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Jess Bryant

About Me

Hello and many thanks for visiting. Messages with friend requests are much appreciated or those little notes underneath requests that you can do - they're useful too. Please feel free to nudge me.

You can download my songs on here. Sometimes it doesn't work that well so you could also try:

*virb

*lastfm

This year I aim to make some decent recordings. Fingers crossed.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/8/2005
Band Website: jessbryant.co.uk
Band Members: Jess Bryant
Influences:

Grizzly Bear , Sparklehorse , Buddy & The Huddle, My Brightest Diamond , Neutral Milk Hotel, The Dears , Radiohead, Homelife , Sufjan Stevens, Yo La Tengo, PJ Harvey, John Tavener, DJ Shadow, Arvo Part, Grandaddy, all the people on the front of this page. Watch: Brazil is one of the best films ever made, Delicatessen, Ma Vie En Rose, Pi, Buffalo 66, Waking Life, Once Upon A Time In The West, In The Mood For Love, Leon, Amores Perros, Dark Days, Hable Con Ella, 2046, Mulholland Drive.
Read: Lots of Murakami, Phillip K Dick, Ray Bradbury, Virginia Woolf, Dostoyevsky, a little Iris Murdoch, Alasdair Grey, David Mitchell, Donna Tartt, Pablo Neruda, John Steinbeck, probably some others as well.

*I also sing with The Unrecorded.
They hate myspace but luckily you can find them below.

*I also sing with James Yuill as and when required. He will soon be rich and famous.
Sounds Like: spook folk oooooo!
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Gigs in Manchester cancelled

Although Carefully Planned kindly paid for my train tickets and sent them recorded delivery the Royal Mail decided to swallow them up and failed to deliver them on time (my train has just left as I wr...
Posted by Jess Bryant on Fri, 09 May 2008 05:14:00 PST

Good things

My Brightest Diamond was bloody amazing at The Slaughtered Lamb. She was just incredible and everyone was spellbound. She was also very kind to me. I have been on the other side of the coin ...
Posted by Jess Bryant on Thu, 01 May 2008 07:52:00 PST

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Why so many plays yesterday? Nice but mysterious. I’m playing The Defectors Weld tomorrow if anyone lives near Hammersmith. Right. Back to work.
Posted by Jess Bryant on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:39:00 PST

Timbre Obscura podcast

Hurray! Some nice words from the new music blog & podcast, Timbre Obscura. Have a nice weekend all. ...
Posted by Jess Bryant on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:19:00 PST

Here’s a website for you

I've finally cobbled together a website. It is a bit basic at the moment but I'll try and make it fancier in time.My eyes hurt. Time for sleep.
Posted by Jess Bryant on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:59:00 PST

Video for you

The lovely Michele from Indie-Eye has made a video with Belladonna as the soundtrack especially for good old Valentine's Day. Go here to see it. I hope everyone is being showered with a...
Posted by Jess Bryant on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:25:00 PST

Whats going on here then?

Hello. Here is the news for 2008. I will shortly be making a CD that doesn't involve me pressing record and then rushing over to pick up my guitar and start playing. It won't be anything fancy - just ...
Posted by Jess Bryant on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:51:00 PST

Not playing tonight

Hello.Along with quite a few other people I know I too am ill and therefore will not be playing tonight. I'm really disappointed about this as I was looking forward to it and it would have been good t...
Posted by Jess Bryant on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:28:00 PST

Magpies, eggshells and ringing glass

Three funny old folktales/myths/superstitions carried over from my childhood that stuck in my head this evening and which I have never actually looked up until tonight whilst round at Nick's...
Posted by Jess Bryant on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:22:00 PST

**Next Friday**

Hello dears It's my birthday next Friday. I don't even want to think about how old I am going to be. At least I am still asked for id on a regular basis. I used to get extremely pi...
Posted by Jess Bryant on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:25:00 PST