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Something Simple

time for the NEW FUNK REVOSPLOSION!

About Me



Something Simple are a 7 piece band from North London playing a huge mix of all things funk, reggae, jazz, D&B, hiphop and others. So far we have been lucky enough to headline such venues as The Jazz Cafe, Cargo, 93 feet east, and play at Turnmills and King's College, as well a whole host of other places with large thanks to Healer Selecta and Raison D'Etre!
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Enjoy!

Thursday Afternoon - The Movie


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Film by Will Coldwell & Ciaran Twomey Bremmer, music by Something Simple


Something Simple were formed from a group of friends doing music GCSE at school in Potters Bar around 2003. Since those gloomy days of rock, roll, and Offspring we have evolved into the era of funk and have been picking up new ideas from everything we hear ever since! We have also picked up more ingredients for the funk cake in the form of Tom on guitar, Callum on vocals and the legendary Fabio on percussion.

We now enjoy playing all styles of music and especially mashing them up into a groovy mix full of the something simple vibe. Hope you enjoy what you hear on this page and hopefully we will see you at a gig in the future!
With the band now on prime form, all that is left was for the band to achieve is world domination with their mighty mighty pocket - after all, as every funkster worth his afro knows - you can't hold no groove if you ain't got no pocket!

Safe.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/30/2005
Band Website: myspace.com/somethingsimple
Band Members:
Adolf (Tom Shirm) - guitar, vocals, keyboard
The Doovster (Lester Salmins) - bass, piano/keyboard, vocals
Kenny J (Leo Aarons-Richardson) - sax, bass, vocals
Hard Boiled (Greg Sanders) - guitar, vocals
Pillow (Olly Lowe) - drums
Scotch Mancake (Callum Monaghan) - vocals
Parvio (Fabio De Oliveira) - percussion
Influences: Fat Freddy's Drop, Tower of Power, London Elektricity, Meters, D'Angelo, Ojos de Brujo, Soweto Kinch, Average White Band, Hamish Stuart Band, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bob Marley, Desmond Dekker, Bobby Womack, Quantic Soul Orchestra, Ozomatli, Brecker Brothers, Steely Dan, Jurassic Five, Roots Manuva, Shy FX, Pendulum, Ugly Duckling, 425, Toots & the Maytals, Rage Against The Machine, Steely Dan, so much more gooood shit.

Sounds Like: god coming down the gangees
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Unhaps for Glastonbury news

Hellooo. Some of you may have noticed that we’d put Glastonbury on our gigs list and everything, we were well excited, but unfortunately it is not to be! Glastonbury were going to give Raison D&...
Posted by Something Simple on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:56:00 PST

Yardbird, slightly more recording progess YESSSS!

Hello urrbody, hope urrone airie, enjoying/enjoyed the Easter time, depending on when your school/place of work/etc decided Easter was. Something Simple mandem went Birmingham and back last night to ...
Posted by Something Simple on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:19:00 PST

Fank you!! and news and that.

Firstly, cheers everyone who came to the Good Ship gig on friday! It went down really well, there was a brilliant vibe from the crowd, we got some nice words from some brothers from stateside, chatted...
Posted by Something Simple on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:43:00 PST

recording progress and ting

Safe all, well I posted before xmas (so crossmas then?) to say we were going to go into the studio, we did get in there for a day, after 3 of us got dutty dutty flu, (Lester got probs the most dutty, ...
Posted by Something Simple on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 07:58:00 PST

Recordification

Ave all. Love asterix & obelix. I remember seeing the film when I was younger and thinking it was brill, looking back, it probs wasn't. Getting very excited this week as we're gonna be heading to ...
Posted by Something Simple on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:42:00 PST

wedding. favela chic, JOKE!

Happy Tuesday everyone!Well last Thursday we played at this wicked place called Favela Chic as part of one of the ever wonderful Raison D'Etre nights, just where Old Street splits, opposite that huge ...
Posted by Something Simple on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:53:00 PST

cheers urrbody fo Jazz Cafe

Want to say thank you loads to everyone who came down to the Jazz Cafe gig, there were loads of you there raving it up which was heart-warming to see! keep coming, we'll keep pushing ourselves to try ...
Posted by Something Simple on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:46:00 PST

Something Simple mailing list

Hello efrybody, we hope you all are well. Just a lil message to say we've set up a something simple mailing list, so if you like to be in our gang, just send a blank email with the subj...
Posted by Something Simple on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:35:00 PST

jazz cafe live tracks

brup brup everyone, greg here, something simple have returned from our summer finding ourselves/travelling/getting trashed on small greek island hiatus. we've put up a couple of recordings from the ja...
Posted by Something Simple on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:29:00 PST

something simple 7 inch aah ye

safe in 2008 we will be going into the studio with the lovely Yvan Serrano (Healer Selecta of Raison D'Etre) to record a tune to put out as a 7" vinyl on King-A-Ling records. yesssssssssssssssssssssss...
Posted by Something Simple on Sat, 19 May 2007 09:45:00 PST