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Sky Comes King

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Member Since: 22/10/2007
Band Website: www.myspace.com/skycomesking
Band Members: Andrew - Vocals and guitar

Sukh - Drums

Influences: Andrew's: 16 Horsepower, Kristeen Young, The Drones, Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, Tim Buckley, Muse, Belly's first album, Broadcast, Queenadreena, Pixies, Red House Painters, PJ Harvey, Ravel, Throwing Muses, My Bloody Valentine, Bark Psychosis, Sly and the Family Stone, early Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Fiona Apple, Gillian Welch, Joni Mitchell, Rolling Stones up to "Exile", Jimi Hendrix, Fred Neil, Sebadoh vs Helmet, Slowdive eps, Blur, Beatles, Plastic Ono band, Leadbelly, 70s Queen, Breeders, Otis Redding, early Beck, Adam and the Ants, Talk Talk (avant-garde period), Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Radiohead, REM up to "Monster", Robert Johnson, 80s Matchbox B-line Disaster, White Stripes, Dirty Three... books I like: John Holt: "Escape From Childhood", Jean Liedloff: "The Continuum Concept", anything by Nietzsche, Robert Cloninger: "Feeling Good: the Science of Well-Being", Richard Heinberg: "The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies", Joel Bakan: "The Corporation", Wolfgang Sachs: "Planet Dialectics: Explorations in Environment and Development", Colin Wilson: "The Outsider", R.D. Laing, John Fante, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, Dostoyevsky, Samuel Beckett...Sukh's: Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard,Johnny Hammond,Stanley Clarke, Mahavishnu,O'Jays, Teddy Pendergrass, Temptations,Cannonball Adderly,James Brown,Rush, Zeppelin, Sabbath, Purple, Terry Calier, Churasia, Bismillah Khan, Zakir Hussain, Indian Classical.
Sounds Like: Sky Comes King
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Camden Barfly gig tomorrow- come!

Yo yo,we've got perhaps our biggest gig yet tomorrow (Saturday 21st March) at the Camden Barfly. We're supporting the Outside Royalty, who are from Pennsylvania and are tipped for big things apparentl...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:40:00 GMT

Comedy gig tomorrow....

We've got a giglington tomorrow at the Comedy, near Leicester Square. We're on first at 8pm... does any mofo want to come and see us?Love,Andrew
Posted by on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:15:00 GMT

Bass player found! But other musicians... the door is still open...

Helloo, we've found a bass player now, the charming Matthieu. However, we are still looking for more musicians. Say a guitarist/multi-instrumentalist who can sing? In fact, John Cale, if you...
Posted by on Sun, 04 May 2008 12:36:00 GMT

Hey Bass player! Yes you! We need you... got gig coming up.

Yep, we're looking for a bass player. Do you know of anybody? We've got a gig at the end of March. And we're intending to go into the studio to record new songs... better than the ones here. Except "N...
Posted by on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:13:00 GMT