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The Willow

About Me


Custom Blue front-man Alex Pilkington has disappeared in a forest of wires, some acoustic, to provide for The Willow.....

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 19/12/2007
Band Website: www.hohumrecords.com
Band Members: Alex Pilkington, Tux.....and lots of advisors.
Influences: Espers, Six Organs..., Bonnie, Wilco, Sunforest, Drake, PJ, Custom Blue, The Eye, Troubleman, Feist, Faust, Spirit, Canned Heat, Mountain, Havens, Guthrie (both), Cale, Cave, Spacek, Harmonic 33/313, Ayub Ogada, Voice of the Seven Woods, Martin, Mitchell, CSN, Neil Young, Calexico, Iron & Wine, Doobie, Azymuth, Arthur Verocai, Axelrod, My Bloody Valentine, Loop, Spacemen 3, Teenage Fanclub, Sun Dial, Lemonheads, Beatles, Stones, Dead, Lovin Spoonful, Al Kooper, Bloomfield, Mountain, Reich, Murakami, Kerouac, Part, Eno, Budd, Neu, Linda Perhacs, Pentangle, Roy Harper, Low, Global Communications, Richie Havens, Delaney and Bonnie, Allmans, Sonic Youth, Meg Baird, Po Girl, Be Good Tanyas, Richard Thompson, Davy Graham, The Who, Zep, Zapp, Jefferson Airplane, Merry Pranksters, Tom Wolfe, Laced-chilli, Haight, Palace, LCFC, Jackie Mittoo, Basic Replay, BJ Cole, Country Joe and the Fish, London Sinfonietta, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Spirit, Steve Miller, John Mayall, Carl Craig (most things Detroit), Rusty Man, Nick Drake, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Max Romeo, Junior Delgado, Dawn Penn, Robert Stone, Elliot Smith, Simon & Garfunkel, The Byrds, Wonderstuff, Aronofski, Bert Jansch, Kate Rusby, Dervish, Incredible String Band, Gordon Lightfoot, Jeff Alexander, Messiaen, Ligetti, Lee Hazlewood, Labi Siffre, Carla Bruni, Mink Deville, Don Cherry, Vashti Bunyan, Mogwai, Devon Sproule, Scott Walker, Robert Wyatt, The Cure, Delerue, Joy Division, The Band, Little Feat, Dylan, more later.....
Sounds Like: ...three syllables....
Record Label: Ho Hum Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

A Night In Celebration Of The Songs Of John Martyn

This truly is not to be missed. Ho Hum, in association with theElectroacoustic Club are hosting 'A Night In Celebration Of The SongsOf John Martyn' at the Gallery Cafe. The influence of JohnMartyn is ...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:51:00 GMT

Hard To Break - The Willow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI9XwBbeG1o From the Ho Hum Event 001, here is a live video of The Willow doing 'Hard to Break'.
Posted by on Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:19:00 GMT

Check out this event: Ho Hum Event 002

Hosted By:Ho Hum Records & The Electroacoustic ClubWhen:23 February 2009Where:The Slaughtered Lamb34-35 Great Sutton StreetLondonEC1V 0DXDescription:Ho Hum Records & The Electroacoustic Club present a...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:33:00 GMT

Ho Hum newsletter with free downloads

It would appear that the download function doesn't work on the Myspace player - but that's ok as you can get the tracks by visiting the Ho Hum Records newsletter by copying the link below and pasting ...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:36:00 GMT

Live songs for download

HiTwo live tracks from recent gig at the Ho Hum Records event 1st December 2008 at The Slaughtered Lamb in London, both tracks will feature on the album 'In the Meanwhile' albeit in studio version.Hop...
Posted by on Sat, 17 Jan 2009 06:53:00 GMT

’In the Meanwhile’

Dear AllMany thanks for the kind words following the Ho Hum Records event at the Slaughtered Lamb at the beginning of the month; a few people have asked, so I thought I would update the situation with...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Dec 2008 07:56:00 GMT

Live @ The Slaughtered Lamb

1st December at The Slaughtered Lamb, Clerkenwell, London.Cannot wait for this one. Ho Hum Records are building to their big year of releases next year, and this is the first outing for the independen...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:30:00 GMT

People Spend Hours

For all thoughts, random and otherwise, please see my blog at PSHHope you like.
Posted by on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:43:00 GMT

The Willow

Welcome in to this, a new solo project of mine...At present these are all tunes at an early stage, but I appreciate any comments on them and also by checking the play amounts allows me to see which tr...
Posted by on Sun, 18 May 2008 00:36:00 GMT