About Me

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'Something to Bang'

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'We Should Never Have Children'

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/1/2005
Band Website: absenteemusic.co.uk
Band Members:

Influences: Neil Young, Bob Dylan, The Flaming Lips, Pavement,
Jim O'Rourke, Wilco, Sonic Youth, Silver Jews, Serge Gainsbourg,
Roxy Music, The Velvet Underground, Tom Waits, Ron Burgundy,
Richard Brautigan, Jeffrey Brown, David Lynch, Wes Anderson,
Tom Friedmann, Jeff Koons, Wine and Beer.
Sounds Like: Leonard Cohen singing from the trouser backed up with a mix of incompetence and occasional suprise.
Record Label: Memphis Industries www.memphis-industries.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

LIVE ON AN ELEVATED PLATFORM....

Dear friends, We find ourselves dangerously close to gig time and, given that we are very proud of the evening we've concocted for you, we thought that a quick reminder would not go amiss& ABSENTEE PL...
Posted by absentee on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:42:00 PST

LONDON SHOW....JUNE 10TH

DEAR FRIENDS, TO CELEBRATE THE FACT THAT WE'VE MANAGED TO SQUEEZE OUT ANOTHER RECORD, WE ARE PROUD TO ANNOUNCE OUR FIRST ORGANIZED SHOW IN QUITE SOME TIME. ITS AT THE HOXTON BAR AND GRILL, THERES A LI...
Posted by absentee on Tue, 06 May 2008 10:35:00 PST

ABSENTE NEWSFLASH

Dear friends, Over the past two months I have met four people who were under the illusion that Absentee had split up. In three of the four cases, through the power of my Paxmanesque debating skills, ...
Posted by absentee on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:36:00 PST

ABSENTEE TV.. A WORD FROM OUR SPONSORS

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Posted by absentee on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:44:00 PST

not a blog..more of a letter regarding our next album

Dear friends, We are happy to write that in the small hours of friday morning we finished recording a new album of Absentee songs that we have provisionally called 'Spitting Feathers'. Some of the son...
Posted by absentee on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 08:33:00 PST

SWALLOWING HOT DOG - STUDIO BAN-NOT REALLY-I CONFUSED MYSELF

YES I KNOW IT'S BEEN A WHILE ...I WILL TRY MAKE IT UP BY WRITING THIS WHOLE BLOG IN CAPITALS THUS GIVING THE IMPRESSION I AM SHOUTING AT YOU...YOU CAN'T ANGRY IF I'M SHOUTING AT YOU FIRST...SORRY I WE...
Posted by absentee on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 05:03:00 PST

IT'S BEEN A WHILE

You know when you don't see someone for a long time and they say "What you been up to?" and you struggle with your brain for what feels like a decade and then resign to the "not much you?" reply, only...
Posted by absentee on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:17:00 PST

DON'T OPEN THE DOOR

Knock KnockWho's there?The man who checks if you have paid your T.V licenseI'm not inI can hear Hollyoaksyour going mentalLadies and Gentleman Its been a while...I've just eaten two baguettes...this w...
Posted by absentee on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:26:00 PST

AS THE WORLD WINDS TO AN END...

Today i have thought of something very genius... why don't the television execs enter all their soap opera actors into the celebrity big brother house??? It would be the ultimate in reality soap hybri...
Posted by absentee on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 03:45:00 PST

TO THE END OF THE ROAD

1.WAKE UP 7 AM 2.LOAD VAN 3. PASTY BUST 4.HISSY FIT 5.ATTACK OF CHINESE WOMAN 6. TAKE WRONG TURN 7.TAKE WRONG TURN 8.TAKE WRONG TURN 9.TAKE WRONG TURN 10. TAKE WRONG TURN 11. STONE HENGE 12."YES WE WI...
Posted by absentee on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:02:00 PST