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About Me

I'm a working musician based in Bath, England who has been very active in helping to esablish the already active scene a bit more.
I play with the Folk band Inu which is a supercharged tapestry of tunes and songs from Ireland, the British isles, France and Eastern Europe with a heavy lean towards the Celtic styles (Irish music in particilar). Also in the Band is My wife Louise (vocals and guitar), Beth Porter (Cello), Mike Rule (Mandola and Banjo) and Breda Horgan (Bodhrán).
I've played flute in many other kinds of bands over the years including Jazz, funk, Psychadellic Rock, Experimental and Reggae bands and have many projects in the pipeline to expand on thes again playing the flute through a rack of effects.
The last few years have seen me spending a lot of time establishing sessions in our area and being involved with the Bath fringe Festival and the Pussyfoot crew to lift the profile of the live music scene here as a sound engineer (I run a P.A. lights and decor company) as well as bring music to the community playing for audiences that can't always get to gigs (disabled and elderly) and am currently helping to get the first Bath folk festival up and running.
Other events to look out for are Wildcat productions where myself and a few others are aiming to create more work for musicians around our area. We're running nights out with different themes, once again to bring the music and the people together. Home | Browse | Search | Invite | Film | Mail | Blog | Favorites | Forum | Groups | Events | Videos | Music | Comedy | Classifieds

My Interests

When I'm not Playing my Flutes my duties often include enjoying time with my family, teaching Tai Chi and Kung Fu, exploring the country side and I've been known to spend time in Roleplaying games (though I rarely get the Time now).

I'd like to meet:

Any one Else with a passion for music and a Community spirit. I take an Interest in any thing that happens with sincerety

Music:

I love so Much Music and have been Inspired by so much that it would never all fit here. I grew up on a big diet of Reggae and Ragga (jamaican Family), Fell in love with hip hop while I was growing up in the eighties and then discovered the psycadellic Rock thing at the same time I really became aware of Electronic Music, got Heavily into punk when i started growing up and then deceloped an Interest in Folk music while living on the road which very quickly became a life obsession as I travelled the Busking circuit wher the rest of the world opened up to me. I am just as happy at classical concert supping tea as i am in a mosh pit.

I'll have a go at trying to short list a few favourite bands/musicians:the Egg, Hawkwind, Flook!, Subhumans, Culture shock, the Specials, Danu, Mary Bergin, Gong, Donal Lunny, Gan Anam, Pendulum, Amun Duul, Funkadelic, Daily planet, Public Enemy,Beastie Boys, Zounds . The list goes on

Movies:

All the Alien Films.Being John Malkovitch, 9 lives of Fritz the Cat, City of lost children and Kiss of the dragon,Zaitoichi, Drunken Master Up in Smoke, the Muppet Movies and Moon Warriors.

Television:

Trapdoor, Monkey and everything David Attenborough has done.

Books:

the Tao te ching by Loa Tzu, Sacred Mirrors by Alex grey, Tai chi a treasure of Man kind by They Soon Tuan, All the Elric books,Elfquest and the Medicine card book by Jamie Sams.

Heroes:

Master They Soon Tuan and Master Wu song Fua (my Kung Fu teachers), Louise Baxter (my wife) and Tony Benn and of course Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela.

My Blog

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Posted by Marick on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 06:18:00 PST