I have been playing bass and electric/acoustic guitar since i was fourteen, my desire is to form a band in which i am free to experiment. The first band I joined were a York band called Stent, in which i played bass, to be fair the music was fucking awful but I got to experience song writing as a band, playing on a stage and recording in a studio. I also got to meet the one and only Adam Rowley.
After the vocalist announced Stent had split up on our website (before letting the rest of the band know) we decided enough was enough and disbanded. Drummer Ben and myself formed a band with my friend Thom (who taught me how to play guitar and we had weekly jam sessions for years), we had a couple of sessions in my college practice room then advertised for a vocalist. To my shock and surprise we got a reply, a guy named Glenn. Me and Drummer Ben met up with him, had a few drinks and decied to give it a go. We had a couple of practices but the opinions clashed with everyone, Thom and myself were trying to create a very specific sound and we were quite stuck up in that sense. We stopped having practices and it just sort of dissapeared, though we did manage to get a free recording.
I moved to from York to Coventry when i was eighteen, due to my Dads job and my desire to start college again. At Tile Hill College Coventry I met Chris 'Fucking' Worsley, our music tastes at the time (and still i think) were poles apart but we wanted to start a band anyway, though Chris plays guitar and i wanted to play bass but we already had bass player Mr Lee Tyrell (Bizzy T, Leathal T, Bumble, Byrell etc...) So the idea of two bass players was suggested, i disliked the idea but went along for a practise anyway. We messed around for a bit, attempting to play Metallica songs with two basses but i really couldn't get on with it so i put my bass down and started messing around with a microphone plugged into a bass effects pedal whislt the others were getting into a jam, I was only messing around but afterwards the others turned round to me and told me i should do vocals. I said "alright then", then a couple of practices later they said "why dont you play guitar aswell?", I replied "alright then, but i can't sing and play at the same time so i'll have to cheat and just play when im not singing". We became Chris Worsley's Chocolate Orgasm, though over a period of a year and a half we only completed two songs and a load of riffs and jams that we just played constantly, it's the most fun i've ever had making music.
During my time in Coventry I had purchased a four track recording device in which i recorded about 70 mins worth of songs. Then I got my laptop which came with a recording software with 30+ tracks availiable and many many effects. I was excited.
So now all the music under the name Tupelo is what I write, play and mix myself, with production assistance from the wonderful Ben Thompson (AKA Matchstick Mouse), who also does the artwork. I am also involved in a project under the name of Trauma Cats, which is Ben and myself making music and films together.
Thank you very much for taking the time to read all of this and im sorry if i bored you senseless but i just felt like my profile needed fattening out a bit. I'd appreciate any comments on my music, good or bad, just let me know what you think.
Steve
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