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dean austin

About Me

Dean Austin - Control (Live @ Acoustic Club)
"No man is an island, but Dean Austin must feel like he’s alone in a sea of style-over-substance musicians. Eschewing both the posturing of the identikit rock stars and the plastic self-indulgence of the hackneyed singer-songwriters that litter the current British music scene, Austin takes lyrical swipes at all the bogeymen of modern culture. Aiming his poisoned darts at political incompetence, the brainwashing of the masses, and superficial pop stars, his cynicism is only matched by his wit and eloquence.
Austin’s music is propelled along by a powerful and evocative voice that growls for your attention and then seduces with its suppleness, along with a forceful and commanding acoustic guitar technique. This is no thirty-something’s bedroom music, but a thunderous rumbling of sound and fury with a very contemporary slant. His growing coterie of admirers eagerly anticipate his first full-length recording, due some time in the new year, which, there is no doubt, will be an eruption on a formidable scale." M Hockley, ControlYourself.co.uk
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Member Since: 13/07/2005
Band Website: http://www.antipopstar.com
Influences: nick drake, devendra banhart, chris morris, radiohead, the smiths, iain banks, jeff & tim buckley, bill hicks, richie havens, tom waits, ben harper, bjork, eric roche, stanley kubrick, syd barrett, stravinksy

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Sounds Like: people have been kind enough to say nice things about me:

"an incredible performance, displaying a talent and feel for tuneage that most acts would be pleased to share among an entire band"
The Fly

"a pleasure to watch"
Music-Zine

"a powerful and evocative voice that growls for your attention"
ControlYourself.co.uk

"highly accomplished singer/songwriter with a very powerful delivery"
Acoustic Club

"...gangly."
Herts & Essex Observer
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

scars strangled spammer

i played at acoustic club last night and opened with a brand new song called "Scars". at least i think it's called Scars. well, let's just call it that for now to save confusion. anyway, we pressed r...
Posted by on Fri, 09 May 2008 08:09:00 GMT

new band song

the strangerhood have been recording rehearsals and we now have a brand new demo track "We Became Conscious" up on our myspace page.go have a listen and add us...http://www.myspace.com/strangerhoodmus...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:12:00 GMT

Add These Local Music Profiles!

Hello,for those of you interested in local music (Herts/Essex area), go and check out these 2 profiles and add them as your friends. the first is a local acoustic club i regularly haunt and the other ...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:42:00 GMT

birthday shenanigans

thanks a million to everyone who came out with me on thursday to celebrate my birthday, i had a great night, cheers very much.i'm still buzzing from playing at the Acoustic Club too, such a good atmos...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 03:44:00 GMT

words on zombies, the smug and the dark.

they're cominglimping through the human race, not a smile on one face.in every shopping centre, in every town, the lifeless masses stagger around.they're coming, they're coming, they're coming.where d...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:20:00 GMT

a brief hello from the digital grave

hei. i thought i'd give a little update on things to let you know that things are happening and something is on its way.i've been going through some very strange things lately (don't we all)...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 06:00:00 GMT

Photos from 12 Bar Club

i finally put together some of the pictures i've been given from the 12 Bar Club gig we played recently. thanks to Leanne, Peter, Pat and the pissed photographer bloke who i don't know the name of, fo...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:06:00 GMT

singles

if you're not already aware then i'd like to inform you of 2 singles out today that really should be purchased by large amounts of people if there is ANY justice left in the realm of musical taste. Th...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:21:00 GMT

More From The Deathshack

we hired out a van and went to a gigwe pretended we were on tourthen friday saw the 2nd deathshack sessionbut this time we RECORDED ourselves
Posted by on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 14:09:00 GMT

The First Of The Deathshack Sessions

today we are in training for a busier tomorrow. so we set up base in the secret deathshack; hidden in the hedgerows, surrounded by the innocence of housing-free fields. our own nuclear bunker, immune...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Jul 2006 13:57:00 GMT