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Carl

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About Me



I'm a musician from Manchester, UK, currently working on a couple of
projects with friends I've recently hooked up with: 'Scruffs' and 'Specialists'.

All of the music on here at the moment is the product of the two projects so far: it's by no means finished. We find that recording the ideas as we go is a good way of knocking them into shape. The real production will come later this year. :)

Scruffs consists of a guitar/vocal duet: Chris Lysons and myself. I guess the name we chose is intended to describe us in some way. Heh! The duet is a casual, live thing really; two guitars. Simple. We have plans to introduce backing tracks and other musos at some point but we're just getting our toes wet right now. Most of the writing has been done-... well it's never really done is it?

Specialists is potentially a more commercially minded project. This is the music I most enjoy writing/ recording. I guess you would call it hip hop. The poets are Ben Doherty (D.O.H) and Dave Dabipi. We have a few guys who write the beats and Produce: Pedro, Bones, and myself.
So, it's early days- been having a blast, (tread gently), use your imagination, and check out the tunes!


Chris Lysons
D.O.H
A. Lifestyle
Dave Debipi
...and this is me, so you better not mess wih me, ok!!!!!

My Interests

Music:

- too many to mention: Pink Floyd, Yello, Frsnk Zappa, Radiohead, Portishead, Cocteau Twins, Metallica, ACDC, Led Zep- all that old rock, Prince, Bowie, hip hop, Laurie Anderson, Steeleye Span... Bach, Mozart, Beethoven.Influential music: All Pink Floyd.The voices of Richard Burton, Robert Earl Jones, BBC Radio 4's Charlotte Green, Fanella Fielding.

Movies:

Blade Runner, The Wicker Man (Christopher Lee's version), 2001, Scanners, Star Wars, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Pete Jackson's L.o.t.R, The Shawshank Redemption, Hitchcock, Clint Eastwood, , Withnail and I. 'Hammer' films, The Keep, East is East.

Television:

Not had a TV since ever but love South Park, The Simpson's, Stewey Griffin, classic British comedy- (basically anything with losers in a desperate situation haha!): Steptoe and Son, Porridge, Rising Damp, Black Adder, League of Gentlemen, Peep Show, Alan Partridge, Frasier, Married With Children All David Attenborough.

Books:

Shakespeare. J.R.R Tolkien's works. Science Fiction. Kafka, Camus, Sartre. Dostoevsky, Borges.influential books: J.R.R Tolkien. God and the New Physics: Paul Davies. The White Goddess: Robert Graves. The Mind of a Mnemonist: A.R Luria. The Idiot: Dostoevsky. The Brain Book: Russel. Deranged: Harold Schechter.

Heroes:

Eric Cartman
Homer Simpson
David Attenborough
Nelson Mandela
George Galloway
J.R.R Tolkien
Frank Zappa
John Peel

My Blog

Juliet Bratt

 I fell for an internet scam. Thankfully I wasn't too badly stung. This song is written for a person who I cared for quite a lot but who I never met. The person was a fiction, a fantasy construct...
Posted by Carl on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:45:00 PST

Saying goodbye to a cat.

I recently split with my girlfriend after 8 years- 2 weeks or so ago. It's a strange period of transition- from one relationship to the next. We live nearby each other, it ain't easy. She has cats.&nb...
Posted by Carl on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:25:00 PST

Waterfall

 We've had our troubled times. Someday we'll find it. One life, spread your wings, One life, one life, in the end. Lately, I'm on a roll. Looks like we kicked it. To...
Posted by Carl on Sat, 13 Sep 2008 06:26:00 PST

The Boy Who Won the World

The Boy Who Won the World. The guitar refrain was written when I was at University. One day I fell asleep and when I woke up it just came out. I spent the afternoon overlooking the High St in the...
Posted by Carl on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:03:00 PST