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Member Since: 6/20/2006
Band Website: arcadiancollective.org.uk
Band Members: Marie-Claire Isaaman - Artist, MA Drawing course leader at NSAD and author of a new drawing book, wearer of interesting head scarves (and since visiting the US - a baseball cap collector), drinker of most wine varietals available without too much effort...currently somehow involved with Video Games Art & Design and other madness...Darren Leader - Graphic Designer, Record Selector and all-round good egg...A.K.A. 'Norwich's Paul Weller'. Cried in 1982 when The Jam split up, and kept crying all through the '80s as Weller's fashion sense descended into farce. However, cheered up as the '90s set in and the Woking One settled into his role as the Modfather. Currently justifying his distinctly un-mod flight in to folk-ish and experimental music by relating it to Weller's Wild Wood phase and Brendan Lynch's remixes.Chris Lowthorpe - Ideas Person, Record Selector, copywriter and record label overseer. Drinker of the black stuff (what, Bovril?). Currently pissed off with the 'new-folk' scene - middle-class morons singing about potato famines when their only frame of reference is Waitrose selling out of, "...those delightful Nicolas, so wonderful for salads". Also its regular descent into po-faced Xeroxing of the late 1950s MacColl Era - this is supposed to be fun guys, not a Stalinist regime!Other contributors: 'Irish' Paul Jennings - drawer/illustrator extrodinaire, fellow black stuff drinker, and currently reticent computer user; Andi 'Fisheye' Sapey - super Nikon operative (12.5 megapix you know!) and benevolent Photoshop manipulator - a damn fine fellow! Lizzy Birt - recording artist and sometime 'office glamour puss'; the Johnson; the 'milkers; Norwich's Sir George Martin: Lord Lowery, the Husbands; Derek Mace; My Dark Aunt; our producer; the first grip with the big biceps; God; everybody we've ever known...we're just so glad to be here we could cry...so happy, so grateful...
Influences: Everything from Tina Turner to Phil Collins with a bit of Dire Straits thrown in when feeling adventurous! But Seriously...stuff like Lizzy, Lowery, Spidermilk, The Husbands, The Lost Levels, Ellis Island Sound, Animal Collective, The Kinks, The Euston Manifesto, Bruce Springsteen, Peter Saville, The London Nobody Knows, Scorcese, Paul Auster, Pablo Picasso, Dylan, Nina Simone, Brightblack Morninglight, Shelby Foote, Bert Jansch, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Joe Orton, The US Constitution, John Peel, Johnny Cash, Paul Weller (obviously, Daz), Four Tet, Andy Warhol, Richard Swift, The Smiths, William Faulkner, Sufjan Stevens, Chips off Gt. Yarmouth market, Marshall Jefferson, The Eagle Clerkenwell, Bessie Smith, David Niven's stories, The French Revolution & The French House, Nairn's London, The Carter Family, Shoom, Spectrum & The Trip, Jamie Reid, Arcade Fire, Factory Records & The Hacienda, Situationalists International, Banksy, John Fante, Alex Steinweiss, Orson Wells, The Wicker Man, Lefty Frizzell, Cindy Sherman, Peter Ackroyd, Lorna Sage, Bauhaus (the school not the band...although 'Bela Logosi's Dead' was pretty good!), Joy Division, Zinadine Zidane, Ray Charles, Vivienne Westwood, JD Salinger, The Velvet Underground, Abraham Lincoln, Joe Strummer, David Hockney, John Steinbeck, Tufnell Park, The Rolling Stones (pre-1974), Alice in Wonderland, Sonar Kollective, Gil Scot Heron, FDR, Billy Holiday, Bob Gill, The Face (1980-93 only!), Public Enemy, Cold Sunny Days, Truffant, Devendra Banhart, Akron/Family, New York Collective, Neutral Milk Hotel, Lead Belly, Gram Parsons, Billy Bragg, Mike Leigh & Ken Loach, Yasmin Alibi-Brown, Karen Dalton, Bowie, Van Morrison (pre-1978), Tom Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, David Lynch, Gillian Welch, Hank Willams Senior, Graham Greene, Boy's Own Fanzine/Dos, Huey P. Long, George Orwell, Saint Etienne, Ken Burns, Scott Walker, Phyllis Pearsal, Frank Lloyd-Wright, John Renbourne, Davey Graham, Truman Capote, A Confederacy of Dunces, Hot Sunny Days in Louisiana and Louisiana Hot Sauce, Nina Nastasia, Yo La Tengo and more and more...
Sounds Like:Everything but nothing you've heard before. People who have played at Arcadian Collective events include Lizzy, Lowery, Spidermilk, The Memory Band, Ellis Island Sound, Master Solo, Nancy Wallace, Jennymay (Elysian Quartet), Of Montreal, My Dark Aunt, Derek Mace, Liz Melia...
Record Label: Arcadian Collective Recordings
Type of Label: Indie