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Wayne Myers

About Me

Wayne Myers was born in a garden shed on the back of a lorry driving through London's glamorous West End in 1971, and would have technically been a Cockney had the lorry driver come off the South Circular Road a bit sooner instead of getting lost in town. His mother was not impressed, and it was only a matter of time before he learned to play the guitar and began writing songs.

In the meantime, Wayne got all confused and distracted and also learned to play the bass guitar, which he has been trying to give up ever since; unfortunately, people like Vivachi and My Scarlet Darling won't let him.

He also thinks he plays the piano, but the less said about that the better, quite frankly, though he has been known to turn up with a Yamaha at weddings and barmitzvahs wearing a special Jazz hat and sit there playing variations on themes out of the Real Book until people pay him in cash to go away. That's a Yamaha piano, by the way, not a motorbike.

Wayne is currently recording some new acoustic material, which he describes as 'green and sort of a bit like felt, only thicker', which he bought out of the Studiospares catalogue for some exorbitant price. In the meantime, this myspace page showcases various tunes for which he takes full responsibility, including the previously unreleased 'Turnaround', which he is unable to sing any more, not in that key anyway, 'Dark Eyes', a tune previously released under the name Fast Freddie Fourier , and which features Kevin G Davy on trumpet, and two other recordings which are essentially examples of Wayne turning up to the Royal Exchange pub in Camden and shouting at people until they bought him a drink.

He is hoping to do some gigs in the next little while since it does get him out of the house, and frankly he could do with getting out of the house. Actually, he probably ought to move, but you know how it is. Anyway.

Oh yes, and he draws a cartoon , or, again, at least thinks he does.

Right. That's enough biog.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/5/2006
Band Website: http://www.conniptions.org/
Band Members: Wayne Myers (guitar, bass, vocals, hat)
Influences: John Martyn, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Loudon Wainwright III, Eric Idle
Sounds Like: ... someone needs to take this promo text stuff a bit more seriously. I mean really. Eric Fucking Idle? What the hell do you think you are doing? I mean he's great and all, but you can't put Eric Bleeding Idle as a bleeding musical influence. No-one - and I mean no-one - is going to take you seriously after that. You were doing fine, John Martyn, yeah, alright, there's about three people who've heard of him, but he is fucking awesome, so ok, and Tom Waits, yeah again, there's about six people who know who he is, Leonard Cohen, great musician, might be a standing joke for allegedly being 'depressing', which he isn't, but at least people have heard of him even if they have no idea what he sounds like, Loudon Wainwright III, ok, very cool, very obscure, absolutely no-one has the faintest fucking clue who he is, not even Rufus and Martha, his own actual kids, and then what. Then you fucking blow it, that's what. You put 'Eric Idle'. Because it seemed funny. Which it is, but that's not the point. Jesus. Get a grip, will you.
Record Label: Sticky

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