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About Me

Alright folks?! I'm from the bonnie town of Dumfries, Scotland! I play guitar and provide the eye candy in Calvin Harris and I'm also the frontman and general banter merchant in The Waves .
I read all my messages and comments, and I try to reply to as many as possible. Sorry in advance to all of you who don't get a reply, but I do appreciate all of your comments! Thank you! I'm glad to see there's so many people out there who enjoy our shows!
I'm also glad to see there's more than just me who gets a smile from my blogs! You keep reading them and I'll keep them coming!
For all you gear heads: my main weapon of choice is a Gibson SG Standard, but you may also see me playing a Gibson Classic Custom Les Paul in Silverburst, a Gibson Custom Les Paul in ebony, or a Gibson Melody Maker in white. I use a Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier and an Orange 4x 12 cab for all those big electro riffs, but I also use a Laney VC50 for that classic rock sound when needed!

My Interests

Writing music, jumping about stage wielding my axe with the odd wailing noise coming from my mouth, maybe a couple of drinks now and then...?...?!

I'd like to meet:

Bill Hicks R.I.P, Andrew "The Dice man" Clay, Mr T, David Blaine, William Wallace, Freddie Mercury, Howard Stern, Tim Burton, Ricky Gervais, George W. Bush, Arnold Schwarzenegger, all the Red Dwarf cast, Alex Ferguson... and God

Music:

Anything with a good melody, anything that isn't "freestyle jazz", anything G-funk

Movies:

Anything with Arnie, Sly or Big Bad Bruce Willis

Television:

Any good British sitcoms, any bad American sitcoms, anything that makes me laugh

Books:

Catcher In The Rye, The Outsider, anything about crazy people

Heroes:

Johnny Ramone, Billy Joe Armstrong, Dave Grohl, Dan Hawkins, Noel Gallagher, Ginger & CJ (the Wildhearts), Suggs, Freddie Mercury, John McClane, Mike Pickering, Bill Hicks, David Blaine, of course there's the ladies man...
PABLO!!! Legend!

And my biggest hero of all...
MAXWELL!!!

My Blog

Camden Crawl Video

Check out the pictures from when we played at the Camden Crawl 'twas a good night had by all!!! ...
Posted by Irving" on Wed, 09 May 2007 05:55:00 PST

Drinking Inn The Daytime

This is a video documenting the events of the carnage day out which started at 9am in The Barrel in Dumfries and consisted of me and my good friends Eddie & Kiwi drinking ALL day!I can highly...
Posted by Irving" on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:27:00 PST

Camden Crawl

Just back from the mighty Camden CrawlIt was awesome!I managed to catch a couple of bands on the second night including the Roll Deep Crew,who were awesome by the way,and David E. Sugar who was rippin...
Posted by Irving" on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:00:00 PST

Faithless tour - complete!

First of all I'd like to say, Betty is now fixed!!!A little bit of scarring has occured but she is fighting fit!Altho she did get hit with a can of Strongbow at the Mean Fiddler gig in LondonThat...
Posted by Irving" on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:14:00 PST

Betty got fixed (temporarily)

Betty got fixed in time to strut her stuff at Wembley!!!Three cheers for Betty!!! Altho she's only held together with two small screws at the momentShe should be going to the guitar hospital in t...
Posted by Irving" on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:22:00 PST

Betty got hurt!!! :,(

Last night in Cardiff was one of the best shows we've played on the whole tour(In fact I'd say it was the best one after the SECC gig)But during the end of the last song in a moment of Rock 'N' Roll m...
Posted by Irving" on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:29:00 PST

Davey PlAnEcRaSh is a legend!!!

Buy his book; Davey PlAnEcRaSh's AMAZING facts!!!Foreword by Reg VardyYou can hear an extract on tonight's Vic Galloway show on Radio 1 Scotland tonight from 7:30pm!!!Tune in or die!!!...
Posted by Irving" on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:48:00 PST

Calvin Harris Party Bus!!!

Hey, for everyone who doesn't know yet, the band I am in, Calvin Harris, have finally started gigging!!! Check out the list of dates on my profile to see where we're playing and stuffOr for a more de...
Posted by Irving" on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:12:00 PST

Recording

I had a GREAT night last night!!!The Waves came round and we recorded a rough demo of a song we've just finished writing calle 'Live For The Lovers'.It's a heady mix of lots of stylesThe bass line is ...
Posted by Irving" on Thu, 23 Feb 2006 04:32:00 PST

Hate To Say Goodbye

Hey there folks! You can now hear all about how I hate to say goodbye in the new song posted on my band's page The Waves Mark...
Posted by Irving" on Sun, 29 Jan 2006 01:23:00 PST