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John Hudson

Songs in the key of irony

About Me

Hello. Once an actor and now an English teacher, for fun I write songs and until someone else offers to, I sing them. You can hear four of my efforts here: I hope they strike a chord and raise a smile. I've played a few gigs at the Grey Horse, the Ram Jam Club, the Honest Cabbage, the Cricketers, the Berrylands Hotel, the Brave New World and the Willoughby Arms, all in the Kingston upon Thames area. Then I started edging a little further afield - I've played the Waterman's Arms in Richmond and the Sun in Clapham and I opened the Saturday night of the Anti-Folk Festival at the 12 Bar Club in Denmark Street in November. I have been asked to play at the Great Indoors at Dex in Brixton in March.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/26/2006
Band Members: Just me and the nylon strings.
Influences: I like...(in no particular order) Ray Davies, Cat Stevens (ok, Yusuf), Paul Simon, Nick Drake, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Pink Floyd, James Taylor, Don McLean, Jake Thackray, Bob Dylan, Carly Simon, Carole King, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Jethro Tull, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, and... Stephen Sondheim, Gilbert and Sullivan, Flanders and Swann, Tom Lehrer, Cole Porter, George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Rodgers and Hammerstein and... Tchaikovsky, Mozart and...and... BUT... Have they influenced me? Not noticeably, I regret to say.
Sounds Like: Chap with guitar.
Type of Label: None