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bren

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About Me



Every now and then butterflies fly through my window while I'm asleep and whisper songs into my ears which i then record and perform using acoustic guitars, old synth sounds, a computer and a few other things. I have about 200 songs recorded.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/28/2006
Band Website: soundclick.com/brendancollins
Band Members: bren collins - aged 24
Influences: my influences include prefuse 73, sigur ros, jose gonzales, zero 7, mos def, zebda, my parents, the eagles, nick drake, steve reich, air, daft punk, stars, orbital, the eels, underworld, aphex twin, feist, boards of canada, royksopp, jacques brel, craig armstong, philip glass, regina regina reginah! ah!

also juliana hatfield, elo, todd edwards, chili gonazales, damien rice, frou frou, ben folds, marlena shaw, marvin gaye, dj shadow, emiliana torrini, carpark north, dead prez, mista mike b, hybrid, the afghan whigs, jimi hendrix, mogwai, phoenix, ash, pharoah monch, plaid, stephen malkmus, rival schools and lots of other stuff i cant remember right now.
Sounds Like: listen and tell me!
Type of Label: None

My Blog

new songs etc

hey have put some new songs on my soundclick site http://www.soundclick.com/brendancollins theres at least 50 songs on there which is a bargain considering theyre all free to download! also have been ...
Posted by bren on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 05:53:00 PST

mike b

mike b has set up a music myspace, you should check it out, it has an old song that i did the track on; http://www.myspace.com/indeliblemikebmusic thanks to everyone who came to my gig the other ...
Posted by bren on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:39:00 PST

gig

just to say thanks to everyone who came to the gig on friday, i really had fun. its probably gonna be the only solo gig i do for a long time, thanks to mike (who travelled up from essex), phil, and em...
Posted by bren on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:52:00 PST

lyrics

i've been typing up some lyrics for my gig so i thought i'd post them here. some of them are quite old and cliched, but they meant a lot to me when i wrote them. all these songs can be downloaded from...
Posted by bren on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:07:00 PST

bobby burgess

bobby burgess' website has been one of my favourites for years, go back to the start and read his diary entries, its amazing. i doubt its a secret, cos its a very popular site, though i only found it ...
Posted by bren on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:30:00 PST

brendan

BRENDAN B is for Bouncy R is for Radiant E is for Edgy N is for Nervy D is for Dramatic A is for Ambitious N is for Na...
Posted by bren on Sat, 15 Jul 2006 07:18:00 PST