February 2012
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Guys I’m in a live, HD music video. Band called Regime I did festival sessions and gigs for last Summer got an album track sync’d up by the leg-ends at Dark Fable Media. Check it and chuck us some feedback? Regime - Only For Fools & Horses Vimeo Video
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Playlist for a friend wanting an introduction to jazz and funk. Any thoughts? http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE97D32B9910F61B1
Shit’s fucking funny.
inspireinspiration:
BE INSPIRED: The Life Of Heavy-D
Presented By: Centric
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Completely alone, flat broke in a friend’s house in South London all night having been working on promo all afternoon.
Listening to James Blake - a) amazed that a close friend of mine is a close friend of his b) consistently reminded how it is people like him, my own age who will change tomorrow’s music more than the ‘acclaimed’ names of the last 200years Also not ashamed...
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A track I wrote... →
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MONSTER piano player @HuwWarren gave me an accurate prediction when I said to him years ago that I didn’t ‘feel bothered to write any music of my own’.
He reckoned that someday that would change and I’d get into writing.
Tomorrow I’m meeting with Joe Hinchliffe who’ll be guitaring on some stuff I’ve been writing and we’re trying out a young...
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I’m always thinking about that - the shape of a show. It’s not just:
- “Oh man you know this tune? [Plays All The Things You Are]”
Yeah of course we all know that tune but what difference does it make? Y’know, it doesn’t make any sense. Did you write that tune? No. Y’know, how many millions of people have played ‘All The Things You...
They never heard of fucking Tony Williams. They don’t even know who fucking Tony Williams is y’know but…… Hah….. Y’know - Who Tony Williams is y’know and they go like ‘wow’ y’know. “It’s Inhumane to play like Jungle because it’s so fucking fast” but it’s fucking really ridiculous y’know I mean every...
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When you spend time striving to create something that sits well within what everyone else is doing and then realise you should just not give a fuck, it’s an incredibly liberating feeling.
My friends all got talent. →
Hamish MacBrain (NME Journalist) - You’ve always been quite vocal about how music shouldn’t be given away for free. But is this time for a change?
Noel Gallagher - No, no. No free downloads. I value my music. I don’t sit in a studio, and fucking make it up as I go along, and go “This one’s free, then” I think if you buy it, you as a listener value it more....
January 2012
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