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Sphagnum Core

About Me

Other names Sphagnum Core has gone by:

Electronic Toilet & the Gas Operated Urinals, The Fucking Bastards, The Long Lost Secret Santana Chord Progression, Bionic Dog, The Fiendish Dr X, John Peters Sings, Hot Toddy & the Iced Foveaux's, The Dawson Chair, S.N.A.G., Hell, Meat Loser, Panty Fancier, Metal Standring, John Venison Presents... Rectal Mucus, Buttman, Piss Wand, The Billy Walkers, Elephanto Panto, U-Try Automatic Penguin etc... (there's probably more...)

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/09/2006
Band Members: Hamish Bond - Vocoder & Licorice Straps
Keith Hamlyn - Washboard & Bassics
Ngatai Rhodes - Bottles & Mandolin
Dr Bugger 660 - Coffee Tin, Finger Snaps
Maureen Crisp - Banana Harmonica
ALUMNI
Tim 'The Ax' Lynch - Guitar, Bass (1993 - 97)
Jason 'Jay' Voss - Drums (1995 - 97)
Matthew 'Mo' Oliver - Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Vocals (1993-94, 1997)
Todd 'Hot Toddy' Pettit - Guitar, Bass, Vocals (1992 - 94)
Colin ('Cozza') - Keyboards, Bass (1993 - 94)
Paul 'Soyguz' Service - Guitar, Bass, Vocals (1995 - 97)
Chris 'Scrollburger' Moller - Guitar, Vocals (1993 - 96)
John 'Venison' Van Anson - Guitar, Bass, Vocals (1992 - 95)
Keith 'Kezza' Hamlyn - Bass, Guitar, Drum Machine, Vocals (1993-95, 2006- )
Brett 'Brezza' Fitzsimmons - Guitar (1993 - 96)
Andy 'Skid' Marks - Bass (1993)
Bernadette Malone - Bass (1990)
Paul 'Milo' Mylecharane - Bass, Guitar, Drum Machine (1994 - 95)
Mark 'Spinsky' Spinks - Guitar, Bass, Vocals (1990, 1994)
Brett 'Nippo' Nipporus - Guitar, Vocals (1993-94)
Mark 'Guts' Guthrie - Guitar, Bass, Vocals (1995)
Glenn Lorne Campbell - Percussion, Wheezes (1990)
Douglas Edwards - Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals (2005-)
John McManus - Guitar, Vocals (1994)
Bad Tony Summerton - Guitar, Bass, Drum Machine, Samples, Vocals (1992)
Kellie Lloyd - Bass, Vocals (1994)
Scott - Bass (1993)
Ian 'Izza' Botham - Guitar (1993)
Gareth - Guitar (1995)
Amelia Edwards - Vocals (2001)
Keith 'Just Brilliant' Floyd - Vocals (1993)
'Beefy' Steve Moller - Space Guitar (1995)
Pauly Curran - Guitar (1990)
John Welch - Guitar, Vocals (1991)

Influences: These are the bands that matter... K-Fed (Popozao), Brett Lee and Asha (You are the One for Me), Come (The German Song), 10CC (I'm Not in Love), Jimmy Nail (Ain't No Doubt (She's Lying)), Joan Baez (The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down), Wire (A Question of Degree), Throwing Muses (Pearl), Air Supply (Lost in Love), Bryan Adams (Summer of '69), Avril Lavigne (Girlfriend), David Bowie (The Laughing Gnome), Nena (99 Luftballons), Moggy Man (Saint Thomas Aquinas), My Bloody Valentine (Feed Me With Your Kiss), The Gordons (Coalminers Song), Napoleon XIV (They're Coming to Take Me Away Ha-haa), Neil Diamond (Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show), The Wrens (Happy), The Bangles (He's Got a Secret), Big Black (Tiny, King Of The Jews), E.L.O. (Mr Blue Sky), Wizzard (See My Baby Jive), Lunarcide (Little Lambs Eat Ivy), Metal Standring (You Laugh at My Face (But I'm Not a Window Pane) ), Nancy & Lee (Jackson), Coombay Dance Band (Sun of Jamaica), Killing Joke (The Fall of Because), Chas 'n Dave (There Ain't No Pleasing You), Glen Campbell (Wichita Lineman), The Brotherhood of Man (Save All Your Kisses For Me), The Cherubs (Dave of the Moon), Dan Fogelberg (Sometimes When We Touch), Gravel Samwidge (Spittin' Juice), The Carpenters (We've Only Just Begun), The Sweet (Love is Like Oxygen), Josef K (Romance), Bill (The Spider), The Blue Oyster Cult (Don't Fear the Reaper), Blerta (Come Dance All Around the World), Cursive (The Night I Lost the Will to Fight), OMC (Land of Plenty), Dimmer (Smoke), The Korgis (Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime), The New Year (Plan B), Cher (Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves), Butthole Surfers (Jimi), Cows (Chow), Mouth & MacNeil (How Do You Do), Helen Reddy (I am Woman), The Alan Parsons Project (What Goes Up), Yo La Tengo (Everyday), Starland Vocal Band (Afternoon Delight), Bread (Make It With You), The Birthday Party (Mutiny in Heaven), Michael Bolton (Can I Touch You...There?), Toni Basil (Mickey), Suzie Quatro (48 Crash), Little River band (Cool Change), P.I.L. (Francis Massacre), PJ Harvey (One Line), Iggy & The Stooges (Gimme Danger), Prince (Kiss), Fleetwood Mac (Gypsy), Julian Cope (Kolly Kibbers Birthday), Associates (A Girl Called Property), Soft Cell (Tainted Love), The Scientists (Fire Escape), Rick Springfield (Jesse's Girl), Duran Duran (A View to a Kill), Syd Barrett (Dominoes), John Cooper-Clarke (Beasley St), A-Ha (Take On Me), Hilary Duff (Our Lips are Sealed), Motorhead (Killed By Death), Al Stewart (The Year of the Cat), The Shins (Caring Is Creepy), Vicious Hairy Mary (I am the Walrus), Dean Waratene (The Bridge), Visage (Fade to Grey), Boston (More Than a Feeling), Husker Du (Data Control), THE SWINGERS (COUNTING THE BEAT)!
Sounds Like: Sfagnumb Caw
Record Label: PoX Records (Tauranga, Auckland, Sydney)

My Blog

Sphagnum Core Review the Hits! Influences (Pt 2)(to be contd...)

Here's Part II, as Part I was getting a little unwieldy to download.DAVID BOWIE - THE LAUGHING GNOMEIn 1966 David Bowie was a struggling R&B artist who'd already released a number of uninspiring s...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 19:08:00 GMT

Sphagnum Core Reviews the Hits! Influences (Pt 1)

BRETT LEE & ASHA - 'YOU ARE THE ONE FOR ME'Would-be cricketing legend, and non-talented singer/songwriter Brett Lee expands his horizons and enters the music biz...To truly appreciate the awfulness of...
Posted by on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:47:00 GMT

Sphagnum Core Hot Tips: 5 Albums to Clear Any Room - Or Break Up Any Party!!! (to be contd...)

In my experience the following albums have proved worthy in getting rid of unwanted guests, annoying sanctimonius wannabe's and breaking up parties who's life-expectancies have passed and have thus be...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:31:00 GMT