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Clive

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About Me

Filmaker and session musician, attended Metropolitan Film School in London 2006, made couple of documentaries, for local communities and currently working on doc i shot in Sao Paulo, Brazil last year,based on Youth project there. I work part time for Contact Theatre in Manchester as in house video/audio tech Currently working on SPEAKEASY album and producing a track for artist from Amsterdam called WONDER. and part of NU Soul Kollective RKW. And working with Danish artist Brigitte Escobar on the Track My Life........................................................ ............................................................ ............................................................ ............................................................ ..........Back in the day was a freelance photographer for a variety of publications including -City Life (UK) The Wire Magazine(UK) Vibrations (Swiss) The Face(UK) Black Echoes(UK) Womad, World Beat Magazine, Children's Society Band on the Wall, Silk Cut Jazz Festival, Incognito album Inside Life... Had 4 exhibitions 2(UK) 1(France) 1(switzerland)Music Profile includes: Bass session on Lily Allen's album "ARIGHT STILL"and also NO1 single "SMILE" and her next single "LDN"... Double D album "REACHIN' OUT"... UnCut album"The UNCALCULATED SOME"... HeavyLoad album "LOVE REVOLUTION" Feat Fyza, D FREEK... Mr. Scruff's album "KEEP IT UNREAL" Ninja Tunes Label... Red Venom's debut album WHATABOCHA"... Performed on Radio 4 with my own band, and supported Pharaoh Sanders at Music Box, in Manchester,and Granada TV prog Stussh. Played percussion for Real Thing on BBC's Class Of... Used to part of Drum & Bass collective SPELLBOUND did Sessions for Chapter & Verse(their tune was "Black Whip")... Bass sessions for various Club DJs including Elliot Eastwick (Rinky dink club night/l Paper recordings)... Trafford Love Thing ( Car Wash club night)... Un-Cut (Warner Bros) toured the UK & Europe, Venues: Royal Albert Hall, Glastonbury, V Festival, etc.... They had a big underground tune called MIDNIGHT b4 signing with Warner Bros. Also did Bass Session On Marc Vivian Foe (ex Man City Player) tribute record who passed away during African Nations Cup... Bass session on album Reachin Out by Double D 2004...who is on 20/20 records Bass session for Connor Reeves , Afrobeat outfit River Niger... Recently went down to Abbey Road studio to have Philharmonia Orchestra record a loop of my track MY LIFE recorded with Danish singer Bridget Escobar, and working with good friend Irfan of Rainy City, and just joined RKW as bass player.Also working on 3 albums one with Speakeasy(spoken word collective) and Heavyload's new album and my own, which you can hear selected tracks on this page........................................................ ............................................................ ............................................................ .......................................................... Abbey Road sessionOn Tour & Studio SessionsThomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

Love watching Match of the day and lounging on a Sunday afternoon watching footie on Sky Sports, also going to the cinema( fav Cornerhouse arthouse cinema), and when im not performing myself, i love going to live gigs, and support the blue side of Manchester

I'd like to meet:

Spike Lee and fellow filmakers and musicians and anyone who wants to make friends...

Music:

Samba, Bossa Nova, Jazz, Cuban, Drum & Bass, Electronica, Afrobeat, Hip Hop, Film Music (Lilo Schifrin, Ennio Morricone, Henry Mancini etc) RnB, Bands/Artist ( Afroreggae, Paulinho Da Viola, Ben Jorge, Jorge Aragao, Airto Moreira, Jazztronik, Jair Oliveira, Rappin' Hood, Bebel Gilberto, Chico Buarque,Antonio Carlos Jobim, A Guy Called Gerald, Soulive, Mr Scruff, Home Life, Cinematic Orchestra, The Roots, Tribe Call Quest, Zap Mama, Ben Harper etc too many to mention)
MySpace ClockDIKE R.I.P MY BROTHER

Movies:

Do the Right Thing, (my fav) Mo Better Blues, She's Gotta Have it, School Days, Summer of Sam, 25th Hour, Jumgle Fever,Inside Man, Sideways, Usual Suspects, all the Godfather films, City of God, Zatoichi, Ghost Dog, Hana-Bi, Carandiru, Donnie Darko, Central Station, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now Enter The Dragon, Fist of Fury, Big Boss, French Connection, Spinal Tap, Fear of a Black Hat, Battle Royale, The Royal Tenenbaums, Southern Comfort, Catch 22, Fist Full of Dollars, The Wild Bunch, El Mariachi, Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Sin City and of course my up and coming documentary.....MENINOS DO MORUMBI

Books:

freakonomics, Culture is our weapon(based on brasilian group Afroreggae),Spike Lee(That's my story and I'm sticking to it)

Heroes:

Spike Lee, Bruce Lee