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About Me

1996 until present, recording and performing. Formed by Mike Cross and Mike Ward. ALBUMS..... Surrounded by Glass (Ochre Records CD), Live in New York (Ochre Records 10" vinyl), Auto Genous (Spaceage Recordings 2CD), Static (Ochre Records CD), L.I.F.E.span (Black Bean CD), Archive (Ochre Records 2CD), Longstoned (Remixes , not yet released),

ALL OF THE LONGSTONE BACK CATALOGUE CDs ARE CURRENTLY AVAILABLE VIA Ebay WHERE BOTH OCHRE RECORDS AND SPACEAGE RECORDINGS LIST THEM AT VERY LOW PRICES. They accept paypal and ship world wide.

Longstone are working on remixes for Ayako Mori.
The new studio album Kabuki is currently being recorded,
Mike Ward is also currently active with side project "Brickwerk". Brickwerk have just released their debut album " Empty bottle dusty road"
Longstone / Brickwerk 's long time sax/ bass clarinet player and good friend Chris Cundy is currently touring and recording with the Guillemots. This has lead to a recent live colaboration with the fantastic multi instrumentalist and theremin king, M C Lord Magrao of the Guillemots,mixing the the ambient electronics of Brickwerk/longstone with the improvised sax of Mr Cundy and the impressive array of M C's effects and theremin with awesome results. It is hoped that more of these live collaborations will happen soon and studio sessions are being talked about .... watch this space!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/5/2006
Band Website: longstoned.com
Band Members: Mike Ward & Mike Cross
with Chris Cundy ( bass clarinet , Mr alien , sax)
and Steve Moody ( Guitar , effects)
Influences: BANDS... My Bloody Valentine, Aphex Twin, Kraftwerk, Mouse on Mars, Spacemen 3, Cluster, XTC, Faust, Tortoise, Stereolab, Godspeed you black Emperor, Cornelius, Morton Subotnic,Glide, Silver Apples, Lee Scratch Perry, Clash, Go Team, Tony Conrad, Velvet Underground, Guillemots , Fall , Spectrum, Skyray, Sweet Trip, Raymond Scott, Boards of Canada, Flying Saucer Attack, Labradford, Julian Cope, Ectogram, ....... and many, many more.LABELS,STUDIOS,PEOPLE ETC..... Ochre, Dharla, Enraptured, Spaceage, Earworm, Duophonic, Static Caravan, Oggum, Table of the Elements, ...... Kling Klang, Black Ark, EMS, Bryn Derwen, The Pig Sty, Small Films, ..... John Peel, Peter Firmin, Oliver Postgate, Sonic Boom, Brian Wilson, Joe Strummer, Paul Simpson, David Toop, Alan Holmes, Will Sergeant, Akira Kurosawa, Bob Moog, David Wrench, ...... Mixing it, Late Junction, Breeze Block, ............. Stylophones, Speak and Spells, circuit bending, SH101, TR606, ARP, Roland, Moog, Nord, Fender, L.I.F.E, .......to be fair this list just scratches the surface ,but you get the idea.
Sounds Like: soundscapes, sometimes mellow, sometimes uncompromising, bleeps,sweeps,sometimes beats, white noise,rewired toys, found sounds, usually electronic.
Record Label: Ochre records, Spaceage , Black Bean, Elbandito ,
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

FRIDAY ... DON’T FORGET FRIDAY ... mad Jazz fun ....

oh yes ... Cheltenham Jazz Festival .... LONGSTONE play on Friday night ..they are supporting Jazz legend Han Bennink ...it will no doubt be a bit mad ... and you can take your own booze ....
Posted by Longstone on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:51:00 PST

Studio Tan / Analogue brain fry ...........

Hiwe have been having a blast in the studio with a big pile of analogue gear working out a new set for the live show. Some of it is sounding great and some pretty crazy which is of course good.We have...
Posted by Longstone on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:16:00 PST

New Music ... gigs .. news ... stuff .. you know ..

Hi Allwell there is plenty happening in and on the fringes of the Longstone world.Firstly we have set all our old analogue gear up in the studios and started rehearsing for the gig on May 2nd. We are ...
Posted by Longstone on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:52:00 PST

some news ... recordings, gigs ... Sun Ra ... etc .

Hithe first Longstone gigs to be confirmed for 2008 will be at Cheltenham Jazz festival on Friday and Saturday May the 2nd and 3rd. We are pretty excited about this one ... on the Friday we will play ...
Posted by Longstone on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 02:19:00 PST

OCHRE RECORDS ... news and bargains ....

Hiwe wanted to let you know that the fantastic and pioneering Cheltenham label ,Ochre Records ,have just updated their web site and added a shop with the ability to buy back catalogue releases on line...
Posted by Longstone on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:34:00 PST

New year

Hello ,sorry things have seemed a bit quiet recently, we've had a couple of months rest from live shows whilst Mike and myself dealt with the reality of our real lives and day jobs... also Steve has b...
Posted by Longstone on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:51:00 PST

ALBUM OUT NOW !!

HIat last the LONGSTONED remix CD is out ... released on 10th September in the U.K. !!It is ditributed by Proper in the U.K. PROPER WEBSITE and should be available in all good record stores. It is als...
Posted by Longstone on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:14:00 PST

GIG NEWS !!!!!!

Hi Alljust to let you know about the way cool Double Yang festival next weekend !!!Sunday 9th September 12.30 - 10.30 . at the Wheatsheaf Inn 283 Old Bath Road , Cheltenham.loads of good stuff happe...
Posted by Longstone on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 06:34:00 PST

Review in the WIRE

The following review is in the latest issue of the WIRE magazine ... we like it a lot ...THE WIRE issue 282 AUGUST 2007" On Longstoned , the longstanding British duo of Mike Cross and Mike Ward rework...
Posted by Longstone on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:05:00 PST

NEWS...................

Hi At last we have a confirmed release date for the new CD !!!!LONGSTONED will be in the shops in the U.K. on September 10th and is distributed by Proper. The band will hopefully play some shows durin...
Posted by Longstone on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:56:00 PST