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The Sweet Chap

About Me


Somewhere an old CPU fan is humming,
Tired, overworked it is synched to the strumming,
Of a five string guitar and its six finger picking,
And the mumbling of words that are sweet yet unfitting,
With a digital murmur and a rocking chair creek,
This twisted of discos becomes now complete...
I’m the Sweet Chap, a producer, songwriter and performer from Brighton, South England. I wrote and recorded an album called Disco For A Domestic.
I came to London with my record, and was signed by a little indie record label called Protest Recordings. They were an internet based record label, and one of the first of their kind - in fact possibly the only one of their kind.
We set up a website where people could listen to the album. We even created an album sleeve and put it up on the site. This was a concept album – its only format was the Internet itself. We released singles from the album. We made videos. These could all be watched from the website. The album received great critical acclaim. I put together a band and we toured.
Then we were told my latest single Rummage was to be single of the week in NME. It couldn’t get any better for an up and coming artist and new label.
But then came the dawn of the free music website and the eve of the free download. Protest Recordings simply couldn’t compete any longer against a new downloading generation. They eventually called it a day.
But Disco For A Domestic remained – tucked away in the world of domain names and downloads, waiting to be discovered and enjoyed by future music explorers. It may stay there for as long as the World Wide Web exists and when the Sweet Chap has long been forgotten…
I went on to write lots of new material and my latest project is called ‘Huh?’ The songs are inspired by a quote I heard from a film critic commenting on the director David Lynch– ‘David gets into your head with his films, but once he’s there he doesn’t do anything with it.’ These songs are thought provoking but arbitrary in their meaning; ambiguous but profound I guess.
Let me know what you think, and I hope you enjoy them.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 14/02/2005
Band Website: www.thesweetchap.com
Band Members:The Sweet Chap - guitars, synths, programming and vocals.
The Chap sang with backing band 11:11, who also backed him at his Sweet Chap Residency in Hoxton Square, as well as the 2005 festivals Bestival and The Secret Garden Party. 11:11 are: James Barnett - formerly from rock/dance act Arkana on lead guitar and vocals. Amachi Agugwa on synth bass (keytar) and electric bass, and Geoff Southhall on synth, sampler and drum pads; both were former members of renowned music collective One Giant Leap.

Sounds Like: "[The Sweet Chap] slurps with solitary songwriting deftness" The Fly
"Yet another artist with his finger on the pulse" DJ Magazine
"A certain grubby, rambshackle style... coming on like a 'Bone Machine' era Tom Waits" NME
Record Label: none

My Blog

About the video's on this page.

The videos shown on this page are from various projects. Two of them were singles released on my first album, Disco For A Domestic.The songs are Girl With The Curl and Rummage.The third is the video...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:42:00 GMT

Counting to a million

I met this guy once who said he actually sat down and counted to a million. What a twat...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:41:00 GMT

Management.

A friend and I were unloading the boot of the car when he turned and expressed to me his satisfaction towards his packing skills - 'see chap' he gleamed, 'it's all about space management.' Another fr...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:49:00 GMT

I can't stop kissing

Jesus, everytime I end a text I'm knocking a few xxx's too many at the end. I don't know how it started. I've always sent a x to me mah and family. A couple to the girlfriend, maybe one or two to a se...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:21:00 GMT

Unusual heckle

I've been heckled a fair few times in the past when performing. It's always been the usual derisive blabber, you know like being told to get on with it, or that I'm shit etc. But I recieved an unusual...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:53:00 GMT

Back To Blogging!

Fuck, this is the first blog I've written in ages. Just to let you know the Chap is still alive and in full creative swing! I've been away writing loads for my new album. Putting tracks up very soon o...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:15:00 GMT

Video Flyer - please watch!

Posted By:The Sweet ChapGet this video and more at MySpace.com
Posted by on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:36:00 GMT

Residency Report

What a great gig last night! Thanks to all those that showed up and enjoyed themselves!Camp Actor played a great set and had the crowd break the horse shoe on the dance floor - the girls and boys were...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 01:42:00 GMT

Residency Re-launch on thursday 13th July

The Sweet Chap re-launches his residency night with a brand new set of songs and twisted visuals. To celebrate his return he'll be throwing an aftershow party, plus there'll be music from super suppor...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 03:40:00 GMT

A comment to my friend that I've added

Friend that I've added, how are you doing?Your song probably sounds great but I don't really listen to music anymore. It has become a bore, now that I can make it instead. Like you. Ah! Listeners! The...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:49:00 GMT