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M A Tovey

About Me



M A Tovey
'MISERY CHORDS'

The legendary, lost 2008 album - finally available online!

Featuring the revolutionary, epic singles:

'Shaking All Over The Place'

'Am I Breathing?'

'Emergency Dancefloor'

and

'Benylin'

Available to download at www.matovey.co.uk

ALSO AVAILABLE:

The epochal, globe-straddlingly ubiquitous hit double 'a' side singles 'Shaking All Over The Place' / 'Am I Breathing?' and 'Emergency Dancefloor' / 'Benylin'

The pioneering, classic 2007 album 'Ring Eyes'

The 2008 'b' sides and out-takes album 'Plasticwork 2006 - 2008' - preposterously packed with obscure gems!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 21/11/2005
Band Website: www.matovey.co.uk
Band Members: Mostly M. A. Tovey backed by multitudinous knackered machinery and instruments clinging on for dear mortality. However, there have been various cameos by friends under the moniker Pylons On Mars.
Influences: In no discernable order: The Fall; Public Enemy; The Aphex Twin; Radiohead; Joy Division; Bach; James Brown; My Bloody Valentine; Brian Wilson; The Smiths; Stevie Wonder; The Turtles; John Lee Hooker; Edwyn Collins; Lipps Inc.; The Stooges; Prince; Philip Glass; Billy Joel; Scott Walker; The Human League; Erma Franklin; The Kinks; Ronettes; The Stranglers; MC5; Super Furry Animals; The Cure; Outkast; U2; Miles Davis; Smokey Robinson; Johnny Cash; The Prodigy; The Sex Pistols; Phil Spector; Hot Chocolate; Motorhead; Buzzcocks; The Temptations; The Style Council; The Chi-lites; Morrissey; The Jesus And Mary Chain; Gilamonsters; Otis Redding; The Wedding Present; Boz Scaggs; John Cage; John Coltrane; Gary Numan; The Isley Brothers; Vaughan Williams; Dionne Warwick; The Beatles; Curtis Mayfield; Paul Weller; Death By Milkfloat; The Beautiful South; the Jam; Louis Armstrong; Pixies; Syreeta; Adam Ant; REM; Squarepusher; Al Green; The House Of Love; Marvin Gaye; The Clash; Massive Attack...to be continued!
Sounds Like: The Human League and Chic jamming with Radiohead and The Fall in my head, though of course stratospherically, apocalyptically inferior to that in reality...
Record Label: NO (No Record Label/No Music Publishing)

My Blog

'Do You Understand Nothing Of Context?'

Don't worry, this isn't some rant about music or politics or gender or the demise of ringpulls on drinks cans, it's the name of a single from 18 months back that I realized I'd completely forgotten to...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:14:00 GMT

'Misery Chords' - actually not all that miserable at all...

Laydeez an' gennelmen...and now...the long-awaited 34th album, 'Misery Chords', is at last available to download from http://www.matovey.co.uk/Pages/current_album.htm! Yarooga!!! 8) 8) 8)'Misery Chord...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:02:00 GMT

Transmissions from the sonic sweatshop interface...

Well, it's been a while...as ever! But hey, I've heard that there is the ever so slightest rumour of a brand new single just around the corner... ;) Meanwhile - and as proof that I haven't b...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:23:00 GMT

*** Ring Eyes ***

Okay, the peaks and troughs aside now - I've finally achieved the previously-imagined impossible and posted some long-overdue new tuneage on here! :D To expand, there are now three songs fro...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:07:00 GMT

Ignore this one too if you like

Right, I'm in a rotten, fucking bad place right now and this is starting to break me down. I have something congenitally 'wrong' with me that some of my friends on here know about but most don't. It's...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:31:00 GMT

Back from the dead!!!

Hope all 177 of you highly cherished MySpace friends are feeling wicked and that 2008 has been stokin' for yaz so far! Just to say to anyone interested that I'm back in tha hood after many weeks of s...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:04:00 GMT

*** Twisted Touch / Unknown Nights Released 24 November ***

Yes, finally, the follow-up to August's 'Fuck With My Soul' is now out and available to download for free from www.matovey.co.uk. Alternately, and of course if you're a walrus with obsessive comp...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:01:00 GMT

*** Fuck With My Soul !!! ***

Well, it's here - the new single, 'Fuck With My Soul', another moping ballady thing forged in the fires of pretentious singer/songwriterly angst. But it's my baby - so deal with it! Or if that's not y...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:55:00 GMT

*** 'Parasite In Diamonds' LP and 'Lovebreakdown' EP released on 23 December 2006 ***

Well I know it's a touch late in the day to be spreading the word to y'all, but to be honest I couldn't be bothered before - the post-Christmas lull gave way to possibly the blackest, most fucked...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:37:00 GMT

Ahhh...13th February

'Life On Mars' - bring it on! :cool:
Posted by on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 11:39:00 GMT