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Richey Hackett

About Me


Everything on my records is written, played, sung, recorded and produced by me. I spent years thinking the only way to make music was with a full band. I also spent years thinking that you had to be signed to a record label to be a 'real musician'.
None of this is true. You are the star. Make your music, share it with the world by any means necessary and available to you.
Over the last decade, alternative music has flourised and come into it's own. But pop music has declined, becoming ever more a parody of itself with the dawn of reality television and quick fix pop wannabes.
Why am I different? Because I believe in making music that will still sound great in 10 years time. Because I believe the general public are not a bunch of braindead, tasteless idiots who will accept anything you throw at them. Because I believe music is more important than sales and chart positions.
Pop music is dead. And I have come to revive it. Enjoy.
ALBUMS
Awkwardly Mobile (2007)
Conversations With Myself (2007)
Suddenly (2007)
Richey Hackett (2008)
Kicking & Screaming (2008)
E.P.s
Unknowingly E.P. (2007)
Red E.P. (2008)
Looking Into The Dark E.P. (2008) with Ally Sparham
All tracks © Made Up Music 2007 - 2009. All right reserved.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 21/12/2005
Band Website: http://www.myspace.com/richeyhackett
Band Members: Richey - instruments, vocals, words
Influences: Manic Street Preachers
Elliott Smith
Antony and The Johnsons
Ramones
Pixies
Daniel Johnston
The Vaselines
Nick Drake
The Clash
At The Drive-In
Muse
Joy Divison
Dinosaur Jr
The New Pornographers
Portishead
JJ72
Beth Orton
Queen
Lou Hickey
System Of A Down
Elton John
Bob Dylan
Regina Spektor
The Stooges
David Bowie
Nine Inch Nails
Ben Folds
Nirvana
The Flaming Lips
Beck
Mr Scruff
Marilyn Manson
Radiohead
Nina Simone
Metallica
Tears For Fears
Jeff Buckley
Dusty Springfield
Smashing Pumpkins
Brian Wilson
Graham Coxon
Sounds Like: ‘Rufus Wainwright being played by OK Go.’ – Mr C
Record Label: Made Up Music
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

New E.P. coming this week and other news...

Hi everybody,It's been a while since I've done a blog. Seemed to fall behind with keeping this thing updated due to constantly being at work (yes, I have a job again!). Just a little news for my faith...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:17:00 GMT

New music pages!!

Hey everybody, just a quick head's up about my new Facebook music page, where you can register as a fan of my music (if that's your thing): http://www.myspace.com/richeyhackett And my new account over...
Posted by on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:25:00 GMT

Revising History

My second album Unknowingly has always been considered by family and friends to be somewhat weaker than the other two I've recorded. This is mainly because I rushed the production on that album. Howev...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:53:00 GMT

Studio Update

The first block of recording on album number has been completed, with 10 songs now completed. As I'm taking the huge step of attempting to make a coherent double album, this currently represents just ...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:37:00 GMT

Album Number 3

"I think I'll take a break for now before beginning writing on album number 3..." - Richey, August 3rd 2007 Okay...my original plan didn't quite work out as I had intended it. The problem with finally...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:10:00 GMT

Unknowingly - the difficult second album

After finishing 'Awkwardly Mobile', I sent it to as many friends and family members and online friends as I could in order to gauge the reaction of people to the songs. I'm extremely pleased to report...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:16:00 GMT

WANTED! Local musicians

If you live in the Black Country, Wolverhampton or even Birmingham, and would like to auditon to be part of my live band with a view to playing local clubs and venues, now is the time to get in touch!...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:33:00 GMT

ALBUM FINISHED!

Sadly, due to my lack of technical ability, the drumming I'd have to program for 'Original Son' isn't possible to complete - I need a real drummer and a real drumkit. So that song has been placed to o...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:25:00 GMT

The only time you will see me this happy

Originally, I planned on going to bed around 1am tonight, which is obscenely early for me. But instead I suddenly felt the desire to have a strum of my guitar before I turned in. I started working on ...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:31:00 GMT

Tuesday Sessions

Two more songs completed today - 'Everything Fits' and 'The Road To Louville', although I'm not sure that I'm happy with the mix on the latter. So I may have to go back and remix that one at some poin...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:28:00 GMT