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About Me

Welcome to the myspace of the Calendar Key Project
Come in, look around, and have a listen. This page looks a whole lot nicer in Firefox . We released our first album, The Calendar Key Project, in August 2007. There's a review here . Our creation myth is here . We are currently working on the second album. It will contain 11 of our best songs and will be, among other things, tuneful, lush, literate, minimalist, generous, sumptuous, sensual, etc.
Join the bandwagon?
We're always interested in meeting new musicians. If you like what you hear, get in touch or direct us to your myspace. We need some new members because we've lost several to death, insanity, and the public sector.
Typos etc
Our editorial past means we are more distressed by typos than the average punter. If you spot any or any broken links, please email us. Thanks.

Latest Updates
So you need never lose track again.....
Full band version of Reason Not the Need posted. The first sessions captured at Hudson Studios in darkest Wiltshire
Blog 147 - Lyrics for Reason Not the Need posted
Blog 145 - The Wisdom of Earl Candyke, Part 7
Blog 144 - Slaying the Dragon (the album shortlist)
Blog 138 - Songs for the Second Album
Blog 137 - Wonderful, moving tribute article from Robert Forster to his friend and songwriting partner, the much missed Grant McLennan
Quotes, Part 4 posted.

Notes on a Love Affair
Part 1 |Part 2

The Archive
Our obsessions - past and present, tawdry and magnificent. Go!

A thousand words....

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 02/11/2006
Band Members:

Calen Darkey
Composition, procrastination, vocals, 'tars, proof of concept, and self doubt.

Tobias R. Wentworth
Entropy reduction, sonic evangelism, ebow, field recordings, production.

[You]
Percussion, bass, vocals, guitars, keyboards, upright piano, trumpet, flugelhorn, cello, violin.

Earl Candyke
Slide, umbrellas, myths and allegories, unsolicited opinions and email.

Rogers Crosbie-Abercrombie
Hammond, Moog, wardrobe, song and dance.

You can read about some of our former members here .

Influences:

In no particular order:

(i) 30 plus years of music and life
(ii) FUD
(iii) Our preoccupation with death circa 2005
(iv) A renewed interest in living
(v) Travel
(vi) Friends
(vii) Family
(viii) Books and the people who write them
(ix) Other.....

Sounds Like:

(i) Our Songs of Innocence and Experience
(ii) A Gift glimpsed through a Window
(iii) Another Haines-obsessed Fahey fan
(iv) Our Art, which keeps us from falling apart
(v) You decide

Record Label: Rushbrook Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

148 - Gig on Sunday, August 1st, SOLAM Fest

We've been invited to play on Day 2 of the SOLAM Festival on Sunday, Aug 1 at 2:30 PM. It'll be our first live outing in quite some time. Thanks to the kind folk at the 4014 Project for the invite. Th...
Posted by on Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:05:00 GMT

147 - Reason Not The Need Lyrics

We have posted another demo of Reason Not the Need - this time a full band version. Earl on guitar, Calen on vocals, new member Lucinda E. Bellman on Bass, Toby Wentworth on second guitar and our old ...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:07:00 GMT

146 - Go Demo Go

Hudson Studios is steadily getting furnished with recording equipment as we stay one step ahead of the bailiffs. We got ourselves a Boss BR1200CD that we're using to demo the difficult second album. W...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:40:00 GMT

145 - Wisdom of Earl Candyke, Part 7

Earl comes through again! He claims to be at a tense stage in negotiating a publishing deal with a major publisher. His experience with Brimstone Publications has not made him embittered. In other new...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:28:00 GMT

144 - Slaying the Dragon

Salutations,In a bout of possibly less-than-essential reductionism and cognizant of Christopher Booker's The Seven Basic Plots, to which in true reductionist fashion we have limited our exposure to th...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:21:00 GMT

143 - New Demo - Reason Not The Need

A new demo of one of the more rocking songs in the running for the second album, provisional title, Post Kebab Blues. Recently, after several pints of Beamish Stout, assorted bottled beers, and sever...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:16:00 GMT

142 - Wisdom of Earl Candyke, Part 6

Our geyser of bilious sagacity spews again! Viz,A certain flexibility is a necessity to remain a living tree.Sometimes the DJ doesn't take requests because he grew up in Lithuania when it was under Ru...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:45:00 GMT

141 - New Song Posted - Dead Flowers

So, our first credit crunch ballad unleashed upon an uncaring cosmos. Or is it? Picking over the bones of a broken (financial?) relationship - the compulsive greed and risk taking of one party ultimat...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:26:00 GMT

140 - Index of Blogs 121-140

140 - Index of Blogs 121-140139 - The Wisdom of Earl Candyke, Part 5 138 - Second Album - The Uncertain Pleasures of Song Choice Quandaries 137 - A True Hipster 136 - Song of the week 7135 - Notes on ...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:38:00 GMT

139 - The Wisdom of Earl Candyke, Part 5

Imagine our mitigated delight when we recently received a missive from our furtive favorite, the elusive Earl C Candyke. Verily, we were stunned, not least because it found its way to our new address ...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:36:00 GMT