Kim Wyrd Guy - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I've been wrestling with guitars since I was 10, when I used to record my efforts on an old portable tape recorder so that I could then harmonise with myself...a year later I discovered the joy of reverb in the stairwell of our old block of flats in Jo'burg. It's only taken a brief hiatus of 20-something years for me to pick my guitar back up and marry the two when I was given my multitrack. Although it's not sophisticated enough to boost the bass or twiddle the treble, it does allow me to harmonise with myself, add a bit of reverb and send it to the PC to convert to MP3... so a slightly more 'hi-tech' version of the tape recorder and singing in that stairwell!
Finding like-minded singing sisters involved converting the Wednesday Soup Sessions into the Cocky Magpies, which fledged to form Elowen in August '06 - you can find us at:
http://www.myspace.com/elowenfolk
I've also joined forces with the Amber Folk Mill this year - watch this space:
The Amber Folk Mill
I've been known to sing up at the Earl of Chatham pub, Lostwithiel at the weekly come-all-ye 'folk jam'. There I try out my solo material - some of which is here.
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While I'm here, cheers to my brother David, for the Langlaagte Stoep Sessions when I was 12, where he introduced me to Neil Young, Pink Floyd, Hendrix and The Beatles....(not literally, of course, how mad would that have been?)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/30/2007
Band Website: here it is...
Band Members: Kim Guy, Fostex M8HD multi-track recorder, various guitars in various tunings, occasional recorders of many sizes - all thrown together without the benefit of additional software - when we say 'rough' we mean it...
Influences: all the usual - planetary & musical
Sounds Like: she needs chocolate...
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

blackened out - my dad

Some people have wondered about how South Africa fits into my life...I came across this yesterday, while on a break at work. I'd never seen it before, and never had it mentioned to me by any of ...
Posted by Kim Wyrd Guy on Wed, 21 May 2008 01:48:00 PST

what the man said....

..TR> Music is a moral law, it gives wings to the mind, a soul to the universe, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, a life to everything, Plato 400 B.C. ..TABLE>...
Posted by Kim Wyrd Guy on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:44:00 PST

Please Let Me Get What I Want - Full of Stars remix

This time.....I've willingly skipped outside the circle of folk, and sung a Smith's song. Now before you all come brandishing pitchforks and burning torches, crying "'Heresy! it's a Smith's song! ...
Posted by Kim Wyrd Guy on Thu, 15 May 2008 04:28:00 PST

Go From My Window - Full of Stars remix

Working titles included "Oi Vamp, Shove Off" and "Flee-off(hmmm?) From My Fenestration" , but basically (is there ever any 'basic' when anything other than 'acoustic' is considered?) Go From My W...
Posted by Kim Wyrd Guy on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:07:00 PST

Maid in Bedlam - Full of Stars remix

I ’met’ Paul after hearing the stunning remix of Darkness sung by Bryony from Tinkerscuss. I (naturally) wanted to introduce him to Elowen, and he expressed his interest, nay, o...
Posted by Kim Wyrd Guy on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:03:00 PST

Organising a knees up (with the help of a brewery)

So somehow I've found myself organising the musical part of the LostFest 2008 charity day...an event that sees my role expanded beyond all recognition from peripatetically wandering with a b...
Posted by Kim Wyrd Guy on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:32:00 PST

Not after numbers...

I'm really more than happy to be virtual friends with the people with whom I share a musical/ philosophical/political/spiritual (you get it) link with. .. The great people I've heard live, m...
Posted by Kim Wyrd Guy on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:58:00 PST

KFFC (Kim Foregoes the Frilly Camouflage)

well! I guess there's a lot or nothing to be said for pre-emptive worrying! Either way, I found myself in the strangely surprising and thoroughly enjoyable position of not having a hammering hea...
Posted by Kim Wyrd Guy on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:22:00 PST

as Philip Stubbes (1583) said...

"And if you would have your daughter whoorish, bawdie, and uncleane, and a filthie speaker, and such like, bring her up in musicke and dauncing, and my life for youres, you have wun the goale"
Posted by Kim Wyrd Guy on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:38:00 PST

Solo Gig Virgin...

There I was, just saying to a friend of mine that I remember the not-so-heady days of a newborn Elowen, struggling to gather material for a set longer than 20 minutes... I have my first solo gig in le...
Posted by Kim Wyrd Guy on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:04:00 PST