Member Since: 4/8/2006
Band Website: www.schroedersound.com, but best of luck with that
Band Members: occasionally just me singing, playing guitar and kicking a sampler into life - but mostly also featuring some of the following:Radio Operator Kevin Brew (samples, synth, backing vocals);
Air Commodore Fiachra Lennon (bass; percussion 2007-);
Armoured Car Division Head Brian Mooney (guitar, backing vocals);
and lately introducing young footsoldier Neil O'Connor AKA Somadrone (percussion, backing vocals). Cadet John Lambert AKA Chequerboard also steps in occasionally on guitar duties.Past alumni of the SchroederArkestra have included:Battery Sgt Bryan O'Connell (drums, percussion, backing vocals, retired 2008)
Master Ciaran Eaton (bass, retired 2006)
Dr Jimmy Eadie (bass, retired 2006)
Sir Joss Moorkens (drums, 2005)
Influences: Seamus Ennis; Bruce Nauman; Paul Simon; Audrey Hepburn; Dimitri Shostakovich; Stanley Kubrick; Lee Ranaldo; Thomas Mann; Pablo Casals; Patrick Troughton; Brian Mooney; Karl Popper; Laurie Anderson; Yevgeny Yerofeev; Ciaran Eaton; Mark Rothko; Henryk Gorecki; Andrew Warhola; Bjork Gudmunsdottir; James Coleman; Krysztof Penderecki; Aifric nà Bhraonáin; Vladimir Nabokov; Beniamino Gigli; Kate Middleton; Joseph Beuys; Alexander Brailowsky; Saul Bellow; John Lennon; Meister Eckhart; Bryan O'Connell; George Gershwin; Victor Pelevin; John Lambert; Marisa Berenson; Richard D James; Andre Kertesz; Steve Albini; Stan Douglas; Lafcadio Hearn; Neil O'Connor; Peter Ustinov; Fiachra Lennon; Walter Gropius; David Bowie; Matthew Barney; Darragh O'Grady; Hal Ashby; John Burton; Erich Fromm; Thurston Moore; Samuel Beckett; Daragh Dukes; The Artist Formerly Known as Gary Phelan; Enrico Caruso; Jacques Lacan; Morgan Hart; Emile Nolde; Paul Hewson; Junichiro Tanizaki; James Eadie; Lauren Bacall; Peter Buck; Anna Politkovskaya; Johann Sebastian Bach; Immanuel Kant; Matt Elliott; Yasujiro Ozu; Brian Eno; HP; Delia Derbyshire; Niall Browne; Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov; James Jewel Osterberg; Allen Konigsberg; Robert Zimmerman; David Cornwell; Paul McCartney; Asterix; Kevin O Brew; Laphroaig; W G Sebald; Thom Yorke; Tom Baker; John E McMahon; e e cummings; Richard Starkey; Ingrid Bergman; Kevin Shields; Michel Houllebecq; Tom Jennings; Peter Sellers; Laszlo Moholy-Nagy; Andrew Osborn; Charles M Schultz; George Harrison; John Cale; Slavoj Zizek; Jan St Werner; Sean Booth; Wassily Kandinsky; Leo Fender; Wim Wenders; Erik Satie; Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy; Dave Liebman; Gerhard Richter; Dave LaRousse; George Orwell; Cecile Schott; Lucy Van Pelt; Ciaran Eaton; Albert Camus; Alvin Curran; Hannah Arendt; Akira Kurosawa; David Byrne; Fyodor Dostoevsky; Gyorgy Ligeti; Egon Schiele; Mark Hayes; Aldous Huxley; Hoagy Carmichael; Maggie Gyllenhaal; Nigel Godrich; Richard Nixon; Gustav Mahler; Joseph Roth; Piet Mondrian; Edwin Fischer; John E McMahon; Lindsay Anderson; Lou Reed; Jackson Pollock; Ira Gershwin; J Sheridan Le Fanu; Dave Evans; Greta Garbo; TS Eliot; Steve Reich; Gerrit Rietveld; Rob Brown; Trond Arne Vangen; Alvin Lucier; The Man on the Clapham Omnibus; Michael Stipe; Bob; Joni Mitchell; Gitta Sereny; Dan Deacon; Valpolicella; 'the opposition'
Sounds Like: Buy 'Coping Mechanisms' on iTunes'Duck!'
footage shot by Deirdre Lynch'Eyes Wide'
video by PM"A Little More"
video by some derd niffer"Eyes Wide"
live at MaximumJoy, Dublin, March 2008"The Reluctant Aviator"
live at EUROSONIC@Grand Theatre, Groningen, Holland, January 2008'Eyes Wide'
live at Foggy Notions stage, Electric Picnic, Laois, Ireland, September 2007'Duck!'
live at Foggy Notions stage, Electric Picnic, Laois, Ireland, September 2007'A Little More'
live at MaximumJoy, Dublin, March 2007'Lido'
live at vibrator@Globe, Dublin, February 2005
View Si Schroeder's EPK
Record Label: Trust Me I'm A Thief
Type of Label: Indie