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travels by telephone

About Me

Formerly in punk band The Margaret Thatchers, and sporadically in experimental post-pub collective Manta. I spent a few years playing about with cheap keyboards and drum machines, then got hold of an acoustic guitar and started writing songs, mostly in the back of a rusting beige van somewhere by the sea/up on the Yorkshire Moors.
In the past year (& a bit) I have been fortunate enough to play gigs/house shows/a festival/open mic nights with lots of nice people, some of whom have been amongst the most positive and inspiring I have met in a long time.
I'm pretty much always on the look-out for gigs. If interested, just give me a nod & I shall be happy to oblige. Ta!
"He had a lovely jumper" - Whisperin & Hollerin
"Like a Magnet by Travels by Telephone has one of the most beautiful chord sequences you will ever hear in an acoustic song" - Audioscribbler
"Like A Magnet- Travels By Telephone: A lovely song bathed in warmth" - Terrascopic
Watching it all from above
Like I'm floating through the darkness over pinpoint lights
Flickering like tiny fires
With the ashes and the embers of the things that I have left behind

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 28/04/2008
Band Members: Jamie Wilson. Hello.
Influences: Wiz/Mega City Four, Defiance Ohio, Martin Carthy, Belle and Sebastian, Red Sky Coven, Dustin and The Furniture, The Cure, Fingers Cut Megamachine, my Dad's facial hair in the 70's, riding bicycles with haste over gravely paths, Gene Wilder, my amazing friends (and my amazing friends' bands), the unexpected kindness of strangers, meeting nice positive people at gigs, the sea, moors, woods, lakes, rivers and general foliage.
And Autumn. Lots of Autumn, with a sidehelping of toasty woollen outergarments, and orangey-brown leaves that crunch underfoot.
I also like badges a lot...
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Tip Toe Records Compilation CD!

Hello!Tip Toe Records have very nicely asked me to donate a song to their first compilation CD, and I have chosen to use a newly recorded version of 'Like A Magnet'.This will be the first release of o...
Posted by on Sun, 10 May 2009 08:04:00 GMT

Words are like markings on a map

Hello!I have been busy.  As a semi-ginger bespectacled bee.  With the help of my good friends Chris (from Red Trees) & Tip Toe Records Dom, Ive been doing some recording.  My 4-track cassette record...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:37:00 GMT