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Vespertine

About Me

Unfortunately Vespertine will no longer continue to make music in its current set up. We shall continue to write new music and we are currently seeking a new vocalist/multi instrumentalist. If you are interested in getting involved please make contact via [email protected].

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/8/2006
Band Members: L A Smithmeister-Drums A De Jhummun-Guitar O T Nicholson-Guitar B J P McCluskey-Bass
Influences: Some of the Music we enjoy....Broken Social Scene, Metric, Led Zeppelin, Jeff Buckley, St Vincent, The Mars Volta, Menomena, TV On the Radio, Jimi Hendrix, Grizzly Bear, Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton, Noah & The Whale, Can, Elliot Smith, Will Oldham, Animal Collective, The National, Emmy The Great, The Smiths, Spoon, Nick Cave, Miles Davies, Howlin Wolf, George Clinton, Otis Redding, The MC5, The Kinks, Mogwai, Tool, NIN, Prince, Nick Harper, The Beatles, PJ Harvey, Bad Brains, Black Sabbath, Radiohead, Charles Mingus, Metallica, Joni Mitchell, Midlake, Joanna Newsom, Arcade Fire
Sounds Like: ’What would be more fitting would be to write an abstract short story on each (Song) and recite them into a Dictaphone whilst walking the mean streets of my village at night, my hood wrapped around to protect my face from the icy February breeze.’(LiveMusicScene)
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

V Report 9: I tried to steal a cat but it ran away. I wanna cat!

Greetings from V Towers!Back to talk nonsense again because of an imminent show...see the pattern? Such clever things you are!So Tuesday 28th then. V with A Silent Film and First of the Giants. Lovely...
Posted by on Sat, 25 Oct 2008 04:22:00 GMT

V Report 8: Were a virus with shoes O.K.? That all we are.

Greetings from V Towers!Hope you all feel delicious today. Many thanks to everybody who made The Miller show last time we were in the capital. Good show and the right level of weird. We are back of co...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:31:00 GMT

V Report 7: 'Repression is the only lasting philosophy!'

Greetings from V Towers!So a bit inactive in the last month or so I suppose! To be honest life got in the way like it fucking insists on doing! If we could exist as a purely musical entity then we wou...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:09:00 GMT

V Report 6: How to recognize different types of trees from quite a long way away .

Greetings from V Towers! Many thanks to everybody who showed for both the Purple Turtle and Louisiana shows. They were a pleasant couple of nights! 'Red' was played last Monday on New World Order rad...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:19:00 GMT

V Report 5: I dont have pet peeves, I have major psychotic fucking hatreds!

Greetings from V Towers. O.K. so we have shows on consecutive Saturdays coming up and both will be beautiful with new songs, other great bands and excessive fucking about! Firstly for the London dwell...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:08:00 GMT

V Report 4: Im fixin to do somethin dumbern hell but Im goin anyways. - Gig review

Greetings from V Towers. Just had a couple of shows in Bath and then Brisol.  Many thanks to all who attended and to the bands we played with. The show at the Louisiana was reviewed by LiveMusicS...
Posted by on Tue, 27 May 2008 09:22:00 GMT

V Report 3: Love truth, but pardon error. - Venue review!

Greetings from V Towers! This week 'Red' was given a splendid write-up in Venue Magazine. Here it is in full:'How to make a five-minute-and fifty-four-second track sound too short: combine serpentine...
Posted by on Sat, 10 May 2008 04:07:00 GMT

V Report 2: All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.

Greetings from V towers! Back again. If you would like to be kept informed of  V-movements and enjoy the rantings then do subscribe to the blog.A few things to keep you informed about. Firstly we...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:50:00 GMT

V Report 1: Without music, life would be a mistake.

Greetings from V Towers! We have decided to make a much better effort at updates regarding our whereabouts and activities. It also offers the opportunity of ranting extensively if necessary.  Exp...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:09:00 GMT