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John Forrester

Acoustic singer/songwriter... bass player... etc

About Me

His most recent acoustic album 'All The Wrong Things' can be bought as downloads from iTunes - Search for 'Forrester'. For CD's visit Twah! Records , Fivetrees and Amazon ...Once upon a time he played acoustic guitar & sang sad songs...But right now he's mostly playing bass guitar for Robb Johnson . Oh, and driving tractors.....But when he straps on an acoustic...... Good music is unquestionably a result of good songwriting. Good songwriting is all too often wasted without a heartfelt and charismatic live performance. Forrester belongs to that rare and diminishing breed that effortlessly and consistently achieve both. At turns fiery and confrontational, at others subtle and reflective; indeed Forrester occupies his own place amongst Britain's songwriters.Here, at last, is a writer who understands that a song is more than some rhyming words set to a tune. Its about experiences, emotions, dynamics, recognition, rhythm, resignation and redemption. There arent many places where fans of roots music, indie guitar attitude and a well struck acoustic can come together. A Forrester show is just such a place. One of a kind....and in the distant past he has played bass for The Colour Mary (featuring Phil Mills ), Pressgang , Wob , SunSpeak, Steve Hunt , Konstanze Meyer and Nozzle

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/18/2006
Band Website: forrester.uk.com
Band Members: John Forrester, and very occasionally Steven Cooper
Influences: Life.
Sounds Like:
Record Label: Twah Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Busy April!

Hello all,Just a quick note to let you know about the busy April I’ve got coming up. A few different things to get my teeth into, and I’m really looking forward to it all.Firstly, at the s...
Posted by John Forrester on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:52:00 PST

There is no justice

Just as Whitney Houston fucks off to obscurity, Leona Lewis starts making records.
Posted by John Forrester on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:35:00 PST

SOLO gigs & more... June 07

Forrester will be performing a rare SOLO gig this coming Sunday in London.The gig is to mark the relase of 'S.Y.D. Revisited' by Mike Boyce, and begins at 5.30pm.Details:Sunday 10th June 2007The Bedfo...
Posted by John Forrester on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:46:00 PST

Things I've learnt this week

Purple drum kits are cool.Playing 'slap bass' in public should be illegal.As should performing Santana songs.A SUPERTRAMP song in the charts?!!! Oh, for fuck's sake....Do not mix red lentils & Couer D...
Posted by John Forrester on Thu, 31 May 2007 12:22:00 PST

Gigs with Robb Johnson this week

Forrester will be playing 3 gigs with Robb Johnson & The Irregulars thiscoming week...The Irregulars will be previewing their new album at the Luminaire, Kilburn& also having a pre-Luminaire warm up a...
Posted by John Forrester on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:28:00 PST

New track up!!

There's a brand new track up today, the first acoustic thing I've recorded for years.... it's a cover of the Mike Boyce song Final Link, and was recorded at Seaview, Kent in December. Here's what they...
Posted by John Forrester on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:05:00 PST

A word about 'friends'...

...and by that I mean the pretend ones that you have on MySpace.Personally, and call me a Luddite, but I really don't see the point when you visit someone's page and they have 43,279 'friends'....how ...
Posted by John Forrester on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:50:00 PST

Trouble in America...

Razorlight?Chris De-f*ckin Burgh more like!!!!!!!!F*CK OFF!!!!!!!
Posted by John Forrester on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 02:04:00 PST