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Akira

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About Me


"I love you sons of bitches. You’re all I read any more. You're the only ones who’ll talk all about the really terrific changes going on, the only ones crazy enough to know that life is a space voyage, and not a short one, either, but one that’ll last for billions of years. You’re the only ones with guts enough to really care about the future, who really notice what machines do to us, what wars do to us, what cities do to us, what big, simple ideas do to us, what tremendous misunderstanding, mistakes, accidents, catastrophes do to us. You're the only ones zany enough to agonize over time and distance without limit, over mysteries that will never die, over the fact that we are right now determining whether the space voyage for the next billion years or so is going to be Heaven or Hell. "
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922 – 2007)
Forming in a sticky mess on November 9th 2001 and driven by too much sugar in their diet, Akira love the noise that music makes.
They say they stand for star-gazing. A gang of three armed with the belief that 'popular' and 'dumb' don't need to fuck each other over all of the time.
Their lyrical preoccupations involve: girls, evil aliens and global annihilation.
They enjoy walks in the park and watching sunsets with loved ones.
And stuff.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/12/2005
Band Website: akiraband.com
Band Members: Joel (guitar/laptop/vocals)

Gbenga (bass/laptop/vocals)

Sarah (drums/vocals)

Influences: The Karate Kid, Philip K Dick, The Chapman Brothers, Derrida, Battle of the Planets, Chaos Theory, Father John, Edward Thomas, Alan Moore, Sleepwalker, Bourdieu, Jeremy Paxman, London Underground, David Fincher, Chris Morris, The American Dream and Jesus Christ.
Record Label: Orison
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

[ 24th Apr 2007 ]:

  my thoughts on music and shit (dont read it if you dont wanna): watched pollock the other week (and as much as i like ed harris - its a pretty rubbish film - unless you like strictly by the num...
Posted by Akira on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:14:00 PST

[ 15th Apr 2007 ]:

a gorgeous sunday. would have a really good idea to go and sit in a park and drink pimms/cider from a big plastic bottle. instead we had a four hour rehearsal. and apart from the sweltering heat that ...
Posted by Akira on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:52:00 PST

[ 23rd Feb 2007 ]:

Perfect songs. Songs complete in their perfectness. From start til end. That still sound fucking amazing every single time you play them. Whoo. "First Date" by Green Day (that middle 8!). "Glassy Dust...
Posted by Akira on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:33:00 PST

[26th Sep 2006]:

it's like that bit in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. when they need to break Socrates, Billy the Kid, Joan, Freud and everyone else out of jail. yeah? and they work out that the only way to do it...
Posted by Akira on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:56:00 PST

[17th Jul 2006]:

hey hey people so... we've been talking about Various Productions to everyone that would listen for a little while now. Ian Carter has recorded Akira a number of times and did the phenomenal 'Soho' re...
Posted by Akira on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 02:16:00 PST

[18th Apr 2006]:

This bank holiday we moved house. Me and Gbenga. Packed our stuff up and just... left. Leaving Sarah behind. Pastures new. Etc. Goodbye Turnpike Lane. Hello Old Street. And the wonderful semi-mythical...
Posted by Akira on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 04:48:00 PST

[ 14th Mar 2006 ]:

I'm gonna blog this on our myspace page. So for those viewers that are new: This is just another entry on the diary page on our website. And for those viewers that are old: What the hell is wrong with...
Posted by Akira on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:29:00 PST