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Richard Masters

About Me


Hello there!!!!Please visit my website for more music, info, news and bridges to other worlds..................www.richardmasters.co.uk

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 13/06/2006
Band Website: richardmasters.co.uk
Influences: The Kinks Kurt Vonnegut Tom Waits Ben Folds Goran Bregovic Brass Monkey Johnny Cash weird folk Chris Smither Arthur H James Raynard Fargo Venezuala Bill Hicks Jacques Brel Sandy Lopicic Silly Sisters Rare Breed Ben Folds Five Rick Rubin The Wicker Man Scott Walker Cohen Brothers Ray Davies Saban Bajramovic Alistair Sim Morrissey Alice Cooper Bob Dylan Lal Waterson Maddy Prior Traditional Stories Catch 22 Worzel Gummidge strange folk kind hearts and coronets Les Hurlement d'leo Emir Kusturica - Underground Time of the Gypsies Black Cat White Cat, Spaccanapoli Blowzabella Jake Thackray Rainbow The Alchemist John Martyn To Live the lady killers Punch Drunk Love Varttina Tegi Roberts Poza neo folk Ashkhabad John Betjeman Leonard Cohen tea and biscuits Poke harold and maude nick cave dark folk Buffy the Vampire Slayer the old rope string band Nothing Rhymed Cake Martin Carthy The Mighty Boosh Jethro Tull Elvis Costello The Smiths Mark Steel Ron Sexsmith Mitchell Froom Bob Ezrin Steeleye Span Calexico Lyn Hodnett Miranda Sex Garden Alan Lomax Fleet Foxes Geoff Berner
Sounds Like: .... someone digging holes in a moonbleached forest, with occaisonal jaunts to the fairground for pop and candyfloss - tales of thieves, blaggers and pantomime cows, ghosts, odd lovers and magical vows. In one way or another the music's a bit like: Tom Waits in Sunday School, Nick Cave lite, Jake Thackray skipping through a moonlit meadow - Nick Drake on caffeine - Martin Carthy on a bender or Leonard Cohen putting up a shelf for the Wickerman.
Record Label: Wavelength Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Encounters at the end of the world

Go and see the new Herzog doc. It's great. Herzog goes to Antartica partly because he wants to know why monkeys don't ride on goats. He discovers a strange and lovely community of scientists who li...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:06:00 GMT

Escape Artist album now £5 !!!

 The Escape Artist album reborn and re-priced.Dinosaurs in the garden of Eden, vegetarian lionsthat (ironically) turned to meat because someone ate a bit offruit.  If these things are true then ANYTHI...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:51:00 GMT

More Songs on Last FM

Hello thereJust to let you know that there are more of my songs up on Last Fm.www.last.fm/music/Richard+MastersP.S. Here's a question: What's the difference between a singer-songwriter and a puppy?An...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:31:00 GMT

Further excursions to Planet Bob

A ramble over Planet BobDylan's written a couple of good songs hasn't he?Every time I look there's more to see. Mr. Dylan hides entire cities under rocks, he secrets oceans within puddles - he throws...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:06:00 GMT

Winter Garden Gig

Had an enjoyable gig at the Winter Gardens in September - replete with fauna, flora, free wine and two women wearing underwear and suspenders who walked by during my set. I'm sure they were wearing m...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:54:00 GMT

Song title freecycle

Any old titles? Any old titles? Consider this a dumping ground for any old, odd, unused, unsusable, silly, dark, maudlin and outrageous song titles you might have lying round in the attic of your m...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:45:00 GMT

Carthy and Swarbrick

Yes, just got back from seeing Master Carthy and Meister Swarbrick at the Rock in Maltby. Sterling performances as you'd expect, twisting and stretching tunes into new and bold and beautiful shapes -...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:28:00 GMT

Museum of Lost Bands

Idle thoughts on the Museum of Lost Bands, you know, the ones that make one amazing piece of art and then evaporate into the golden ether of forgotten music.  Has anyone ever heard more from the ...
Posted by on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 18:54:00 GMT