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Education

Aitch

About Me

In October '04 founder members Christopher Taylor (singer) and Oliver Jones (bass), whilst painting Oliver's kitchen, decided to write some songs.CT/OJ soon drafted in mutual friends Oliver Smith (guitar) and Jim Beadle (drums).After months of work 12 original songs were ready.A debut gig was played to a crowd of 120 at The Lord Nelson, Thirsk on 17th December 2005.Since then it's been writing, recording and gigging.Education's high points to date were first single "Cool As You" getting played on RadioOne in November '06, and supporting Damien Dempsey in Oct '07.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/20/2006
Band Website: areyoueducated.com
Band Members: Chrissie Taylor - Singer, Oliver Smith - Guitar, Oliver Jones - Bass, Jim Beadle - Drums.
Influences: Echobelly, Elvis, Education.
Sounds Like: we're all roughly 27.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Harrogate Advertiser plus stuff.

Review of "Turbines" in today's HA.  For real this week.Would anybody like us to record the full version of "You Fancy More"? (It isn't longer; we forgot to do the middle eight on the version her...
Posted by Education on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:20:00 PST

Radio play and newspaper review.

Hello. Our song "Turbines" was played on BBC Radio York's Raw Talent last night. To share in the excitement, you can use the 'listen again' facility at the website. Not to be presumptuous, but it look...
Posted by Education on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:22:00 PST

Turbines

We expect to see a review of  our decent song "Turbines" in tomorrow's Harrogate Advertiser. It should appear online also. If yer interested, it's easily googled if you search for "Graham Chalmer...
Posted by Education on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:06:00 PST

Our Videos on YouTube

Have a look at our videos (Cool As You and Buy To Let (live)) on YouTube. They are rubbish. In fact they are not really videos; just still photos with the music. Just a lazy way to put some songs on Y...
Posted by Education on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:09:00 PST

RADIO; The Download Show

Education (North Yorkshire) are appreciated in Oldham (Lancs) by Jeff. He's gonna play "Buy To Let" on his Download Show this Sunday on Oldham Community Radio (rpt nxt Fri). Don't worry: he'll not be ...
Posted by Education on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:38:00 PST

ID Cards

ID cards; if you've got nothing to hide, then you are very dull. Shove your cards up your arse, government.
Posted by Education on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:25:00 PST

2008

Good news- After months of lethargy we are back on message with new songs, gigs, acoustic tracks and free gifts all coming your way in a shameless bid for mass appeal! Watch this space (Please)* I mus...
Posted by Education on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:37:00 PST

Burt latest..

Burt Reynolds has not attended our more recent gigs. It is hoped he'll be amongst the audience next month at Thirsk.Meanwhile, to those whom it may concern, bad luck with your buy-to-let.
Posted by Education on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:48:00 PST

Beckon Me & Cottage Burners

Our latest recordings are Beckon Me and Cottage Burners. We like them. But what do YOU, the studio audience think?
Posted by Education on Wed, 30 May 2007 01:57:00 PST

Recording

Weekend just gone, we started recording the first Education album. The previous idea to record PutYourPhoneDown for a single has been swallowed by the album project.
Posted by Education on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:36:00 PST