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Cassette baby

Madness in twilight, start again in the daylight

About Me

Cassette baby are producer extraordinaire and multi-instrumentalist, Lee Cole and quirky soulful vocalist, Marie Lister.... We've been working together for 2 and a half years...and what funs its been! We've nearly finished recording our album, we've performed and quite a few venues in Bristol and London- Cargo, Monkey Chews, the Bedford, Regal Rooms, The Fleece, the Betsy Trotwood, to name a few... ************************************************************ ************************************************************ ************************************************************ ********************************************* We make all of our music together in Lee's home studio, with Lee writing all of the instrumentation and Marie writing all of the lyrics and melodies...but we do cross over into each others domain sometimes so we can come up with the best possible product of course.... ************************************************************ ************************************************************ ************************************************************ *********************************************Lee also Mixes and Masters all of our songs....He's what i like to call a strange hybrid of Logical techy type and Creative muso type.... its obviously very convenient as he does 2 peoples work, which is why i take my hat off to him, he's a hardworking chap. ************************************************************ ************************************************************ ************************************************************ *********************************************We like writing songs so Cassette Baby are available to write songs for other artists. Our taste in music is broad so we're flexible with genre. ************************************************************ ************************************************************ ************************************************************ *********************************************Before we formed Cassette Baby, Lee won a competition at the BBC after sending in a piece of music he had composed for a visual. After that he got the opportunity to make music for the BBC Wildlife Documentary 'Seawatch'. He has produced music for many a Bristol artist in varying genres and his musicality is always growing...along with his tech head....plug ins, plug ins, plug ins! ************************************************************ ************************************************************ ****************************** On the musical side though, lee plays Piano in a crazy jazzy way or a pretty classical way depending on how he feels....he plays Guitar amazingly, with a percussive style and a bit of finger picking in there too...s'lovely! also he plays Trombone so those horns you hear on our tracks? some of them are actually Lee. oh yes... ************************************************************ ************************************************************ ************************************************************ *********************************************Marie recorded her first demo in Australia when she was 18 and still cringes when she hears it as her voice was decidedly more squeaky back then. But she always had Soul, deep within her bones and worked with several producers in Bristol until the fortunate meeting with Lee when she decided he was definitely the best one she had come across. Her voice is soulful, quirky and distinctive...and her lyrics are usually just plain random, but thats why we love them right?****************************************************** ************************************************************ ************************************************************ *************************************************** Together, Lee and Marie make a formidable writing team and have created an individual style not like anything else you have heard...(just a mish mash of all the things they love) ************************************************************ ************************************************************ ************************************************************ ********************************************* If you would like to contact Cassette Baby regarding songwriting, gigs or if you just have a record deal for them.... just email [email protected] or send a message on this here Myspace....You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor !

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/4/2007
Band Website: No site yet
Band Members:Lee Cole: Production, Guitar, Piano, Trombone, general instumentalist, writerMarie : Vocals, Lyrical and melodic goodness
Influences: in no specific order... the carpenters, john legend, jefferson airplane, jimi hendrix, mary j blige, doris day, aretha franklin, otis redding, rem, janis joplin, tracy chapman, mariah carey (in the olden days), billie holiday, ella fitzgerald, peggy lee, annie lennox, the who, ray charles, basement jaxx, beach boys, bessie smith, bill withers, mamas & papas, bob marley, don ross(crazy finger-picker!) cody chesnutt, the roots, jill scott, portishead, erykah badu, faith evans, the cardigans, massive attack, no doubt, 2pac, michael jackson, joanna newsom(cool lyrics!), system of a down, swv, stina nordenstam, stevie wonder, red hot chilli peppers, stevie ray vaughan, quincy jones, lauryn hill, randy crawford, old jazz greats..oscar peterson, jelly roll morton, louis armstrong, ani difranco....the list could go on..so in short, talented, individual creative souls are what we love and we wish we were living in the 60's... more recent artists we love include..razorlight, kt tunstall, the kooks, the view, jamie t, amy winehouse, keane, jose gonzales... that'll do for now
Sounds Like: hopefully, a lovely sounding mish mash of all our influences in a pot together with our own personal creativeness, whisked to perfection, producing wholesome creamy goodness for your ears...
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Thief of the Night

Our new song is called Thief of the Night, I hope you’ve checked it out already...if not please have a listen and tell us what you think!Its about a man who comes back to his hometown after year...
Posted by Cassette baby on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:22:00 PST

Brand new Song!

hey ho, If you havent already, Please check out our new song which we recorded at EMI studios last week....its called 'Rocky Road to Regret' and its on our page now!Honest feedback would be appreciate...
Posted by Cassette baby on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:31:00 PST

Oh yeah and we’re on the radio!

yep, we're on the radio this Sunday (24th Feb) at around 9am so if you are in the Southwest of the country then check us out on Star FM 107.2!! we'll be playing a couple of tunes and chatting about wh...
Posted by Cassette baby on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:18:00 PST

back in EMI Studios....

So last week we were back in EMI studios recording a new song.... its called 'Rocky Road to Regret' and we Love it! we'll be sticking it on ourspace this week so keep a look out! And we're just contin...
Posted by Cassette baby on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:13:00 PST

nice song, shame about the name

So we've decided to re-name one of our recent tracks 'Gunna'We came to the conclusion that it was a bit of a crap name, so from this day forth it will be known as 'Innocent Minds'we think it relates m...
Posted by Cassette baby on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:57:00 PST

YoYo and EMI Studios!!

Oh my...so much has happened in our Cassette baby world since we last blogged!!we've just returned from London after a week of musical goodness....last thursday we performed @ YOYO in Notting Hill! It...
Posted by Cassette baby on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:25:00 PST

AAARRRGGHHH! Vocal drama :( and a new song! :)

Goddamnit! my voice is gone....its just a croaky empty shell of what it used to be...frustration is not the word....I like talking...i talk quite loud and quite alot...I love singing and also do that ...
Posted by Cassette baby on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:53:00 PST

writing writing writing!

the other day we wrote 2 new songs....it had been at least a month since the last song we wrote so it was totally overdue... I actually turn into a crazed psycho if i dont creatively burn energy by wr...
Posted by Cassette baby on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:17:00 PST

LANDAAAN!! Gigs and stuff.....

We havent done the blogging thing for a while so it s about time we did some updating!  well...last week we had a wicked time at Monkey Chews in Camden....met some cool people and played a good s...
Posted by Cassette baby on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:31:00 PST

FESTIVAL!

 aaah summer is here and i thought we weren't gonna get to play a festival this year-but the gods are smiling down on us i tell ya! the other day we randomly met a lovely lady called Rachel who i...
Posted by Cassette baby on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:58:00 PST