FREDDIE ERASMUS singer/ songwriter/ artist/ model

Singer/ Songwriter/ Graphic -and Fine Artist/ Model___Frontman of My Sleeping Thoughts___ http://www.myspace.com/mysleepingthoughts___ I was born Willem Frederick Erasmus on the 11th of May 1977, when Venus and Taurus scattered their first cluster of pop music from the copulation of the 70s and 80s.My kindergarten school report would soon procl.."Frederich wants to sing sing sing!"I drew comic -& story books in primary school and the teacher put them with the other books in the reading corner. Visits to the psychiatrist (because of abnormal levels of day dreaming), finally concluded that there is nothing to worry about and that I was just a bit distracted by ideas, different from the other children and on the contrary very talented. I prefered having The Cure-esque puppet shows and theatre in the back garden. As the court jester in primary school, I soon became the chairman of the pupil committees Drama department.I wrote my first song at the age of 16, after creating a strange whale/dolphin-like sound for it on a friends Roland D10 synthesizer.My paintings in high school had a lot of resemblances to surrealists such as my birthday counterpart, Salvador Dali. After almost studying Drama, I entered music college only to find that all the theory interferes with my creative freedom. Saving a few lessons that could become useful at the back of my mind, I quit after a year. I started to persue the Coyote Ugly - dream by forming/ joining various bands, while working part-time in some retail institute or another.I wrote/ played keyboards / co-produced/-and sung backing for a local band that headed for the UK where the project terminated.I played my first gig as a solo acoustic set in a Hotel in Oxfordshire, as The Nightbird ( my alter ego for which I also created promotional comic book art. The second performance took place at a wedding at the same hotel, singing a song especially written for the bride and the groom. Just a bus ride from the Haunted George Hotel I hooked up with John Potter. We recorded but a mere two and a half tracks together at his home studio in Abingdon, but I am very pleased with the work we’ve done together. I started sending out demos again in the need of a more compatible venture. I replied to an ad in the NME magazine. A band (at the time called Simpatico) were looking for a new frontman and sent me a retail copy of their single Waves. Two guitarists later we would settle without an official guitarist as an electronic trio called My Sleeping Thoughts. Received well in live performance, reviews and radio airplay that would soon ceaze to manifest itself into a chart postion, when my Visa in the UK tragically ends. The band is left with an album’s worth of material, earned through various personal hardships, but persevered with firm passion and devotion. The band decides to undertake a strict but difficult process of internet promotion and recordings.Perhaps our postive perpectives provide some dandy holidays abroad!Text: F.Erasmus