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Stephen And The Sticks

...as she licks the pages of a Mills & Boon...

About Me

Hello! So far Stephen And The Sticks is just me, all on my lonesome. I write and perform my own music. All my songs are autobiographical, well, you know, I bend the truth a little here and there, but generally speaking, I write about what goes on around me. Hoping to get a few gigs in soon. Who knows, I may even pick up some Sticks along the way! I'm also a visual artist, mainly collage cut-outs but I've just got myself a new mac so I'm looking to start using that too (as you can see with my black and whites!).If you're at all interested in what I do, and are interested in collaborating either musically or artistically, then get in touch.Hope you like.Stephen. And OF COURSE....... I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4 AND I THINK YOU SHOULD TOO!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/9/2007
Band Members: Stephen Cranston - pretty much everything except for the long twiddly bit at the end of The Final Programme played by Scott Lord, who also wrote half of Spiked. The drums were played by GarageBand
Influences: Not sure about this. I can make a list of a bunch of bands I like, pretty sure all of them have had an influence, not sure if that'll be apparent when listening to my songs though: AC/DC, Air, Anthrax, Arctic Monkeys, Art Blakely, Beach Boys, The Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Beck, The Bees, Bert Jansch, The Beta Band, The Black Crowes, Boards Of Canada, Bob Dylan, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Cansei De Ser Sexy, Captain Beefheart, Carcass, Chet Baker, The Clash, Cornelius, Cypress Hill, The Dandy Warhols, Danzig, Dave Brubek, David Bowie, De La Soul, Dead Kenedys, Death In Vegas, The Descendants, Django Reinhardt, DJ Shadow, The Doors, Duke Ellington, Eagles Of Death Metal, Eels, Elavator Suite, Fairport Convention, Fleetwood Mac, Frank Zappa, Franz Ferdinand, G. Love & Special Sauce, Gomez, Gong, Gorillaz, Guru, Hot Chip, Howlin' Wolf, Incredible String Band, Jimi Hendrix, John Martyn, John Tavener, Karen Dalton, The Kinks, Lalo Schifrin, Led Zeppelin, Lenny Kravitz, The Lillies, Love, Love/Hate, Mahler, Mike Watt, Miles Davis, The Misfits, Morbid Angel, Mr Scruff, Muddy Waters, Nat Adderly, Ocean Colour Scene, The Pharcyde, Pig Destroyer, Pink Floyd, Porno For Pyros, Portishead, The Presidents Of The United States Of America, Public Enemy, Queen, Queens Of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Reef, Rod Stewart, The Rolling Stones, Roots Manuva, Rush, Sergei Prokofiev, Slayer, The Small Faces, Smashing Pumpkins, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Soundgarden, Stephan Grappelli, Stevie Wonder, The Strokes, Suede, Supergrass, System Of A Down, Taj Mahal, Them, Tom Waits, Tone-Loc, U2, The Velvet Underground, Weezer, XTC, Yes, The Young Knives, The Zutons (will update it when I get the rest of my collection nicely listed on itunes!)AND... a special mention to a band called I Love You, they sort of vanished after one album but I always thought they were pretty good.
Sounds Like: Ummmm.......
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

You say potato.....

Its been a whileNew stuff is on it's wayx
Posted by Stephen And The Sticks on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:24:00 PST

Maybe to-mor-row............

Moving house...AGAIN....this weekend. This'll be the 4th house in less than two bleedin' years!Quite looking forward to it - hanging my work downstairs and I'll be having a housewarming/private view l...
Posted by Stephen And The Sticks on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:30:00 PST

Counter Spell No5 - Take This!

Her disguise, a French free thinkerOstracizing bar stool stinkerIntervening weaving motherSpiteful scheming like no otherFriendly faced smiling fancyPR side of necromancyCocks and candles in the cella...
Posted by Stephen And The Sticks on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 04:12:00 PST

Spiked


Posted by Stephen And The Sticks on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:50:00 PST

Trichloroethylene Rising


Posted by Stephen And The Sticks on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:46:00 PST

27/06/01

Jellybean Horsefelch, slim-pretty, too skinny for me, the pride and joy of Mr P, turns and stands into the summer sea breeze as he (Mr P) and myself tune up. Both are dressed in black ((beautiful), a ...
Posted by Stephen And The Sticks on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:47:00 PST

The English Assassin

Lord picks me up from home, we share a taxi and gather the girls from town. Rochdale, formative years, frequent the fish. Get drunk, criticise a band and await the usual brawl.
Posted by Stephen And The Sticks on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:30:00 PST

A Cure For Cancer

Walking home from work one night, a man, almost my exact double, similar face, goatee beard, jacket, jeans, shoes, walks towards me and stops, blocking my way and says "always walk away from trouble"....
Posted by Stephen And The Sticks on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 02:50:00 PST