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graham massey

Graham Massey

About Me

Up in the Dish at Jodrel Bank At the Henry J kaiser Aluminium dome Hawaiin Hilton Village site of the recording of many of my fav hawaiin albums TOOLSHED at queen elizabeth hall Southbank,Either festaval Blue lagoon Iceland with 808state and Bjork 1991
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My Interests

Music:

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....................................................... ..........................---------------------------------- ----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..................................................... ........................................................ 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..................................................... ................................................. MASSONIX _ solo electronica with shedloads of analogue photo:MASSONIX performance @ All Tommorows Partys...................................................... ........................................................HOME 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! ) ..
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

My Blog

dont take away my dish!(jodrell bank threatend with closure)

www. savejodrellbank. org. ukplease sign the petition.. this is a national monument!!!
Posted by graham massey on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:45:00 PST

Check out this video: Graham Massey/A Guy Called Gerald, with the Tenori-on live at Wang

Check out this video: Graham Massey with the Tenori-on live at Wang Add to My Profile | More Videos...
Posted by graham massey on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:30:00 PST

Tenori On

Free launch gig for Tenori On ..new instrument by Toshio Iwai /yamahaPaddy Steer and I are doing an improvised set ,fastening it up to some random analogue and bashing stuff..heres the of...
Posted by graham massey on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 04:26:00 PST

The Sisters Of Transistors (S.O.T.)

Based at the "South Manchester Museum of Keyboard Technology,(S.M.M.O.K.T)"The Sisters Of Transistors"(S.O.T.) are a Combo Organ Quartet and Ladies Social Club.S.O.T. hold weekly afternoon workshops a...
Posted by graham massey on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:40:00 PST

four organs of the apocalypse

last week I was alerted by Ragna to the sudden apearence of Four Mystery organs outside the Masonic Hallin Chorlton..They are gutting the building and there is the cast of Scooby Doo living in cara...
Posted by graham massey on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:27:00 PST

Massonix Sleeve Notes for downloaders

MASSONIX- SubTracks track notes1.Port Silat (Off Port Silat )3 months of supplies loadeddeparture ,closing off the coning tower descending the upper currentsprime instruments casio vl tone-jd 8...
Posted by graham massey on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:40:00 PST

Iguarglaphones and Astrobans (and other homemade instruments)

With Reference to the I Rooster video at the bottom of my page.(filmed at the Gong UnCon in Amsterdam nov2006)I rooster features both kinds of Iguarglaphone and the astroban ( sometimes astrobahn)Ist ...
Posted by graham massey on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 04:43:00 PST

MASSONIX SUBTRACKS now available

MASSONIX-SUBTRACKSReleasesed Monday 11th dec 2006This is a project that has taken a few years to be realised.Back in the late 90s whilst working in the 808 studio in MCRI would pop out at dinner time...
Posted by graham massey on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 08:18:00 PST

RMI ELECTRA

recent aqusition, The RMI electric harpsichord/piano.Rocky Mountain Instruments made keyboards in the 60s and 70s.This was spottred in many Prog Rigs like Rick Wakemans (on top of the Hammond,)Tony Ba...
Posted by graham massey on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:33:00 PST

new Pies etc

Inspired by the wonderful Pie Minister Pies ,I tried to make a variation on their Matador Pie.which is steak ,chorizo,and butter bean. This I followed but also introduced a cinamon stick and some spar...
Posted by graham massey on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:18:00 PST