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Bond Street Bridge

About Me

Bond Street Bridge is Sam Prebble. He does all the singing and playing and writing and so forth, and the recording also.Bond Street Bridge has an album out called 'The Mapmaker's Art.' It's available from usual outlets and from the Monkey Records website. Various people have said nice things about it, including Graham Reid over at elsewhere.co.nz. He says it's ' very good indeed ,' and rates it as one of the top 40 albums of 2008.Jeff Harford at the ODT says it's ' strange and beautiful .'Andrew Cheese on Toast says the album is ' darkly beautiful in its ingenuity .'Malcolm Phillips at Bullet Magazine says it's ' truly captivating ' in a very nice open letter.Over at the Lumiere reader they're calling it ' highly recommended, an idiosyncratic and fascinating piece of music that showcases some real talent and fascinating musicianship .'In Real Groove magazine, Phil Reed says it's 'one of the finest collections of new homegrown music to cross this desk in a while.'Sam also plays in the Broken Heartbreakers and Reb Fountain's Bandits. Video for 'Silver.' Written by Sam Prebble, Directed by Nigel Braddock, shot by Briar March, edited by Campbell Farquar. Featuring Sam Prebble and Derek March.Video for 'motorways' by Sam Duckor-Jones and Tim Sissons. Featuring Tim Sissons, Sam Duckor-Jones and Sam Prebble.Live at the Wine Cellar March 2010.. ..

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 27/03/2006
Band Website: www.monkeyrecords.com
Band Members: sam prebble: guitar, vocals, violin, mandolin, piano, organ, programmes, obscenities, mumbling
Influences: Don McGlashan, Burial, Janis Joplin, Neil Young, New Buffalo, Bjork, Neko Case, Jolie Holland, The Haints of Dean Hall, Cat Power, M. Ward, LCD Sound System, Iron and Wine, Calexico, Bob Dylan, Burning Spear, Cloudboy, Demarnia Lloyd, Django and Grappelli, Lucinda Williams, TrinityRoots, Jens Lekman, The Front Lawn, Beck, Muddy Waters, Beirut, Radiohead, Gomez, Woody Guthrie, Sparklehorse, Carol Ann Duffy, Wilco, Whiskeytown, The Broken Heartbreakers, REM, PJ Harvey, Ursula Le Guin, Kurt Vonnegut, Ralph Stanley, Darcy Clay
Sounds Like: the sea, but only the more murderous, drowny parts. Not the nice beachy sunny parts.
Record Label: Monkey Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Mampaker's Art lyrics - Storm

........ .. Storm Sailed away on the edge of a wave neither resting nor at peace Sixty days before the wrath and the rage loosing all hope for relief The storm abated as a stor...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:10:00 GMT

The Mapmpaker's Art lyrics - Flower Song

........ .. Flower song Found a flower for you on the pavement on my way home Picked it up for you Couldn't leave it lying all alone Fell to pieces in my hand coloured peta...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:54:00 GMT

Mapmaker's Art Lyrics - Sleeptalking

........ .. Sleeptalking Do you know I watch you sleeping? Do you know I lie awake? Do you know that you're a beautiful dreamer sleeping while my spirit breaks? I'm much more hones...
Posted by on Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:46:00 GMT

Mampmakers Art lyrics - The Nature of the Blues

  . --> @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --The nature of the blues I arrived by myself in a crowded train I lost many things along the way I was travell...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Sep 2008 06:04:00 GMT

Mapmakers Art Lyrics - Silver

  . --> @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> Sliver I have to go to Mexico, can I borrow your wedding ring? It's proof against spider bites and the sc...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:39:00 GMT

mapmakers art lyrics - rain

  . --> @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --Here's track 8, 'rain.'  I'm posting it out of order cos it's on the radio at the moment a little bit.&nbs...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:21:00 GMT

mapmaker's art lyrics - motorways

................ .. Ok, here's track three - MotorwaysDo you ever look at motorways?the light reflecting after rainon plastic signs and catseyes to keep the wayward cars from goingastrayRumble strip...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:08:00 GMT

Mapmaker's Art lyrics: Black market soul transplant

Between now and the album release (19th of sept), I'll be posting the lyrics for the songs in this blog.  We didn't want to have a ton of writing on the album sleeve, so instead of printing the l...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:08:00 GMT

The Broken Heartbreakers - Sylvia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuKHuOU6Ih8 The Broken Heartbreakers - a Bond Street Bridge affiliate from way back.
Posted by on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:06:00 GMT

Black Market Soul Transplant and The Mapmakers Art

Look, a new song.  It's called 'black market soul transplant.'  In the new year, probably when it begins to get colder again, you can expect a whole lot of new songs. They will be all bundle...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:11:00 GMT