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"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned." George Bernard Shaw
So is MySpace. But don't let that put you off.
Anyway, welcome to the hyperbole-bereft page that will tell you everything and nothing you need not to know about The Globe & All. And less.
So, let's cut a pretty average-length story short...
In late-2005 two brothers from a muso background decide to bugger about making music as a little aside. This goes better than expected.
Deciding that their impromptu noise-merchantry has a pair of sturdy legs, they approach a close friend - and resident of the same small Cornish village - about shuftying the whole shebang on a bit further. And getting shedded in the local Mole and Trombone afterwards.
Initially reluctant - having already endured several years of manifestly dung-minded, biscuit-crumb, phalluses parading as recording industry nabobs - he converts. And, if you're wondering, it is he writing this prattle.
The author then contacts a long-lost friend who is up to his balls in wood-shavings. Said carpenter also happens to be among the finest exponents of hickory-upon-snare artistry.
This acquistion is swiftly followed by the arrival of someone who can not only play bass but also possess more than just a modicum of stage presence. Better still, he isn't a four-string twanging pillock. And they're rare, believe me.
They play a launch party gig to, ooooh, quite a few, in December 2005.
A couple of months later, and five days away from a bash in the big smoke, the purveyor of fine paraddidles is incapacitated by an irretrievably buggered prolapsed disc.
Band seeks new drummer.
New drummer found.
New drummer saves day (before an umentionable incident at 3:30am during the 300-mile drive back home to Cornwall).
New drummer forgiven.
Band reconvenes and sets about playing a few select gigs.
More songs written.
And here we are.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/26/2006
Band Website: globeandall.com
Band Members: Kristian Good - Lead Vocals, Luke Good - Guitar, Chris Boulton - Guitar & Vocals, Ross Kessell - Bass & Vocals, Ben Nankervis - Drums
Influences: The round table at the Vole and Flugelhorn, anxiety attacks, outstanding feminine pulchritude, doom bar beer, Brian Sewell, people who think they're not special but actually rock more than they realise, Tony Soprano, moments of acute hypochondria, the sudden realisation that time ticks by too quickly, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, pompous wordsmithery, the mighty Sabbath [as added by Ross "Feratu" Kessell, incidentally], Thomas de Quincy, late-night epiphanies, The Sunday Times, late-summer get togethers on the Helford River where total peace is swimming on your back and working out the constellations, Norman Rockwell, our dearest buddies, thinking-ciggies out of Luke's chalet window, happy doggies, and quite probably you if only we met.
Sounds Like: Shotguns and Nightingales

Record Label: No. And we're happy with that for the moment
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Sincere Apologies...

... to all those who turmed out at Bunters last night to hear us play a particularly ropey gig. Amends will be made at our Annual Christmas Bash at the Ferryboat Inn tomorrow evening (Sat 15th Decembe...
Posted by The Globe & All on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:26:00 PST

HELP REQUIRED!!!

We'd be sincerely grateful if you could do us a small favour... On our music player there are now four songs, one of which is likely to be the track we use to promote The Globe & All (i.e. single ...
Posted by The Globe & All on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:36:00 PST

United Highs is "a probable hit"

Now, much as we're supposed to get all sniffy about the concept of writing a "commercial" song (as if you want to write something no bugger likes), it's always nice to know you get something right. An...
Posted by The Globe & All on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 05:04:00 PST

Saturday 29th August

Hi All,Just a quick reminder that we're playing at Elite Fest this Saturday (29th September) - please see their MySpace page for more info, tickets and wotnot.Please note that the whole thing starts a...
Posted by The Globe & All on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:51:00 PST

quietitude

Just a quick message to apologise for any apparent lack of communication via myspace or personal email over the past month. Truth is, as the cyberspace representative of the band - and in an individua...
Posted by The Globe & All on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 03:51:00 PST

Thanks to all

Just a quick message to thank all who made it to TheG&A's Annual Christmas Bash on Saturday. It really is much appreciated. I'd now like to say how we're going to be putting our feet up for the ne...
Posted by The Globe & All on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 06:38:00 PST

couple of things

... right, where was I. Oh, yes. United Highs CD's are now available from behind the bar at The Ferryboat Inn, Helford Passage. Which is nice. Now going to spend a few weeks writing some new material ...
Posted by The Globe & All on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 04:07:00 PST

More Music, Falmouth

Got to take our hats off to the folks at More Music. Quite frankly, you can screw your big music retailers... this is how a shop should be. Really enjoyable outside acoustic session on the first of th...
Posted by The Globe & All on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 10:47:00 PST

Sky Sports

Yay! The Globe & All's music on the telly! Did you hear it? United Highs? On Super League coverage! TheG&A
Posted by The Globe & All on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 05:01:00 PST

United Highs E.P.

Just to say that the United Highs E.P, featuring the title track, No Share, Little Things and Gemma, is now available at Solo Music in Truro. Yay! United Highs is also scheduled for play on Sky Sports...
Posted by The Globe & All on Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:07:00 PST