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London Below

About Me


"The sky above the port was the colour of TV, tuned to a dead channel."
William Gibson, Neuromancer (the ultimate way to start a novel/trilogy)
zpink is an elderly(approximately 400 years old) Swedish gentleman, currently residing in northen Wales. He grew up on metal and Sisters and likes to make a lot of noise.
The story so far: Born in Stockholm, or Birka as some people still knew it as, he from an early age developed an interest in music. The main inspiration being an overseas gentleman named Vincent Furnier and a quartet of men in strange clothes and makeup hailing from the same shores. Granted his highest wish, on his 12th birthday he became the proud owner of a 6-stringed candy-red double-cut-away lute of the same model as the influential Tony from Birmingham. Joining forces with his next-door neighbour and friend, who owned a 4-stringed lute, he set up his first show. Neither of the two young lads had any talent nor clue about how to play their instruments. The show was saved (or so they thought) by the fact that the friend could mimic the 4-string lute player amongst the aforementioned quartet's facial expressions.
Before reaching his teens he was migrated north, due to family decision. In the new school he soon became part of a short-lived band. Swapping his 6-string to a 4-string he got involved in learning a few songs by Nazareth and other contemporary heroes. Still lacking talent, he soon realised that a life of partying and passively enjoying music was so much easier.
Seasons passed, empires rose and fell and the 4 strings once again became 6. Life continued and the lute was left in peace.
A number of years after migrating to a small island of the coast of Europe, he decided to start making some new noise. The lutes, both 4 and 6 stringed ones, are now run through some more sophisticated machinery and there is also an organ present. zpink still lacks talent.
The strange noises which often sounds like if from a distant past, are now created in the vaults of London Below.
TBC
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 20/04/2007
Band Website: http://indiestore.7digital.com/londonbelow
Band Members: zpink - making most of the noise
LÎNÐã - management and talent scouting
Arnold Layne - fashion and styling.

Guests this far:
Mats Levén - metal legend.
Henrik Loman - talented friend.
Matt Ford - tortured Gardener

Damian Farnes designed this page and provided the bulk of the grafix.

Influences: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tan Hauser Gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.....Time to die"
Roy Batty, BladeRunner
Sounds Like: Just plug your head-phones in to save me some typing!
But it's rather shit, I must admit. ;o)
Record Label: PennerStrasseStudios
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Nazi-Nick - UK's rep in Europe

Surely this piece of shit has gone too far now!Personally I'd prefer it if someone threw a brick with a good aim the next time he shows himself in public instead of eggs. But hopefully this will be a ...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:31:00 GMT

Dirty Little Secrets

Greetings MySpace-dwellersThe lyrics for this are a bit gritty, but still not really matching the harsh reality.My fiancee who helped me with the lyrics has kindly put together a couple of links:Equal...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:46:00 GMT

Arter ....Species ......

What can I say? Bad day, annoying people at work, then making the misstake of watching the news ....It does make one feel slightly alienated, and actually being grateful for that small mercy. Most of ...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:11:00 GMT

Unexpected

C'mon, help us ....;o)Would be utterly cool if we managed to get to 1!!! Have an awesome w/ezpink
Posted by on Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:30:00 GMT

Illusions

Greetings MySpace dwellersThe new low-tech noise started life as a poem by Clara E. Gerl, yep the very same poet who wrote "Sweet Girl". ;o)This one is originally called "Fate" and can also be found i...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:51:00 GMT

Psychedelic Elektro-Doom Musical in D-minor

Greetings MySpace-dwellers The new track "Sweet Girl" started as a poem by Clara Gerl, Karla in top friends. Since I absolutely loved the dark story about passion and loss that it tells and would've l...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:30:00 GMT

Can Death be Sleep

'ello everyoneWell overdue, but now at least there's 2 of the poems up.Not sure if this'll be the final mix, might try to get a proper singer involved.Any volunteers? ;o)Fell free to comment/slag it o...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:19:00 GMT

She Walks in Beauty

Greetings and cheers for stopping by. This track is the first from the upcoming collection that will (probably)be named "Long Dead Poets". The rest of the tracks will not be THIS mellow though, and ac...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:39:00 GMT

Islington

Sorry for the shit production of this. Will be re-recorded at some point and then mastered properly, but I'm pretty fed up with it at the moment and wanted to get something uploaded here.   Live ...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:16:00 GMT

Got something to sell?

A future planned track for London Below is "the Floating Market", for which a draft of the intro can be heard in the player above. In case anyone wanna get involved, I would very much appretiate recor...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:20:00 GMT