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mike leigh

About Me

....Mike Leigh picked a Greek tourist souvenir bazouki from the living room wall of a friend in Manchester when he was 8 years old. Legend has it that within a minute or so, the theme to Coronation Street was heard by all present. It was Manchester after all. Friends' mum calls Mikes' mum to tell her. Mikes' mum exclaims "Oh no! Not another musician!".. (in grief-stricken anguish having already given birth to her 1st son: Henry Cow legend ,performance art/jazz/loony and current older brother Geoff Leigh). Thus was born a life of struggle, strife ,social club gigs and a thousand fragments of myriad broken dreams.Not to mention dodgy chords.Currently involved in a very sweet trio..Myself on acoustic guitar,my good friend Andrea Samengo on the same, and my brand new and very beautiful wife Kate on cello. See www.myfavouritestrings.com for more info.And I play guitar for Swati Natekar ,the fantastic Indian diva & her 8 piece band. Also teach to fill in the gaps between gigs. Love music.Love life.Love love...More music to be added soon...
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Member Since: 29/04/2007
Band Website: www.myfavouritestrings.com
Band Members: ...At the moment I'm in MY FAVOURITE STRINGS a 3 piece accoustic group- 2 guitars and cello. See www.myfavouritestrings.com for more!!! Just joined Indian fusion diva SWATI NATEKAR.Swati has worked with Nitin Sawhney and Zakir Houssain amongst others and she is real good at all that kinda stuff. And when I get lonely I play with Reason & Cubase....
Influences: ...Beatles ... Jimi Hendrix... John Mclaughlin... Jeff Beck...Shakti...Pat Metheny...Joni Mitchell...Santana...Erika Bhadu...Django Reindhart...Stevie Wonder...Leftfield...Krishnamurti...Massive Attack...Ravel... R Kelly... Mahler...Rolling Stones...Tony Bennet...Ravi Shankar...Ella...Frank Sinatra... Thelonious Monk...Groundhogs..Alex Harvey Band...Prince...De la Soul...Jethro Tull...Gavin Bryars...Toto...Black Sabbath...Terry Riley...Monty Python...C.C.Penniston... Coltrane...Miles...Mahavishnu....Brand X...Weather Report...Jaco...The Eagles...Grand Funk Railroad...Humble Pie...Return to Forever...Jethro Tull...Jill Scott...Aretha...Gong...Mike Oldfield...Geoff Leigh...Hillage...Cream feat.Eric Claptout...Trevor Horn...Sandy Denny...TV ads...Led Zep...Zappa...Bob Dylan...Earth wind & fire...Dave Trigwell...Larry Carlton...Lee Ritenour...Scott Henderson...The Who...Disco...Kokomo...E.L.O...Thin Lizy...Peter Green...Paco de Lucia...Pink Floyd...John Martyn...Jeff Buckley...Gilbert O'Sullivan...J.S.Bach...Status Quo...BeachBoys...Steely Dan...Tontos expanding headband...Camel...Ivor Cutler...Wes Montgomery...Fred Frith...Harold Budd...Eno...Yes... No....Hatfield & the North...Ian Dury...Robert Wyatt...King Crimson...Elvis...Billy Cobham...James Brown...Funkadelic...Parliament...Cameo...the moon,sunrise & my wife. Oh..and sheds.. More too but..Hey.Life is short....
Sounds Like: ...your mum/dad/doctor/overpaid therapist/social worker/carer/boss/husband/wife/girl you had who thought she was pregnant but in fact ate too many sweets telling you it's all gonna be fiiiiine.
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

4.4.08 Mikey does Jimi...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izKfPz0KbTk ....The Railway Tavern in Mill Hill North London..A quick gig with James the bass player ..no rehearsal..or chords..or drummer..or vocals..Can't yo...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:41:00 GMT

Penny the 5th

...is an improvised solo guitar piece done in one take complete with errors of playing on the 5th anniversry of my mums' passing on. Low light & reverb. My feelings on that evening.
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:17:00 GMT