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About Me

I make music and other stuff (cover myself in marshmallow).

I make hiphop/reggae stuff with Ribs.

I'm in a band with Angie, Sam, David, Catherine and Craig, and we make various kinds of noise.

I want to leave the country.

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/24/2006
Band Members: Mikey - Keys/beats
Angie - Vocals
Sam - Violin
Catherine - Violin
David - Guitar
Ribs - DJ stuff
Influences: Aim, Lemon Jelly, Nouvelle Vague, Fort Knox Five, Lovage, Miranda July, Depthcharge, Land Of The Loops, Her Space Holiday, Portishead, Bonobo, Silver Jews, Andy Smith, Elvis, Otis Redding, Bill Withers, Definitive Jux, Aphex Twin, Deadly Avenger, David Holmes, Ella Fitzgerald, Bjork, DJ Food, DJ Shadow, Herbaliser, Vadim, Mogwai, Sage Francis, Pigeon John, Massive Attack, Daniel Johnston, The Raincoats, Beck, DJ Format, De La Soul, Gangstarr, The Ghetoboys, The Pharcyde, The Beatnuts, Gravediggaz, Blade, Roots Manuva, The Roots, Aspects, Smog, Scanner...and the rest
Sounds Like: A Bengal cat trying to communicate with small garden animals
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Good stuff and bad stuff

Bad stuff: I have a pain like a swarm of rainforest bees raping a flower, only instead of a rainforest, they're inside my mouth towards the back. As I live in London, i have to wait over a week ...
Posted by Mikey on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:00:00 PST

talk radio, tabloids and thumb war

I have a secret addiction to talk radio late at night. It's amazing. An elderly lady called in last night to proclaim that she was naked and "i suppose you want to see my chuff?".&nbs...
Posted by Mikey on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:11:00 PST

Decompression

Well then. We played at the decompression party and it was nuts. Despite the fact that they didn't have a guitar amp, enough leads, a sound engineer and the desk was broken, we had a reet ...
Posted by Mikey on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 03:07:00 PST

Volvere wins comp and goes headwrong

So, the strange micro-phenomenon that is Volvere keeps trundling along like a spastic trike in a minefield.Our ankles are just about intact after Sunday night's caper, but our minds are irreversably w...
Posted by Mikey on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 05:27:00 PST