About Me
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I love music above anything else. It was easy for me to identify this consuming passion early in life, and burn all bridges with wreckless abandon. My preferred instruments (the ones I can actually play!) are guitar and bass guitar. My father got me my first guitar for my fifteenth birthday. Not quite a 'cricket bat', but it wasn't that far-off. In my late teens I used to play lead guitar in a pychedelic blues band called THE BLOOZE THANGS ~ we were heroes in our local Walthamstow. I remember we played at the Marquee on Charing Cross Road a couple of times, and we once supported The Troggs! After that died I formed a kind of psych-rock jam collective known as TEA TIME TRIP ~ there were a few of us, about twenty, though not more than five or six onstage at anytime ~ we played all kinds of different instruments, and everything was totally improvised. During the mid-90's I got invited to do some live sessions for some bhangra bands, which I really enjoyed doing ~ and it paid well. Soon after that I co-formed a band called SONA FARIQ with some close musical friends. In 1999 we signed a deal with Warner Music, and went on to gain a fairly respectable degree of success and much acclaim before everything went tits up suddenly. Well, now there's a new band, yet to be named, formed with the very talented multi-instrumentalist/producer/remixer/DJ/Sound Professor, MATTY SKYLAB, the insatiable CHRIS ROTTER on guitar and bass, drummer and poet, MARTIN DEAN, and my GOOD SELF on bass and guitar. It's BIG, it's SUPER-SONIC.
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~~~~~ My parents and my sister settled in East London, following the independence war which led to the creation of Bangladesh in 1971. I was born in '72 and have lived in East London ever since, enjoying the luxury of two passports. It's all a bit foggy now, but i think my first memory is of clambering about the fallen rocks at Stonehenge. My second moment of epiphany came to me after my first day at school in East Ham, when I addressed my family at the dinner table demanding my name be changed to 'John'. This produced such mirth in my father ~ the cause of which he had not anticipated ~ that, rather than throw a strop, I experienced a few seconds of confusion (my mother half-laughing/half-choking on a fishbone) before suddenly realising the error of my ways. How we laughed! It is these points in my early development that I regard as the first steps towards my becoming a Man. There's a lot to learn, and I best have fun doing it ...... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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