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Warner Bates

How strange the change from major to minor...

About Me

Warner Bates is young singer songwritier from the U.K. His biggest influence is music - of all kinds. After playing with various bands and working on various projects - in 2004 Warner performed solo for the first time. He hasn't looked back since. Warner is currently working on a new set of recordings with a full backing band. This page is ran by Warner himself so please feel free to leave a message or a comment to say hello - he will reply and he's a friendly kind of guy as well!

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/10/2005
Band Website: you are on it!
Band Members: Warner played and/or arranged all instruments, samples and sounds on his recordings.
Influences: Jeff Buckley; Led Zepplin; Jack Peachey; Whiskeytown; Smashing Pumpkins; Rufus Wainwright; Nina Simone; Cole Porter; Ella Fitzgerald; Billie Holiday; John Lee Hooker; B.B. King; Miles Davis; Glen Miller Orchestra.
Sounds Like: Jeff Buckley; Tom McRae; Duke Special; Ed Harcourt; Scott Mathews
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Warner Bates - Live in Session on WTNR Radio

Hello wonderful people! Thanks to my wonderful friend Andy a.k.a Dragonhead - who has graciously asked me to do a small live session for his internet radio show. Just to let you all know - this show g...
Posted by Warner Bates on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 03:07:00 PST

NEW TRACKS ON THE PLAYER....

Hey guys! I've put two of the Live tracks on my player for you to listen to. To kick things off we have the Live version of Red Roses (you&i).  It's little more "beefed" up than the original ...
Posted by Warner Bates on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:45:00 PST

Live At Relocated Studios

At last - something new to report... I've just finished an 8 song live session recording for an internet radio station, some of which will be broadcast in the near future. I'm really happy with t...
Posted by Warner Bates on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:36:00 PST

Thailand and whatever after...

It is with a certain hesitancy and a degree of excitement that I write this.  I have often found myself searching for the way forward in my life.  I have often found myself searching fo...
Posted by Warner Bates on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:35:00 PST

I Ain't Cold

Well for those noticed my rather brief foray into alternative aliases and rubbish like that - I decided to just put this song on my page. I was fooling around with pseudonyms to help distract me from ...
Posted by Warner Bates on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 02:35:00 PST

Clearly Or Darkly

I started developing the idea for this song at a recent gig at The Musician where one of the acts I was playing with played a song where they were slapping/tapping their acoustic to pull out the sound...
Posted by Warner Bates on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:02:00 PST

When I Grow Up....

I never saw myself as a musician... When I was growing up; from a child until only recently at the grand old age of 23, I never once looked in the mirror, sat and thought, considered, aimed, focussed ...
Posted by Warner Bates on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 05:00:00 PST

Jeff Buckley Nottingham Tribute @ The Maze...

Well what a great night that turned out to be... Granted I had my reservations before hand... the idea of getting a cold and then trying to sing Jeff Buckley songs in front of a large audience is usua...
Posted by Warner Bates on Mon, 21 May 2007 06:32:00 PST

LIVE "animal" AID

Well what can I say??? LIVE "animal" AID was a wonderful success! First of all a huge thank you to all the bands and artists that put in all their effort and time for no fee or other motivation other ...
Posted by Warner Bates on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 10:12:00 PST

You ACTUALLY will hate me...

I have so many gigs coming up that by the end of May you ACTUALLY will hate me and be sick of the sight / sound of me! Ok FIRST we have a lovely little gig at Lee Rosey's Tea Shop in Nottingham on the...
Posted by Warner Bates on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:19:00 PST