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James McKay

About Me

I grew a little in Sunderland, then a little more in York, I grew bigger in Nottingham and now I'm a grown up in London.

"For the past few years I’ve played with words, for the last year I’ve played guitar, for the last few months I’ve put them together, and this is what I made. This is what I make of things... of life mainly and emotion...”

You can download my demos to date from this link for free.

The Onion Skin Essays - SaveFile.com project

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/11/2007
Band Website: jamesmckaydesign.com
Band Members: At the moment its just me...

Influences: Bill Hicks and Noam Chomsky.

I also read books.
Record Label: If you cant get one, you dont need one...
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

I forgot how much i HATE one night only...

ok that put to one side... im playing a gig at the basement bar on the 19th with a chap called zak borden... Willy Masons cousin of all people. Its five dolla to get in and will be lots of fun, im dea...
Posted by on Wed, 13 May 2009 10:04:00 GMT

Ive a house a job a wife a child a dog a cat and a greenhouse above my head.

    I have a typewriter, I tell it stories, talk to it. In return it mechanically, ceremoniously, rhythmically offers its blue blood in sacrifice. I document, no, dictate to this metal lump. It is a t...
Posted by on Sat, 09 May 2009 09:17:00 GMT

the therapist

Lord knows I need a change, change from this wretched vessel I dwell in. A hollow shell of a frame, brital yet internally coarse. Acidious liquids coarse through the veins to feed its lamentable muscu...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:48:00 GMT

26.4.09

Its only possible to truly acknowledge the accuracy of stillness in the early morning when your head swims, I had a convulsion again. A restful aftermath honed the stillness of my bed, of my body, of...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:47:00 GMT

One comment can ruin the FUCKING DAY...

Ive a skeletal frame I mutter to your thundering feet, to your gratified ears, to you- the mob, Im rags and bone. This youthful skin hangs from my bones as a veil hangs on the mourning. Brittle ...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:07:00 GMT

23.04.09

Ive dust on my lids still, and Im up before you. The world is at once softer in the milky light of this early morning. I crack my window and consume the fresh city air, cough and light a cigarette. ...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:15:00 GMT

A short story - "A Short Death"

Thomas:A square short pug box telly a hangover from the 70s flickers silently, intermittently, black and white static- Eastenders- static, one and the same to me. Ive muted it only to hear the ambie...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:55:00 GMT

DOWNLOAD MY 22 TRACK DEMO

Here is a link to download my 22 track demo titled The Onion Skin Essays. Most of the songs are mine, some are other peoples. Theyve been knocking round my computer for too long now so Im offering...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Jan 2009 05:50:00 GMT

WATCH THIS VIDEO LINK... GAZA INVASION

Gaza Crisis!!!!!!IF YOUR TOO LAZY OR APATHETIC TO WATCH THE WHOLE VIDEO CLICK TO 2MINS IN... FOR A FIRST HAND ACCOUNT BY A FOREIGNER OF THE STATE OF THINGS WITHIN GAZA...http://news. bbc. co. uk/1/hi/...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:16:00 GMT

Tonight the Israeli army enters into Gaza&

Tonight the Israeli army enters into Gaza& it has been a long time since I have felt such dread and sorrow. Any form or intelligent articulation has escaped me tonight in my panic and misery. Never h...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:22:00 GMT