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1981

sounds like an aircrash when you´re screamin out

About Me


"Voices" live @ Cafe Malipop, December 2007:
Yes, i´m vintage 1981.
The first 15 years of my life i wasn´t really into listening & making music. But in ´96 i grabbed my first electric and started to play. I´ve played in several bands since that time,- all of them broke up. What a bummer, hm !?.
But anyway, i always was more the homerecording-type-of-guy who always had a fixed idea of how every instrument should be played or should sound. In the past i always found it too dictatorial to tell everybody in the band how i´d like them to play the songs, so i just kept the most of them for myself.
In Winter 2006, after 10 years of working my ass off in a forwarding company, i decided to quit my job in order to spend more time with my music.
So then, pretty uninspired when it comes to find a name for my project, i just named the thing 1981 (ok, George Orwell and my year of birth were a bit crucial in that issue) and logged in on MySpace.
So, since winter 06 i´m not doing anything except making music. That´s also the reason why my money more and more vanishes into the air, but okay...
In June 2007 my girl and my best mate joined me and we 3 played our first gigs here and there....
Record coming soon, NOT !!!!!!!! !
Past Gigs:
- 16.06.07 KUNSTBANALE, Klosterneuburg
- 02.07.07 ACOUSTICCLUB, Theater am Spittelberg
- 06.07.07 ANTJE ÖKLESUND, Berlin
- 19.07.07 CAFE CARINA, Wien
- 20.07.07 PROJEKT, Innsbruck
- 27.07.07 MALIPOP, Wien
- 18.11.07 ORPHEUM - 5 Jahresfeier ACOUSTICCLUB, Wien
- 28.12.07 MALIPOP, Wien
- 14.01.08 LUFTBAD, Wien
- 07.02.08 REPLUGGED (Pate Night IV), Wien

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/3/2006
Band Members: All Songs are written, played, recorded & arranged by me.
Sometimes i look like this:

On live-gigs i get support from these 2 guys:

Ms. Pleiades:
Synth,Shaker,Vocal Harmonies

Mr. Badhairday:
Guitar/Bass/Vocal Harmonies

Influences: I´m influenced by everything.....but ok, here are the classic 3:

music by....:
Cat Power, Sun Kil Moon, Beirut, Nick Drake, Wilco, M. Ward, Kate Bush, Radiohead, Kings Of Leon, Bill Callahan aka Smog, Tom Waits, Red House Painters, Iron & Wine, Songs:Ohia, Chokebore, Mr. Bungle, Modest Mouse, Portishead, Calexico, Leonard Cohen, Talk Talk, Mark Hollis, Jeff Buckley, Tim Buckley, Beck, Andrew Bird, Joni Mitchell, (the early) Smashing Pumpkins, South San Gabriel, Peter Gabriel, Bonnie Prince Billy, Blur, Motorpsycho, Lemonheads, PJ Harvey, Slint, The Strokes, The Go-Betweens, The Notwist, Pinback, Trail of dead, Twilight Singers, Vangelis,...etc

books by....:
Paul Auster, Charles Bukowski, J.D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, William S. Burroughs, Philip K. Dick, George Orwell, H.P. Lovecraft, Douglas Coupland, T.C. Boyle, Kurt Vonnegut, Haruki Murakami,..etc.

and movies like...:
Apocalypse Now, Million Dollar Hotel, Heat, Blade Runner, Royal Tenenbaums, 2046, Mulholand Drive, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet, Lost in Translation, Smoke, Naked Lunch, Big Lebowski, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Night On Earth, North by Northwest, Taxi Driver, 12 Monkeys, Harold and Maude and mostly everything from Jean-Pierre Jeunet,...etc.

Record Label: None
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New Song online

Last night i had the idea for this little tune-sketch...its called "Lullaby". Maybe someday i´ll work some more on it...
Posted by 1981 on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 08:37:00 PST

Buy this record !!!!!

It´s just....great ! Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
Posted by 1981 on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:26:00 PST