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Neil Sturgeon

geography and luck

About Me

MyGen Profile Generator started my musical existence with early 90's glasgow group 'a chocolate morning', releasing a couple of indie singles along the way before the bands' sad demise in 1994. recorded an album of 8 track acousticness with my friend / producer / engineer frank gallagher titled 'nothinghead' which came out on our 'troubadour' label in 1995. despite an enjoyable year of touring the album the lure of electric volume won out when 'the goldenhour' was formed in 1996. to date we have released 2 albums ('beyond the beyond' -raft records 2003) and 'always in the now' - neon tetra records 2005) and played over 200 gigs throughout the uk. currently working on my second solo album 'geography and luck' which will hopefully see the light of day in august 2008...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/11/2006
Band Website: thegoldenhour.info neilsturgeon.co.uk
Band Members: neil sturgeon (vocals, guitars, keyboards, bass and anything i can get a decent noise from)!..additional instrumentation from neil menzies (bass), deborah edgar (vocals), ally maclean (keyboards, piano), david andrews (guitar / vocals), paul tasker (acoustic guitar, mandolin), reuben millward (drums) Myspace Contact Tables
Influences: gene clark, elliott smith, neil young, the beatles, loudon wainwright III, matthew sweet, julian cope, ben kweller, nigel clark, badly drawn boy, carole king, CSNY, mamas & the papas, john sebastian, beach boys, supergrass, the charlatans, paul weller, difford and tilbrook, ian mcnabb, neal casal, the band, buffalo springfield, buddy holly, tim buckley, the waterboys, the shirelles, heatmeiser, neon tetra records, mike nesmith, echo & the bunnymen, rem, west coast pop art experimental band, dodgy, bob dylan, small faces, phil spector, george harrison, the who, stevie wonder, blur, teenage fanclub, the kinks, strawberry alarm clock, everly brothers, stooges, the byrds, lovin' spoonful, monkees, blondie, buffalo tom, simon & garfunkel, the rutles, the pixies, the jam, the clash, electric prunes, teardrop explodes, love, 60's garage / psychedelia, gene parsons, dusty springfield, jimi hendrix, the association, daily flash, them, yardbirds, boo radleys, motown, stax, velvet underground, kurt vonnegut, nick hornby, jeff bridges, coen brothers, woody allen, connie nielsen, melanie sykes, john mcenroe, 24, chic charnley, jimmy white, johan cruyff!!
Sounds Like: me most of the time......some have told me they hear a bit of gene clark, elliott smith, neil young, the beatles which is hopefully evidence that i'm doing something right!

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Record Label: www.neontetrarecords.com (the goldenhour)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

some gigs in the diary..album update..

howdy folks! first of all, some gigs coming up..as i'm on the home straight with my album it's time to get the show on the road and i've started to arrange some live shows. i'll be touring the UK from...
Posted by Neil Sturgeon on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:22:00 PST

free gigs!..tonight and saturday..

hi everyone just thought i'd post some details of a couple of gigs i'm doing this week, both are free admission so hopefully some of you will be able to make it along!.. tonight (thursday) i'm at the ...
Posted by Neil Sturgeon on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:47:00 PST

calling all thistle fans!..

calling all jags fans.. many red and yellow moons ago i wrote some songs for the david belcher play ’partick thistle football crazy’, which enjoyed a sell-out run at glasgow pavilion and t...
Posted by Neil Sturgeon on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:21:00 PST

forthcoming gigs and stuff..

hi everybody, i’m starting to book gigs again as sessions for my album are nearing an end, the album is sounding great and i’m looking forward to playing it live for the first time. on thu...
Posted by Neil Sturgeon on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:24:00 PST

goldenhour rarities / next weeks gig..

hi everyone, i hope 2008 has been kind to you all so far..playing my first live show of the year at the western baths, glasgow next wednesday (13th). i will be playing an acoustic set as part of a do...
Posted by Neil Sturgeon on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:09:00 PST

new songs posted..demos, rarities n covers!

hi everybody, just a word to say that i've posted some home demos on my page..i've also dusted down my copy of the first ever goldenhour demo (from 1995) and first up on my page is our song 'zebra fet...
Posted by Neil Sturgeon on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:19:00 PST

spain and other recent activities..

hi all just had an amazing trip to spain with mr daniel wylie..daniel was on a promo tour taking in shows in madrid and bilbao and a few radio sessions / interviews..as well as providing acoustic and ...
Posted by Neil Sturgeon on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:24:00 PST

new song, the goldenhour and other stuff

hi everybody..i've posted a new song which may be featured on my 'geography and luck' album..i've now got the difficult decision of picking out the dozen or so tracks for the album from a pool of abou...
Posted by Neil Sturgeon on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:45:00 PST

’sideshow’ early mix posted!

hi folks, following the much requested re-post of 'ride the tide', i've now put up 'sideshow', an early mix of a track from the forthcoming album..the album is taking shape really nicely and i plan to...
Posted by Neil Sturgeon on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:34:00 PST

Home Demos

howdy folks, i've been recording some new songs at home in the past week or so and although the production quality leaves a lot to be desired i will post the results on the site in the next few weeks....
Posted by Neil Sturgeon on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:19:00 PST