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The Goldfish Collective

About Me


I'm just gonna put this out there...
Fashioned from a single piece of clay, Goldfish is the semi-artificial son of Zeus and Cher. He arrived on Planet Earth amid a meteor storm after being cast out of Mount Olympus for spending too much time on the computer and not enough time smiting and commanding sacrifices and that. He was discovered in the woods, trying to get a signal on his mobile, by woodsman (what do woodmen do anyway, except for finding mildly devout infants? Wood? Is that a verb? To wood? Il wood, elle wood...) Frijj Friizer and his wife Frigda. They took him in and he grew under their care, developing a huge appetite for pancakes and winegums.When he reached the tender age of 9 they could no longer support such a voracious appetite and decadent lifestyle, and deciding it was in keeping with the Welfare Principle (a fundamental and governing canon in Scots family law) took him to the city and abandoned him. The events of the following years are unclear, but what is known is that he had a great many adventures and "found himself". Eventually he wound up in the home of a family in the Southside of Glasgow, via being the free toy in a Happy Meal. He ended up at Glasgow University, in Glasgow, where he commenced study of the Law. At 11 he bought his first real six-string...and you wouldn't believe the rest.
If you are:
1. an artist/part of a band/working on behalf of a band/artist with more than 20 bazillion friends on myspace, please don't add me. Your banter's dour.
2. a generic indie band with 4 friends who are all band members and rightly so, and your mums and girlfriends think you're gonna be on Top of the Pops one day, don't add me, you're generic and sad and plus, Top of the Pops isn't even on anymore.
3. someone who takes yourself too seriously, you may add me, but I'll just throw things at you when you play live.
4. from somewhere cool like Bolivia or Tibet, add me, even if you fit into any/all the above categories, you're so awesome for being foreign.
5. a record label, add and sign me, just for a laugh like.
6. just a random person, add me, I love you.
7. Lorraine Kelly, add me, my wee cousin met you in Boots.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 06/05/2006
Band Website: http://goldfisharepeopletoo.bebo.com
Band Members: Just to clear up, there's only one person. It's PM Graham.

He loves you all, loads and loads.
Influences: Jack Kerouac, Sky One, Dave Matthews, Bob Dylan, Ross Noble, Elvis Costello, Kara's Flowers, Johnny Cash, The Streets, Woody Guthrie, Pope John Paul II, Jack Johnson, Belle and Sebastian, Peter Kay, Ryan Adams, Graham Greene, Pingu, Oscar Wilde, the Channel 4 News Team, the Libertines, the (bo bo) Bobinogs, Jay-Z, Andrew Bird, Bernt Langher, Popup, Ernest Hemingway, Johnny Depp, Jim Henson, Pablo Picasso, TS Eliot, Dougie Maclean, The Servants of the Word, John Donne, Seu Jorge, Nizlopi, Allen Ginsberg. Categorically not influences are Uri Geller in any way shape or form, or the music of the Kaiser Chiefs (although the actual guys do seem like a laugh), or William Shakespeare, or celery.

This thing dusnie work really, I just gots one cos I'm thoopakool.
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Sounds Like: A man talking to men.

"thoughtful relaxed acoustic led folk music (...) with that extra special bit of style and substance that makes this group worth a few listens, a foot tap, and a day dream. " - ScotCampus Magazine

"just an acoustic version of popup basically." - Michael, Popup

"top top top stuff" - Matt, Invective

"like Elvis Costello on stilts" - Mum

"like a young Mariah Carey" - Colella

"Everyone should listen to this." - Sid

"ahhh the Scottish accent...it truly is beautiful." - Lukey D

"it wud be really hard to like wriote songs, i cn barely string a sentence 2gether that makes sense" - Niamh

"kinda Dylan-esque but with a scottish accent" - Crawford, Give Half to The Monkey

"I will look forward to hearing more - AFTER YOUR EXAMS!" - The Lillinator

"nah pm,screw exams,it's obviously a season of grace bro...eternally yours, your first agent ps- i dont want any commission, just your eternal love" - Matty D

"wow i am so ur best cuzin ever" - Lizzie

"a young Scottish talent...It is a bit Jack Johnson meets Dougie MacLean" - Mark again

"you are realy good and u play very nicley" - a nice guy called ED

"Zeus and Cher must be proud." - Cassim

"where have u been all my life?" - Nicola

"Goldfish ARE people too." - Baptiste

"lovin it" - Grant

"falou, brou!" - Caio Marques

"You are such a randomer" - my sisters

"when Eric eats a banana, an amazing transformation occurs!" - Narrator, Bananaman

"See that damn, "One day, all of this..." song! It's stuck in my head! Damn you!" - Blair ("The Black Phoenix")

"i think i must have actually listened to 'one day all of this gonna be gone' about 30 times in the last hour" - Kim

"Ooh, haircut, this cos you're in a 'band' now?" - Jamie

"Really like the second tune" - Five Day Hemingway

"Mmmm. Sounds like slow summer." - Kev, Surly

"sorry about the andiamo's thing but seriously there is someone working there who looks soo like u" - Jacqui

"it must be quite annoying having Cher for your mother? After all, she is semi-cyborg these days." - iamchemist

Go go mango shake your coconuts at MySpace.com

Record Label: Trattoo
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Tall tales from the 44 pt. 3

Cool sunglasses. I have some. They're better than yours'. Thought I'd let everyone know about my night. It was pretty weird on a number of levels. I had a couple of bizzare moments of melancholy strai...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:16:00 GMT

Rockers Gig

Aye so I had a gig on Wednesday night. Had a pretty mental day, lost my phone so couldn't "let people know" (read "chase people up") about the gig, but a few turned up unpestered and "a safe and fun-f...
Posted by on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:41:00 GMT

Rockers Gig

Aye so I had a gig on Wednesday night. Had a pretty mental day, lost my phone so couldn't "let people know" (read "chase people up") about the gig, but a few turned up unpestered and "a safe and fun-f...
Posted by on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:41:00 GMT

Lily and stuff

I had a wee think and a wee read, and I reckon there's nowt wrong with Lily Allen. Especially since she tried to bottle him out Jet. She's probably a spoilt chav like, but her blog did make me laugh. ...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:35:00 GMT

I watched this last night

These dayz I be hatin on white peoplez.
Posted by on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:36:00 GMT

Handy man wants job. Small wages. Will eat anything.

You know who we are? We are the generation that refuses to take it seriously. We are generation post-X, post-MTV, post-iPod by now surely, post-anything, post-post-everything, post-theconceptofthegene...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:45:00 GMT

The Blog Previously Known As "For Dunny, my love above all things"

Originally written for and inspired by J. Dunlop, but it has been twisted and tworted and now it's for you.   I love you. I don't love The Cribs. I love you. I don't love popup adverts. I love yo...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:49:00 GMT

Glotzt nicht so romantisch!

Blogging = narcissism? Apparently in my dad's workplace the talk of the town is an employee who has started a blog, and the blog itself. My dad was telling me, and his incredulous tone seemed a l...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:57:00 GMT

Ways of resistance

Kimberley says: lol u going into uni on mondAY? i have lib books to take bk so i knda need to but i could so do without law geeks telling me how longn theyve studied for even Siberia goes through th...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 15:24:00 GMT

Lyrics to two new songs

Yuppie Blues "Well you read the Independent so I guess you think you've got it going on,but I was reading broadsheet papers back when you were hardly born,I bet you read the editorials and think that ...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 04:23:00 GMT