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About Me

Hello, my name is Al, i make music.I make bubbling electronic squelches, Synthesized mentalism, Big hammond organ, theremin idiocy, and add spoken word to BLACK EYE DOG. Come and see us play live. We're not trying to change the world, we're trying to start a new one. If you ever see us play you may also fall over in amazement.I control Lands Of The West. I lead them in their pursuit of mayhem.I used to play lead guitar in The Gabby Young Collective, and The Shebeats, and countless other bands. The Silent Getaway a few years ago. And Cuban Bluegrass years before that. We rocked the prince of wales and swindon college hall. I still stand by the fact that The Temple Of Bohemia is the best-named band i've been in. Or possibly the one and only performance by The Boogaloo Death Squat. The Three Stripe Hype was another legendary one.About me and my solo music:I try and write songs that i'm happy with, and that i like. I think i like good music, so writing music that i like is fun, and fun is good. Sometimes i write songs that are sad, and then the joke is on me, as i toil through my inner hall trying to find metaphors unused by speaking man.I like playing gigs by myself, and tend to shut my eyes when i perform. This gives the illusion that i fear ugly people that may lurk into the crowd, this is false. It's really just to prove how clever i am, so far i have only fallen over 8 times when performing. It also puts focus on what we in the trade call, "a certain magical quality".I am now equipped with the 'Fucked By Life' files too.come see, i'll tell all.

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Member Since: 11/1/2005
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Influences: Every single thing influences me, whether it be the out of tune piano sound in Neil Young's track called My Heart, or the free-form vocals of Malcom Mooney from Can, or the bit in Babylon Sisters by Steely Dan where the women sing, or the bassline from Into The Mystic by Van Morrison, the madness of The Murder Mystery by The Velvet Underground, the writings of Gregory Corso, the wordplay of Ronnie Barker, the humour of Stewart Lee, abandoned buildings, the occult, people around me, Paul Gascoigne, PM Dawn, Bill Drummond, hoaxes, nostalgia, cats, alliteration. everything is an influence or you are shutting your eyes to something.
Sounds Like: someone told me i sing like Captain Sensible whereas someone else said Elton John. I think i play guitar in the rhythmic fashion of either Lou Reed or the guy from Faust, I play piano almost in the sense of it being a percussion instrument and have often played it drunk until my fingers have bled, but can also allude to the warmth of wurlitzer. my drumming is sporadically amazing but more often jerky, my lead guitar work is somewhere perfectly between Syd Barrett,Michael Karoli and total silence, my words are the most important part of my songs, taking on aspects of mallet's mallet and word association and alliterative prose, i literally have the ability to write literally as well.but that's maybe completely different to what you think.
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My Blog

More Live Reviews

here's another review from a recent gig. Have a read. "I caught a cut down version of the Attica Season a while ago and was pretty impressed by what I heard. Then it was acoustic guitar, violin and dr...
Posted by Al Bridges on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 04:16:00 PST

Band

good day. this little old blurb is just to inform you(yes, you) that unless stated, all live shows in future will be with my new band The Attica Seasons. Soon enough we'll get some stuff recorded and ...
Posted by Al Bridges on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:08:00 PST

Review Of County Ground Gig April 2007

It seems that I have been aware of Al Bridges as a musician for a long time, but despite having seen him in a whole host of bands as both a guitarist and a keyboard player, this was the first time I h...
Posted by Al Bridges on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:58:00 PST

songing

okay, progress is key. Digression cannot be informed of my whereabouts.Bit of a bizarre few months so far this year. Relationships coming to an end made me relocate my muse. Movement pushed clear...
Posted by Al Bridges on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 10:31:00 PST

New Song action

okay...... On putting some muzak onto my PC the other day, and realising how much stuff i've recorded i pondered to myself....'why not put said songs onto my page, and change them round every few...
Posted by Al Bridges on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 06:38:00 PST

The Curse Of Greyface

Stay pressure alert,Allure stations to perk.Allow cranium clerks,to stay patiently stern.Contract clawing clear plans,And ban conduct curbed stance.Enhance standards of plans,on a regime of chance.Exp...
Posted by Al Bridges on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:44:00 PST

the Necronomicon

Recurring Sun Dreams,that vanish into air.Play dumb on banishing domestic tides to there,upon high on stationary flights, call them stairs.Upon notch upon notch upon not channelling despair.Enstill bo...
Posted by Al Bridges on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:27:00 PST

long player soonish

having just got back from another rehearsal for this wedding my band are playing at the weekend, i am keen to focus myself away from cringe-worthy covers(i won't even torture you with a list) and be a...
Posted by Al Bridges on Wed, 31 May 2006 04:27:00 PST