Tony McGuinness (Above & Beyond)

About Me

I'm one third of Above & Beyond - we have a proper MySpace page (see my friends for the link) - this one is just for me and my special, alien friends. I live in London and make music, DJ all over the world and help run our amazing label "Anjunabeats". I very occasionally do solo things under the name Nitromethane, but being part of Above & Beyond, our alter ego "OceanLab" and working on the label take up most of my time. When I'm not at work I'm either writing songs at home, dreaming of having the time to go Scuba diving again, sleeping or reading about Complexity Science. I've been quietly working on a solo album in odd stolen moments of spare time for the last few years, and I've been previewing some of the songs on here alongside Above & Beyond and OceanLab material. Its not a dance album, its a song vehicle really: I hope you like it.
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Member Since: 11/24/2005
Band Website: aboveandbeyond.nu
Band Members: Jono Grant, Tony McGuinness and Paavo Siljamaki
Influences: Jeff Buckley, William Orbit, The Timewriter, The Cure, Aqualung, Cliff Martinez, R.E.M., Lovebabies, Subcircus, Turin Brakes, Snow Patrol, Cocteau Twins, Damien Rice, Eg White, Craig Armstrong, Sad Lovers & Giants, Engineers, Jono, Paavo..
Sounds Like: all the above
Record Label: Anjunabeats.com - SEND ALL TRACKS THERE, NOT HERE!
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

"Please dont go to Beirut, are you mad????"

Now I don’t know about you, but that kind of comment (posted publicly on MySpace) is usually all the incentive I need to do something. Its typical of a knee jerk, binary, black and white view of...
Posted by Tony McGuinness (Above & Beyond) on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:22:00 PST

Are we nearly there?

Just got back from an amazing US/Canadian tour with Paavo. We criss-crossed the continent at its coldest - out the window of the plane was an endless black and white quilt of snowy squares - the one m...
Posted by Tony McGuinness (Above & Beyond) on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:57:00 PST

Liquid Love (Original Tongue Of God demo version)

To coincide with our free (for friends) download of Liquid Love, here's the story of this unreleased oddity.In 2000 (I think it was) we did this little bootleg of a Jeff Buckley song. It was based on ...
Posted by Tony McGuinness (Above & Beyond) on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 09:39:00 PST

Fresh air, clear blue sky and bright sunshine.

Fresh air, clear blue sky and bright sunshine are things that I thought I'd experienced before: they are things you take for granted. But today changed all that.We're in Auckland for a few days before...
Posted by Tony McGuinness (Above & Beyond) on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:24:00 PST

Late night TV and internet shopping

I turned on the TV tonight and "Solaris" (Written and Directed by Stephen Soderbergh, starring George Clooney and Natascha McElhone) was on. And I was blown away. I won't ruin it for you, except to sa...
Posted by Tony McGuinness (Above & Beyond) on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 04:47:00 PST

Post Tri-State launch lull

And so, finally, the album is out and the launch party over. And what a buzz its all been! So far the reactions to the album have been amazing (5 stars in DJ mag, who said "in a word, 'brilliant'!!) a...
Posted by Tony McGuinness (Above & Beyond) on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 01:24:00 PST

Blog off

Our album is finished - yeah! Working on the artwork and sorting things I've been neglecting these last few months, like MySpace!
Posted by Tony McGuinness (Above & Beyond) on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 06:30:00 PST