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The Welfare State

About Me

The Welfare State is Andy Jones, formerly of Kicker.

This is very much me mucking about at home with my laptop. You may have gathered that I don't really take this seriously (enough?). Have got lots of half finished proper songs, that I'll hopefully have time to complete at some point. However, life is complicated at the moment, so don't hold your breath.

In addition to The Welfare State, I'm also playing bass for the forthcoming live incarnation of The Silver Abduction. They're rather good - you should check them out (see link below).

March 2009

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/1/2007
Band Website: http://www.welfarestatemusic.com
Band Members: Andy Jones - playing pretty much everything.
Influences: Marmite on toast, copious amounts of tea.
Sounds Like: Steve Reich in the afternoon
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

The Jesus and Mary Chain Covers Project

I've contributed a track to The Jesus and Mary Chain Covers Project, which can be downloaded here:http://i-94.co.uk/jamc/?p=34It's a radical reworking of "My Little Underground" from Psycho Candy, whi...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:04:00 GMT

Last of the Soundheads

This is more of a technical exercise in layering different guitar sounds than an actual tune - so called cos' it ended up sounding like 80s proto-post rockers Loop. The Stockhausen samples were a bit ...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:11:00 GMT

Rum Baba Distribution Theory

Another new tune, again probably going to add vocals to this at some point, but in the meantime let's give it a silly title.There are some more in the pipeline, but I'll use a Farfisa on the next one,...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:33:00 GMT

Milky Tea

Thought it was about time I posted a track that wasn't comin' atcha like a Tesco Value DJ Shadow."Milky Tea" is very much a work in progress, as I intend to eventually make this a proper song with wor...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:58:00 GMT

All the kids on this bus have crap taste in music

I've posted a new track called "All the kids on this bus have crap taste in music". It's much of the same novelty sample tomfoolery as before.There's more on the way, but it's likely to be of the same...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:01:00 GMT

I'm new to this Murdochspace Malarky

The track I've posted isn't really indicative of the other stuff I'm working on (nor is it particularly good), but just needed to put somthing up here for the time being, rather than the 5-month long ...
Posted by on Sun, 13 May 2007 08:30:00 GMT