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About Me

CONTACT ME AT WWW.SEANNOWLAND.COM CONTACT ME AT WWW.SEANNOWLAND.COM FUNK SHUI is the rhythm section of the once and future, humble but mighty TREEFROGS plus MANY superstar special guests and house players.Currently JOHN HENRY BOURKE aka JHBUSA on guitar, vox, JEFF DUFFY "The Crusher" on the drums, ROB MATTHEWS "Captain Lone Wolf" on sax, vox, flute and percussion, SEAN aka THE SHAG NOWLAND slapping the Bass, and weekly winner of the "sing with the band contest", the only qualification is being the new trumpet player, GAVI DETARR on trumpet and vocals.Sitting in regularly on percussion is Adam on Percussion (that's his name). From time to time Bobby Soxxx, the Professor of Rock N Roll, on lead guitar and vox, and the orginial FUNK SHUI guitarist comes back to haunt us from time to time; The Dark Lord of Guitar, David Murphy, aka Pentatron, master of PENTATRONIX.Sweet Billy Leeds ..66 sits in from time to time bringing his golden pipes and an arsenal of FLEETWOOD MAC tunes.THE NATSTER aka Natalie Doyle sings us some sweet Badu tunes when we're lucky enough to have her.The Danish Godess Knirke Lundt drops in to dance and sing and generally raise everyone's spirits.We play all kinds. No line in the sand as long as it ROCKS! If you don't like one jam we ALWAYS got another one. We play long and hard.There are many bands named FUNK SHUI. However, FUNK SHUI is a roman transliteration of Chinese Characters. If you know one of the many other bands named FUNK SHUI, ask them what characters they are using...

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Member Since: 5/13/2005
Band Website: http://www.funkshuipdx.com
Band Members: john henry bourke: guit vox-- rob matthews: sax vox percussion-- jeff duffy: drums (no mic for him!)-- sean the shag nowland: bass vox-- gavi detarr: trumpet-- SPECIAL GUESTS: bobby soxxx: lead guit vox-- david murphy: lead guit vox-- fred stephenson: lead guit vox-- billy leads: vox vox vox-- adam on percussion: percussion--
Influences: charlie nanos, stolen sweets, crackpots, treefrogs, john henry band,rich man's burden, superficials, plumb bob, government bird, fractal, lewie longmire, little sue, belmont street octet, toshi onizuka, shoehorn, dusty the "i like beer" guy, rubberneck, miss michael jodelle, another fine crisis (they'll always be "SO FINE" to me), fancy pants, lust global sleep around local!!! alice donut, oingo boingo, sprawl, borat...OH YEAH satsuma, the real trap door...
Sounds Like: rock, americana, electric noise, jazz, lounge, folk, singer-songwriter, funk, top 40, metal, rap,hip hop, reggae, world beat, r&b, blues, punk / other...
Record Label: Broken Records

My Blog

FUNK SHUI @ THE WHITE EAGLE JUNE 7TH 9:30 PM

Funk Shui Bringing the funk to you this Saturday at the White Eagle. It's a hip place to go and have a few drinks and see us! Opening up the night is a band from Eugene OR. Awesome music. THE ESSENTIA...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:10:00 GMT

THANKS FOR A GREAT CD RELEASE PARTY

GOSH! I wish everyone could look out into a crowd of several hundred of their best friends and well wishers. SO much fun! Thanks to the girls for busting out those surprise t-shirts and Celia for a...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:44:00 GMT

A NEW ANGLE ON THE FUNK

Same Crystal Ballroom show, but the up close porn cam with sexy shots that make us look huge...Eli took this. The other long shot was taken by Andy or Rich Man's Burden. Eli was on the upclose Feder...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:51:00 GMT

NEW PICS AND NEW VIDEOS SOON NEW TUNES

thought you might like some new candy...mmmmm....candy....
Posted by on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 22:05:00 GMT

CRYSTAL FREAKING BALLLROOM!!!!!

How about SOFT porn...NEW video of FUNK SHUI playing MEXICO at the CRYSTAL BALLROOM in Portland, OR.It's more about seeing how cute we are than the sound. For sound buy the upcoming CD called ARMORED...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 10:04:00 GMT

FUNK SHUI @ BIDDY'S VIDEOS OF

i know i'm not supposed to post porn and this is pretty closeit's shot with a little camera so the sound is...you knowi'll stick some more up soon!www.seannowland.com
Posted by on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 09:53:00 GMT

crystal ballroom

sure the sound is bad but we're still cute to look at!hope you like the new video, i didn't even know i had this or i'd have posted it earlier!
Posted by on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:41:00 GMT

BLOG? OH YEAH! NEW YEARS EVE PICS SIX MONTHS LATER

I'm slow what can i say, here are a couple new pics, new from new years eve.
Posted by on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 17:37:00 GMT