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Allan Chalmers

"Folk aff"

About Me

Songwriter and Human Being.
Simple songs for an over complicated world

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/15/2006
Band Members: "Madness strikes but once a day. Enjoy it while it lasts."
Influences:Bert Jansch
Tam Cameron
Kevin Ayers
Davy Graham
Jake Thackray
John Renbourn
Syd Barrett
Pentangle
The 13th Floor Elevators
Nick Drake
Roy Harper
The manDRAKES
Daevid Allen
John Martyn
Sun Ra
Ashra Tempel
Jackson C Frank
Peter Green
Folk music
Krautrock
Ennio Morricone
David Bedford
Tubular Bells and the 3 that followed
early Tangerine Dream
The Cosmic Jokers
Klaus Schulze
Leon Theremin
The Mellotron
Bob Moog
...and many many many more.

Sounds Like: gettinhy palembalmers
Record Label: FOLKPSYCHE!
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Fuck the Genre!

At present I play acoustic guitar so called Folk music. I say Fuck the genre! If you are from Glasgow and can play an instrument (regardless what it may be) and more importantly feel you can add somet...
Posted by Allan Chalmers on Mon, 19 May 2008 05:30:00 PST

Damn those commas!

Almost instantly the words started making their way towards the bottom of the myspace page. On their descent, all of the 26 letters would soon  understand that it wouldn’t be long before th...
Posted by Allan Chalmers on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:57:00 PST

Song Lyrics

If you are reading this then you may be interested to know that the lyrics for the songs on my myspace player are up for you to read. Just click the 'lyrics' icon under the song title and read away.Ho...
Posted by Allan Chalmers on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:23:00 PST

Hi Ho..Hi Ho

To whom it may concern.Hello. Due to the demands of modern life and the demands of debt collectors and the like I have been forced to take a jobby. The experience has been ok so far except I haven't p...
Posted by Allan Chalmers on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:31:00 PST

Transitional Life

'Transitional Life' was conceived while writing a previous still unfinished song. an idea from an idea, from one stage to another. With transition in mind I continued to compose the song  always ...
Posted by Allan Chalmers on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:13:00 PST

Syd revisited

Thats 'Syd' recorded and up. The working title has been changed to 'Time with Emily'....Humming courtesy of my PC... featuring street noise by Duke Street.Enjoy,Allan.
Posted by Allan Chalmers on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:42:00 PST

'Syd'

Over the next day or three I will be recording and putting up a gentle little ditty simply titled 'Syd'. When listening to it hopefully you will know who the song is about.If ...
Posted by Allan Chalmers on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 03:06:00 PST

Sell me something new

Ever wanted to turn back the clock? Ever thought of your future and what it may bring? Ever felt unsuitable to live in todays world of general consumption? 'Sell me something new' is a song about some...
Posted by Allan Chalmers on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 06:49:00 PST

Scarborough Fair (Traditional) arrangement by Allan Chalmers.

  Howdoo.. The below writings were taken from the interweb. This English folk song dates back to late medieval times, when the seaside resort of Scarborough was an important venue for t...
Posted by Allan Chalmers on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 09:10:00 PST

Melrose Heart

Hello people... I am in the process of writing some new songs, one of them being based on traditional folk music. Because I am Scottish it makes sense to write a song using Scottish subject matte...
Posted by Allan Chalmers on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 07:31:00 PST