living room and as well as myself on keyboards, bagpipes and martian vocals, we have the genius of Tony Mellotron on Mellotron and Steve Clear on guitar.
"NST-01" is basically a jam between myself and Steve which Tony added to recently. "Desperate Housewives" is Steve and myself on guitar which I mixed from samples of us playing.
The rest is all me unless stated. I am responsible for all the good and atrocious mixing!
Influences
Broadly speaking I love psychedelic rock music and acoustic singer-songwriters mainly from the sixties and seventies.
(some of these are totally unhip but I love them anyway!)
I prefer my music live and performed on real instruments....
Some of the people I am listening to at the moment:
Arockalypse Now, Tori Amos, The Beatles, Black Sabbath, Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band, Cat Stevens, Pink Floyd, Fotheringay, Gong, Davy Graham, Nanci Griffith, Hawkwind, Hendrix, Steve Hillage, Joni Mitchell, Kevin Coyne, Led Zeppelin (naturellement), Motorhead, Rush, Neil Young, Ozric Tentacles, Queen, Dave Russell ( the godfather of acoustic punk and my friend), Santana, Space Ritual, Stone the Crows, Sleepy John Estes (and his mandolin player), Treatment and Yes
and many many more.... yes they keep changing...
FROM HEROES TO HEROINES< JONI MITCHELL ( who quite rightly refuses to be a "human jukebox" now)
Anne Briggs
Maggie Bell in Stone The Crows
Tori Amos
Sandy Denny ( Fotheringay)
Sounds Like
an acoustic singer songwriter who likes to play with effects , guitars and synthesizers.
A bit about myself: Veronique Acoustique. I have a French name but I am from London with French and Irish parents.
I have been writing music since childhood although I had no music education. I ended up working in various areas. As a singer-songwriter on the acoustic scene, as an alien (called Astragone Arglegargle) in green slime and clingfilm on the psychedelic scene and working on various music projects. I have also organised and run various kinds of alternative gigs, and clubs / festivals working in either acoustic music/performance poetry/or psychedelic styles.
I also did a degree in Music at Thames Valley University.
Name dropping:
My music and habit of hanging around musicians has led me to the following plus a few others:
Ozric Tentacles , Zodiac Mindwarp, The Cardiacs, Club Dog, Whirlygig, Ray Davies, Brian May, Steve Hillage, some of the founders of Hawkwind,Survivors Poetry, The Human Soundwave Company (my club now defunct),Anti-media (whose slogan was Modern Life is Rubbish).
Keep innovative music alive , the crazier the better and remember Modern Life and in particular Modern Culture really is Rubbish, we are counting on people like you to get people thinking for themselves again and giving space for some true creativity.
I have done loads more stuff than this but really it only really matters if you like the music not the amounts of gigs etc ...I have done.
I get played regularly on the radio. In 2005 I was played on the Rob Da Bank show as featured unsigned artist of the week.
I am recording more acoustic songs which I bombard with self-made samples to make some thing that sounds like analogue tape loops etc..
I love to do music in different styles and go through phases.
As well as writing music I also I write fiction and contentious idealistic rantings about our present and past society .Some of the fiction I am writing about and many songs seem to subsequently reflect real events in my life either after they happened and sometimes before they have which is frankly weird!
This summer I have been playing a few acoustic gigs in London and at the Solfest Festival. I am currently studying world music ...my University would kill me for calling it "world music" it's really "Ethnomusicology"...currently learning Javanese and Balinese Gamelan, Thai court music,reading about Suyá Amazonian Indians whose songs are written by animals,plants and bees who like to abduct people, Tibetan Monks who have a " conceptual string section" in their orchestra that doesn't physically exist and much more cool but mostly very academic stuff where you have to eat three books for breakfast . This means I don't have much time at present for my own music or anything else...but will end up well versed in music from around the world. .
Wishing you a great week. It will be a busy one for me and I won't be on here much. Love you Bunches!!!! Barb BTW I sent him along to make you smile =)
Dear Friend, finally it is out! The LONG expected release of our EP "Interrupted (Triptych I)" !!!
"you wonder why get interrupted / was life too fast / the nights too long / you give a fuck / get interrupted / you want no break / keep speeding on..."
Watch the music video, created by the young & wild Japanese video artist Yukihiro Taguchi. Be Surprised! You will also find some wicked REMIXES on Youtube and iTunes ;-)
Learn more about our current project "Triptych I-III" on our MySpace site...
A bit of advance notice - MondayMonday proudly presents Rún and Steven Finn and more at The Wilmington Arms, Clerkenwell on Monday 7th December
Rún collect and arrange old folk songs written in the ancient language of Erin. So far, thanks to Nora from Donegal, they have a nice wee collection of well-known ditties and are now adding to their repertoire with some unusual old forgotten songs from the province of Ulster. Rún are five fantastic lassies who perform four-part vocal arrangements of old Gaelic songs like ’An Cailín Rua’ (the red-haired girl), ’Casadh an tSúgain’ (twisting the hayrope) and ’Bo Na Leath Adhairce’ (the one-horned cow). Rún is the Gaelic word for ’secret, wish or love’ (cf. rune). See http://www.myspace.com/runceol ..
Steven Finn’s ears were filled with the music of Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Johnny Cash and old time country music. Aged 15 he began teaching himself the guitar, learning songs like Leadbelly’s ‘Bourgeois Blues’ and Charlie Daniels’ ‘The devil went down to Georgia’. On hearing Bob Dylan songs Finn started to write his own words and in doing so found a lifelong passion for Jazz and Folk Blues, a getaway car he could drive. See http://www.myspace.com/stevenfinn for more details
Fourth Album Arrives January 2010! American Dollar MP3 Discography Special, Only $20 For All Four Albums! Go To: www.theamericandollar.info/merchstore.html Thanks For Listening!
Just a reminder that Clerkenwell's best Monday Night Folk Night will next be taking place on Monday 2nd November, featuring: Chris Sarjeant and Emma Scarr,plus floor spots and more
Emma Scarr has been active on London’s live scene for approaching two decades. A proficient performer on guitar, fiddle and banjo, in recent years she has concentrated on song craft.
Chris Sarjeant has been recently described as,".a very major addition to the British Folk Scene.." by BBC Folk-musician of the year Tom McConville who added that his guitar work is "...impeccable.."
hiya! yes, i actually havnt added anyone yet, need to go on an adding spree! i have only recently made this profile so hopefully it will bring good luck. :) Alice x
Hi Veronique Look forward to hearing your work - you might be safer with electronique stuff - I'm usually pretty hard on singer-songwriter stuff - be warned! keep on truckin'
Haven't said hello in ages. Slow (and then stolen) computer. Hope the universe is being kind to you and that you are safe and happy. Thinking of you every now and then. Do take care and continue to glow in the firmament, Dear Lady! Hugs!
Thankyou for your kind words, and thanks for putting me on that documentary, i watched the whole thing and was impressed. It was a good insight into a world that is, for the most part, very difficult to piece together. If you're interested in working on anything in the future then just drop me a line.
