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babble ft OCTOBASS

STOP GOING ON ABOUT THE FUCKING BASS PLAYING!

About Me

"Prog psychobilly acoustic he sez! A bit of an intriguing experimentalist mishmash as evinced by 'A bubble lullaby' with it's wobbly fretless sounding bass and wibbly crooning and acoustic jazzbo strumsiness. Fine London based weird beards… " so sez Jez ____________________________________________________________ _______

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/14/2006
Band Website: yer lookin at it cheeseball
Band Members: "Ramblin'" Rhys guitar vocal; Grelum bass; Angelsquid keys claves vocal cow bell egg fire spinning costume dance; ro ro is still deciding on her subs; Frank on soulophone; Duke Ollie is King Cajon; Richard on Critical Harp
Influences: Rhys - Cage, Cale, Camus, Can, Captain Beefheart, Caravaggio, Cash, Celan, Chatwin, Clash, Curtis, Cutler ------------------------------------------------------------ -----------------Grelum - The Alexander Brothers, The Crankies, The Marlettes, The Tartan Lads, Sidney Devine (I’d like to thank.... blah blah) ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------- Angelsquid has run away to the circus
Sounds Like: i popped in to hear you for 3 minsI was too taken aback to heckle In the dim light of the concert hall you had a Peter Sellers expression and a look of determination only seen on islamic suicidal videos and Duke Of Edinborough award scheme winnersYou were in the middle of a zapperesque mouth solo interspersed by Jack Bruce's bass fandango sliding and a twanging in a glaswegian drunken kerfuffle Your tribute to Russ Abbott was a success methinksThe sheer fecundity of your musical delicastessen has left a scottish/welsh strawberry mousse overload in my inner sanctum which has not been penetrated since the Bay City Rollers hung up their tartan and threw Richie Manic off the seven bridge Bye Bye Baby
Record Label: jam jar
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Cool Cymru

it's a couple of weeks in and I've been e-mailing anybody who might be interested in putting Bridgend on the map - for the right reasonsunfortunately two more young people have taken their livesso far...
Posted by babble ft OCTOBASS on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 03:56:00 PST

Ballcocks to poverty

I've never had so much fun as shouting "Bollocks" at an audience and trying to get them to flash two-handed V signs at me. Have to admit the reaction was a bit mute but I reckon it could catch on. T...
Posted by babble ft OCTOBASS on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:59:00 PST

Proposal for event in Bridgend

Most of my family comes from Bridgend. I was brought up in South Wales so I know what it's like. I've ben appalled not only at the spate of suicides there amongst young people but the image portraye...
Posted by babble ft OCTOBASS on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:03:00 PST

BOLLOCKS TO POVERTY!!

babble has joined the Bollocks to Poverty campaign - see ww.btpontour.org - it's organised by ActionAid, seasoned campaigners to raise awareness and DO something about poverty, corporate exploitation ...
Posted by babble ft OCTOBASS on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:25:00 PST

Pigeon wing barbie?

Lots of people have been asking me (well, nobody actually, but I'm gonna tell you anyway) what the pigeon photograph illustrating Opportunity on the ramblin' rhys page is all about (see top friends an...
Posted by babble ft OCTOBASS on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:22:00 PST

Opportunity knocks

After the run-away success of the me me me choir covering babble's Coal Dust Blues; babble has at least tried to return the favour by covering that esteemed choir's song Opportunity. Pop along to th...
Posted by babble ft OCTOBASS on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:56:00 PST

My Death (by Loudon Wainwright)

I had this awful dream about Loudo last night.I've posted it as a comment on his page but it might lead to my permanent expulsion from there so I'm posting it here too for posterity. Some of you migh...
Posted by babble ft OCTOBASS on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 03:01:00 PST

movie soundtrack page

inspired by Barry (see top friends) who's making a movie about some sticky emotional stuff (ew), I've written some soundtrack musicyou can find it on ramblin rhys (see top friends natch)when's the red...
Posted by babble ft OCTOBASS on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 05:33:00 PST

silent movie premiere noisy affair

well, the silent movie got an airing last night at The Good Ship in Kilburn, with babble playing the soundtrack of courseit's a conceptual affair in visual form (OK it's a slideshow) drawing on variou...
Posted by babble ft OCTOBASS on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 02:38:00 PST

Joe Strummer at Newport Art College in ’73

well it may be true and if it is then it makes me proud to be a Newportonianhaving just visited the Motherland, I can confirm there's no plaque confirming Joe attended Newport Art College in 1973 (or ...
Posted by babble ft OCTOBASS on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:14:00 PST