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About Me


Hi, welcome indeed to this most convoluted of business cards,
isn't it fun.
As to me, I write occasional epic blogs which I post *exclusively*
ahem, here, on this site, just above, up there, yeah, have a look.
And I play double bass and drum badly.
The 'Poetry is Rubbish' myspace page is mine too for.. da da daaaah!
Yup, offensive poetry.
I've written two books you know...
They're not very good mind.
You can also find links to the other 'rubbish' pages.
So far we have; Poetry, Art, Religion and Tambourines.
All in fun. It is hoped that debate will ensue.
On which note could I just add that Extra-rubbish tunes
has a pair of tunes that I did myself..
Right, to other's music then...
People I've played with..
    ..one at a time concurrently...
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Danny Keane Trio


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***Featured track***
    Ride in the Pi
Danny and I are old chums.
He was the first one to get me enthused about jazz,
like, twelve years ago for which I thank him sometimes.
The man is profanely talented at both the pianoforte and
the violoncello. Truly unreservedly, it is only the fact that
we are indeed old muckers that I haven't taken my
twelve-bore to him.
Members:
    Danny 'Spleen' Keane (pno)
    Vlad 'the dad' Carboni (dms)
Releases:
    'Loose change' recorded, mastered, and..
    ..as yet unreleased.

    ..before the year ends..oh yes.
Independent production planned for now
***check out Danny's myspace page***
where you can hear more tunes from 'loose change'
All tunes written by Danny bar the serialist blues which is
mine all mine and no one else's haharr, mine I tell you!!
Currently:
Keeping busy and the like playing and living lah lah dumdy dum
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Tom Baxter


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Photo by Steph Dray
Members:
    Tom Baxter (vox, gtr)
    Danny Keane (pno)
    Oli Langford (vln)
    Vashti Anna (vox)
    Fishcake Jackson (dms)
Releases:
    Loads of singles and stuff
    Feather and stone the album
    crammed with great musicians none of whichism
    Skybound the album
    !!OUT NOW!! With the above band
Currently:
Just come off tour of Ireland and Britain which was nice.
Having to come to terms with having two Toms working together..
..at least two, often more..
..is good for the neck muscles but..
    TOM BAXTER'S WEBSITE
catch up with the latest in other Tom's world
Management:
Lord management
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Helen Boulding


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Helen and I have been playing for a while
she has been record of the week on radio 2
and so much other stuff
buy the album 'New Red Dress' almost anywhere
please click through friends, she is wicked
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Claire Nicolson


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Photo by Dan Wilton
Members:
    Claire Nicolson(vox, gtr)
    Fergus Gerrand (perc)
Releases:
    You may buy Claire's first album through her page linked below
    It is excellent
    Mini 4 track EP available on request
Currently:
***EP Release mini compact discs***
Come and get 'em while they're 'ot
contact Claire through her page link below
Do it!
Management:
Flamingo management
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Neil Innes and Friends


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Photo by Poppy
    I solemnly swear
    to defend self-esteem
    wherever it may be
    without ever appearing
    pompous or idiotic
    and never to repeat
    parrot fashion
    anything I am told
    by anyone posing
    as an authority figure
    so help me Rhonda
    help help me Rhonda
    Oooooh!
    I could stamp my little foot
    right, you're in
Members:
    Neil Innes (gtr, uke, pno, vox, etc)
    JJ Jones (dms)
    + friends
    Rutling Ken Thornton (gtr)
    The Terra Folk boys (alsrts)
    You
    Them
    All of us
Releases:

    'Works in progress'
All songs written by Neil Innes
All songs copyright Neil Innes
Available now from Enygmag online shop where you may
care to browse some rare Innes albums and stuff.
For example:


    'Dogman'
..a childrens tale by John Dowie in CD format,
narrated by top man Phill Jupitus with Neil's songs and music +JJ&I.
There are some classic Grimms albums and the like for sale also.
Plus it would be rude of me not to mention the absolute mountain of
material the Lad Himself has made over the past forty years and more.
You must check this site out, it is soon to be excellent.
Ego Warriors is a movement, started a few years back, by
accident, to cock a snoot at the tyranny of the modern age
in a kind of light hearted but firm way. And infirm also.
Fighting the tirade of mass mediocrity.
***PLEASE CHECK BLOG OF U.S. TOUR, OLDEST ENTRY FIRST***
or even subscribe for even more regular fun-filled updates even
    ***BONZO DVD out now***

'40th Anniversary Celebration of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band'

Recorded live, January 2006 at the Astoria, London.
Starring almost all of the Bonzo Dogs, a few celebs, JJ Jones & I.
(Classic Rock Productions)
The 'Bonzo's toured last November and I went along to see the last show,
they kicked the proverbial booty.
Plus, I believe they have a new album, thirty years in the making.
Which should be good.
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Milk Plus


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***Featured track***
    Helping Jesus
So, I met this guy in the street and I was in a rush but
somehow we found each other and swapped numbers
and then it kind of kept happening and still does. Such is.
Milk plus, as in the drink the droogs drank at the milk plus mestos
of Anthony Burgess in his clockwork orange imagination.
Members:
    Bucho Brown (vox)
    Robbie Pinna (Gtr)
    Bizmark (Kbds, programming)
    Slam Sammy (drums)
Releases:
    ***Album Coming Soon***
    'Milk and honey' EP,
    'Last of the mohicans' EP,
    + more forgotten demos only available by request,
    some of the early stuff is worth getting your hands on
    if you prefer rockin instrumental electronica type sounds.
All songs by Milk Plus
Currently:
Putting the finishing touches to the soon-to-be-released,
long-overdue and highly-anticipated album, ahem, 'Hit and Run'
after an agreement not to use a dairy influenced pun as a title.
Album to be independently released in the coming months
All independent releases so far
Label: Milk Moustache Records
Management: Self Management Co.
And a big shout out, if so vulgar an expression is permittable,
to all the staff at Area 18 for their time and support sofa...
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Love Making Music


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***Featured track***
    Kundalini Rising
Members:
    Spencer Jude Pearce (vox, gtr, mndln)
    Alice Pratley (vln, string arrangements, bk vox)
    Robin Cieslak (dms, programming, bk vox)
    Chris Whittingham (add gtrs, sitar)
    Achilleas Anastasopoulos (tpt)
    + many many more
Releases:

'The Last Trilogy'

An album made of three parts, as good trilogies sometimes are:
Myspace Links..

Part 1 Jake Wellington and the Soldiers of Peace

Part 2 The Devil and the Dirty Feel ...and the Too Dark To Name

Part 3 The Love Making Music Band
The brainchild of Spencer Jude Pearce , London's finest busker,
'the last trilogy' is a stylistically diverse set of songs with an
underlying storyline which does as good a job as words can
when correctly failing to accept the bullshit in this crazy world.
This site is good fun, you can make Spencer dance for one,
you could also invest your hard earned moolah in the CD.
    LOVE MAKING MUSIC WEBSITE
Currently:
Plugging away at being ourselves, all of us.
Gigs here and there, the main three parts were performed
live last year at three seperate purposefully set-up events
and are to be repeated as and when appropriate.
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Ian Ritchie's Soho Project


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***Featured track***
    Soho Square
Members:
    Ian Ritchie (sop sx, tnr sx)
    Alex Hutton (pno)
    Vladimiro Carboni (dms)
Releases:

    'Soho Project'

Major sevenths a plenty and Soho streets brought to musical life.
Currently:
Well, this was us fairly recently, at the Malta Jazz Festival.

At the mo, Ian is touring with Roger Waters, Alex is touting
a new trio album of his own, and Vlad, between touring
the world and building a home, has headed off to live in
Italy having become a new dad this year.

Working with new tunes that have a distinctly minor vibe
which soon will be taking the world by storm.
    IAN RITCHIE'S WEBSITEfor neat Soho themed fun,
    as well as a look around Ian's life.
Or, save yourself a bit of time..
Check everywhere else on the net first, to see what Ian hasn't done.
Label: 33 jazz
    33 JAZZ WEBSITE
very slick label website with many great British artistes
where you can also buy Alex Hutton's latest album.
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Big Strides


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Members:
    the captain Lewis Kirk on the motherfucking drums (dms)
    the admiral Marcus O'Neill (vox, gtr, screaming harmonica)
    and these days.. Chris Kelly on the bass on bass (dbl bs)
Releases:
2 Albums:

    'Small town, big strides'
    The Strides' debut CD available from the band website
    and all good record stores, plus amazon and the like.
    Also, and most usefully, a few decent download sites
    and you could buy through the website 'buy' section also.
    Or second hand record stores, ebay and charity shops.
    Bloke behind the bookies, indeed any way you deem fit.

'Cry it all out'
    Second album also and likewise..
5 singles:

    'Suicidal'
    'I do not fear jazz'
    IDNFJ video on youtube somewhere
    'Let's get nice'
    'Smiling' from the new album.
    'Always together' also from the second album.
All songs written by Marcus O'Neill
Videos by O'Neill, Kirk and Twiname with others
Tom Pi, one of my evil siamese twins, who rocked hard with
the guys is credited for double bass services on these discs.
If you should ever care to wonder...
Get right down to it through this magical link the wonders of..
    BIG STRIDES' WEBSITE
Label: Bob Weissfeldner's 'Tall Order Records', EMI Japan publishing.
Management: Monumental Management
Keep eyes skimmed for UK and Japan tour dates.
Double bass man Chris Kelly capably taking up the baton.
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Member Since: 3/5/2006
Band Members:These good people have been kind enough to let me on stage with them in recent years, Danny Keane, Vlad Carboni, Ian Ritchie, Alex Hutton, Neil Innes, JJ Jones, Marcus O'Neill, Lewis Kirk, Bob Weissfeldner, Helen Boulding, Matt Chandler, Graham Fox, Robbie Pinna, Bizmark, Bucho, Charlie Finn, Sammi the drummer on drums, Rich Bignell, Mickey Simmonds, Andy Roberts, Sam Spoons, Bob Kerr, Rodney Slater, Roger Ruskin-Spear, 'Legs' Larry Smith, Phill Jupitus, Paul Merton, Stephen Fry, Adrian Edmondson, John Dowie, Holly Penfield, Bojan, Bostjan, Teats and Danjiel, Julian Saul, Spencer Jude Pearce, Adrian Garrett, Robin Cieslak, Emma the great, Chris Whittington, Alice Pratley, Robin Grey, Jonny Berliner and co, Dave Clark, Taka Boom, Andy Cortes, there's only one Winston Delandro, Coco, John and Phin Keane, Herbie Flowers, Pete Davison, Dave Candy, Tommy K, Boy George, Blair Jollands, Rhys Hughes, Katherine De Boer, Cousin Alice, Vashti, Tom Baxter, Oli Langford, Saul Eisenberg, Fishcake 'Guevara' Jackson, Ian Burgh, Ben Lee, Charlie 'for a brief moment' Winston, Ben Jawbreaker, Vince Dunn, Gav on trumpet and the band keeps getting bigger, daily.

Influences: Charles Mingus, Danny Keane, Jimmy Jazz Prescott on the bass used to do, Marcus O'Neill, Niels Henning-Orsted-Pederson, Ray Brown, need to think further on this
Sounds Like: A wind-ridden mass of flubbery seals.

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