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About Me

MyGen Profile GeneratorAt some point, a well profound meditation upon modern music and the role of experimental blends of sarcastic drum n' bass/hip-hop, jazz-bassed ambient and incendiary UK hardcore/metal in the workplace will go here. It will say stuff about iPods being a load of shit, and what dangerous people we are. Don't fuck with us.For now, it must suffice to say that the chaps have cobbled together a new couple of songs, with the kindly assistance of step-Alyrons Bruce J. Woods, Jack Wilson and Jen Gibbons, scholars and experts in the fields of Violince, Celloration and Singing Like a Girl respectively.With the sterling help of Mr. Jonny Renshaw of eminent UK Beat Combo Devil Sold His Soul, (formerly of Mahumodo) and Bandit Studios, Cirencester, (and Mr. Robbie Renshaw, his dog), they sound as big and lovely as they're supposed to sound, rather than like the comparatively uninteresting, protracted and uncomfortable turd that has gone before, both in the history of A Lyra, and of Earthly Civilization. The tunes also a lot shorter, something for which that last sentence compensates in part.In the slightly more long term, there'll be another song recorded at Christmas, and more gigs in the new year.

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Member Since: 1/23/2005
Band Website: alyra.co.uk
Band Members: GLYNN - vocals, samples, keys,wounded pig...TOM - guitar, vocals...NATHAN - bass, screams...HENRY - drums...
Influences: Tea, Small Cars, Calpol, At The Drice-In, Isis, Electroacoustic music, Musique concrÃ¨te, Mike Patton, Bjork, Deftones, Massive Attack, Mahumodo, portishead, David lynch, Poison the well, SKalpel, Tim leary, E.S.T, Tomasz Stanko, Dave Holland, William S Burroughs, Hopesfall, Pelican, ISIS, Hondo Maclean, asilaydying, Ezra Pound, Glassjaw, Marvin Gaye, Norma Jean, Miles Davis, Godspeed you black emperor, Charlie Parker, Don cabalero, Incubus, Aphex twin, Squarepusher, Ulrich Schnauss, Mogwai, Interpol, Faith no More, Radiohead, W. S. Graham, Nina simone, TOOL, Coil, Charles Mingus, Team sleep, Sigur ros, Winston Churchill, roald dahl, curry, wikipedia, bang bros!, Getin' "blacked up", Curtis Mayfield's 'If There's Hell Below We're All Going to Go', Son House's 'Death Letter Blues', Tall Pony, Beirut, Robert Burton, Blind Willie Reynolds, Elbow's 'Scattered Black and Whites', Existential and Spiritual Funk , DJ Krush, Bicci de Lorenzo, Richard Hawley, RJD2, Mark Lanegan, Bobby Conn, Glassjaw, Aconite Thrill, Albrecht Durer, The enormous bit at the end of 'Ein Heldenleben', Psychoactives/Psychedelics, John Coltrane, MC Pitman, Clinic, Mastodon, Aesop Rock, Broken Social Scene, Captain Beefheart, Cinematic Orchestra, Prince, Paul Simon, Tom Waits, JR Ewing, Boom Bip, Tomas Stanko, John Abercrombie, Job for a Cowboy, John Martyn, Joanna Newsom, Taj Mahal, Buck 65, Smashing Pumpkins, Lowgold, John Korner, Huey Lewis and The News, Autechre, Gorecki, Mogwai, Architects, Boards of Canada, Shellac, Jake Thackray, Radiohead, Xiu Xiu, Paleontology, cLOUDDEAD, Scratch Perry, (old) Sikth, 'Just What I Needed' by The Cars, DFA 1979, Pelican, Nick Drake, Led Zeppelin, Tracer AMC, Pink Floyd, The Police, Black Sabbath, Soweto Kinch, Bright Eyes, Minor 9th Arpeggios, Sinatra, Elvis Presley's 'Suspicious Minds', Late Junction, Russian Circles, Tintin, Moomins, Darkplace, Brass Eye, Zulu, Star Wars, Occasional & Unavoidable Repetition.
Sounds Like: ...a JCB falling into a " sex well "....?
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