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Gareth Balch

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About Me

LAST NIGHT IN DARFUR

Add to My Profile | More Videos................. No band ...just me..and I feel I need point out from the off that I am NOT a singer....my music is not out here for that reason...Thats not to say that I dont make an interesting noise from time to time but thats really quite accidental and not quite the same thing.......... but hey ....if I dont make the appropriate noises then you aint gonna know I'm here...So PLEASE try to listen to what is taking place behind the voice into the subject...... I realise sometimes that the recording standard might be a bit wonky but I'm kinda stuck with the limited resources and naff accoustics I have here at home..... And as I'm both agoraphobic and claustrophobic it means I dont get out too often and even when I do there's absolutely no way I could get into an enclosed studio...Sometimes its like life on a tightrope... but I'm certainly not complaining.... Life is one incredibly beautiful and fascinating experience.... .............. My songs are all that I have of any substance or longevity to offer to you and if in some way within my words I can bring to you something of yourself then I will have achieved all that I possibly could...and maybe thats because music is the only thing I have that does not have the capacity to either partially or completely destroy me.......And ThisSpace......Its great to be able to find people here and encourage friendships too...but even that might be an illusion because like many others I afford MySpace maybe more of a reality than it really is...probably its a strange kind of "reantasy" that hasn't quite permeated the human psyche yet in the way that cultures and relationships do...the important thing though is that we still recognise the need and therefore reach out to touch another human being................... ........ anyway I've been around for over 10 million years now, and my photo probably even longer,... but I still aint tired of that oxygenic life force that is music. Its a throb, a nudge, a quiver some kind of thumping pulse....this collection of individuals that have gathered up together into an extremely insistent and noisy band of reprobates......sometimes though, thoughtfully, they ease aside and what they offer up at 2am is often the whisper of the closest friend you'll ever get.....I'm sure you have all felt it when you get locked inside of a song and you just know that it is exactly the right place to be at that particular time....But it moves on...and then there are the times it is like being diced up with careless impunity by the shards oscillating in the refection of some long dead broken-hearted lover...and worse still this incarnation insists he is needing you right now as a friend...and just when you get to believing life is such a shit then the next day it kind of runs its tongue like warm liquid wax right down the arch of your spine defying oblivion and encouraging one into to such abandoned sweet surrender.....and darn me if I haven't seen it sometimes, but very rarely, sitting there like a putrid dung heap desperately looking for an arse to offend......but whichever way it greets, tests and sometimes even seems to defy you it is superbly unique in this most unique of experiences. There has to be something in this maniacal life where we can be all or anything we want....and so far the only place I have found that is in music....................................................... ..........CDBABY LINK for MILASA: Painted Heart --

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/4/2005
Band Members:

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Influences: Oh jeez where to start...this could run to a thousand pages as there are so many things that influence the music that we make....many of them neither physical, organic or a substance that we even have a name for......so best keep this narrow and be thinking of those closer to the centre......so.... Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Bert Jansch, Elvis, Cream, Free, Queen, Debbie Harry, Kate Bush, Paul Simon, Daniel Lanois, Shawn Philips, Mark Knopfler, Manic Street Preachers, Chopin, Puccini, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich Picasso, Van Gogh, Dali, Hans Christian Andersen, and those very great men Dostoyevsky and Leonardo....and Bobby Hatfield for the greatest perfomance ever to be recorded...and then it just carries on rippling out.....there was Laika..remember her??...stuck in a tin can coffin and shot into space in 1957....and there is the girl whos name I dont know but her photograph went around the world when she was shown running naked down the street having been pursued by a US napalm in Vietnam........So many images with so many smells about them.... all crammed in and exerting some sort of subliminal influence when a song starts unfolding.......perhaps that is what we are creating..musical photographs and films....but in a way that no celluloid or digital format can come anywhere close to capturing. And for all of us I suppose there are those ordinary people who have, and had, such an extraordinary effect on our lives.... ....are you ok mum....need to catch up when I get there eh.... .................... And of course there is you....... you whos eyes are looking down into this at this very moment.......and although we are now as very close as that I doubt we will ever speak or meet .........but just as we all exist within this one tiny space then in some way we all have an influence on each other...So it is to you that I turn now in order that when my sun implodes there is something more than a wisp of a memory left to cast a shadow and say.... " I was there and that shadow laid clear, firm, real and with such purpose and reason .......that shadow was mine....and in part it was because of you"......and in some ways this is such a comforting thing.... so stay alive to it all...it is what you deserve . . .
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Record Label: Nope...might never get one...maybe go independant
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Yet one more surprise from life

Today I thought I felt a mountain break...yesterday I didn't think such a thing was ever possible.... even in a bad dream. ....Today I met life in a place I didn't want to go ...
Posted by Gareth Balch on Sat, 10 May 2008 12:36:00 PST

What Is There To Lose

  It might appear to be that the most prescious thing one can lose on this beautiful planet is ones life.... but it is not....it is hope...
Posted by Gareth Balch on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:20:00 PST

bumping thoughts

Oh right........ just bumped into a passing thought....... " there are some people you want in your life and some that you need in your life.....that doesn't mean that the ones you need are the ones y...
Posted by Gareth Balch on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 03:49:00 PST

ISN’T IT STRANGE

    Isn't it strange how in each and every one of us there exists a world infinitely bigger than the actual one that we live upon....
Posted by Gareth Balch on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:06:00 PST

Truth...whose??

Sometimes silence can be much more explicit in conveying the truth...particularly when there is fearful complicity between the words and their meaning.
Posted by Gareth Balch on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:44:00 PST

Communication and the monosyllabic body juices

  FOR THE MORALLY INTACT BUT IMMORALLY LIBERATED Such strange little corners of ones mind....the blogs.....!!!!!! Theres a time to shut up and start talking.....Now this is one mostly for the guy...
Posted by Gareth Balch on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 08:38:00 PST

Death of a dumb romantic

Perhaps I'm just getting too sentimental in my old age but I really am not getting this new millenium... and its already had 7 years to at least provide some optimism.... Anyway......... the sadness o...
Posted by Gareth Balch on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:30:00 PST

THE STONE TAPES

  I remember one very strange morning in 1999 when I awoke having felt that I'd spent the night in the presence of "something"... no idea what..... probably wind.... anyway 5 minut...
Posted by Gareth Balch on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:18:00 PST

PENNY DROPPING FROM 100 MILES UP..!!!!!!!!!!!

THE BEST THAT LIFE HAS TO OFFER IS NOT FROM WHAT BUT FROM WHO.... WISH I'D KNOWN THAT A LONG TIME AGO..... 
Posted by Gareth Balch on Sat, 12 May 2007 08:59:00 PST

A PURPOSE IN TRANSITION

      In many ways I have been dead all this long and lonely life ...and upon my death my love I shall be re-born unto you.  
Posted by Gareth Balch on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:47:00 PST