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The Haiku

Pronunciation:
'hi - koo'

About Me

Fan The Flames - CD Album - £10.00
1) Drink It Away
2) Nerves On A Pin
3) Blind Man Takes The Gun
4) The News Is: The World Sucks
5) Which Way To Go
6) Sleazy Pop Songs
7) Escape - Part 2 (Yours)
8) Throwaway
9) Little Bird
10) Freewheelin'
11) Taking Control
12) Not Enough People Are Wearing Hats

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Website
www.thehaiku.co.uk

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/27/2006
Band Website: thehaiku.co.uk
Band Members: Phil - Plays geetar and sings through his mouth to make with the vocal and lyrical content thing. Phil likes Monkeys.

Bert - Hits things with sticks (and sometimes brushes) to make bashy type noises. Bert likes cheese.
Influences: Song writer Mr Phil is influenced by lots of shitty things that happen. Generally, when the ways of life get in the way of enjoying yourself, and being happy. That doesn't mean the songs are all miserable though. Far from it, that just happens to be the period during which Mr Phil is at his most creative.


As far as bands and artists, Phil is influenced by all the music he has ever listened to. This includes the following (in alphabetical order)
- Badly Drawn Boy
- Barenaked Ladies
- Beach Boys
- Beatles
- Beck
- Ben Folds Five
- Blur
- Buddy Holly
- Charles Wesley
- Coldplay
- Crowded House
- Del Amitri
- Doves
- Eels
- Everclear
- Fleetwood Mac
- Foo Fighters
- Futureheads
- Gomez
- I Am Kloot
- Idlewild
- Jack Johnson
- John Rutter
- Kate Rusby
- Kings of Convenience
- Kinks
- The La's
- Led Zeppelin
- Lemonheads
- Levellers
- Lovin' Spoonful
- Mansun
- Marcy Playground
- Nirvana
- Oasis
- Paul Simon
- The Proclaimers
- REM
- Ryan Adams
- Snow Patrol
- Squeeze
- Turin Brakes
- Weezer
- The Wiyos
- XTC
- Zutons
More to be added
Sounds Like: Listen for yourself.
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Record Label: Currently looking for one!
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Phils Blog 17th Sept 2008

Seems like I'm going a bit blog mad at the moment, but I just have loads to tell you!I'm really excited about 'new' things at the moment.  Firstly, in Torquay last Friday, we debuted one of the n...
Posted by The Haiku on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:01:00 PST

Phils Blog 12th Sept 2008

Well, after a short break from gigging (12 whole days without - I think I'm getting withdrawal symptoms) we're playing in Ryan's Bar in Torquay tonight, followed by The Primrose in Leeds tomorrow.Ryan...
Posted by The Haiku on Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:58:00 PST

A Phil Blog - 20th August

I'm just sitting around in Edinburgh, killing time until my flight home.I just want to thank everyone who was at The White Swan last Thursday.  It was quite simply an amazing experience.  To...
Posted by The Haiku on Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:27:00 PST

New Review of Fan The Flames

Thank you to Dave Urwin.http://www.live-music-scene.co.uk/cd-reviews-content.a sp?id=32Dave, sorry about the lack of cover letter!   For the record, we were given your address by your editor,...
Posted by The Haiku on Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:10:00 PST

A message from Phil to all you amazing folks!

Wow!  What an amazing few days.We played at The Green Park Tavern, Bath on Thursday (3rd July) and ended up jamming with the audience after handing out percussion instruments.  It's only the...
Posted by The Haiku on Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:44:00 PST

Anyone for a free Haiku DVD?

A while ago we filmed a hometown gig, and wrote it to DVD. If you want one, just give us a shout and we'll send you one.Simple!Here's a clip from the DVD: ...
Posted by The Haiku on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PST

How can I help?

If you want to help The Haiku, that would be lovely.  Below are some suggestions of what you can do.1) Tell your friends about us.  This is dead simple, but is the most effective way of spre...
Posted by The Haiku on Thu, 29 May 2008 03:55:00 PST

Album Review from Noize Makes Enemies

I have a thing about acoustic music. Most of the time it is either over-earnest, I-just-might-kill-myself singer songwriters or anachronistic folkies trying to sustain a dying musical form. The Haiku ...
Posted by The Haiku on Sat, 17 May 2008 09:35:00 PST

Just some stuff really.

Well, what a few weeks!On Saturday 26th April, we went with some good friends, to watch Nizlopi at the Thekla, in Bristol.  Without overstressing this point, they were wizard!  One of the be...
Posted by The Haiku on Sun, 04 May 2008 02:53:00 PST

Album review

"When you first listen to The Haiku, you notice their flare for telling a tale through song, a rarity in this day and age. This album is a must if you are in to The Goo Goo Dolls or...
Posted by The Haiku on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:58:00 PST