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veronique acoustique

Creatively Anti-Perfect

About Me

A bit about myself: Veronique Acoustique I have been writing music since childhood although I had no music education. I ended up working in various areas. As a singer-songwriter on the acoustic scene, as an alien (called Astragone Arglegargle) in green slime and clingfilm on the psychedelic scene and working on various music projects. I have also organised and run various kinds of alternative gigs, and clubs / festivals working in either acoustic music/performance poetry/or psychedelic styles. I also did a degree in Music at Thames Valley University and I am a guitar teacher . My current favourite guitar pieces to teach are by Led Zeppelin but I teach classical, pop, folk and blues too. Name dropping: My music and habit of hanging around musicians has led me to the following plus a few others: Ozric Tentacles , Zodiac Mindwarp, The Cardiacs ,Club Dog, Whirlygig, Ray Davies, Brian May, Steve Hillage, some of the founders of Hawkwind,Survivors Poetry, The Human Soundwave Company (my club now defunct),Anti-media (whose slogan was Modern Life is Rubbish). Keep innovative music alive , the crazier the better and remember Modern Life and in particular Modern Culture really is Rubbish, we are counting on people like you to get people thinking for themselves again and giving space for some true creativity. I have done loads more stuff than this but really it only really matters if you like the music not the amounts of gigs etc ...I have done. I get played regularly on the radio. In 2005 I was played on the Rob Da Bank show as featured unsigned artist of the week. I am recording more acoustic songs which I bombard with self-made samples to make some thing that sounds like analogue tape loops etc.. I love to do music in different styles and go through phases. Since my recent visit to Solfest (2007)and various other journeys into my past I feel brave enough to do experimental bits and pieces again and am recording and working with everyone who crosses my threshold! As well as writing music I also I write fiction .Some of the fiction I am writing about and many songs seem to subsequently reflect real events in my life either after they happened and sometimes before they have which is frankly weird!

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Member Since: 2/24/2006
Band Website: veronique.org.uk (will be running someday)
Band Members: Me..... although I have worked with other musicians and will continue to ask good musicians I know to play on my recordings. The track "r2d2 is sucking my brain" started off as a jam in my living room and as well as myself on keyboards, bagpipes and martian vocals, we have the genius of Tony Mellotron on Mellotron and Steve Clear on guitar. "NST-01" is basically a jam between myself and Steve which Tony added to recently. "Desperate Housewives" is Steve and myself on guitar which I mixed from samples of us playing. The rest is all me unless stated. I am responsible for all the good and atrocious mixing!
Influences: Songwriters and bands mostly from the 60s and 70s (some of these are totally unhip but I love them anyway!) I will try to cover the alphabet: Amos (Tori), Argent, Aqualung (band and album), Beatles (the), Black Sabbath, Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band, Cat Stevens, Deep Purple,The Doors, The Eagles,The Enid, Fleetwood Mac , Floyd (Pink), Focus, Fotheringay,Genesis, Gong, Green Day, Hawkwind, Hendrix, Here and Now, Steve Hillage, Iggy Pop, James Brown,Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, King Crimson, Kinks (the), Led Zeppelin (naturellement), The Mad Professor, Madness, Malicorne, Motorhead, Neil Young, Ozric Tentacles, Prince, Prodigy (the), Queen, Rory Gallagher, Dave Russell, Ruth ( Babe), Santana, Stone the Crows, The Stranglers, Tangerine Dream, Ten Years After, Treatment, T-Rex, The Ullulators, The Verve, William Shatner, The Who, XTC, Yes, Zion Train. and many many more....WHAT MAKES ME LAUGH: WHAT MAKES ME CRY :Joni Mitchell singing Cactus Tree Lyrics to Cactus Tree: Theres a man whos been out sailing In a decade full of dreams And he takes her to a schooner And he treats her like a queen Bearing beads from california With their amber stones and green He has called her from the harbor He has kissed her with his freedom He has heard her off to starboard In the breaking and the breathing Of the water weeds While she was busy being freeTheres a man whos climbed a mountain And hes calling out her name And he hopes her heart can hear three thousand miles He calls again He can think her there beside him He can miss her just the same He has missed her in the forest While he showed her all the flowers And the branches sang the chorus As he climbed the scaley towers Of a forest tree While she was somewhere being freeTheres a man whos sent a letter And hes waiting for reply He has asked her of her travels Since the day they said goodbye He writes wish you were beside me We can make it if we try He has seen her at the office With her name on all his papers Thru the sharing of the profits He will find it hard to shake her From his memory And shes so busy being freeTheres a lady in the city And she thinks she loves them all Theres the one whos thinking of her Theres the one who sometimes calls Theres the one who writes her letters With his facts and figures scrawl She has brought them to her senses They have laughed inside her laughter Now she rallies her defenses For she fears that one will ask her For eternity And shes so busy being freeTheres a man who sends her medals He is bleeding from the war Theres a jouster and a jester and a man who owns a store Theres a drummer and a dreamer And you know there may be more She will love them when she sees them They will lose her if they follow And she only means to please them And her heart is full and hollow Like a cactus tree While shes so busy being free
Sounds Like: an acoustic singer songwriter who likes to play with effects , guitars and synthesizers.
Record Label: various
Type of Label: Indie

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Desperate Housewives Credits

Hello myspace peopleThis evening I mixed and posted another track called Desperate Housewives.I wanted to give credit where credit is due. I put this together from 2 separate recording sessions loosel...
Posted by veronique acoustique on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 04:42:00 PST