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After a long hiatus I finally returned to music ealier this year as a time filler during my degree. It didn't stay that way for long. I got the writing bug, and decided I wanted to start doing something with all this again.

I love playing the guitar but have the common sense to realise that, unfortunately, I'm not that good!! So I stick to songwriting and singing. With this in mind I searched for someone looking for a singer/songwriter who had the same musical interests as me. I was extremely lucky to find an exceptional guitarist with the same taste, vision and dry humour as myself who just happened to live n the same town!! I have teamed up with Pete Harwood and started writing in earnest... these 5 are the tip of the iceberg believe me!! We have the full compliment of musicians now to start reheasring as a band and intend to start as soon as possible... In the meantime... Watch this MySpace:)

The tracks on this page, with the exception of Addicted, are the result of that search...

Lord Of The North - Recorded 23 Jun 08
Fighting Man - Recorded 23 Jun 08
Those Who Watch - Recorded 23 Jun 08
Save The Day - Recorded 06 May 08
In The End - Recorded 06 May 08
All tracks are written and performed by Harwood/Tennick.

The 1996 track 'Addicted' was recorded at Jewel & Esk Valley college with a group of friends at the time... unfortunately I've lost the masters and only have the 'muddy' copy of a copy to work from :( The artists on this recording were:

Addicted -
Lead Vocals/Bass Guitar: Graeme Tennick
Lead Guitar: Derek (?)
Keyboards: Fernando Moura
Drums: Ally Tennick

Music & Lyrics: Graeme Tennick
Arranged: Fernando Moura

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 22/02/2008
Band Website: Band Site: http://www.myspace.com/morpheusrising
Band Members: This page is my 'personal' one... it'll eventually have new work from yours truly which doesn't fit with the Morpheus Rising project... so it'll be ... me!

As the main thrust of my musical energy just now I'm working with Pete Harwood , also from York, on the Morpheus Rising project... I'm really excited with the work we've completed so far and look forward to completing rehearsals over the summer and getting the music out there as soon as possible!!

Influences:

Not sure I'd call them influences, but the music I listen to most includes the 'old' rock classics:

Deep Purple, Whitesnake, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath etc.

I'm also a HUGE Marillion/Fish fan and really into most of what people would call Progressive Rock... and, if I'm honest these are where I come from... not necessarily the music but the lyrics, the poetic content of these two artists material has inspired me for decades and continues to do so now... If my lyrical style could be likened to anyone in particular I would like it to be either 'h' or Fish.

I'm also listening to Alter Bridge loads at the moment, and like everything by Dream Theater...
And bands like Epica, Nightwish, After Forever, Within Temptation are seeing a lot of airtime in room just now

Basically, I listen to everything...
Classical (Mozart, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven...), Folk (Afro Celt Sound System, Amy MacDonald, Ossian, Silly Wizard), Choral (Gounod, FaurÃ©, Bach, Mozart), Pop, Indie, Goth (does it actually still exist? I used to like The Mission, Sisters of Mercy, Death Cult...)

Sounds Like: Classic Rock, NWoBHM-TNG (Check out the band site;) )
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Suffering in silence...

You may have noticed a distinct lack of activity over the last month, more so than may have been intimated on the band's website early in January...There's a plethora of reasons, and several excuses a...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:34:00 GMT

Trials and tribulations... (A personal rant on the injustice of life!)

Damn and blast... why are things never simple?The tail end of last year was a rollercoaster of activity for me personally, and for the band... and it was all good! I had hoped the personal side of thi...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:59:00 GMT

An Ordinary Man - In aid of HELp for HEROES

Well, it's finally happened... An Ordinary Man is now available to purchase from the H4HSINGLE page on our website... for those of you who don't know what HELP for HEROES is, then please visit this li...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:21:00 GMT

An Ordinary Man - In aid of HELP for HEROES

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MtGpJhQhQTA Well, here it is!! An Ordinary Man, released in aid of HELP for HEROES (http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk). A complete departure from the usual M...
Posted by on Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:32:00 GMT

Writing a lyric...

...can sometimes lead to thoughts and feelings emerging that you never realised you were experiencing. I've found this to be the case on a number of occasions in the last 6 months or so. M...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:04:00 GMT

Back in the saddle...

These last few weeks have been interesting... I've been working my butt off trying to get settled into a new post at work, whilst travelling to Europe and back and attending courses necessary for...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:37:00 GMT

Out of Sight...

... but not out of mind :)I've been away on a course for the last two weeks, and am about to venture overseas with work for a couple of weeks so things haven't really progressed much rehearsal or reco...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:57:00 GMT

Worth every drop...

...of sweat that is!! As posted earlier today, I was off to Pete's to work on some of the tracks... as it turned out I found myself in town, finished with the days business, earlier than expected... a...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:52:00 GMT

With bated breath...

Having had a week to listen, digest and dissect the work I'm off up to Pete's today to do some more work on the tracks... we're happy with two of them as they stand (as far as works in progress go) bu...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:14:00 GMT

Raising the bar...

Spent this morning listening to the tracks we recorded yesterday and can't believe what we've acheived!! They need minor tweaks to get them ready but Pete is already on that as I type!! I received a m...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:15:00 GMT