Glen Strachan - ProfilesArchive

About Me

THINGS I LIKE
MY MUSIC
"Glen Strachan was the main force behind the punky grunge of The Bed and the scuzzy psychedelic folk of England and the April. His solo set entails near-classical guitar-work and strangely bucolic folk tales of everyday life in suburban London" - Opposition T
"The crazy barman who would finish his page before serving anyone" - Louise Crichton, Manager of Iron Horse, Amersham
"I'm not sure what percussion he was using for that, but it sounded like he was doing the washing up. Plinkin' and plonkin' with the plates, clever boy" - Infernal Racket Show, Hayes FM
"A wondrously bizarre proposition.. bracing" - Opposition T
"Some of the strongest songs I have heard this year" - indie-mp3.co.uk
"England and the April take pop, punk, psychedelia and folk sounds, then compact them into dreamily haunting harmonies" - ents24.com
"Superbly snotty punky grungy fare gives way to beautiful harmonies and a wistful psych pop air" - Bugbear
"..the kind of teenage half formed crap i get by the bucketload. Glen knows where the best music is and we know jack shit - off you go and listen to Weezer and Pet Sounds and Dire Straits with grunge boy there" - Organ
"A cd marked 'england and the april' just dropped through my door. Do you know anything about this?" - Beat Motel
"Post grunge slow punk heavy hearted guitar based melodic dirt ..." - Fibbers.co.uk
"Indie in a way I have never heard it before, no other band around at the moment is creating music quite like this" - www.alt-uk.com
"Very worthy and all that, but not pretty-sounding" - NME
"Like being stuck in a half-waking dream in which you're lying on the floor being given a particularly vicious kicking, yet you refuse to snap out of it because you're ENJOYING it" - LOGO
"I actually begin to quite like it" - Leeds Music Scene

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/4/2005
Band Website: thebed.co.uk
Band Members:

"Glen has now moved to Berlin where he bought a banana plant from Lidl" - Tom Robinson on BBC 6 Music

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Influences:

Some good stuff I found on my travels or th' space:

The Left Outsides
Tanner
Babywipe
Clara Day
Not The Mind Probe
Yat Kha
Broadcast
The Junket
Groke
William Nein
Miss Jo Williams
David Goo
Choking Dolphin
Kathleen Bracken
Kwarfi
Winston
Kit Richardson
Michelle Nichols
Brianna Lane
Roxy Rawson
Beruit
Niandra Lades

More soon

"I want to piss in their sink but I've run out of piss" - Joe Gardner

"..and I crashed it into one of them big yellow things" - Jet Tea

"Recordings sound real good, even if you are a bitter, dark, twisted lunatic" - Mikey "The Uxbridge Strangler"

"You don't look so good in photos.. " - Elena

"Glen, tiny? man! No, you can't do it! Please don..t send me your penis!...." - Basti

"The ghost of Kaffee Burger lives in YOU man" - Lars

"My brother has a TV" - Melanie, Berlin

"Cocaine intensifies your personality" - Man 1. "Yeah but what if you're an asshole?" - Bill Cosby

"I'm free now if you're not hanging in a park with some underage girls. x" - William Nein

"Fuck me and choir, i don't want to go!" - Petra

"Do you think you can go directly from being a squirrel to Nirvana?" - Sophia

"TIGER UPPERCUNT!" - Mikey

"Sounds like you're punching an elephant" - Colin

"You're not Peter Pan and Berlin is not a NeverNeverLand" - Alexandra

More soon
Sounds Like: SOME FREE MP3's TO DOWNLOAD:

Glen Strachan
Am I There?
Oh, Safia
Dont Love No-one/Dont Love You
Guinea Pig That Saw The Future

England & The April
JC & The Bobs
The Opposite Of Space
Afraid Of Hayes
My Weekend

Type of Label: None

My Blog

Free MP3 Downloads & TheBed.co.uk

Here are some of my best recent recordings for free download. Hope you enjoy:Am I There?Go With Dick HeadA Dream Of My Whole LifeOh, Safia (Featuring Gemma Hymns)Don't Love No-one / Don't Love YouThe ...
Posted by Glen Strachan on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:30:00 PST

Dont Expect Me To Be Gentle

I played at a place called Zimmer 16 in Berlin the other day & I've put a video of one of the songs on my page.. thing is it's pretty hard to hear what I'm singing about so if you view it using the li...
Posted by Glen Strachan on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:48:00 PST

Bastis Posts.. & INTERVIEW!

There's a character from the fantastic German band Winston who has been posting some delightful messages on my page.. here are the collected works in order, from when it started getting serious.. for ...
Posted by Glen Strachan on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:31:00 PST

BASS PLAYER, Manager & Keyboard Player

Booking gigs here in Berlin is proving to be quite difficult as I don't know the venues, and searching for places can be tricky without speaking the language. In England I never felt I needed a manage...
Posted by Glen Strachan on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:08:00 PST

Yesterday & Tonight

My performance last night went pretty well I thought.. I played Michael Are You Breathing?, JC & The Bobs, A Purple Car & Don't Expect Me To Be Gentle. Sound was decent, place was pretty busy, good at...
Posted by Glen Strachan on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:05:00 PST

Kwarfi & Cigarettes

I must have pleased somebody on high by staying within her current, as things have been going better than could be expected. I found a new room with a piano in it; a decent one too, AND I have a balco...
Posted by Glen Strachan on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:11:00 PST

Michael & William

It's such a great feeling listening to people I wholeheartedly respect doing versions of my songs; a proper privilege - if you haven't heard it already you must listen to William Nein's beautiful vers...
Posted by Glen Strachan on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:20:00 PST

Simon & Garfunkel

Hello hello hello helloGoodbye goodbe goodbye goodbyeThat's all there isAnd the leaves that are green turn to brown
Posted by Glen Strachan on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 03:43:00 PST