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BILK

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BILK MUSIC exclusive LIVE Video Feed Portal...you should be able to see all the live Bilk Broadcasts from this box. Like my music? Email me...you may just talk me into a live performance if Im not in the middle of something important... ****Inaguaral Live Broadcast MAY 1 LOVE PARK SHOW..12noon to 3PM..

OK so here it is...definitive PROOF of the October 2007 Madness Tour ...4days, 3 gigs...including SEATTLE SPACE NEEDLE, LOVE PARK PHILLY and Seattle Sheraton...enjoy...please comment....

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BILK live at the Space Needle

...peace and thanks...


its all bilk

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Long awaited...finally here"
Be the first primate in your jungle to own the new CD all the hip primates are swingin’ to.
Music by the legendary philly based recording artist BILK tm ...with award winning artwork designed by artist Dorian Fedkiw. Early reviews are astounding.
The US trademark office says all looks well on our aquisition of the word "Bilk" as a trademark...so soon we will be the only licensed vendors of Bilk in the world. All other BILK tm salesmen be hereby forewarned.
Even if you don’t buy one right this instant ...drop by the CD Baby site and at least leave a note of encouragement or write a review and say you liked the album alot.(seriously I will pay you $10...cash or check...just send me your account numbers and my associates, the recently ousted Royal Family of Zambia, will get right on it) So thanks for being my loyal fan base. I promise to do my best to insure that the world does not suck.


-peace,


BILK tm

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BILK tm BIO


Bill K grew up in NC. He started developing an interest in playing piano at age 6 but it didn’t go so well. He had a renewed interest in piano after discovering a copy of The Beatles album, "Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band", hidden among the classical music LPs in his parent’s cabinet. This time he re-started music, and though piano didn’t last long (it got swapped for guitar around college years) love of music, particularly The Beatles music, has been a lasting effect. As years went on Bill went through periods of waxing and waning involvement in various musical projects. In Bill’s words, Only in the past few years has the full realization of the precariousness and precious nature of life viewed paradoxically against the repressive energy with which most people limit their lives compelled me to become an active performer."


For the last couple years Bill’s been living in the Philly, PA region and playing to mass crowd gatherings across the northeast. Bill has played for over 25,000 people in the last year. With his band, "Dog’s Run Free," as well as at frequent solo performances, Bill has continued to acquire a steady stream of good reviews, outstanding memories and many fantastic new friends. You may have heard some of Bill’s original songs, such as: "Win This Race", "Impossible Is Not A Fact", "Free Smiles", "Particle in a Box" "Speed Monkey" as well as his latest creations: "I’m havin’ a better day than Paris(Hilton)", "Unstoppable Forces" and "The Wind." The highlight of Bilk’s summer thus far has been performing for the LOVE PARK SUMMER LUNCHTIME CONCERT SERIES (twice actually)...says Bilk, "Never have I felt so much love and acceptance when presenting my own material as I have down in the heart of Philadelphia...to hear my songs reverberating off the skyscrapers and feel the acceptance of the city was a sublime and marvelous experience I will never forget... To think back to a few years ago when I was learning to perform, by playing in the street just blocks away and subway stations underneath this very same spot, somehow makes it all feel very unreal." Bilk performed at large crowd gatherings such as: The Wilmington Marathon, Penn’s Landing, Wilson Farm Park Amphitheatre Summer Concert Series, Wilmington’s St Anthony’s Festival, and The Philadelphia Distance Run. In my mind, says Bill K, "The two local venues that have gone out of their way to make me feel like I’m at home away from home when I perform are: Burlap and Bean Coffee (in Newtown Square) and = MILKBOY COFFEE = (in Brynn Mawr).Bill also plays area open mics occasionally where local fans truncated his sign in name of Bill K. to the abbreviated name Bilk by which he is sometimes better known. OK by me, says Bill who has recently been building a website named BILKMUSIC.com


Bills works have been included in the soundtracks of multiple motion pictures such as the 2005 release, Perimeter Run which won an award at the Hawaii Film Festival. Additionally, Bill recently finished creating an entire soundtrack and score for a film entitled, Facing Tomorrow. The movie, conceived of by local area resident Joe Spampinato, was filmed in New Zealand. The raw edginess of the movie which deals with such issues as isolation, loss, life values and suicide, gave a strong emotional base from which I was able to draw on when creating songs, says Bill. I think this made for some interesting material. Granted a few of the songs were a bit darker than I would normally shoot for, but they were necessary for the picture. Also, I balanced them with some more positive material which is more my usual style. Most of the work of creating these arrangements was done in Bills home studio using multitrack recording, but the most fun part of the project for Bill was the full-scale recording sessions. The musicians met in a 300-year-old Friends Meeting House in Newtown Square. Film crews were also present and the sessions have been aired on Comcasts Channel 2 Public Access Channel. Some of the music developed for this project developed a place in the newly released music album: From Monkey With Love" by Bilk, released on the Philadelphia based: "Dogs Run Free" Label. The album is currently on sale online...see link above to CD Baby.
Bill’s concerts are a truly eclectic blending point of classic jazz, rock, blues, reggae, poetry, literature and raw emotion. His musical heroes include The Beatles, Cole Porter, Louis Armstrong,

Nat King Cole, and Jack Kerouac (ok so Jacks not really technically a musician). You will definitely not hear the same old songs at a BILK Show. States Bilk, "I usually strive to re-invent a standard if I’m going to do it at all. Who wants to hear the same thing the same way for the hundredth time? I strive to get the audience to feel that they are a part of the music and that the music is relevant to now. George Gershwin had it right when he said that, "True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans. My time is today."

more music and pics ...maybe video...etc...coming soon...stay tuned.

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GROOV-STER OF THE WEEK..have you seen this man. If so contact local authorities, this man is wanted for failing to adhere to standard conservative values. He is believed to be very dangerous(and Super Groovy)...note how he points at the camera with an imaginary finger gun...implying violence! And UArts is a likely cover for another AlQuida Op...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/15/2006
Band Website: BILKMUSIC.com
Band Members:
Influences: The Beatles* (Where All Music Traces It's Roots), Louis Armstrong, Sting, Cole Porter, Bob Marley, Bob + Doug McKenzie, Jack Kerouac and of course Dylan.The Flintstones, Donald Duck, The Monkeys, Scoobie Doo, The Jungle Book, Huckleberry Finn, The Lone Ranger, Spider Man, Superfriends: League of Justice, Tom and Jerry, Grape Ape, Space Ghost, Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, The Road, Our Man in Havanna, The Comedians, Gram Greene, Arturo Perez, The Club Dumas, The Three Musketeers, Dr Seuss and Douglas Adams.Elvis, The Beach Boys, Peter Tosh, Jack Johnson, Taj Mahal, Leon Redbone, Carl Sagan, John Denver, Jim Morrison, Jim Croce, Paul Simon,
Sounds Like: nuthin you ever heard before...yet oddly rooted in mainstream traditions...
Record Label: Dogs Run Free Productions
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Democracy In Action

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiLP7UM31Y4 The REVOLUTION has begun... ...what progress has been made near you?...
Posted by BILK on Sat, 10 May 2008 01:53:00 PST

on Presidential Rallies and Jamn w Mayor Nutter...usual blog stuff

 Oh blog...you wont believe what happened to me today... so like the campaign for president is over (dont vote for me) though I did make a slight dent in McCain's unassailable majority. BILK is ...
Posted by BILK on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:42:00 PST

Playing in LOVE AGAIN 7/27/07

Thanks to all my friends who gave positive approval back to Love Park after my first performance. It was thanks to you all that I got to come back and play again today(7/27/07). I had a blast once a...
Posted by BILK on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:06:00 PST

LOVE PARK

...so I played this park downtown today...it's called  Love Park and it's slam in the middle of downtown.  It got really fameous when skateboarders discovered that the stonework made excell...
Posted by BILK on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:22:00 PST

bilk cd release party LIVE RADIO

Hey friends... Update From Bilkworld... Crazy stuff happening this week. I played a gig at Milkboy Coffee" in Brynn Mawr last nt....sorry I didn't get the word out I didn't know myself for sure I was...
Posted by BILK on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:34:00 PST

attacking the Fortress of the Arts and BILK news

Dear Mom, Life is good...week 4! and so far they still haven't voted me off the island, even when I ran around naked and threw poo at the other monkeys...life continues to be interesting on Bilk Islan...
Posted by BILK on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:11:00 PST

attacking the Fortress of the Arts and BILK news

Dear Mom, Life is good...week 4! and so far they still haven't voted me off the island, even when I ran around naked and threw poo at the other monkeys...life continues to be interesting on Bilk Islan...
Posted by BILK on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:12:00 PST

imminent CD release FROM MONKEY WITH LOVE

SO I'm going nuts...trying not to, but...the CD should have been done last week...they tell me tomorrow.  I'm trying to be cool....it's just a thing..no...but the TV show aired on Ch2..TE Music S...
Posted by BILK on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:45:00 PST

gtrs movies and Will Ferrill

SO I wen't to the movies Thursday nt and see Will Ferrill's new flick, "Stranger Than Fiction" and incidentally it's the best movie I've seen in years; but there's this one scene where Will's characte...
Posted by BILK on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 07:25:00 PST

philly distance run

This blog is actually old news...though I think I now lay claim to the Spring Garden Bridge for the Philly Dist Run...haveing played there solo for the last 2 years...  I really like the way the ...
Posted by BILK on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:35:00 PST