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The Love Box Quartet

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About Me

Currently having only one member, The Love Box Quartet are recording original tunes and trad tunes and arrangements in the studio on as many instruments as they can find, borrow or buy cheaply if they have to. They are currently singing in English, French and Gobbledegook accompanied by instruments such as the guitar, banjo, harmonica, penny whistle, clarinet, trumpet, bouzouki, darbuka, washboard, guiro, kazoo and triangle, but everyone is welcome as long as they could play in the middle of a field, on a boat or even in front of an audience if they ever got a gig, so long as they don't have to switch the thing on first (unless it's an electric bass, OK so it's not a hard and fast rule) So, basically any instrument that doesn't rely on noughts and ones, a band that can survive a power cut without just sitting there in the dark twiddling it's thumbs. All songs and tunes are recorded in one take by each instrument with no overdubs to keep the music as live as possible. Warts and all; slight tempo changes, slight out-of-tuneness, background noise are all acceptable to The Love Box Quartet. The main band play all the instruments and sing, but are joined at times by The Love Triangle percussion section. The music will be changed on a regular basis as there are only four slots, and they are working on a website for easier access. Joel Thomas has previously played in The Howling Wolves, Easy Pieces, Red Herring and Manouka and has most recently played harmonica and sung with Wholesome Fish. ******************************************************PLEASE CHECK OUT theloveboxquartet and theloveboxquartet2 ON YOUTUBE where there are loads of folk harmonica videos ...........cheers!****************************************** ************ I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/3/2006
Band Members: Just Joel Thomas at the moment.
Influences: In a vaguely consecutive fashion......... 50's Rock 'n' Roll, Led Zep III, Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul and Mary, Steeleye Span, Lena Lovich, Rush, Lancashire and Northern Folk songs, Sonny Terry, Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Rory McLeod, Zappa and the Mother's of Invention, The Fontenot and Landrenot families, Wholesome Fish, The Skilletlickers, Naftule Brandwein, Alan Dargin, Sebo, Ivo Papasov, Vasen, Flook!, McGoldrick. So generally it's music played on Instruments or Voice by people as opposed to electronic or computer-based music, anything from English folk on a squeezebox, to Tuvan harmonic singing.
Sounds Like: Anything from a trad irish session to a Jewish wedding, via a Brazilian street party, a gypsy campfire in Bulgaria and couple of hobos with no teeth, on a train.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Imaginary Hole Technique

I made up this technique to get the missing 7th note of the scale when playing at the high end of a harmonica. It's very useful in Irish and Folk tunes. Do you hear it? Many don't. Recorded into ...
Posted by The Love Box Quartet on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:20:00 PST

Thong

Thong - A strange beast of a tune. It's sometimes hard to make out the lyrics so here they are.......by the way it's also called Shit Like That.... I keep this song inside my head for when it's dull a...
Posted by The Love Box Quartet on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:16:00 PST

Scally on the Roof

Scally on the Roof - I hope the band don't think I'm cheeky putting these up here, but I did write them. And I think people should be able to hear them. If you like this tune, please go to the Wholeso...
Posted by The Love Box Quartet on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:02:00 PST

The Rose Tree

The Rose Tree - Used to play this one with Wholesome Fish on the end of Mrs McGrath, but I learnt this more delicate version from the album English Melodeon Players where it is played by Tony Hall, Da...
Posted by The Love Box Quartet on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:14:00 PST

Reggae Clarinet

Reggae Clarinet - Got into the clarinet for a while, worked as a repair apprentice in a local shop and failed to attend much of a course in Newark, but learnt a lot when I did. So in 2003 Richard Ward...
Posted by The Love Box Quartet on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:58:00 PST

Skylark

Skylark - In the back of a transit van on the way to a gig in Bristol, looking out of the back window and through eyes throbbing from too much beer the night before, I noticed that in the haze th...
Posted by The Love Box Quartet on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:48:00 PST