ELECTRIC SOFT PARADE VIDEO FOOTAGE AT MAXIMALISM by judleberry1 Updated 2 January.
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Electric Soft Parade were interviewed on Juice Radio to promote their December 15th show at Concorde 2 in aid of The Martlets Hospice
Listen Again: Thomas and Alex interview on Juice Radio 14.12.10 (DJ also plays There's A Silence) read the transcript
There was also an Interview with Thomas White at The Argus
THE ELECTRIC SOFT PARADE live at Maximalism - A Musical Extravaganza in aid of The Martlets Hospice
Wednesday 15th December, Concorde 2, Brighton: Facebook Event Page - Info + Tickets (updated link) in association with Brassneck ITB and Concorde 2
Featuring the myriad talents of... THOMAS WHITE , FIELD MUSIC, THE EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER, BRITISH SEA POWER, THE ELECTRIC SOFT PARADE, THE CHAP, THE PURE CONJECTURE + special guest DJ's MYSTERY JETS, Silent Auction, Licensed Bar + lots of fun!!!!
Read the Press release Visit the Fan Blog for a collection of Live Audio + Video from over the years. Post your favourites on your Blog/Facebook/Twitter etc and give a mention to the upcoming show.
THOMAS WHITE supported the LEVELLERS 9th to 28th November TW: I've done a lot of work with bands I play in at The Metway in Brighton, the studio that the Levellers run, so I've got to know them over the years. Mark had been saying for years "come on tour with us" and it never happened... It has, finally! Watch Video
THOMAS WHITE VIDEOS from Levellers Tour: See this Blog Post Includes the Covers: I'll See You In My Dreams (Joe Brown) Come All Ye (Fairport Convention) 15 Years (Levellers) Thomas also joined the Levellers and Dunstan Bruce (Chumbawamba) onstage for Tubthumping.
LEVELLERS VIDEO BLOGS with interview text: Thomas demonstrates his Brompton Bicycle -- Thomas stands in on bass
Links: Levellers Facebook - Levellers Myspace - Thomas White Facebook - Thomas White Myspace
THOMAS WHITE: Two new Covers and Album news: A second cover recorded in Egypt, Running Girl, originally by Ooberman is on the Thomas White Myspace - Lyrics and info about what inspired the song at themagictreehouse.co.uk
Thomas writes (23rd Oct) Folks, it's been a while, but just as a little taster-morsel of things to come next year, here's a version of a song I've been wanting to record for some time now. Penned by my good friend Simon Parker of Brighton-based band Villareal, 'The Haunted Dancefloor' is among many highlights on their 'Spook Frequency' album (incidentally recorded at Truck, where ESP did much of 'No Need...'). I recorded it yesterday here in Dahab, using some stray drums I found on my laptop and much Eno-esque ethereal programming on Garageband. Hope you like!
In other news, I've pretty much wrapped up recording for a third solo album. I shan't spoil the surprise by divulging titles or any of that stuff so prematurely, but suffice to say it sounds stupid/clever, embarrassing/glorious, drunk/lucid, big/small, plaintive/overwrought, dour/ecstatic, tight/shambolic.... and just about everything else in between. A mid-2011 release looks likely. Hope to see some of you bods on the Levellers tour! TWX
Bands played on the last Thomas White show for Radio Sharm on 12th October: The Fall, The Slip, Robert Pollard, Janelle Monae, Of Montreal, Beck, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Tame Impala, The White Stripes, Primus, Spiritualized, The Black Keys, Them Crooked Vultures, Keane, Deftones, Refused, The Trail Of Dead, White Denim, Moldy Peaches, Pixies, The Breeders, Queens Of The Stone Age, Hot Chip (with Robert Wyatt) Smog, Butthole Surfers, Sheryl Crow, Elliott Smith, Belle And Sebastian, Thin Lizzy, The Strokes, Kings Of Leon, Sparklehorse, Kraftwerk, Ricardo Villalobos, Melvins, Fucked Up, Arthur Russell, Stereolab, Bowie, Radiohead, Underworld, Mousse T versus Dandy Warhols, Ladytron, Sparks, Black Sabbath, Presidents Of The United States Of America, Dandy Warhols, Weezer, Blondie, Ian Dury And The Blockheads, Louis Armstrong, Broadcast, The Cardigans, Fleetwood Mac, The Clientele, Richard Hawley, Edvard Grieg, Sleater Kinney, Beth Gibbons, Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood (and more on the playlist afterwards) Enjoy some songs from the show...
Janelle Monae - Tightrope: Watch Video
Richard Hawley - Open Up Your Door: Watch Video
Radiohead - Talk Show Host - Live at Glastonbury 2003: Watch Video -- Live at Eurockeennes 2003: Watch Video
Smog - Cold Blooded Old Times - song set to fan vid: Watch Video
Butthole Surfers - Pepper - Live on MTV 1996: Watch Video
Fleetwood Mac - Sara - song and lyrics: Watch Video
Artists played on the Tues 5th Oct show: Presidents Of The United States Of America, Blur, The Fall, Shellac, Link Wray, Queens Of The Stone Age, Fiery Furnaces, Pavement, The Breeders, PJ Harvey, Pat Metheny, Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Beatles, Maps And Atlases, Sufjan Stevens, Quack Quack, Paul Weller, Beck, The Cribs, Super Furry Animals, Doves, Spoon, Squeeze, The Walkmen, Deus, Health, Mystery Jets, Pilot, John Lennon, Colin Blunstone (of The Zombies) Dr. Dog, The Long Blondes, Interpol, Oasis, Mudhoney, Orange Goblin, Kyuss, Dr. Feelgood, The Joseph and Mary Chain (Field Music/The Futureheads + more) Mogwai, Animal Collective, American Analogue Set, David Bowie, Foo Fighters, You Am I, The Radar Brothers, The Cocteau Twins - and more on the playlist afterwards.
After playing Pat Metheny, Thomas talks about The Orchestrion: "It's an instrument that Pat Metheny made which essentially is a guitar hooked up to a midi system and via a bunch of computer trickery, he is able to control a small mechanical orchestra with his guitar; and it's really something to behold. He did a little tour with The Orchestrion and he made a record with it, so check it out. Extremely jazz but very good". Watch Video: patmetheny.com/orchestrioninfo
TW: "I've read two DBC Pierre novels in the last few days and I have to agree with the critics, 'Vernon God Little' does trump 'Ludmila's Broken English' by quite a way but they're both kind of good. Anyway this next song... there's some descriptions of a kind of small Russian town that this girl comes from in 'Ludmila's Broken English' and for some reason this song just sprang to mind (the chords...)" Doves - Black And White Town: Watch Video
TW: "The mighty Jez Williams on guitar. Much as I like Doves I think his best work is actually as a session player with among others Saint Etienne, he played all the guitars on their Good Humour album which for me is the best thing he's ever been involved in and I kind of told him that when I met him at a festival last year and he looked a bit nonplussed, poor chap"
Thomas talks about Colin Blunstone (of The Zombies) "Personally I think he should be revered among the best British voices of all time. Fantastic voice". Colin Blunstone - Say You Don't Mind: Watch Video
He also played Lennon's #9 Dream: Watch Video - His birthday is 9th October (would have been 70) Lennon Youtube
Some artists played on Tues 28th Sept: Air, Ladytron, Roxy Music, Ian Dury And The Blockheads, Queen, Of Montreal, Genesis (for Alex) Chemical Brothers, The Smiths, Dead Meadow, Tame Impala, Ween, Golden Earring, The Zombies, Mars Volta, Queens Of The Stone Age, The Walkmen, Why? Weezer, Wild Beasts, Mystery Jets, The Divine Comedy, Elliott Smith, Gillian Welch & Alison Krauss, Belle And Sebastian, Deus, Afghan Whigs, ZZ Top, Elastica, Burial, Underworld, Cornelius, Justice, Delphic, Aphex Twin, Radiohead with Bjork, Goldfrapp, Squarepusher, The Beastie Boys, Dreadzone, LCD Soundsystem, The Levellers, Fastball, REM, Sheryl Crow, The Pretenders, Pet Shop Boys, Field Music, Cake, Pavement, Silver Jews, Mark Knopfler, Elton John, Chicago (Peter Cetera) Head Automatica, Jimmy Eat World, Blink 182, Foo Fighters, David Bowie, Focus, Hawkwind (TW: "the cat in the studio hated it, she's left") Todd Rundgren, The Fall, Stereolab, The Dandy Warhols, MGMT, Mansun, Crowded House, Broadcast, Hole.
Just one of the many bands recommended by Thomas White on his show: Tame Impala (from Perth, Australia) Half Full Glass Of Wine - Innerspeaker album on Modular Recordings: WATCH VIDEO
Thurs 30th Sept: This show included an hour of Bond Themes (see below) Caribou, Max Tundra, Pet Shop Boys, Franz Ferdinand, Dandy Warhols, Mystery Jets, Marina And The Diamonds, Harry Nielsen, Richard Harris, The Carpenters, Fiery Furnaces, Captain Beefheart, Supergrass, Deftones, Queens Of The Stone Age, Sparks, Deerhunter, Klaxons, George Michael, Grandaddy, Weezer, Beatles, The National, Deus, Blur, Paul McCartney, Nazareth, Nina Simone, Beth Gibbons, Edan (for Alex) Soul Coughing, MF Doom (for Alex) And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, The Wedding Present, REM, The Divine Comedy, Sparks, Marnie Stern, Swans, Wire, Goldfrapp, Elbow, Pulp, Television, Air, Field Music, Ian Brown, Steve Mason, Mission Of Burma, Doves, British Sea Power.
There was also an hour of Bond Themes: Including Paul McCartney (Live And Let Die) Shirley Bassey (Diamonds Are Forever, Goldfinger) Sheryl Crow (Tomorrow Never Dies) Tom Jones (Thunderball) Sheena Easton (For Your Eyes Only) Tina Turner (Golden Eye) Gladys Knight (Licence To Kill) Carly Simon (Nobody Does It Better) Louis Armstrong (We Have All The Time In The World) and more.
TW: Here's a classic Bond Theme, this is amazing, this is a great one, Sheryl Crow, Tomorrow Never Dies. There was also a really good song titled Tomorrow Never Lies that Pulp made and put forward for the film. Didn't get chosen but it was a bside around the same time. It's a great song if you can hunt that down. Sheryl Crow, this is among my favourites. VIDEO ABOUT THE SONG: JAMES BOND'S GREATEST HITS - part 6
TW: I've sneakily saved my personal two favourite Bond Themes for the last 10 minutes of this hour... (Plays Gladys Knight, Licence To Kill) After playing Carly Simon, Nobody Does It Better: Whilst that is a fantastic song, no doubt one of the best, there's one song which bizarrely people in England associate more with a Guinness advert than with a Bond Theme but Bond Theme it was and this is my fave. Louis Armstrong (We Have All The Time In The World) WATCH VIDEO
Some of the artists played on the second show, 23rd Sept: ELO, Queen, Tears For Fears, Todd Rundgren, St. Vincent, Finlay Quaye, Sheryl Crow, Camera Obscura, Chicago, Hole, Supergrass, REM, Doves, Of Montreal, Sparks, Quack Quack (from Leeds) Maximo Park, MGMT, Electrelane, Mystery Jets, Black Moth Super Rainbow, The Proclaimers, Goldfrapp, Felix Da Housecat, Air, Groove Armada, Spiritualized, Beth Gibbons (Portishead) Smog, Paul Weller, Dire Straits, BB King, Bonnie Prince Billy, Bent, Idlewild, Field Music, Manics, Wilco, Yo La Tengo, Bill Callahan, Television, Sonic Youth, Of Montreal.
The show started slightly late after a technical hitch and ended with 3 songs in 30 minutes. TW: "I figured I'd play three ten minute songs in a row, I hope no-one minds, they're good ten minute songs..." Earlier Thomas dedicated Chicago to Alex: "The mighty Danny Seraphine on drums, fantastic, Chicago, Saturday In The Park, what a band". After playing Black Moth Super Rainbow: "I believe they've been on tour with the Flaming Lips or they're somehow affiliated... oh we've got a little visitor, we've got a cat in the studio, isn't that nice..."
Once again there was the after 12am Playlist (UK time) with back-to-back songs starting off with Lennon's Real Love (recently covered by TW)
Here's something wonderful from the September 23rd show: Mystery Jets - Dreaming Of Another World
Some of the artists played on the Tuesday 21st show: Dandy Warhols, Underworld, Ladytron, Basement Jaxx, The Breeders, Oasis, Soul Coughing, Primus, Sonic Youth, The Who, ZZ Top, Fun, Wolfmother, T-Rex, Queens Of The Stone Age, Guided by Voices, Todd Rundgren, Chili Peppers, The Beach Boys, Air, Goldfrapp, Cocteau Twins, British Sea Power, Stereolab, Tiger, Beck, Super Furry Animals, Liars, Elvis Costello, Pet Shop Boys, Josh Homme, Robert Wyatt, Flaming Lips, Trashcan Sinatras, Sparklehorse, The Clientele, Elvis Presley, Graham Coxon, Nick Drake, Bill Callahan (Smog) Elliott Smith and more.
TW quoted just after playing The Who: "don't know about you but all I could hear was drums, not a bad thing". Thomas loves the Pet Shop Boys more than Josh Homme. Alex introduced him to the Elvis track (hopefully more input from him in future) Later on after the live broadcast there was also a 50's Playlist put together by Thomas (another show in itself)
Thomas White covers John Lennon = Heaven
THOMAS WHITE BAND SUPPORT THE LEVELLERS - News from THOMAS WHITE OFFICIAL FACEBOOK
Thomas White is EXTREMELY happy to announce the Thomas White Band will be supporting the mighty Levellers on their upcoming UK Tour!! We'll be on the road with them from the 9th to the 28th of November, taking in Poole, Bridport, Kendal, Darlington, Bridgwater, Pontardawe, Falmouth, Tavistock, Southend, Wrexham and Stroud, among... many others!! Check the LEVELLERS MYSPACE for info and tixxx - Watch video from the BEAUTIFUL DAYS FESTIVAL
Video by jolyonholroyd Thomas White and his marvellous band play a set of tunes at the 2010 Beautiful Days Festival near Exeter Devon. Includes covers of Fairport Convention, Warren Zevon and Joe Brown songs. Also includes a rehearsal clip in Valvetastic Studios Exeter.
'ACCIDENTALLY LIKE A MARTYR EP' out now Label: Cooking Vinyl - Thomas White: Myspace - Facebook
Watch the video at Vimeo - directed by Matthew Lawes. Buy Links: amazon.co.uk - amazon.com - emusic
White's interpretation of Warren Zevon's tale of heartbreak, Accidentally Like A Martyr, leads a 5 track digital EP that features his take on artists as diverse as Louis Armstrong and Sparklehorse.
Tracks: Accidentally Like A Martyr Warren Zevon - That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate Mission Of Burma - We Have All The Time In The World Louis Armstrong - Little Fat Baby Sparklehorse - I'll See You In My Dreams Joe Brown.
Metro "The Electric Soft Parade man offers a gently beautiful cover of the Warren Zevon song - the perfect soundtrack to an old-fashioned odd-couple romance". More reviews at Drowned In Sound (scroll down) and The 405 who say: "The love Thomas White shows for all these artists and songs shines through - it is a heartfelt tribute to acts that have shaped his life and songwriting. A fascinating collector's item for his open-minded fans"
Official Video - Directed by Matthew Lawes: watch at vimeo.com
drownedinsound.com This Week's Singles: 05/07/10: Title track 'Accidentally Like A Martyr' is the first of five covers here, and it is about as Button Pushing Charity Single Sung With Loads Of Famous Ones In A Studio Singing With Their Hands On Their Headphones as a thing could be. And if, like me, you have ever stood - thoroughly unembarrassed, epiphanies tumbling into your ears and tears streaming - in front of Spiritualized, I suspect you will adore it too. I mean, it's easy to get cynical about this sort of thing, but sometimes you just want a grown up song about a hurt that 'gets worse' and a heart that 'gets harder'. You know, instead of all these fizzy pop younglings saying love makes it all better (the lying little sneaks). Basically, a triumph - should you be in the mood for one.
Review from thefourohfive.com "The love Thomas White shows for all these artists and songs shines through - it is a heartfelt tribute to acts that have shaped his life and songwriting. A fascinating collector's item for his open-minded fans"
The Maximalist is one of this year's great 'lost' albums. It showed Thomas White to be a polymath of musical enthusiasm and wonder, and covered pretty much every genre you can think of. On his tour to promote that album, he dabbled in a few covers including the centrepiece of the album - Warren Zevon's 'Accidentally Like A Martyr', and now he releases this as an EP alongside four other covers of songs by a range of musical legends.
'Accidentally Like A Martyr' is not a drastic departure from the stunning original but White does do it justice, his softer and higher but-no-less emotive vocals complementing the more orchestral backing he brings to the fold. The backing vocals in the chorus really add an element of conviction to his take. He doesn't try to modernise it, and still lets the track tug at the heartstrings as much as Zevon's did, and the striking guitar solo remains.
The next track on the album is a marked departure as White now goes on to tackle Mission Of Burma's 'That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate'. The original was a two-minute blast of in-your-face post-punk and again White takes the 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it' approach, just it sounds a tad more progressive and definitely owes a lot to his band The Electric Soft Parade. Or maybe ESP owe a lot to Mission Of Burma. He's clearly having fun and it's nice to hear the song being sung rather than screamed, of which there was surely temptation to do.
Everyone knows 'We Have All The Time In The World' and it takes a brave man to take on Louis Armstrong, especially in a quirky Badly Drawn Boy-esque fashion... White's touching tribute to Mark Linkous with 'Little Fat Baby', one of his true idols and the frontman of Sparklehorse; understated, melancholic and beautiful but sparingly used piano - in every note he sings you can almost hear White welling up.
The last track on the EP is Isham Jones and The Ray Miller Orchestra's 'I'll See You In My Dreams', a classic used in the film of the same name from the 1920s. White is just the latest in a long line of performers to try his luck on this but his delicate and restrained delivery helps him stamp his own authority although never too forcefully. The love Thomas White shows for all these artists and songs shines through, and on the whole it is a heartfelt tribute to acts that have shaped his life and songwriting. A fascinating collector's item for his open-minded fans.
5 TRACK EP JULY 5th aaamusic.co.uk -- Live photos (scroll down)
Thomas White announces the release of a new EP available from July 5th. White's interpretation of Warren Zevon's tale of heartbreak, Accidentally Like A Martyr, leads a 5 track digital EP that features White's take on artists as diverse as Louis Armstrong and Sparklehorse. Track listing as follows: Accidentally Like A Martyr Warren Zevon - That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate Mission Of Burma - We Have All The Time In The World Louis Armstrong - Little Fat Baby Sparklehorse - I'll See You In My Dreams Joe Brown.
The highlight will be an appearance at this year's Meltdown on June 12th curated by Richard Thompson. TW: "What an honour to be invited to play. Richard Thompson's always been one of my favourite guitarists and Fairport Convention's Liege And Lief remains a groundbreaking classic to this day". For this special performance White will be adding choir, violin and cornet to his regular line up, beefing up a dazzling stage show that sees him resplendent in a brocade cape and the promise of much glitter. Personally he's looking forward to catching sets by "absurdly talented" jazz singer Krystle Warren and "one of the most innovative British rock bands working today" Field Music.
Interviews + Audio: Man Of Many Sounds - Thomas + The Boys on Radio 2 - "Guided by Thomas White tonight" on XFM
I'll See You In My Dreams at Guildford Boileroom on 31st March at Youtube Here (by mattytheduke) Audio from recent radio sessions at the Brothers Electric Blog (scroll to after the video) More links: Live Reviews -- Live Videos
Thomas on The Maximalist: These things come around so fast these days. It feels like only last week I was mastering the damn thing... and now it's out there in the cruel world, at the mercy of you hoomins. A good thing? I can but hope. Please take care of it. It is extremely fragile, and will break easily. Kid gloves, please... much as I've toured with a bunch of folk before, the band I have behind me right now is truly like no other. If you have any interest in what's going on with this record, please make the trip to see us play - the whole group is seriously, intensely amazing. I'm allowed to say that... I'm just the singer. Big fucking props to the guys. x
The Last Blast EP available at iTunes!!! Featuring a souped-up version of The Last Blast, recorded with Matthew Twaites and Damo Waters at Brighton's very own Metway Studios, and rollicking covers of Ary Barroso's classic, Brazil, and Mission Of Burma's Einstein's Day: Visit the Thomas White Myspace for his tribute to the late, great Mark Linkous.
Read 'The Last Blast' reviews in the Fan Blog Watch the video at MUZU.tv and the video for 'Einstein's Day' at youtube
Thomas White session on FlyTV - Guided By Voices medley: Watch at MUZU.tv here
11th Feb London show videos in the fan blog here Songs: Jerusalem Thorn, The Last Blast, The Runaround.
New drum track Demo at the Thomas White Myspace (scroll down on the player) Read the latest reviews in his blog.
Free download of 'The Last Blast' (album version) Visit thomaswhiteonline.com An alternative version of 'The Last Blast' forms part of a Digital EP available from March 1st. It includes The Last Blast (Joyballoo Megamix) Einstein's Day (Written by Roger Miller, performed by Mission Of Burma) Brazil (Written by Ary Barroso, performed by Joao Gilberto)
BBC 6Music session: Transcript + audio in the fan blog here Thomas is on bass, Alex on keyboards/percussion, Damo Waters on drums and Andrew Mitchell (Hazey Janes) on guitar. They played: Jerusalem Thorn, Accidentally Like a Martyr and The Weekend Individual tracks here (fan recordings) Originals appear on the new album: Pre-Order
The Pipettes - 'Our Love Was Saved By Spacemen' - Official Viral Video at youtube here featuring Alex White on drums. Produced by Martin Rushent, 'Our Love Was Saved By Spacemen' is a three minute space pop teaser from the Pipettes as yet untitled forthcoming album. Download the song for free now at: thepipettes.co.uk
Thomas White Update (click link) Gorgeous live video from Midwinter Picnic, an interview in which he announces Electric Soft Parade are recording a new album over the next 6 months... Jan 28th Prince Albert reviews and he inspires an excited blog at The Fly.
New cover and blog: Free Track / Rehearsals / Giglets: Thomas White Myspace
Hell, O! Firstly, the album version of 'The Last Blast' has been added to the Myspace page. It's fairly radically different to the version which will be coming out as a single in early March. However, it's a pretty good example of the production, if not the writing, of much of the rest of 'The Maximalist'. In addition, I thought I'd say a little thank you to everyone who's been following me the last few months/years with a little freebie - my home-recorded updating of John Barry's luscious 'We Have All The Time In The World'. You don't have to enter an e-mail or anything, just enjoy.
In other TW news, the live band is now up and rocking once again, having had our first few sessions late last year. Rehearsal today sounded astoundingly good, and I'm in seriously good spirits for these upcoming dates. For the unitiated, the band consists of myself on lead VOX and rickenbacker 4001 fuzz BASS / Andrew Mitchell (of Dundee's The Hazey Janes - great band, check 'em out) on harmolodic GUITAR + b.vox / Alex White (my dear good bruv) on soaring MELLOTRON strings + percush / and the almighty Damo Waters (of late-period ESP and his own Muddy Suzuki solo project) on the POTS AND PANS. As previously mentioned, the shows will feature us lot banging away, accompanied by a bunch of eye-watering projections. See you there....! TWX
Here's what E.S.P. drummer Damo Waters had to say about Thomas's upcoming album and single in his blog.
(blog post) "I should be getting very involved with helping out Thomas White in his live shows to promote his second solo album 'The Maximalist'. In fact I was asked to drum on the forthcoming single, a re-recording of 'The Last Blast' from the aforementioned album. I haven't heard the finished version yet, but I know that it's a damn sight faster than the album version!"
(blog post) "As it looks like I'll be playing in Thomas White's 'solo band' I had the great pleasure of hearing a pre-release copy of his second album 'The Maximalist'. I remember some time back he had a version that was a bunch of songs that he didn't do any singing on, passing that instead to guest vocalists such as Stuart Flynn, but that idea seems to have been replaced in favour of something very 'personal', remarkably varied, expansive, melodic, and rockin', with shit-loads of great drumming!"
The Fly have been playing his new album on their office stereo... They also recently delved into the past with memories of their 2 ESP covers (read more here)
Thomas has updated his Myspace: Influences... are a waste of time. Best make your own kind of music, as the great Mama Cass once said. The new Field Music album's pretty fucking miaow though... Despite my penchant for jangle and all things harmonious, at the moment my secret love is for sludge of any kind really - RTX, Sunn 0))), Part Chimp. The Dandy Warhols have been, and continue to be, a massive influence on how I build a groove, guitar sounds, vocal production, etc. Likewise the work of Broadcast, Wire, Saint Etienne, Joni Mitchell, Elliott Smith and Mission Of Burma has spurred me on in a big, big way. I'll not get into everything else (un-musical) here - there's a huge list of artists, directors, architects, comedians and general people who have influenced me and Al over the years right here (ESP Myspace) ...Enjoy!
More news on 'The Maximalist' as it becomes available...