Musicians — Bristol
A Home Counties Photo
Home Counties, dispersed around the country but predominantly Bristol.
Slap the bass, play guitar using chromatic notes and turn the mod wheel up on the synth so it’s like ‘bjooooo’. Dan plays the drums well.
Beer belly disguising.
Death Grips at Colston Hall in Bristol stands out in my memory. Barn drank too much ‘Pheasant Plucker’ before and was on the floor throwing up. We didn’t think he was gonna make it but he pulled through and danced the entire show. They kept the lights on which made it sort of anti-climatic, as we had wanted to see them for years, but I guess it added to the uncomfortableness.
Talking Heads, as I love watching ‘Stop Making Sense’ and would love to have been it first hand. DEVO for the theatrics and wonkiness.
One would be the whole CBGB thing of 70s New York (if you can call that a subculture) as it birthed Television, Talking Heads, Blondie, etc. Those bands are a source of a lot of inspiration for us.
Bernie Worrell would be a great person to meet, just so he could show us how he got those synth tones.
Sneaky Pete’s in Edinburgh was a favourite of ours when we supported Pip Blom for some northern dates a few years back, as Haze. It’s a tiny little place and it was rammed for our support slot, and the staff and punters were very kind.
I think Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos could qualify, standing out from a lot of the landfill indie of the time. Very interesting guitar work and so danceable.
'Insania' by Peter Andre was the first CD I bought in HMV with my granddad, and I did love it.
Parquet Courts’ 'Master of My Craft'. That song in particular, but also the album in its entirety, became a collective favourite of our friendship group and has remained since.
Television’s 'Marquee Moon'.
"Listen to me
I'm on the stereo stereo
Oh my baby baby baby baby babe
Gave me malaria hysteria"
Pavement - 'Stereo'. Pavement inspired a less serious approach to lyric writing for this project.
Britney Spears’ ‘Toxic’ - pure mastery of pop songwriting.
Slipknot’s ‘Psychosocial’ is a staple of the journeys in the van. I loved Slipknot when I was younger and I continue to enjoy the melodrama of it.
Queen - ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
Girls Aloud - ‘Sound of the Underground’.
Robbie Williams - ‘Bodies’. It’s so bad it’s good.
‘Wish You Were Here’ by Pink Floyd usually ends the night on an emotional note.
I’m really enjoying Drug Store Romeos’ new track ‘Frame of Reference’ at the moment. The song is so beautiful and I love the Casio-vibes. I’m also loving Public Body and their latest single ‘Presenteeism’, a project involving our friend and producer Theo Verney. Bristol friends Norman have also just put out an incredible video/mixtape ‘Songs from the basement, The Old England etc’.
Home Counties, dispersed around the country but predominantly Bristol.
Slap the bass, play guitar using chromatic notes and turn the mod wheel up on the synth so it’s like ‘bjooooo’. Dan plays the drums well.
Beer belly disguising.
Death Grips at Colston Hall in Bristol stands out in my memory. Barn drank too much ‘Pheasant Plucker’ before and was on the floor throwing up. We didn’t think he was gonna make it but he pulled through and danced the entire show. They kept the lights on which made it sort of anti-climatic, as we had wanted to see them for years, but I guess it added to the uncomfortableness.
Talking Heads, as I love watching ‘Stop Making Sense’ and would love to have been it first hand. DEVO for the theatrics and wonkiness.
One would be the whole CBGB thing of 70s New York (if you can call that a subculture) as it birthed Television, Talking Heads, Blondie, etc. Those bands are a source of a lot of inspiration for us.
Bernie Worrell would be a great person to meet, just so he could show us how he got those synth tones.
Sneaky Pete’s in Edinburgh was a favourite of ours when we supported Pip Blom for some northern dates a few years back, as Haze. It’s a tiny little place and it was rammed for our support slot, and the staff and punters were very kind.
I think Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos could qualify, standing out from a lot of the landfill indie of the time. Very interesting guitar work and so danceable.
'Insania' by Peter Andre was the first CD I bought in HMV with my granddad, and I did love it.
Parquet Courts’ 'Master of My Craft'. That song in particular, but also the album in its entirety, became a collective favourite of our friendship group and has remained since.
Television’s 'Marquee Moon'.
"Listen to me
I'm on the stereo stereo
Oh my baby baby baby baby babe
Gave me malaria hysteria"
Pavement - 'Stereo'. Pavement inspired a less serious approach to lyric writing for this project.
Britney Spears’ ‘Toxic’ - pure mastery of pop songwriting.
Slipknot’s ‘Psychosocial’ is a staple of the journeys in the van. I loved Slipknot when I was younger and I continue to enjoy the melodrama of it.
Queen - ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
Girls Aloud - ‘Sound of the Underground’.
Robbie Williams - ‘Bodies’. It’s so bad it’s good.
‘Wish You Were Here’ by Pink Floyd usually ends the night on an emotional note.
I’m really enjoying Drug Store Romeos’ new track ‘Frame of Reference’ at the moment. The song is so beautiful and I love the Casio-vibes. I’m also loving Public Body and their latest single ‘Presenteeism’, a project involving our friend and producer Theo Verney. Bristol friends Norman have also just put out an incredible video/mixtape ‘Songs from the basement, The Old England etc’.