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MacPherson and McSwegan

About Me


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 25/02/2006
Band Members: MacPherson - singerMcSwegan - guitarist and singer of classic tv themes
Influences: The Beatles, Oasis, James Brown, Wu Tang Clan, Spitz, Outkast, Asian Kung Fu Generation, The Stone Roses, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Frasier, Lost, Dredg, Life of Agony, Manic Street Preachers, New Order, Shack, and stuff.
Sounds Like: The Corries
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Tokyo Music blog and whatnot

I'm helping out on Graeme Jarvie's Tokyo Music blog, and have written a few live reviews here: http://tokyo-music.blogspot.com/ Went to see the superb Euphoria last night but haven't written the revie...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:49:00 GMT

Intercontinental songing efforts and Garageband help request

Well, I, MacPherson, have moved across the world to live in Tokyo while McSwegan remains in London. This could be the end of the songing, but I'd rather it wasn't as there are still good ideas aplenty...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:52:00 GMT

So, Suddenly...

Should finally be ready tonight, and I have to say... (And this is saying something) ... that it is shaping up to sound severely insane, and completely ridiculous. So please take a listen and have a...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:42:00 GMT

YouTube channel

In a new foray into YouTube, we can be found here:http://www.youtube.com/user/MacPMcSIt is intended that we will not this time become involved in myriad online arguments, and this should make it a mor...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:59:00 GMT

Songing in progress

The promised cover version action is under way and we are about to record our efforts which is always fun of course. As a clue to the song in question all I will say is it’s a song about a girl....
Posted by on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:10:00 GMT

Holidays over. Songing next week.

With no songing for a few weeks due to other developments, it seems the door has been closed on those particular avenues and it is back to the songing as a way to eliminate the week’s latest wor...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:08:00 GMT

Suddenly redux

A songing session is under way in which MacPherson and McSwegan gamely tackle once more their earlier half song "Suddenly". The track, which previously featured a driving guitar riff, has been at...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:34:00 GMT

10,000 listens

It's amazing how many times you can listen to your own songs.Now that we have put the songs up on youtube we will, I suspect, be doing about half of our self-listening on there instead. Anyway, here's...
Posted by on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:12:00 GMT

Revisiting the oldsters

We have decided to go back to some of the first numbers in the MacPherson and McSwegan catalogue and have another go at them. So we have practised through a few times and also made another effort at r...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:38:00 GMT

Words

While McSwegan battles with his guitar, here are the words to the new song: What can you say?In my dreamsthe evil spoke to meI try to keep the standard far awayIf I spokeof somebody you knowthen I cou...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:54:00 GMT