Member Since: 5/21/2006
Band Members: Steve Cargill, 48 years old.
Songwriter, guitar player, and not so good singer trying hard to move away from the singing parts.
I also enjoy sampling BEER whenever I get the chance, but it can take several samples to form an opinion.Joanne (Jo) Miller, 37 years old.
Singer and long term partner, love of my life, and replenisher of the socks and underpants drawer.
To my horror she also wants to learn to play the DRUMS, and until she gets some I am to be subjected to the repeated "bashing and crashing of the pots and pans".
I've gotten away with it so far by claiming(rightly) that there is no space in the house for an acoustic drum kit, but a drummer and FORMER friend has told her about electronic kits, so now I am desperately looking for a good reason NOT to buy her one, HELP ME SOMEONE.
Influences: Well we're both essentially rockers, BUT when I write stuff it tends to be a bit more laid back, more easy on the ear if you like, plus at 47 I'm a bit long in the tooth for diving around a stage hurling a strat around and pulling meaningfull "angry at the world" faces, although Jo would probably find the energy since she's ten years younger than me.
When I write for ME, it gets a bit "Folky", and occasionally angry, whereas the stuff I write for Jo to sing is more "ballady".
All that aside, we are both fans of the usual 70's culprits, you know, Zeppelin, Sabbath, Floyd et al, but we love a good love song too(eeuuuch??).
Sounds Like: ...........we could do with lessons. One thing I would like to add though, is the fact that everything you hear on this space is as raw as it comes, we don't use any studio editing, effects, extra instruments or anything of that ilk.
Cellos, violins & other instruments are great, and if we had access to them for live performance we'd use them, but since we don't, we never put them on our recordings either, our self imposed rule is that if we can't do it LIVE, we don't record it. Everything is recorded in our house, straight to the PC via a bog standard interface, so what you get on our myspace is just about what you'd hear if you were standing at the side of us.
Record Label: Unsigned,and no ambitions,It's all for love & fun.
Type of Label: None