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Brickwerk

About Me

BRICKWERK is a side project for Mike Ward of Longstone and Kev Fox of Ninety Degrees South. It is both a recording and performing unit that alows us to explore musical styles and sound creation that may or may not overlap with our other bands. We happily utilise found and natural sounds and randomly aquired old equipment along side home made or converted electronic sound making gadgets to add to the range of instrumentation available.

The new Brickwerk album is in the shops now in the U.K. distributed by Proper.It can also be ordered online from the usual outlets but if you wish to support a genuine indpendent music store you can order from the following link for prompt world wide shipping


Ochre records also sell the CD via eBay.co.uk , will ship worldwide and accept Paypal.
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: 05/03/2006
Band Members: BRICKWERK are Mike Ward, Kev Fox, Anna Dennis and Steve Moody
With invaluable help and contribution from..... Mike Cross( electronics and keyboards), Sarah Brown (Furbys!!), Chris Cundy (sax , Mr Alien etc.)
Influences: As always there are too many to list, so in no particular order here are a few to be going on with........................ The Wicker Man (especially the sound track), Cornelius, Raymond Scott, Tom Waits, Velvet Underground, Giant sand, Oliver Postgate, Lee Perry, E.A.R, Sun Ra, Glide,Guillemots, Julian Cope, Go Team!, Green on Red, Tony Conrad, John Cale, Gene Vincent,Infinity Chimps, David Wrench,My Bloody Valentine, Stereolab, Texas insruments, Hank Williams,The Serpents, John Peel, Joe Strummer, Stylophones, Sonic Boom, Cluster, Rockmount Shirts, Ectogram , Brian Wilson, Acid Mothers Temple, Amp , Fairport Convention, Ayako Mori , Gram Parsons, fender jaguars/jazzmasters/telecasters, chord organs,Yumi Yumi, Flying Saucer Attack,Ghost,Aphex Twin,Longstone,................ etc. etc. etc.
Record Label: Elbandito Recordings , Ochre Records.

My Blog

LONGSTONE NEWS ... new Longstone CD release plus gigs

HiMike , Steve and Kev's other band have a new CD ................The new Longstone CD " Kabuki " is released next week !It will be in the shops from Monday 27th April and is available to order now fr...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:55:00 GMT

New Cover version posted

Hiwe've just posted our recording of Gram Parson's Grievous Angel.hope you like itcheersBrickwerk
Posted by on Sat, 07 Mar 2009 07:11:00 GMT

LONGSTONE GIG ON FRIDAY CHEAP BEER ......

Hi Longstone are back ....yes they are playing another lovely live show for you to come and see and join them for a beverage or two ... It will be slightly different from the last time you checked ...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:33:00 GMT

FREE GIG ....

Hi Allas you may know top bloke and Brickwerk/Longstone guitarist Steve and his lovely lady Renee are off to New Zealand to live in December ..this unfortunately makes it quite difficult for Steve to ...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:58:00 GMT

Brickwerk on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou1w29vc-lY
Posted by on Sun, 21 Sep 2008 07:23:00 GMT

gig news etc.

Hi sorry there has been no activity for a while ......however .... here is news of a gig ..Brickwerk are back and we will be playing a lovely set at the next Calmer show in Cheltenham.Tuesday 16th Sep...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:47:00 GMT

new song updated .........

Hi Alljust to let you know I've posted an updated version of our cover of "Nine to Five" ,this version has a new vocal take which will probably be the final take. It's still a rough mix but much neare...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:05:00 GMT

new song

Hihappy new year,We've just posted a new song for your listening pleasure.It's a rough mix from our most recent sessions which I hope will end upas an E.P. soon .... As you will notice it's a cover ve...
Posted by on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 07:13:00 GMT

NEW LONGSTONE CD FEATURING ALL BRICKWERK MEMBERS ...

HIat last the LONGSTONED remix CD is out and it features all members of Brickwerk... released on 10th September in the U.K. !!It is ditributed by Proper in the U.K. PROPER WEBSITE and should be availa...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:17:00 GMT

COOL GIG ALERT

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 on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 06:38:00 GMT