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Cognoscenti

DISCO NOUVEAUX

About Me



There are three members of Cognoscenti. They make pop music for imaginary children.

Thankfully, the children like it.

Stop.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/12/2005
Band Website: cognoscenti.org.uk
Band Members: Joseph Nathan Ashworth does electronically prepared guitar

Adam George Starkie does voice, bullshit

Drummond Bradley Pearson does synth, bass, programming

Influences: Glenn Alan Medeiros
Sounds Like: : HighVoltage.org.uk
: : '..could prove to be one of the surprise acts of the coming year'

: Gigwise.com
: : '..full of dangerous intent . . . could be making their mark very soon'

: ManchesterMusic.co.uk
: : 'Cognoscenti appear to exist in their own strange universe . . . a genre-defying slab of borderline insanity'

: TheMusicGuru.co.uk
: : '..not half as clever as they think they are'
Record Label: Tiger Pops
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New Ways of Living .23

Wish I had lipstick on my shirt instead of piss stains on my shoes. It's late Friday night/early Saturday morning in Manchester's Northern Quarter. Non-believers remain David Irving-like in their den...
Posted by Cognoscenti on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:32:00 PST

New Ways of 2007

So, there we were, all of us; the start of a shiny new year, the end of an era too. Standing on the South Bank as Big Ben struck midnight and the sky erupted into shimmering, joyous warfare, I stole a...
Posted by Cognoscenti on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 05:16:00 PST

FROM 18/12/06 - CHRISTMAS COMPILATION DOWNLOAD - feat. Cognoscenti!

The lovely people at Filthy Little Angels are releasing a download-only, triple CD-sized, vaguely-Yuletide-themed bonanza on the 18th December, full of Christmas cheer to warm you through these c...
Posted by Cognoscenti on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 06:23:00 PST

New Ways of Christmas

In this, the season of goodwill, may all those whom have done ill to Cognoscenti perish in road traffic accidents. We bear more grudges than lonely high court judges....
Posted by Cognoscenti on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:03:00 PST

New Ways of Living 20

I do hate to harp on about the same things week in, week out, but there you go, needs must. Here at New Ways of Living, we propagate the successful pursuit of expedient existence in the 21st Century. ...
Posted by Cognoscenti on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:07:00 PST

New Ways of Living .19

Cognoscenti are more than just handsome pop upstarts. Lately, we've been doing a lot of missionary work, spreading the good word to Lancashire's forgotten outposts. Take the other week, when Joseph an...
Posted by Cognoscenti on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:11:00 PST

New Ways of Living .18

PRISON IS LIKE A HOLIDAY CAMP (PART ONE) - Oh, it is a shame. Isn't it a shame about that? - About what? - That thing they're doing with that whatshisname. Oh, it is a shame. - I honestly don't know w...
Posted by Cognoscenti on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 02:19:00 PST

New Ways of Living .17

In memory of Paul Hunter, The Man with the Golden Cue, we salute your criminally truncated endeavour. Always hideously brash, he had absolutely no style, none whatsoever. He struck me as the kind of o...
Posted by Cognoscenti on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:05:00 PST

New Ways of Living .16

There isn't much you can say to dissuade someone who's already made her mind up. Good reason doesn't hold particular sway over flighty girls with heavy hearts, nor brooding boys for that matter. Natur...
Posted by Cognoscenti on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 09:12:00 PST

New Ways of Living .15

I was talking to Lilian, whom I work with, this morning. Lilian is as pleasant a woman you could care to meet, an honest-to-goodness, working-class Yorkshire pragmatist, tough as old boots. Bless the ...
Posted by Cognoscenti on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 09:16:00 PST