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Julian Velard

'07 busted. It's on like Donkey Kong in '08

About Me


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/13/2005
Band Website: julianvelard.com
Band Members: Julian Velard - Vocals, Piano, Wurlitzer, Melodica, Organ, Harmonium, Glockenspiel, Wacky Synths, pretty much anything with a keyboard... plus all manners of madmen, militants, and myopics galore!

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Influences: Momentary:
Harry Houdini, Charles Stepney and all his deciples (Minnie Riperton, Ramsey Lewis, Terry Callier, Rotary Connecton) Raymond Scott, Pepé Le Pew, Rick James (check out the chune "Dreamweaver"), Jamie T, Ian Love, Mike Viola, Michael "Miggsy" Morely.

Constant:
Harry Nilsson, Steve McQueen, Michael Jackson & Pee-Wee Herman (fallen heros), John, George, Paul and Ringo (in that order), Bobby D, Tom Waits, Steveland Morris (a.k.a Mr Wonder), Elton John, Steely Dan, Elliot Smith, Van Morrison/Marvin Gaye (Astral Weeks/What's Going On), Laura Nyro, Rod Stewart (the first five albums on Mercury), Leonard Cohen, Queen, Bowie, XTC, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, Simon (mostly with Garfunkel), The Police & Sting (Dream Of The Blue Turtles is a great record, I don't care what you think), Jeff Buckley, Billy Preston, Sly and The Family Stone, Earth, Wind and Fire, Burt Bacharach, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, Ennio Morricone, Yusef Lateef, Charles Mingus, Billie Holliday, Art Tatum, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Gil Evans, Chet Baker, Sun Ra, Billy Strayhorn, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Chicago, Supertramp, 10cc, Badfinger, Tangerine Dream, Daft Punk, Radiohead, Coldplay, Cocteau Twins, Matthew Sweet, The Cure, Tears for Fears, Flaming Lips, David Gray, Diane Cluck, The Damnwells, Regina Spektor, Joanna Newsom, Andrew Bird.

Spiritual Touchstone:
Howard Johnson and the 1986 New York Mets, Charles Oakley and The New York Knicks, Looney Tunes, G.I. Joe The Movie

What I hear when I sleep:
The Theme Song to Benson

Sounds Like: It's easy enough to listen to the songs on my profile isn't it?
Record Label: EMI UK/Charisma
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Indiana Jones and The Temple of Westlife

Last thing I remember, I was running for the door. I had to find the passage back to the place I was before. Walking across a bridge in Belfast, two erstwhile companions at my side (the trusty Doctor ...
Posted by Julian Velard on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:09:00 PST

My Favorite Movies

You can vote on these on my myspace page. Word.1.Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the BombReview: Slim Pickens rides the Bomb! Peter Sellers is a Genius! All hail Kubrick!2.T...
Posted by Julian Velard on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:34:00 PST

A Heavy Brow

Sitting at a hotel bar in Edinburgh, gazing out the window at a castle on a green covered mountain. The best part is I'm not playing music in this hotel bar, stuffed in a corner pumping out tunes. No ...
Posted by Julian Velard on Tue, 13 May 2008 02:00:00 PST

Portrait Of The Artist, Albeit A Commercial One

When we last left our hero, he was a man on the verge of a nervous breakdown, true John Cassevettes style, spouting nonsensical rants about wanting a cat. I'd like to say things have changed, but I wo...
Posted by Julian Velard on Thu, 01 May 2008 09:11:00 PST

MADNESS!!!

The pixels on my computer screen are dead. There are a million and one things swirling round head but all I care about is how the pixels on my computer screen are dead. I can count at least 30 in the ...
Posted by Julian Velard on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:16:00 PST

Pontification

It’s snowing in London. That sounds unbelievable, but it’s true. I thought it only snows in Europe when you’re headed toward a ski resort, but guess I was wrong. Been a minute since ...
Posted by Julian Velard on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 06:40:00 PST

Un Jour A Paris

I'm back on the Eurostar, my second trip in little more than twenty-four hours (as per my newsletter if you get it  I know the sequence of these things can be confusing, like looking at timeline plot...
Posted by Julian Velard on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:34:00 PST

Meet The Band

Oh yes it's check-in time from Starbucks. I've been to Ireland and traversed much of the British Island since I last wrote, only to find myself smack in the same seat, drinking the same bad coffee. On...
Posted by Julian Velard on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 06:54:00 PST

Whats a Super Bowl?

Yes ladies and gentleman, I'm in a foreign country all right. This time last year I was downing chicken wings and gulping draft beer on 33rd and 8th with birthday boy Tommy Merrill, eagerly awaiting e...
Posted by Julian Velard on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 06:30:00 PST

End Of An Era (For Real This Time)

Here am I again at my folks place with the Christmas blues, feet on a footstool in the living room, playing with the Siberian cats, those miniature tigers from eastern Europe. Been poking them with a ...
Posted by Julian Velard on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 08:20:00 PST