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toyface

iHAVEaWIFEnamedBRIAN. we'reSAVINGupFORaMICROWAVE.

About Me

This page contains songs with lyrics and melodies by me and piano accompaniment made up by my amazing friend James Graham (check out his band The Hats below). We met when we got stranded for 28 hours in a brokedown travellers truck on the way back from Secret Garden Party last summer and have been making tunes together ever since.......I sang for the first time in front of an audience there last year and then managed to blag a spot there this year to play the songs we've made since. It was SO MUCH FUN--------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------I'm also part of a sick hiphop-pirate-dub collective called SeaShantiSounds...although so far it's only me and my imaginary swashbuckling shipmates, so if you wana hop on board just let me know. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------These tracks have all been recorded in James' attic. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxI've recently been informed that by someone a bit less technophobic than I, that you can rip tunes off these pages. I know music is pretty much free these days and there's shit all I can do to stop you, but just to let you know that I'm fucking broke and that at some point in the next couple of months I'm gonna make a cd that you'll be able to buy from here and try get some stuff up on iTunes. If you wana rip em first then I guess you're gonna, but you better by the cd, or proper downloads, or whatever, just gimme yer fucking money ok? :-) THAAANKS! X X X X

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/21/2007
Band Website: this is it
Band Members: Me - vocals/lyrics/melodies---James - piano/guitar --- (Matt Brown plays drums on Mr. Key & La Tarte --- Steve plays bass on Mr. Key)
Influences: REGINA SPEKTOR, duke ellington, RUTH BROWN, the cat empire, PEGGYSUE & THE PIRATES, bjork, JOANNA NEWSOM, the be good tanyas, KURT COBAIN, martina topley-bird, FLORIDA by DIPLO, billy bragg, FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE ------------------------------------------------------------ -----------------------------lots of hip hop lyricism/performance poetry, LOTS OF DANCING AROUND IN GOLD PANTS, lots of being grateful and noticing the good things, LOTS OF LONGING FOR THINGS THAT I RUN A MILE FROM WHEN THEY GET NEAR-------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ PLUS the beautiful, amazonian strength of the annaling, THE FRESH LYRICAL STYLES OF JAM BAXTER, MR KEY & RONNIE BOSH, the refreshing utopian ideals of iconoclast, THE COMPLETE TEACHINGS OF THE EMILY BREEZE SCHOOL OF ROCK (ELECTIVE JOHN E. VISTIC MODULES) and the wild-eyed child-like excitement of d. p. macintyre--------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------
Sounds Like: a good time gal having a damn good time!
Record Label: Sea Shanti Sounds
Type of Label: None

My Blog

KARAOKE QUEEN

I'd see her at karaoke every Friday night at The Duke. She'd always sit alone at the back drinking vodka with coke from a can, until about 10. Then she'd stroll up to the front, all buoyant and breezy...
Posted by toyface on Sun, 18 May 2008 11:24:00 PST

i need help or lollypops

either or
Posted by toyface on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:32:00 PST

POETRY my tutors would slap my wrist for...

I want love, 'til it's served up on a plate- Bangers and mash; dessert of sour grapes. And if I hated you more I'd tell you no lies, But I love you to a point that I almost despise. You&nbs...
Posted by toyface on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:00:00 PST

A LUNGFUL OF BEES

She spoke of weary, weathered knees; in words so quiet no air could escape her mouth. She simply murmured. And no one was listening; except the bees, that is. The bees could hear her thoughtless mumbl...
Posted by toyface on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:39:00 PST

AN ACCIDENTAL ALICE...

           i love eating miniature fairy cakes, decorated with sugar roses and chocolate sprinkles. sometimes a dog with silver fur comes and sits ...
Posted by toyface on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:13:00 PST