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No Pasaran

About Me

"...they display an uncanny ability to write what can best described as quiet, elegiac, and angelic acoustic pop songs ... Is it wrong for melancholy to make me so happy?" (Is This Music?)


"...not the cheeriest listen by any means but they were excellent, switching instrumentation to create different moods on the six songs they played..." (Manic Pop Thrills)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 20/01/2007
Band Website: www.myspace.com/nopasaran1
Band Members:

Malcolm Petrie

Neil Syme

Jim Taylor

Jess Yong


Influences: Sweet soul music, Iron & Wine, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Calexico, REM, Lloyd Cole & the Commotions, The Fall, King Crimson, Jeff Buckley, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Micah P Hinson, Joanna Newsom, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, Pavement, Echo & the Bunnymen, Neutral Milk Hotel, Wilco, Whiskeytown, Gram Parsons/Burrito Brothers/Byrds, Townes Van Zandt, The Clash, Violent Femmes, Gillian Welch, Emmylou Harris, The Band, Hank Williams, Yann Tiersen, Camera Obscura, Tom Waits, Belle & Sebastian, Nick Drake, King Creosote, Arab Strap/Malcolm Middleton, Kinky Friedman, Don Paterson, Larkin, Lorca and the Spanish Civil War.
Sounds Like: The Great Depression
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Is that your face?

This is another blog posted only to be lost in amongst the rubbish that is embedded into Myspace lands. I'll try to make this more bearable than Jim's ones. Promise.Since the New Year backed up it's b...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:08:00 GMT

Happy Birthday, Jesus!

So you all thought that things had gone a bit quiet down at No Pasaran HQ during the coldest days of winter?  Ha!  Well, you'd be wrong.  Sort of. Much like the yellow tiger crouched in...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:56:00 GMT

Go find your saint.

Played Dundee last week, met some nice folk and saw great sets from Esperi and the increasingly baggily-trousered Debutant. Also entertaining was the man in the toilets giggling to himself while ...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:28:00 GMT

Revenge of the Misanthropes

So we'll be making our triumphant return to Aberdeen on 7th September supporting the mighty Immanu El at the Tunnels.  If anyone's interested, that is. What am I saying?!  Of course you're i...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:40:00 GMT

All quiet on the northern front.....

You may be puzzled by the above Remarque, but it's merely a reference to our brief summer hiatus. As people will be moving house, away in other countries or both (though not simultaneously), No Pasara...
Posted by on Sat, 31 May 2008 20:25:00 GMT

Songs...

One new song, Acrobats, and one proper recording of another, Landing Light, up now.  Hope you like...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:55:00 GMT

Edinburgh Photos!

We've posted some photos from our time spent recording in Edinburgh over the last few days.  Fruits of our labours to follow shortly...... Jim
Posted by on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:07:00 GMT

seventeenfourtwothousandandeight

The Spur   You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention on my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song?    &nbs...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:50:00 GMT

Belmont Cinema Gigs

Here be the latest proclamations direct from the gaping maw of the mighty ThunderMoose. The Belmont Picture House in Aberdeen is to start hosting music nights again, beginning with an inaugral sh...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:42:00 GMT

Original 106FM

Harken to the voice of the Pasaran, Today we did a session with Aberdeen’s fledgling alternative radio station "Original 106FM".  It went out live on their Sunday Showcase (p...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:22:00 GMT