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Ian Cockburn And The Whole World

About Me

Ian Cockburn is lead singer in the Seven Inches. Having accumulated a vast pile of unused songs in many styles, but lacking instrumental ability, he has embarked on an anti-solo project, where he works with various different other people under the umbrella name Ian Cockburn and The Whole World.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 06/04/2006
Band Website: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ian.cockburn2/
Band Members: Everyone, including Shaun Day, David Broad, Max Broady, Jean Genet, Helen Butlin, Adam John Miller, Brenda, Ben, Thomas Drew, Shaun Alcock, Horton Parks, Lucy Canter, Emil Andrews, Beth Maiden, Emily Clavering, ALicia Gregory, Hywel Lewis, John Perry, Tonieeee Clay, Jo Clay, Ralph Clay, Ste McCabe, Liz Hensor, Owen Lloyd, Anna Rogers, Bob Cockburn, Ellen Booth, Tim Ireland, Jo Wolfarth
Influences: The Chiffons, Jonathan Richman, Jeffrey Lewis, Pet Shop Boys, Beach Boys, Kimya Dawson, Hefner, Magnetic Fields, Flanders and Swann, Herman Dune and spin-offs, Carmen Miranda, Boo Radleys, Shirley Ellis, Motown, Phil Spector, Noel Coward, Gravy Train!!!, Woody Guthrie, Cocteau Twins, Velvet Underground, Jacques Brel, Helen Love, Plouf!, Calvin Johnston, Pulp, Philip Jeays, Blyth Power, Prince, the Smiths, Divine Comedy, Moldy Peaches, My Life Story, Leonard Cohen, D Millard, The Wave Pictures, Heavenly, Pete Seeger, there are other kinds of music I like but I can't pretend they have anything to do with what the record sounds like.
Sounds Like: Homemade music baked with love and imagination
Record Label: Splendid Waifcote
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

About the songs: He is my everything

He is my everything Another of my earliest songs (2000 or early 2001). Before I went on my year in Canada (see Pettigrew Crescent) I felt my own personality growth was being hindered by my excess...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:46:00 GMT

About the songs: I Thought We Had It Good

I studied the Arab-Israeli conflict as the 2oth Century history module of my GCSE history. During the time we were studying it, the Oslo agreement happened and we were all instructed to watch Rabin a...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:53:00 GMT

about the songs: A Toast to the Coast

A Toast to the CoastFor a while I'd had an idea of writing a UK version of Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land". While walking around the coastal walk of Pwlgwaelod, Pembrokeshire, on holiday in A...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:10:00 GMT

About the songs: The Friar's Song

Out-take from an unwritten Canterbury Tales-style concept album.   Heffer and Heffer Jean Genet: Singing, guitar, keyboard, acting I.C: Singing, acting, discordant melodica note Emil, Becca and ...
Posted by on Mon, 29 May 2006 06:41:00 GMT

About the songs: Pettigrew Crescent

This is my oldest song, and has been featured in the Seven Inches set since we started, but I thought it would be a good song to do with Helen. When I was university, I met a friend on the internet wh...
Posted by on Sun, 28 May 2006 12:26:00 GMT

About The songs: The Great Outdoors

The chorus came to me walking on Woodhouse Ridge, that secret country walk that takes you from Woodhouse to Headingley in Leeds, and the verse came to me on the Shropshire Hills, so although I wanted ...
Posted by on Sun, 28 May 2006 12:23:00 GMT

About the songs: Couples Holding Hands

Couples Holding Hands  On the Randy Newman box set there is a rarity called Happy which has almost the same opening lines as this, except he sings hard-on instead of goodwill. But its a coinciden...
Posted by on Sun, 28 May 2006 00:18:00 GMT