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TOM OROURKE

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I write perform and record my own stuff and co-write with Jay Murray from the Mersey Beatles. My stuff crosses all genres and styles. I like to politicise my lyrics or hit upon peoples lives and difficulties and solutions whether they be incomplete or sufficient. My influences are from jazz blues through into early 50's into the 60's through the 70's and a gradual squeeze into punk [that changed my outlook] the work that that era spawned became the changing face of music that moved the goalpoasts ever wider so that we all fell into it and we are still fallin

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 27/02/2007
Band Members: The main man is myself T. O'Rourke [Affectionately known as Batman by some] I write, record [In Batcave studio 'Home Studio' LIverpool] perform. Jay [who has his own myspce] records with me, we write and produce our own material. I write and compose on a daily basis. The 'Band' as such is in construction mode i.e. forming and will no doubt do all the things it's supposed to do [perform the songs live] when required.



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Influences: From the classics Brahms, Bethoven, Vivaldi, Mozart to the early jazz and blues periods of Leadbelly, Johnson, Son House, Muddy Waters [who's music entered my life via the Lomax recordings] Coltrane, Parker, Baker [Chet], and the rest crashing into the swing, big band era Dorsey, Ellington with the vocalists of these sublime time's, Fitzgerald, Simone, Holiday [Billie], on through to the rat pack era of Sinatra, Martin, Satchmo and along with bands such as Count Bassey's combo, Miles Davis and all he surveyed. Rock and Roll, Soul, [true] rythom and blues, funk, popular music that came out o America in the late 50's and early 60's and on from the Beatles and the Stones, Kinks, Faces, Moody Blues, The Who, Cream, Floyd the list goes on and on. I would dare to state that everything from my early musical edification has had an influence on all the musicians who are alive and kicking and still working today. And it still goes on and so it should.
Sounds Like:
I guess you could say 'HYBRID' and that would suffice. My music covers all genre's with only a limited exception.
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

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The reason for that stirring in your bones; that stream of conciousness; that manifestation called music is still uncertain and long may it remain so because once the secret is out it's...
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