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Bobby Virtue

First album on the way.

About Me

You have found the home of the mildly talented, dedicated, confused, hungry, focussed, erratic, honest, enigmatic, creative, inspired, uncompromising, forgetful, excited, numb, blindly confident, humorous, cynical, optimistic, sleepless, directionless, pennyless, selfish, appreciative, independent, manipulating, needy, drunken, pedantic, sweaty, protective, mature, childish, dramatic, techy, spontaneous, orchestrated, minimalist, geeky, narcissistic, layered, 120 takes!!!!, lazy, intense, mad, clever, technically challenged, idiotic, irrational, logical, decadent, quirky, careless, analytical, compromising, rational, illogical, practical joking, easily influenced, complaining, irresponsible, convicted, diverse, intellectual, Mediterranean, Arabic, Australian, UNIVERSAL, jazzy, folky, natural, hard, electronic, cyclic, soft, structured, dynamic, improvising, generous, bright, frantic, repetitive, dark, one way ticket holding, live, locked up, food-coffee-tea-alcohol loving, travelling, decisive, sweet, genetically modified, balanced, skewed, expressive, unmotivated, subjective, oppressive, objective, democratic, completely biased, ugly, mutating, self-gratifying beast, that is the closely knit band of brothers called
BOBBY VIRTUE...
We chip away at our ideas in our tiny home studio. Introspective, isolated, and self sufficient.
Some fruits of that labour are hanging about here somewhere.
So have a taste. Who knows what you might find...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/12/2006
Band Members: LUKE WRIGHT - vocals, guitars, mandolins, piano, piano accordion, ego, anything...

MICHAEL THOROGOOD - bass, guitars, mediator, backing vocals, and other great random ideas...

MICHAEL NOURI - drums, percussion, programming, backing vocals, engineering, mixing...

Influences: "They knew they were being lied to, but if lies were consistent enough they defined themselves as a credible alternative to the truth. Emotion ruled almost everything, and lies were driven by emotions that were familiar and supportive, while the truth came with hard edges that cut and bruised. They preferred lies and mood music...."

J G Ballard
Kingdom Come

Sounds Like: Whatever you want...
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Album progress blog 6!!!!!

Well well well...In the time since my last post we finished the recording portion of the album! Two weeks of 12-14 hour days cooped up in our little room, laboring away like men possessed, has produce...
Posted by Bobby Virtue on Sat, 03 May 2008 07:16:00 PST

Album progress blog 5...

Howdy folks. We hope you've all been well.It's been a while since my last post, chiefly because there hasn't been a great deal to talk about since we had to put recording proceedings on hold for a few...
Posted by Bobby Virtue on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:20:00 PST

Mouse traps and cheetah chases...

Today was epic in a seehowmanyideasyoucanpulloutofonesong kind of way...We’ve been spending much time recently exploring the hidden potential within so many ideas (did I ever mention that we&rsq...
Posted by Bobby Virtue on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:44:00 PST

Album blog 3 and some...

Happy Autumn to all you Southern Hemispherians. And an equally pleasant Spring to all of you upstairs.Two weeks ago we finished tracking the foundations for a song currently called 'Kookaburra'. Possi...
Posted by Bobby Virtue on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:24:00 PST

Album progress post 2

Week one down, and most initial kinks have been thoroughly worked out.The work flow has smoothed out well and it seems that we're off to a good start.I should let you know that due to the fact that we...
Posted by Bobby Virtue on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:59:00 PST

First album underway. Progress blog 1

So here it is kids, our first album progress blog, for our first album...YES thats correct!!! We have committed ourselves, finally, to recording an album. And whats more... we're doing it all ourselve...
Posted by Bobby Virtue on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:02:00 PST