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About Me

The Footsore Pilgrims was the result of a meeting between a misplaced Scouser and a young, starry-eyed hopeful from New Jersey.Michel (the American half) started off his Blighty career in a band playing some of Mark's old songs. After 6 months, he came to realise that the guy who'd written the songs wasn't actually in the band (hey, he was new to the place for heaven's sake!).When Mark and Michel finally got to meet, they bonded over a mutual appreciation of melody, harmony and shared awe of the Beatles.Some of the music they made can be heard on this site - songs of re-configured aspirations, the twisted path to faith, the bravery of innocence and the long, slow burn of heartache.And lo, Michel finally ended up in a band playing Mark's songs of which Mark was actually a member.Fate had conspired, the circle was complete. You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor !

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/5/2007
Band Members: Mark Blanchard (Voice, Guitar) Michel Duvoisin (Harmonies, Bass, Trumpet)
Influences: Cohen, Dylan, Paul Simon, The Goddess - Joni Mitchell, Randy Newman, Walt Whitman (thanks for the name, Walt - with a slight tweak obviously), forests, jazz chords, black suits, relationships (the complicated kind), Miles Davis, CSN & Y, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, lapsing Catholicism, childhood, sand dunes, darkened pubs with gilt mirrors.
Sounds Like: Simon and Garfunkel if they'd grown up in Liverpool and once played in a New Wave band. A kind of spiky folk if you will.
Record Label: Why label yourself?
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Foot Pump

The Pump House, Tuesday 3 July. A place the Pigrims had only ventured to before in the context of Open Mic impromptu appearances.And now here we were - headlining in front of an audience of family, fr...
Posted by The Footsore Pilgrims on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 01:39:00 PST

Voyage round my son

Indulge me. Allow me the time, as a proud parent, to tell you a little bit about my son.Over the last four years, since he got his first guitar, I've seen him go through the steepest of learning curve...
Posted by The Footsore Pilgrims on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:40:00 PST

In Bullet Bulletin

So...on a hot sticky Camden Town night, the Footsore Pilgrims, reduced to the lone figure of Mark Blanchard took to the stage of The Bullet Bar to perform a short selection of the Pilgrims' laments an...
Posted by The Footsore Pilgrims on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:17:00 PST

A poem about tall people

What makes some tall people so sad?What makes some tall people so sad?is it because they see the heartbreaking details others miss:the scrawny sparrow shivering on a telegraph polethe traffic light pe...
Posted by The Footsore Pilgrims on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 08:38:00 PST