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michael mclinn

About Me

''crazy. great crazy... and beautiful'' Sean Creed Radio Reverb''contemplative, graceful and occasionally subversive'' Drunken Werewolf Magazine''the devil's music played by a softly spoken harpist'' Hydragenic.Com''really beautiful'' Claude, LoveLoveLove''Sonically adventurous, twinkling harps and delicate pianos, quite fey, but pretty too'' The Stool Pigeon

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/10/2007
Band Website: last.fm/music/michael+mclinn
Band Members: Vocals, Harp, Keyboards, Piano and Production all by Michael McLinn
Influences: bjork, tori amos, alisdair roberts, madonna, sinead o'connor, zeena parkins, andrew ballantyne, betty parret, devendra banhart, adam green, kimya dawson, souxsie and the banshees, morrisey, harpo marx, marie antoinette, carlos salzedo, joanna newsom but mostly, cities i visit, books i read and the lunatics i seem to end up courting
Sounds Like: ''morrissey playing the harp and pretending to be a spice girl'' alexander kirkup of the drookit dogs
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Dividing Bo(u)ys by 3

During the introduction of his book ''music of the sea'', David Proctor states that ''three main kinds of sea song exist. Music played for morale boosting, for ceremonial and diplomatic reasons (1). t...
Posted by on Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:28:00 GMT

JACKIE

when i walk into the bar i notice that all the polone's are butch and all the omi's (not an anagram of moi's) look like polone's. this does not surprise me, having found myself in establishments like ...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:08:00 GMT

ego down. burn baby burn.

burn baby boywith all the eroticism of a witchburn baby burnwith all the passion of a knat,fancy pants,me an arsonistfancy that,you the boy that i last kisseddoing wrong things for the right reasons i...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:18:00 GMT

HARPIST SLAIN BY POETRY

first of all, before i release another of Hydragenics small assasins, let mE lay out the chronology. 1. Hydragenic interviews me for Drunken Werewolf Magazine 2. My having to answer such questions ins...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:21:00 GMT

Yours, the missing one

title: Yours, the missing one date: yes - of course contributed by : Chloe the puss and shoots How much of a pirate would i have to be to steal a lyric containing wood chip? But, hah! and a big one at...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:09:00 GMT

Apocolypse Now by Simon Reynolds

why does it matter so much that pop music isĀ in constant motion? does my being one that does not subscribe to this notion mean that i can ingore the question? Frightened by an earlier coment in the ...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:22:00 GMT

stay / too hard

carbon copies are wasted on me and the blind can read my handwriting. it took me years of practice to learn to butter bread. i spend more money on harp strings than i do on food. i do everything too ...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:30:00 GMT

star-vation

leaving the house wearing denim hot pants down but four layers under a ski jacket up, i am on my way to have my haircut for the fourth time in three days.the impression i must give to my old old old f...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:33:00 GMT

joshua cuby

some of you have not seen a newspaper today.it does not seem depressing enough that it will be in tomorrows also.i would like to point out a story i read amongst boring only possible facts on the new ...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:04:00 GMT

the radio reverb 97.2fm interview

Sean: we're going to introduce our next guest, Michael Mclinn, hope i have got his name right because i've asked him about 3000 times, to the point where he probably wanted to kill me. have i got it r...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:34:00 GMT