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Will Isherwood

One Man Band - Give it time to load, its good

About Me

Hello world, time for a change of blurb. My name is Will Isherwood, im 22 and I live in Auckland, New Zealand. I am currently studying for a Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts; Majoring in Sound. On the side I Act in theatre productions, Currently "The Merry Wives of Windsor" in Rotorua, and the show previous "Tons Of Money" for which I gained the award for "21 AND UNDER ACTOR OF THE YEAR" at the Dolphin theatre in Auckland.When at home in Rotorua I am a Volunteer Fire Fighter at the Lake Okareka Volunteer Brigade.The reason for the songs you hear is quite simple: I got seriously sick of crap music on the TV and radio being "played" (and of course by played i mean synched) by people who didn't seem to know which way to hold a guitar, so I set out to write some songs.I have only been playing guitar for around 2 years, and taught myself Bass for the demo that I made. I have been playing drums for 14 years, 5 or 6 of those semi-professionally as a jazz drummer. I have never really spent much energy writing songs as I feel that I'm not poetic enough to get the words right and it will sound well... crap.Knowing that; my Demo Cd "Hueleme Las Nalgas" (an uncommon Mexican insult), was created entirely by myself using borrowed equipment. It was recorded over roughly two week and a half blocks in October 2005 and January 2006. As I had never used the gear before nor written songs, and of course recording in a set time frame the songs are very rushed and as such the quality is very rushed and in places poorly timed as I did not have proper in ear monitoring to record with. So effectively this is a very very rough demo of what I would want the songs to sound like given the chance to properly record.I think this Demo has an original sound, and is different from most New Zealand music that is in the chart at the moment. And I feel that there are some tracks that could reach the top ten singles chart.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/17/2006
Band Members: Will Isherwood - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Percussion and Drums - Mixed and mastered on a Roland BR1600
Influences: Coldplay, Smashing Pumpkins, Placebo, MUSE, Pink Floyd, Oasis, probably more but can't think of them now!OTHER music i like; Jeff Buckley, Herbie Hancock, Snoop Dogg, Foo Fighters, Incubus, Joni Mitchell, The Streets, Paul Simon, DreamTheatre, Damian Rice, The Verve, System of a Down, Tool, my cousins band Adzuki and I would love to sing with Hayley Westenra (just a random throw in there). Basically I listen to anything that takes my fancy.
Sounds Like: Not many singer songwriters are their own band, so it is quite an original sound. I think this is because instead of concentrating on "lyrical poetry" that usually accompanies a singer with the fill being basic guitar and simple drums in the background, I have created a more band like feel with the songs.Friends have said its a like fast coldplay (if that makes sense). There are elements of Smashing Pumpkins drumming as well. However you can decide and tell me, and I may update - as I just make songs that I would like to listen to.
Record Label: No one as such, make an offer!
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Un blocked FINALLY!

just a note to tell all you avid readers... ha .hahaha hahahaha yeah right. that I am on the write again, and am writing a new brilliant song! and have several massive chord progressions that need epi...
Posted by Will Isherwood on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 03:11:00 PST

oh oh a new song!

Hey all, Just to let you know that I replaced one song with another, this one may be simple but is my favourite of my current songs. Hoping to write more when the mood takes me!Will
Posted by Will Isherwood on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 06:10:00 PST

All songs uploaded

Hey hey, i think that all the songs are now uploaded. Remember that these are songs as I had to leave them when I out of time to record, and as such the words have also suffered as im not a bloody poe...
Posted by Will Isherwood on Tue, 30 May 2006 05:24:00 PST

song one up

one song up now, hurrah, three more to go, should be up on monday when i get into school coz my internet is shitty shitty. doubt anyone is reading this anyway.  
Posted by Will Isherwood on Sat, 27 May 2006 06:24:00 PST

word

yeah so, like , um like , um like I cant post my, um like songs yet dude. no seriously i cant something is wrong with the internet, so for all those thousands of fans, keep ya panties on....
Posted by Will Isherwood on Mon, 22 May 2006 03:45:00 PST

second post!

wow this is quite addictive! man i would put some songs up, and yeah i know that no one has even seen my page yet, but hey, once my shitty internet sorts itself out il be able to upload some songs for...
Posted by Will Isherwood on Fri, 19 May 2006 10:11:00 PST

First post.

Hello there internet world. Well this is my first post as I sit in a cold wintery Auckland, NZ. I have never done much online "blogging" or such like before so dont expect too much If you get caught u...
Posted by Will Isherwood on Thu, 18 May 2006 10:44:00 PST