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Chilled out acoustic songs from Oxford

About Me

Hello, I'm James. I've had this myspace for about 18 months now - some of you I've said hello to, and some of you I've neglected slightly. I've tried my best so sorry if we haven't spoken yet! Come and say hello though!
I play the guitar a bit. A while back, I got a bit bored with playing other peoples music. I figured I could do this 'musician' thing. How hard could it be?
Turns out it's not that easy to be honest. Anyway, to cut a long story short, this myspace contains the songs that I wrote while I was discovering how hard it actually is. Plus some new stuff that I put up as and when it gets recorded.
Ah yes, the recording side of things.... Thing is, as of now, April '07, most of my friends and family don't know about this site. I'm a bit shy about this sort of thing. Possibly not the best move, getting a myspace, I hear you say... You're probably right. It was the easiest way to get some feedback and opinions though so its a necessary evil unfortunately! I do have another myspace actually, but only two of my friends on here know where it is so good luck with that one!
Where was I? The recording. Problem is, one of the people who doesn't know about this is the girlfriend. This means that songs and lyrics only get recorded when she's not around. Logistically, this is a pain in the arse! I guess this is just me saying don't expect updates to arrive too regularly! I'll do my best though.
What else was I going to say? Ah yes, any feedback would be brilliant, don't mind constructive criticism at all. In fact, I appreciate it if anyone at all takes the time out to listen. I've got another profile at purevolume ( purevolume ). My ultimate aim is to have eight different tracks up, spread over both sites. However for the time being there's six tracks up. Feel free to check this account out too!
That's about it really - like I said up above, if you're a friend but we haven't spoken, come and say hello. Cheers :)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/31/2006
Band Members: Just me - James
Influences: Eels, Unbelievable Truth, Biffy Clyro, Ryan Adams, Gemma Hayes, Iron and Wine, Frank Turner, Okkervil River, Brigade, Laura Veirs, Radiohead, Mull Historical Society, Jeff Buckley, The Delgados, Neil Young, Ben Kweller, Ed Harcourt, Grand Drive, Sigur Ros, Andy Yorke, The Sad Song Co, Damien Rice, Seafood, Wilco, Teitur, Martha Wainwright, Coldplay, Elbow, The Electric Soft Parade, Stephen Fretwell, Cara Dillon, Kat Flint, Fountains of Wayne, Idlewild
Sounds Like: A guy with an acoustic guitar, too much time on his hands, and a few too many downbeat cds :-)
Record Label: None
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Isabelle (x2)

Happy New Year everyone!I finally put a new song up. Two in fact. 'Isabelle (prologue)' is kind of the introduction to 'Isabelle'. Trouble is both together last for over 8 minutes which is stretching ...
Posted by Tradition Feed on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:34:00 PST

Just A Smile

Hi all,Given that I can add up to six songs now, seemed a waste to just have four :) So I've re-uploaded (is that a word?!) the first song I ever put up - 'Just A Smile'.Left a gap for a sixth song, w...
Posted by Tradition Feed on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:19:00 PST

New song

Hello people,I've neglected this profile for a while, but I'm back now! I don't have much to say just yet though... I've nearly finished a song called 'Isabelle' so I shall upload that sometime soon.....
Posted by Tradition Feed on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 05:37:00 PST

Checking it out

Hi all,Every so often, a musical genius comes along that stops you in your tracks. Someone who possesses the songwriting craft of Dylan, with the sense of melody of McCartney, and who epitomises the r...
Posted by Tradition Feed on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:07:00 PST

Sevilla

Hi everybody,I should really update this more often, or at the very least cross-post my blog entries from my personal myspace! A couple of you would end up reading the same thing twice I guess, but it...
Posted by Tradition Feed on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:58:00 PST

Vote for me!

Hi everybody,Hope you're all doing ok, its been a while since I spoke to some of you. If I've added you or vice versa and we haven't spoken then don't be shy :)I've just put a song up in a competition...
Posted by Tradition Feed on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:06:00 PST

Cyanide and Happiness

I'm just getting in to this - its the second best webcomic I've found (obviously Dilbert kicks the ass of any other webcomic...).Check it out...Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net:)In other news, I saw ...
Posted by Tradition Feed on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:38:00 PST

New tracks - please read!

Hi all,Its been a while since I posted a blog but I thought the uploading of a couple of new tracks was enough of an occasion to warrant one :) So without further ado.......Counter Girl - this is a ne...
Posted by Tradition Feed on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:10:00 PST

Layout

Ewwww.I've just realised my layout is awful. I'm going to change it shortly to something more presentable. I have nothing more interesting to share with you than that, sorry :-)Ah, yes I do, buy the n...
Posted by Tradition Feed on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:18:00 PST

Two new tracks

Hi all,Well I've finally got round to putting some new tracks up. Again the recording quality is a bit off in places, but hey, bedroom recording and all......'A Recurring Disappointment' is another on...
Posted by Tradition Feed on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 08:34:00 PST