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Wishful Thinking
Minimalist / Alternative / Acoustic

"a waste of time well spent "

London,
United Kingdom

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Last Login:  7/25/2008
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   Wishful Thinking: General Info
Member Since6/2/2006
Band MembersPaul Martin - Guitar/Piano/Vocals
Influencesanything and everything that makes any sort of impression on me
Type of LabelNone





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Jul 17 2008 8:00P
12 Bar Club London, London and South East
Jul 24 2008 8:00P
Out Of Time Festival Skien, Telemark

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   About Wishful Thinking
Instead of my at best boring biography, I'll let the wonderful Kaja Botnen do the talking:------------------ "Wishful Thinking................ His tones hit the strings of my soul like hammers. His voice quivers in the air like a dewdrop and seem to hold my pulse steady. His pausing tears me to pieces. The song's mere silence is filled with so much emotion that my being tensely pulls at my soul, urging the song on. Listening to it fills me with an excruciatingly easy calm. The honesty of the music rushing through my veins is too much for me. I'm naked under these melodies. His voice finds me wherever I am, and pulls me back into the harsh reality of the past we all had and the future ahead of us and I feel hopeless yet comforted at the same time. This is how it is. There's nothing more to it. I hate his music. I hate the desperation and psychological apathy it fills my entire being with; I hate the honesty of it all. The harsh truth. He forces my dreams to consider how we humans are, and how we always were, and as a result my dreams become flawed. I despise it all, the lyrics, the melodies, the lack of being able to hide away in perfect dreams. And yet I love his music. I love how he sings about life in general as well as giving me the possibility to relate personally. I love how his voice lingers on my skin and in my eyes long after I've heard it. I love and enormously respect his talent and skill as an artist, and the genius of his artistry itself is beyond my understanding. I love the complexity yet ease I find in the tones as I listen. Most of all, I love the music itself. Its personality has become such a close and needed friend that I feel I'm abusing the will of the writer. It is the kind of music we all look for, when feeling utterly abandoned by life and hope and stripped of energy. The music understands. It doesn't lie, it doesn't comfort. It just understands. And it allows us to break down and rid of every tear we can muster to find inside us and realise that it is how it is. Yes, we all make mistakes. When Elliott Smith passed, the lovers of his music created together a beautiful memorial wall. When Wishful Thinking passes, there will be one in his honour as well. Because, as Elliott Smith did, he does something not many I know of are capable of; He saves hope with truth. Whether it is intended, I don't know, but I believe that as long as I live, I will look to his music for hope and truth and perspective. And what the genius behind Wishful Thinking thinks of that, I frankly don't care. Because he made the mistake of giving his music a terribly beautiful soul, and I fell desperately in love with its dusky difficult simplicity, and the paradox that something so amazingly lovely can be so heartbreakingly sad. I smile sadly and curl up in a ball, naked against the music, yet safe against the world. To me, the songs are the first crush as well as the first heartbreak, the sweet memory of better times as well as the grey concrete walls of society. His songs restore the rightful yet homeless bliss we all once had then and long for now. Wishful Thinking restores my belief in humanity and in life in a way I'm too young to comprehend. I'm utterly grateful that one of the world’s inhabitants, Paul Martin Wold, decided to share Wishful Thinking with the rest of us." - Kaja Botnen
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If you are a band or artist, please send me a message before adding me. I want to know that you're not just adding me for commercial reasons.
"Wishful thinking is the formation of beliefs and making decisions according to what might be pleasing to imagine instead of by appealing to evidence or rationality."
For booking and such, e-mail wishfulthinking.management@yahoo.co.uk

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Tamar zigi


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Jul 20 2008 2:34 AM

amazing!!
the "hanging-self music" look and spirit!!!
how s things?
more songs to swim in the magic bottle?
x
Flick!





Jul 17 2008 12:36 PM

yes, somehow i don't think i'd make the norway one! i only saw facebook earlier, oh well, next time though.
O latitude, ahh that will be immense- i expect to see lots of photos of the sparkle shades (= take care x
Tommy Austin





Jul 17 2008 5:31 AM

Was at the 12 bar yesterday..Heard your playing a solo show there tonight now! good luck, I cant come cos ive got a photo shoot in a pub but rock it man.
Flick!





Jul 15 2008 2:52 PM

:) hey! soo when's your next gig!?
kapi





Jul 14 2008 4:00 PM

Yeah mate , i got a plan - why won't we go to live in Kansas and get signed there ? or maybe we should do the Nabraska thing you suggested ? or the North Dakota idea was cool as well , i am sure you'll find tons of A&R people there and cool people like the strokes hanging around in pubs and shit like that , mass orgies - Rock n roll life style , Mick Jagger buying milk in the same off licence you do , yeah mate i am definitely for North Dakota ! i am sure the success is there , but don't tell anyone !
KAPI ROCK
Tommy Austin





Jul 14 2008 1:51 PM

Cool page! Nice tunes! Yeh was good chatting with you man. I def try come down on Thursday and chill with ya. Well played last night too and if I dont make it on Thurs i'll come down to Tommy Flyns on Sunday. In a bit mate!... T
elisabeth





Jul 14 2008 6:54 AM

you're welcome.
well, somewhere n somehow. I don't remember it actually...but I really like your music!
//lisa.
kapi





Jul 9 2008 6:54 AM

FOR YOU MATE :


:IN a very last minute thing MELODY NELSON once more was taking the stage of the 12-Bar in a true ROCK N ROLL BLITZKRIEG !

As one of my all time Favourites - Julius Caesar (not Pete Doherty Neither Amy Winehouse ) once said :

VENI VIDI VICI !

Thanx to anyone involved , especially to the Kimi Wylde .

Enjoy

http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=FeBQ7epsk8M

KAPI ROCK!
Miguel Lorenzo





Jul 8 2008 4:03 AM

Hello Paul!

Cool to see you have got so many jobs - at least compared to me hehe

I have got a new song if you are interested, very much ambient/spokenwords inspired

MySpace Graphics..


Hope you gonna digg it

- Miguel Lorenzo
idkidk





Jul 7 2008 5:43 PM

you're very, very welcome.
-rizrockz-





Jun 30 2008 5:05 AM

hey dude tnx 4 d add:)u alright yeah??nyway have a nice day:)
Ana





Jun 29 2008 6:45 AM

Thank you :) And your music is very soothing, it actually makes my hangover go away a little bit, eheh.
kapi





Jun 29 2008 2:04 AM

A bit of correction mate - this is Kimi's birthday .
KAPI ROCK!
kapi





Jun 29 2008 2:03 AM

Hey guys:
You are welcome to come to my birthday drink, Monday – 30/6 in Camden town, at the ‘lock 17’ - near the canal be there at 7.30 pm
The address: Dingwalls (Lock 17) Middle Yard, Camden Lock, London, NW1 8AB.Lots of love-
kimi
Tom Janssen





Jun 28 2008 6:56 AM

Great set by the way. Really liked your playing.

Long live MBV! 'Loveless' is one the best albums ever.

Cheers
Tom
kapi





Jun 25 2008 2:29 PM

Another Short Clip of Melody Nelson at :

http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=7l0GAX4DUVI

I know it's only Rock N Roll but we Do know how to make it louder and we Love it!!!

KAPI ROCK
The Resistors





Jun 19 2008 5:11 PM

Hi there.
Thanks for the request.
www.myspace.com/resistorsmusic

kapi





Jun 16 2008 3:58 PM

you must check this link out man - this is 29 seconds of pure noise !http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=hormX1sLrTI


KAPI ROCK!
kapi





Jun 16 2008 1:04 PM

was good yesterday - ain't it ?
fuckin rock n roll and roll and roll and roll .
need to think big mate , need to think big !!!
KAPI ROCK
electro acoustic club





Jun 12 2008 11:16 AM

kapi





Jun 7 2008 3:11 PM

Good song : clean escape – once more a delight of cutting your veins type of tune , which is ok because we like cutting our veins from time to time – then sewing it back to the original form and rock n roll!
Kapi Rock
kapi





Jun 6 2008 8:56 AM

mate , to say that yesterday was rock n roll will be an under-statement !
that was ROLLING STONES calibre , not ROLLING CARROTS calibre .
so what happened with all these birds ? , it felt like fuckin motley crue .
KAPI ROCK
kapi





Jun 5 2008 9:07 AM

I am happy you enjoyed it mate!
THE ROLLING CARROTS indeed!
Kapi Rock
Greven





Jun 5 2008 1:25 AM

Oh, this old thing? hehe takk. Da sender jeg den i melding, siden det ikke går å legge den ut på kommentar-don't-go-easy-on-me-tingen. Når kommer du til Norge? Jeg akter å invitere deg og andre til en slags reunion-fest hos meg i min nye leilighet.
kapi





May 31 2008 4:41 AM

I was happy yesterday to watch a bass player who is sweating buckets of great pain on stage rather than someone who takes the corner and do his bass playing like he was doing market research !
good job mate
Kapi Rock
Miss Sills





May 30 2008 4:17 AM

Thanks! Likeing your stuff too. You'll have to let me know when your playing...x
Tamar zigi


Is Online


May 28 2008 11:17 AM

exactly!!
!!
!
kapi





May 27 2008 4:27 PM

mate ! recording sounds awesome , beyond ! if we are not taking it to the next level now we'll end up like bunch of wankers - WHICH must not happen cause we are after all : MELODY NELSON

kapi rock
Amandine





May 27 2008 4:19 AM

Thanks a lot for my Bday wishes :-)
Hey, the Monkey chew is such a nice place to listen to live music (...and to play i'm sure!!).
Won't do it this week, as a friend of mine i haven't seen for aaaaaaaaaaaaaages is playing that very night!!!
Good luck for the gig,
Amandine xxx
Tamar zigi


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May 23 2008 5:27 PM

so u r doing what u have to do?
remember..must do!
x
kapi





May 22 2008 2:17 AM

Hi SEA SICK PAUL - great performance yesterday ! all these Indie farts were shocked to bit , enjoyed it alot although the conditions in Tommy Flyn's are much superior to that place .
anyway , one more ace job!
enjoy norge and come soon cause we need to blow away some more people.
KAPI ROCK
Teasing LuLu





May 21 2008 4:54 AM

Hey no problem, Thank you!!

Would be awesome to catch you again next time, enjoy the merch!

loads of love

x LULU's
julie





May 19 2008 12:59 PM

så pen den nye sangen din er.
Snusk Fx





May 19 2008 8:02 AM

Christiane og Ole Torjus.

xoxo
liannissa.





May 18 2008 9:21 AM

wellllll i love you a little bit! look forward to more jams dude:)
kapi





May 18 2008 2:07 AM

Hi wishful seasickness - it was great , fuckin great gig yesterday - the Humbling gig , enjoyed every bit , so what was with you ? just the normal : getting trashed thing ?
see you in tuesday for some more action of this kind .
Kapi Rock
The Tremens