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Hes Not My Mate!

About Me

MyGen Profile GeneratorHe's Not My Mate! began in 2001 originally as a covers band although with original material appearing as time progressed, formed by Dale and drummer Simon Render and with various long and short term members continued until Dec 2006 when Andy Fryett , who had been with the band for all but a few weeks of its existence, emigrated with his family to Florida.HNMM! is now Dale's solo, currently studio-based, project drawing on his years of songwriting and playing, new songs and updating old songs, riffs and styles and recording and hopefully releasing music that has been buzzing round his head since the early 80s.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 27/09/2006
Band Website: www.hesnotmymate.com
Band Members: Apart from on "Watch and Wait", Dale does everything!

Influences: Genres: Punk, Post-Punk, a bit gothy, a bit shoe-gazey, a bit of glam, a bit dream-poppy, admiration for people who can write classic "pop".
Sounds Like: See influences/genres - whilst I don't try and copy any particular style or sound there are bound to be things that come out from what I love and listen to myself.
Record Label: Own

My Blog

Past, Present and Future

At long last a new song has been recorded and is now uploaded onto the HNMM! MySpace Player.The song is "Past, Present and Future" the lyrics of which were written a few years ago after a bizarre inci...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:36:00 GMT

He's Not My Mate! Here we go again!

Well, where to start? There has been a certain amount of domestic upheaval, for want of a better phrase, which has led to music going onto the backburner for a while. However, things are a bit more se...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:56:00 GMT

Ill be off line for a while

Firstly apologies to all of my friends out there who I should have been in touch with and whom I have neglected over the past few months. I have been going through something of a domestic hiatus and I...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:23:00 GMT

HNMM! in exalted company, again!

"He's Not My Mate!" is once again on the radio (see details below) with some very stellar names, in fact "HNMM!" is squeezed between Generation X and The Jam (alphabetically I know, but hey!!). Many t...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:14:00 GMT

See what playing silly games does for you!

Having torn a calf muscle playing football on Monday I unexpectedly had a bit of time available in which to do a bit of recording and have come up with what is now the latest tune on the MySpace Playe...
Posted by on Thu, 10 May 2007 20:19:00 GMT

Website update and a little tinge of nostalgia

Just been updating the He's Not My Mate! website www.hesnotmymate.com and although I've done a little bit of tinkering on it this time I will be changing things big time over the coming weeks to take ...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:02:00 GMT

Not Like I Do - vocals added

Finally got round to doing the vocals to "Not Like I Do" this afternoon, mixed them into the backing track, converted to mp3 and uploaded to the MySpace. Hopefully it'll sound ok as the mp3 version wh...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:40:00 GMT

Songs re-posted

I've sorted out my cabling problem between recorder and PC and have now uploaded the slightly higher-fi versions of the 3 new songs on the site. I did this at approx 22-30 Sunday 11 Feb so within a fe...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:47:00 GMT

Dale no longer "Clueless" and HNMM! world domination!

After some lengthy soul searching I've decided not to continue with the covers band, "Clueless" with Simon and Helen. It's been a very hard decision as Simon and I formed HNMM! 6 odd years ago an...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 05:33:00 GMT

Some new/old songs added

Evenin' all!I've posted 3 new songs onto the site, all of them demos and all of them for some unknown technical reason in mono: I think it has something to do with a dodgy lead between recorder and PC...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 11:55:00 GMT