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Pillow Talk

About Me

PILLOW TALK have jackhammered their way to massive superstardom this year, with their three albums occupying all four corners of the earth in a tricky 3/4 of an album per corner configuration.
"Who the hell are these guys?" asked "Sugar" magazine recently.
Well, they started out in York, England as a band with 4 members, knocking out TV theme tunes and fairly listenable jazz versions of film scores and rock classics.
Since then, they done grown into a "collective" of many drummers, percussionists and bass players, based around the tall/short partnership of James Tall Harmless and Dave Cheeseman. It's a bit like Jimi Hendrix and the band of Gypsies, except with 4 drummers, 3 bass players and a keyboard player and a much worse guitarist and the songs aren't as good and there's not as much jamming and drugs.
That's not to say the songs aren't "GREAT" ("My Woman's Monthly" magazine) though! There's 3 albums worth so far, with a stage musical planned and partly written, going by the name of "Valley Hill Technical High", about love, broken hearts and complex wood joints in an All American High School.
Pillow Talk's favourite thing is playing live! Wow, what a frickin laugh that is! Described by "Horse and Hound" magazine as "Quite possibly the funniest, most entertaining and muscially talented band I've ever seen", Pillow Talk enjoy rockin' out and having a big ass naked party with pants down and everything every time they hit the stage. Expect laid back grooves about Gloves, sixth form bum-rockers about riding bikes and full on prog metal operettas about the Devil trying to sell poison cockles on a beach! Sounds great! Oh god yeah.
Have a listen to the tracks on this page, then seek out some more! You can buy the albums online don't you know - Pillowtalkweb.co.uk
See you at a gig soon!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 20/12/2004
Band Website: http://www.pillowtalkweb.co.uk
Band Members: James Tall/Harmless - Guitar, Vocals Daniel Cheeseboard - Keyboards, Vocals Jonathan Heart-2-Harte - Bass, Vocals Gideon Retch - Drums, Vocals Rodney Plotter - Drums, Percussion Dr Roland Parker - Percussion, Bass, Vocals Bernard Beard - Bass Christian Smooth - Drums, Percussion
Influences: Franks Zappa, Camel, Bootsy Collins, Van Halen, Free, Yes, King Crimson, Dream Theater, Keith Moon, Sack Trick, Alan Partridge, Chris Morris, Primus, Red:Shift, The Following, Hydrous, Half Man Half Biscuit, Pantera, Emperor, Spin Doctors, Bob Dylan, Stevie Salas, Pride & Glory, Man O War, Spinal Tap, Twin Zero, MC Pitman, The Dave Cheeseman Bum-Crack Band, The Darkness, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Bon Jovi, Prince, Queen
Sounds Like: Queen WTF??, Half Man Half Biscuit, Captian Beefheart, A detuned radio, Val Doonican, Frank Zappa, A wedding band who only play songs you don't know, Bootsy, Sack Trick, Primus though not really like them at all
Record Label: Talktunes
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

pillowtalkweb.co.uk

Hi Guys'Gideon Retch' has not posted for a while and it might have come to some peoples attention that www.pillowtalkweb.co.uk has been down for the last few months. Well, basically, James paid these ...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:06:00 GMT

Last night, Cheeseman left the band, but now we’re back together

Hi guys, Gideon Retch here fresh from my post Christmas purge.  All the sticky plum duff, turkey, sausage and roasties made my insides all jammed up so I've been eating a lot of Yvgenni's Bulgari...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 02:12:00 GMT

Spinach, chillis, beans and real ale

Hi guys, long time no comment! A lot has been happening recently but probably the most exciting thing has been my garden.  Gideon's Garden is literally in full bloom. After planting a lot of diff...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:31:00 GMT

I found something amazing in the toilet bowl!

Hi there guys, Gideon here long time no blog. In fact, for a while I've been vry busy practising the drums.  My friend Yvgeni was not wrong when he said "Practice makes perfect Gideon", I really ...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Nov 2005 10:35:00 GMT

Bogroll Baggins

Hi guys! I'd just got off the toilet when my laptop bleeped and I saw that I had an email from James!!  It looks like he is embarking on a solo project featuring Dave Cheeseman, Harte-2-Heart an...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:05:00 GMT

Something weird happened when I was on the toilet!

I like drumming, a lot!  My friend Yvgeni has been giving me advice lately about how to become a better drummer through being careful with my diet and I tell you what... It works! Since I've st...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Jun 2005 08:50:00 GMT

The saga of drumming on a high fibre diet continued!

Anyway, last time I left you hanging off a cliff with the following line (like in Neighbours at the start) "I began hitting the drums really hard, I felt very energised! Then I began to feel a pre...
Posted by on Fri, 20 May 2005 11:11:00 GMT

A visit to the greengrocers!

I went to the greengrocers shop yesterday in town, to buy some green veg and fruit. My pal Yvgeni had told me that to drum really hard you have to have all your vitamins and to be honest, I have ...
Posted by on Thu, 05 May 2005 05:27:00 GMT

New Album Out Soon!

Here's what the members of Pillow Talk are currently excited about.... The brand new pillow Talk album "Criminal Conviction" will be available from April 25th. The website is now taking preorders ...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Apr 2005 04:04:00 GMT

Set List time!

Wow everybody, I was just having a shower for the third time this morning when the computer went all "beep" at me again! Every time I finish having a shower I make myself dirty again and have to get ...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Mar 2005 02:54:00 GMT