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About Me

Once upon a time I was in a band. I was the singer, despite the fact that I couldn't sing, and none of the other people in the band could play their instruments! But technical ability really doesn't matter if all that you care about is having fun, and for a while that's all we cared about....Now I play solo on acoustic guitar, happy to write my songs and play at my local pubs and open mic nights etc. After I left the band (got kicked out!!) I couldn't stop myself from writing lyrics (a combination of creativity and catharsis I suppose) and humming melodies but my problem being I could barely connect two chords on my guitar. And so I started playing and learning obsessively and gradually getting better and writing more and more songs. That brings us roughly three years later to now. For some reason I've deemed my music worthy of the public domain and I have it in my head that people will actually bother to listen to my songs. I suppose if you're reading this then you're listening to one now, I hope you like it. Goodbye.
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Member Since: 5/18/2006
Band Members: Put Her Down

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Influences: Jeff and Tim Buckley, Syd Barrett, Nick Drake, Cookham, Bert Jansch, Bob Dylan, Sex Pistols, Babyshambles, The Smiths, Tea, Sylvia Plath, Arthur Rimbaud, Bill Hicks, Graham Greene, Baudelaire, The River Thames, English rain, Stoke Newington, George Orwell, English sun, The Pub, Elliott Smith, a nice bath, cigs, booze, other stuff, being up all night, being in bed all day, Marlon Brando, Jugband Blues, blondes (and brunettes and redheads), Devendra Banhart, Oscar Wilde, Albert Camus, Jean Paul Satre, and of course The Beatles, Robert Johnson, Skip James, Leonard Cohen.
Sounds Like: Some guy playing guitar and singing along.
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My Blog

Blues song - disclaimer

Being a fan of the blues I know full well that this measly offering I've knocked up here is more like a bad parody of the blues rather than a good bluesy song. I seem to have fingerpicked it like a fo...
Posted by Daniel Chester on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 12:21:00 PST

New song - lyrics

My woman's a gamblerShe gambles with my loveMy woman's having funShe just can't get enoughShe puts my love into the potShe gambles with everything I've gotMy troubles are making me wearyMy troubles ar...
Posted by Daniel Chester on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 12:01:00 PST

Notes - might make lyrics?

I just wrote these a minute ago. They might make a song, I don't know yet. Maybe they're okay, maybe not? I'll see if they grow on me: You've worn out your welcome in styleDragged out your grievances ...
Posted by Daniel Chester on Wed, 30 May 2007 05:18:00 PST

5 songs on my player

I've been given the secret to a new and amazing world within a world. The 5 song player on myspace.... Now there's another shitty bodged together bunch of chords and words I audaciously call a song up...
Posted by Daniel Chester on Wed, 23 May 2007 12:45:00 PST

Jimi Hendrix performs Hound Dog acoustic

Jimi Hendrix is a very cool chap and also is very good at playing guitar as this clip demostrates perfectly: http://youtube.com/watch?v=VblDwX67dS8&mode=related& search ...
Posted by Daniel Chester on Tue, 22 May 2007 11:41:00 PST

Sunny Tuesday, no blues today

A sunny day at last. Lifts the spirits and dissipates the blues, for a little while anyway. Also I was standing at the cemetery gates earlier today, but not waiting to meet Morrisey unfortunately. Loo...
Posted by Daniel Chester on Tue, 22 May 2007 08:52:00 PST

Doherty in the queue for Oasis album

Pretty funny and also pretty weird: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Quba72Xli8o
Posted by Daniel Chester on Mon, 21 May 2007 02:19:00 PST

Bert Jansch - Blues Run The Game

I love this song and in particular Bert's version. I've got a bad case of the blues at the moment and this song says it all really. I saw Bert a few years ago playing at the Jazz Cafe in Camden and th...
Posted by Daniel Chester on Thu, 17 May 2007 02:48:00 PST

Love Not Lost (just yet) - new song

I recorded a version of this this morning but I subsequently decided it was shit and so I've recorded another one and this is it. I had my guitar on my lap as I was recording the vocal and fiddled aro...
Posted by Daniel Chester on Mon, 14 May 2007 06:51:00 PST

G7 Blues to be played on digi radio station

On Wednesday starting at 10pm on ErrorFM (http://errorfm.com) is a show called The Waiting Room. It's a very cool show that usually plays a pretty good selection of music. Anyway on Wednesday for some...
Posted by Daniel Chester on Sun, 13 May 2007 12:15:00 PST