The Band of Cloud

Music:

Member Since: 6/19/2006
Band Website: I have built a website, but it falls in the wind.
Band Members: The ever expanding Band of Cloud at present contains anywhere between two and five members increasing exponentially over time... Padraig O'Connor (vocalising, pianism, guitaristics) and occasionally Adrian Hart (violin). Other musicians who jump in and out of the BoC to help record and play on two out of the four songs here-includeth include Karl Twyford (guitar, keyboard) of earlier Band of Lights 'fame' and now of Jeremy Flies, Belgiums No. 1 Alt-Folk-Pop-Anti-Country-Electro-Disney-Jazz-Fusion-Disco-H ipp(it)y-Hoppity-Handstand-Band, and Julien Lonchamp (bass, xylophone), ex Lights, current the Jack of Jack and The' europop-hybrid-sensation-lampstand-band who have one foot in the Emerald Isle, one foot in Nancy France by way of an impossibly long leggedness, and one hand in a bucket of pop, while the other hand waves to a devoted fanbase in Thailand. Cathal (Cat) O'Conchobhair of the Alistair phenomenon also appears courtesy of himself, on These Times. Padraig (Band of Cloud) O'Connor has also been known to make an appearance and lend a hand recording his own material.
Influences: The Beatles, Velvet Underground, Beach Boys,Television, Love, The Kinks, Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Rufus Wainwright, Anthony & the Johnsons, Arcade Fire, Pink Floyd, The Ramones, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Nico, Phil Spector, Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Reed, Cale, Leonard Cohen, Brian Wilson, Neil Young, The Smiths, early Suede, Nick Drake, Joanna Newsom, Cocorosie, Ron Sexsmith, Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Leonard Berstein, Ennio Morricone, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Henry Mancini, Patrick Kavanagh, William Butler Yeats, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Steinbeck, Living in Dublin, the canal, trees, flowers, water, clouds, memories, conversations, looking at people walking, standing on the top of a mountain, that time I met the aliens, looking at the stars at night, the number 7, the number 11, the letters P, Q and Z, Button Moon, my genetic make-up, the shape of my ears, friends, standing on a chair, strange colours, a smell that takes you back in time for a moment, childhood, icecream, being hungover, not being hungover, walking (rhythm), police sirens, outside noises you hear when you're listening to music, John Cage, Satie, Debussy, Berlioz, Rachmaninov, other songwriters I know, cats, dogs, trains, horses, the circle of fifths, the development of music in the West, post-tonality, smoke, fire, tea.
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John Lennon
You enjoy poetry, painting & a fine wine. A lover not a fighter.

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Sounds Like: The colour brown. Othertimes sounds like the colour aqua-marine, or purple. Sometimes I write in polkadots. Sounds like orange. Not the colour. Just sounds like orange.Othertimes sounds like an apple, not the word, the fruit. Sounds like dolphins playing violins. Sounds like whales making love speeded up 4 times and put backwards through a low pass filter by an Orangutan wearing sunglasses.Sounds like the wind (very poetic)Sounds like music (kind of).Sounds like the Beatles crossed with the Velvet Underground, with a bit of Sigur Ros and Rufus Wainwright playing in Phil Spector's garage with Brian Wilson on production duties, crossed with a red setter and a German sheepdog whose mother was a shitzu.Talking about music is like dancing about a picture.

If I were a Dead Russian Composer, I would be Igor Stravinsky.

Known as a true son of the new 20th Century, my music started out melodic and folky but slowly got more dissonant and bizzare as I aged. I am a traveler and a neat freak, and very much hated those rotten eggs thrown at me after the premiere of "The Rite of Spring."

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