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The Blunt Instruments

About Me


We play guitar, sax and drums and mess about with a computer, have a listen to what we do.

***WE SUPPORT CRAZINESS IN ALL ITS FORMS***

Sounds on here are generally audio rambles and bits of things we've been working on. For our full songs visit the website

www.thebluntinstruments.co.uk

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 01/06/2006
Band Website: www.thebluntinstruments.co.uk
Band Members: John, Andy, Mikey m9
Influences: Miles Davis, The Beatles, Shpongle, Ozrics, Jimi Hendrix, 60's Soul Music, Drum and Bass Music, flamenco, Jackson 5, Groove Armada, Quantic Soul Orchestra, Hungarian Folk tunes in 7/8, Latino, Afro/Cuban, brass bands, Vivaldi, Holst, Shostakovich, Stravinski, Zappa, Billy Cobham, Sonny Rollins, The Zutons, Chinese scales, African beats, the sound of blue whales and creaky seats, random noises in harmony...
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

new stuff

hey guys we've spent a whole ay in the studio today and we got shit loads done!One song - "Wilderness", is one a girl called Karen wrote which we remixed. "Blaze" is a golden oldie; but here is a vers...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:46:00 GMT

Ableton Tip no. 1

valentines sound tip -download the link below to get this splitter audio effects rack. the audio signal gets split into high and low, then chain 1 can be used to effect the low frequency, chain 2 to ...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:29:00 GMT

Valentines splitter

majority of the original sound is vocal mic with feedback. we've got a serious effects chain on it though and have gated the sound wiht a midi gate. bandanas rock!
Posted by on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:45:00 GMT

22 days later

it is a dim still evening in newcastle and the only evidence of life is the faint smell of nag shampa, and some luke warm chia tea lining the bottom of three blue mugs and a cassette playing kitaro on...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 11:25:00 GMT

The Blunt Instruments do WOMAD

John here So we have just got back from WOMAD - a music festival down in reading (no we didn't play it... but maybe one day...) and finished recovering from the heat and lack of sleep! Now it is onwar...
Posted by on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 23:49:00 GMT

Pushing Forward

John here, the boys are at a jam night at Stephneys in town, I just wanted to share my zeal with you as now we have the website and the equiptment and the material we are pushing forward with the tena...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Jul 2006 13:39:00 GMT

Website

We would like to announce the arrival of our website! check it out, there are full songs to download FREE, more pictures and info, and a mailing list for future events. We welcome you with clenching h...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 08:14:00 GMT

PARTY PARTY

I often ask myself: "why are we here?" in many a differing tone and sporting varying ponderous poses - as I'm sure we all do from time to time. Which has lead me to many guesses, one of which is "to P...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 23:58:00 GMT

Y! O?

YO! feeling a bit ill from the flyer i was given in town... i'm so glad i don't drink in the gate... spending the afternoon making music. 2/3 of us (ie me and mikey) are going to a forest party tonig...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 09:18:00 GMT

Quotes

John here, last night we spent a few mindless moments looking on the internet for famous, comical, appropriate and down right bizare quotes from films and tv shows. mission undoubtably accomplished, s...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 07:48:00 GMT