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About Me

Me, my iMac, Garage Band, an old Casio CTK-530 keyboard, Evolution MK-249 Keyboard, Squier Electric Guitar, Zoom RT-123 Rhythm Machine, Zoom 505 effects, a selection of Sample CDs and Loops, a small collection cheap soft synths downloaded from the internet. Mix them all together with the occasional good idea and bingo! A song... of sorts.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/16/2006
Band Website: this is it!
Band Members: Just me.
Influences: ABC, A-ha, Big Country, The Beloved, Blue October, David Bowie, Chic, Coldplay, Francis Dunnery, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, John Foxx, Heaven 17, Human League, It Bites, The Jam, Japan, Joy Division, Keane, Kraftwerk, Bill Nelson, New Order, Gary Numan, Oasis, OMD, The Pet Shop Boys, Prefab Sprout, Roxy Music, Scars, Scritti Politti, Simple Minds, Tears for Fears, The Thompson Twins, Tubeway Army, Ultravox, U2, Paul Weller
Sounds Like: Whatever you want it to.
Record Label: none
Type of Label: None

My Blog

December

A kind of Christmassy, wintery type tune. My friend and I wrote this in December 1985. 21 years ago!!! We never finished it properly and only ever recorded a rough demo, but it's always stuck in my mi...
Posted by Firesign on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:20:00 PST

200 friends - 4,000 plays! cool!

Blimey! Only about a trillion plays beofre I catch up with the Arctic Monkeys!So how do those figures add up anyway? Does that mean 200 people have played my songs 20 times each. Have 4,000 people lis...
Posted by Firesign on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 12:14:00 PST

Love Me Tender

So, anyway, I messing about on the keyboard and I played a D chord and then E7 and hhen A7 and all of a sudden I'm playing Love Me Tender. Now, obviously I'm not the 'King' and who else could ever be?...
Posted by Firesign on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 04:02:00 PST

Experimental video

I've made a video! sort of... I don't think it's going to win any awards but it gives me an opportunity to put another track up. The visuals are taken from http://video.teczno.com and I mixed them tog...
Posted by Firesign on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 01:02:00 PST

Differences between likes and influences

I was thinking about this while watching the Paul Weller documentary at the weekend. I was a huge fan of The Jam and I love most of Weller's solo stuff - I even liked the Style Council! But has he inf...
Posted by Firesign on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:55:00 PST

100 friends and counting!

I read somewhere recently that the average person knows 250 people - obviously that statistic was discovered before the advent of myspace. It must be difficult for many youngsters to comprehend a time...
Posted by Firesign on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 02:03:00 PST

Football, tennis, music, food...

Well the World Cup Final kicks off in a three hours and I still haven't had dinner! Life is far too hectic! Anyway, I wonder odds I can get on England being knocked out in the quarter final on penalti...
Posted by Firesign on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 08:57:00 PST

My top 10 of myspace tunes

Since discovering this site I have been genuinely surpised by how much great music is out there - especially in the genre that I loosely label 'synthpop' as it is one that I thought had vanished! It s...
Posted by Firesign on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 02:30:00 PST

Once when I was young

Life was such a simple affair...Anyway, my son's been pestering me to 'do a song with him' so we picked out a few samples that we both liked and I mixed them together and added a few bits and pieces. ...
Posted by Firesign on Sun, 04 Jun 2006 11:31:00 PST

Random musings

The days drag, but the years fly.If you have the time to do something you don't normally have the money. If you have the money, you don't normally have the time.There is NEVER a right time to have kid...
Posted by Firesign on Sun, 14 May 2006 01:18:00 PST