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Gordon Elcock

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About Me

member of Groomlake Dancebandas they are in suspended animation/terminal death throes, this is what I doit bears no relation and is what it is.

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/23/2006
Band Website: atuneaweek.co.uk
Band Members: Gordon Elcock who does everything
Influences: too many to mention, everything I listen to I guess.However, if I stop guessing all, some or part of the following have made an impression over timeCoil, Cardiacs, Deep Purple, Beach Boys, Biosphere, Julian Cope, Acid Mothers Temple, The Clash, REM, Neil Young, Public Enemy, DJ Shadow, Otis Redding, The Cocteau Twins, Scott Walker, Cinematic Orchestra, John Peel, Gilles Peterson, Charlie Gillett, Stuart Maconie, Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, NEU!, Cris Baldwin, John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Oysterband, Serge Gainsbourg and recently, jazz

and so on
Record Label: a 20thC anachronism in our 21st C world
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Last FM

Doing a google search can prove informative. Searching my own name I discovered my google-ganger who is a member of a motorcycle club in New Zealand.Searching my musical alter-ego, Cyclothalmic Person...
Posted by Gordon Elcock on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:51:00 PST

still trying to give it away

well, having failed miserably to give away a cd, I'm now trying to give away the album as a free downloadit's "here"I'd appreciate feedbackI crave itIt's lonely out hereg...
Posted by Gordon Elcock on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:34:00 PST

two left, maybe

I've sent three copies out, and I've offered three others to people, and two are going to two friends, should we see each other.Which leaves two leftEach comes in an individual handmade sleeve, (bit o...
Posted by Gordon Elcock on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 06:31:00 PST

underwhelmed

Hard to believe that even now you can't give music away!. So, my giveaway has been something of a flop, (only two cd were requested). It's now a micro issue of ten in handmade sleeves. Five are spoken...
Posted by Gordon Elcock on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:33:00 PST

a cd for you

whilst I wasn't very well I compiled a cd of some of my more ambient stuff. It'll be available to anyone who emails me and asks for it. I've still not got it quite right but you'll get it in the next ...
Posted by Gordon Elcock on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:01:00 PST

the new Dark Ages

Can't believe the story I read this morning that 1 in 10 people in the UK believe in Creationism. Truly we are at the edge of a new Dark Ages. I can understand that figure for the US, where scary nons...
Posted by Gordon Elcock on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:45:00 PST

fun run

not my idea of funand not my ideabut on Sunday, accompanied by my children, (who not doubt will run off laughing) I'm doing a 1K fun run for charity, though I'm getting off lightly as my other half is...
Posted by Gordon Elcock on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 06:35:00 PST

new tunes and old tunes

Well that was a surprise I actually managed to do something new, in the sense that it was created from scratch yesterday, it's not new as in some sort of startling departure for me, it was all the old...
Posted by Gordon Elcock on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:19:00 PST

reading

Stuck here, not easy to sit at the computer so I've done a bit of reading, "England's Dreaming" by Jon Savage and 'The Progressive Patriot" by Billy Bragg. Of course computer power has enable the punk...
Posted by Gordon Elcock on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 08:33:00 PST

diy is dangerous

last night I fell off a window ledge whilst trying to repair a curtain rail, today I have a thigh to ankle plaster on my left leg having cracked a bone in my knee, feel such a fool
Posted by Gordon Elcock on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:05:00 PST