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Harry Harris

Driving Songs EP Available Now...

About Me

My name is Harry Harris - I play guitar, write songs and sing quite loudly in the hope that people will hear me. I love to play live, and will at every opportunity. I'm inspired by many things, musically and otherwise - Iron and Wine's lyrics, Adam Duritz's emotion and live performance, the whole of "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel - as well as the usual stuff like friends, love, and the other stuff that creeps it's way into songs as if by magic. I think we're all agreed that this new bio thingy is far less pretentious than the last one, right? Good :] I'll be seeing you all very soon - enjoy the songs. Big Love xxx
"...When PBR heard Harry Harris playing in Leamington we couldn't believe the maturity of his song writing, the power of his voice and his ability to hold an audience with songs recalling the likes of Americana greats Iron & Wine and early Ryan Adans. All this from a lad of 17 who'd travelled from Wales for the gig. He will be famous, no doubt about it..."
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Myspace designed by Beth Coles My wonderful girlfriend. Photographs by Rob Dunsford , Grey Panda Photography and Tracy Edwards

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/22/2005
Band Website: purevolume.com/harryharris
Band Members: Just me - for now.
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Influences: Good writers. Craig Finn, Adam Duritz, Conor Oberst, Jenny Lewis, Ben Gibbard, Jeff Mangum, Sam Beam
The Big Two - Dylan and Springsteen - it's difficult to comprehend the combined influence they've had on all modern music, let alone myself
The kind of albums that you just have to play from start to finish - "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel, "August and Everything After" by Counting Crows, "Separation Sundays" by The Hold Steady, "Our Endless Numbered Days" by Iron and Wine, "Eric Taylor" by Eric Taylor, "Tunnel of Love" by Bruce Springsteen, "Bringing It All Back Home" by Bob Dylan - all masterpieces
And also y'know, friends, people, places, seasons, walks, stories, love...whatever creeps into the song.
Sounds Like:
I sound like this...thanks to Bakka for the video :>]I have also been compared to: Ryan Adams, Iron & Wine, Richard Thompson, Ben Kweller, "A cross between Tracy Chapman and Counting Crows".So far all comparisons have been good - I'm just waiting for the "you really sound like James Blunt" thing to kick in.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Be a part of a great new independant film - read on...

Hello All!!!As some of you may know, some of my music is going to be used in an independant feature film that will begin shooting at the end of March - The film is called Clear Lake, the director is M...
Posted by Harry Harris on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:03:00 PST

Electroacoustic Club Gig Tickets - LONDON!!!

Hello AllI'm playing at the Electro-Acoustic Club with Ben Parker and Chris Tye on December 5th - order tickets HERE!Love Harry ...
Posted by Harry Harris on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:57:00 PST

The joys of mixing...

Hello loyal blog readers - both of you.   I've just been helping mix my album - I say "helping", what I mean is listening and watching in awe as the fantastic Mark Phythian made everyth...
Posted by Harry Harris on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:11:00 PST

What covers do you want???

First Day Of My Life - Bright Eyes Clementine - The Decemberists Transatlanticism - Death Cab For Cutie Kanye West - Golddigga' Beyonce - Irreplaceable Fall Out Boy - Of All The Gin Joints In All...
Posted by Harry Harris on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:51:00 PST

Album Number 2...

Hello All.   The person I'm listening to, down there, lives in the skinniest house in London, and she's also the best producer a songwriter could ask for. In a week we did 11 songs, overdubbed ha...
Posted by Harry Harris on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 08:25:00 PST

Podcasts, Albums, Festivals...

Hey There   Happy New Year - I hope you rang in 2007 in style and are happy as a sack full of Larrys :] apparently on Monday it is officially the most depressing day of the year, let's take a sta...
Posted by Harry Harris on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:58:00 PST

Wye Music...

Well well well!!! My first entry into the stressful and turbulent world of event organising was completed last night at the end of the inaugural Wye Music, featuring Last Chance For Day, The Hostages,...
Posted by Harry Harris on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 03:43:00 PST

Recording In July...

A bit deceptive perhaps, but technically I will be recording this July as I'm playing on my brother Jack Harris' first full length album. We are going to Red Kite Studios here in Wales to record ...
Posted by Harry Harris on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 06:01:00 PST

Breaking Strings...

So I wrote a new song this weekend, I really like it, called "When February Shows Itself To March", dark chord structure, quite moody but at the same time very raucus (sp?) and screamariffic...well, n...
Posted by Harry Harris on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 01:36:00 PST

Driving Songs EP AVAILABLE NOW!!!

Track List:1. Rings2. Use Every Part Of The Buffalo3. The Whole Town4. The French Canadian5. Silver Harmonica6. Buildings7. Driving Song8. Dear, Dear Life5 / $10 Send Money To:Harry Harris,38 Garth Ro...
Posted by Harry Harris on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 07:40:00 PST