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About Me

Micrographia. ('Micrographia' is best said in the voice of the bloke who does trailers for high budget action films)Born in haste in November 2003 as a project everyone thought would be "Dead by Christmas". Unfortunately for some, the project is still very much alive and well; enjoying the release of two (rather seminal) E.Ps and extensive (i.e. more than once) Radio Play including BBC Radio 1 and Radio Cymru.Micrographia (The 'Graphia, The 'Phia) is a mish-mash of it's father bands and brains, having three fathers and no mother. This caused extensive problems for the band's genes, and it is now known that it has a total of 69 chromosomes - enough to turn any normal human male man into a vegetable male man. Micrographia is no vegetable however, but a twelve-legged, jewel-eyed, three-headed, mercury-haired lion. The lion also speaks.The band's computational enterprises are led by Cymru's infamous Ben Powell of sunny Cefn Mawr. Author to a wave of ambient electronica under the alias 'Mank', Ben brought with him years of computery experience and contacts which have so far given us no gigs in wrexham. Joining ben are the equally less famous Andrew Jones and David McCann. Andy is a qualified environmental chemist who works in Woolworths (as a chartered chemical supervisor behind the cd and dvd desk); micrographia is his first band, although this is still to be verified. Verified by gas chromatography. Verified by gas chromatography by Andy. David McCann is formerly of renowned punk quartet Antishoe of Aylesbury. He is also the author of this biography, and so wishes not to disclose any more information.Micrographia - "The most origonal and progressive band in North Wales" - Adam Walton, Radio Wales.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 16/08/2005
Band Website: http://www.mankymusic.co.uk
Band Members: Dave Mc Cann - Guitar, Vocals, Accordion, Piano. Andrew Jones - Bass, Vocals. Ben Powell - Guitar, Violin, Computer programming and editing.
Influences: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Aphex Twin, Faust, Do Make Say Think, Slint, June of 44, Shipping news, Jeff Meuller, Shellac, Big black, rapeman, Squarepusher, Boards Of Canada, autechre, Bjork, Mogwai, Sigur Ros, Talk Talk, Arab Strap, Joy Division, The talking heads, Black flag, Melvins, Super Furry Animals, Nine Inch Nails, Brian Eno, David Byrne, At-The Drive In (Sparta, Mars Volta), Sonic Youth, Beastie Boys, DJ Shadow, Tortoise, Ministry, Fantomas, LARD, Adam and the Ants, Lou Reed.

Andy's been listening to ,

Ben's been listening to,

Daves been listening to

Sounds Like: Your mum (Thanks for that Dave), 65 Days of Static, Mountain Men Anoymous, Radiohead, Mogwai with aphex beats, M83, "Flotation Toy Waring without the singer"-Neil Crud, "as far off the band wagon as they get" - Adam Walton BBC Radio Wales, "Micrographia have woven melodic traditional instrumentation with a darker tinge of electronica. " Rob da Bank - BBC Radio 1
Record Label: Solar chi
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The future for Micrographia

Dearest chimps,As usual, I haven't checked this Myspace page in a long, long time. But this time I surely have out-done myself as it must be almost a year since I kept you all updated on what we're do...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:36:00 GMT

I hope you can all hear me

Dearest chimps, Yet again I have taken it upon myself to assure everyone that we are not yet done with making music. In fact, we started on a new album, but my irritating fetish for higher education g...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:03:00 GMT

Radio play

It's been a while, anyway we're getting some radio play sunday (23 sept) at 11pm on www.oldhamcommunityradio.com I assume if your round oldham way you can listen to it proper but for everyone else you...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:10:00 GMT

Blu goes green...

Andy is a bastard.Last night my good nature was taken advantage of, and now my poor old back has paid the price. Andy - your amp weighs a ton at 3 in the morning up 4 flights of stai...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:06:00 GMT

Phunts.

Dearest weirdos, Yet again i have taken it upon myself to reassure you that we still do exist, and (more importantly) we are still writing new material. The new record is on the way, and is expected f...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:02:00 GMT

Almost there

So the summer diddnt herald....well.....fuck all to be honest. The Antishoe reunion diddnt happen, Dolphin Cock diddnt happen (much), and i spent most of my time (aside from working) watching Battlest...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 02:56:00 GMT

Its about bloody time.

It really is, isnt it? I have now fully accepted that people listen and are interested in Micrographia, leading me to the positively startling conclusion that people may want to know what the hell we ...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 01:26:00 GMT

Blacklisted? We should be.

Oops.... First of all, i'd like to make it clear that i really, really wanted to go return to the motherland (my mother's house) for the easter break. REALLY wanted to go back home. Like whe...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 02:45:00 GMT

Graphia - officially better than Emo Filth.

Last night the graphia had the balls to play at a battle of the bands competition minus ben, and with a broken D-string. Without ben, we not only sounded even weirder than usual, but couldnt manage to...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 05:20:00 GMT

Manky Nights .01

It fucking worked. I diddnt count the crowd, but there was enough to clog the bar's intake and stop people from getting towards the stage. For a gig organised purely from less than 10 emails and frien...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Feb 2006 16:32:00 GMT