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City Wide Walkie Talkie

CWWT: More beats coming up

About Me

City Wide Walkie Talkie are a three-piece ensemble consisting of Brian Longhurst on drums, Daryl Askey on keyboards, and Jamie Tait on bass guitar. Their influences range from obscure soul-funk to space rock to dub, and many sub-genres in between. Taste and atmosphere have always won out over musical proficiency, and that has kept them keeping on.

It all began in 1999 as a recording project where keyboard, guitar, bass and percussion improvisations would be laid down over drum machine and groove box sequences. The self-produced City Wide Walkie Talkie EP and Keep The Killing Up album resulted from this process.

The group followed up with sound track material for a short film, Headshot, in 2003, and a second unique album, Planet of the Superspeakers, in 2005. Meanwhile, as Brian re-discovered his teenage love of drumming, CWWT headed off to rehearsals to evolve into a viable live unit.

After playing an initial series of shows around Vancouver, City Wide is now in the process of creating new beats for a new recording project. Stay tuned. Click here to book City Wide Walkie Talkie for your art opening, party, festival or other event.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/26/2006
Band Website: virb.com/citywidewalkietalkie
Band Members: Jamie Tait, Daryl Askey, Brian Longhurst
Influences: Chicken flavour, shortwave radio, echo chambers, Ramsey Lewis, speaker cones, Madlib, KLF, dub
Sounds Like: Black Moth Super Rainbow, Jel, Stereolab, Primal Scream, Yesterday's New Quintet, Disrupt, Air, Tommy Guerrero, Fila Brazillia, Visit Venus
Record Label: Isonaut Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Rhizome Cafe Gig

Hey, on my (other) blog, D-tronic's Dispatches, I've posted some pictures from our last gig.Enjoy! http://dtronic.blogspot.com/Also, don't forget to check http://www.isonautmusic.com where we've got s...
Posted by City Wide Walkie Talkie on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:42:00 PST