Member Since: 11/22/2005
Band Website: 808state.com/
Band Members: BANDS I Doo but not all at once (well i could)----------------------------------------------TOOLSHED
(chalenging jazz tech hybrid with lots of drummers and brass)
(members -Paddy Steer,Graham Clark,Seaming To,Richard Harrison,Dave Walsh
Howard Jacobs, also Pat Illingworth,James,Ford,many more. 7 to28 members
current album on Twisted Nerve.......................................................
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----808 STATE-international techno stadium rockers since 1988 (i could write a book)
but check our long running well maintained website....
Compared to Concorde ( still futuristic in a classic way,Retired but wheeled out for occasional airshows )
Huge back catalogue about to be remastered and reissued on ZTT records.....................................................
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BITING TONGUES -this was a bad ass post punk mutation i was in during the 80s
on New Hormones and Factory records) can still occasionally rear its viscious limbs out of love for its self,also produces current
performance and film spin offs-kind of like an arts lab set up-Backcatalogue on LTM records.....................................................
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MASSONIX _ solo electronica with shedloads of analogue
photo:MASSONIX performance @ All Tommorows Partys......................................................
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LIFE-i also play synths and wind instruments in this fab unique band from MCR run by Paddysteer and Tony Burnside check em on NinjaTune ,Check Paddys my space in my top 8 for a quick listen too,then pester him to make some more .
MASSONIX album SUBTRAX out in Dec on SKAM RECORDS.
The Sisters Of Transistors -horror prog disco organ quartet with me on drums .
Gerald and Me return to the Roland boxes ..Wang oct 2007
Influences: According to my I pod recently :::Hawaiin falsetto singing and slide playing Alfred Apaka, Sun Ra (espescialy the Chicago era stuff), m Urbaniak, Magma, Gherkin Jerks, Homelife, Miles Davis, Coltrane ,Wayne Shorter,Exotica,Decent Techno(Detroit Style) Space records ,Underwater Records,Gong, Hawkwind.the shadows DIY music, Descent Acid House, Mahavishnu orch,Nucleus, Rahsaan Roland Kirk,Sinatra,Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Weather Report. Nisei music,Ellis Regina,Hermeato Pascoal, Airto,Homelife,Santana,Larry Young,Egg ,Todd Rundgren,Johnny Hartman, LFO,Bowie,Crispy Ambulance,Mulatu ,David Essex,Marino Marini,Mohamed el Bakaar,Bernard Herman,jose chepito areas Oliver Messien ,zappa,Decoding Society,James Blood Ulmer and Yes.
Me and Patrick Moore (longest living broadcaster on the BBC , astronomer legend and boyhood hero! )
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Sounds Like: http://tool-shed.com/
TOOLSHED Seaming To singing(check her stuff in my top8) Paddy on the bass ,Me guitaring, Pat as one of the drummers
http://www.bitingtongues.com/
Recording in1988@spirit studios
.. Amitville Pig
TOOLSHED@Bridgewater Hall
Some tune me and Bjork did.
Synth Training Summer School.
Record Label: http://tool-shed.com/
Type of Label: Major