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lonely ghosts

not trying to be mariah carey

About Me

hello, i'm lonely ghosts. in real life my name is tom denney. apart from being lonely ghosts i also play in this band called help she can't swim . in august 2006 i had quite a bit of quiet time on my hands and so i started to writing new songs and learning how to record them myself. as i wrote and recorded and messed around more and more lonely ghosts was born. i'm still not that good at recording this stuff myself but i'm slowly getting better (i hope).
in january 2007 i took lonely ghosts out of my bedroom and started to perfom live. sometimes i play on my own, sometimes i play with friends. it's fun, i'm still working out ways of doing this music live. sometimes i sing songs with just a guitar, sometimes with a big loud backing track, sometimes with live drums, sometimes with pals on bass and guitar, sometimes with a gang of backing singers... anything that seems fun at the time is worth a try.
recently i've played with final fantasy, bearsuit, malajube, gay against you, sleeping states and a load more and toured the uk with the tumbledown estate.
set a course for adventure.
if you put on shows and would like me to come and play then please drop me a line.
RELEASES
O.I.B Records Split Series Vol 1
(7" - O.I.B Records - OIB003)
OUT NOW - UK/EUROPE/USA
Order online from WWW.OIBRECORDS.COM
4 way split 7" - features 4 different covers and 4 different badges designed by each of the bands
Track listing:
The Tumbledown Estate – Voodoo Wave
Munch Munch – I See Sexy Dead People
Gay Against You – Wall Wizards Part Two
Lonely Ghosts - Predictions For The New Year
half a pidgeon zine issue 4 compilation - AVAILABLE NOW
my track 'statues' is available on a cdr compliation that comes free with the new issue of Half a Pigeon zine . check out the link for details on how to order a copy. it's a rad zine. it's also available in rough trade in london i think.
coming soon
lonely ghosts vs the tumbledown estate tour dvd...
mini-lp...
more music...
news on both soon, or soon-ish...
contact
to contact me about anything send me a message on the myspace or you can email: thelonelyghosts[AT]yahoo.co.uk

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/27/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/lonelyghosts
Band Members: tom denney - making songs with keyboards / synths / acoustic and electric guitars / bass / programed drums / voice / fake piano / shakey egg / glaives / glocenspiel / hand claps / ebow / melodica / ukelele / a healthy dose of distortion and/or reverb / whatever
Influences: enon, pet shop boys, the unicorns, blur, animal collective, magnetic fields, swirlies, my bloody velentine, dive like jehu, xiu xiu, cornelius, desaparecidos, pop, noises , happy, sad, romance, travel, going nowhere.
Sounds Like: blim blam
Record Label: OIB Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Predictions for the new year - LIVE VIDEO

here's footage of me playing on tour with the tumbledown estate a few months ago. this is from our gig in guildford. we were playing after a band of frightening thug rock hooligans and i had thrown up...
Posted by lonely ghosts on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:49:00 PST

2 things: Artrocker Magazine / Battle Ships download

2 quick things...1) there is an interview with me in the new issue of Artrocker magazine. it's out now if you wanna pick it up and have a read.2) there is a bit on me on this blog as well as a free do...
Posted by lonely ghosts on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 02:25:00 PST

recent events...

recently some things have happened.1) yesterday the split 7" came out. this is very exciting. please buy it. it should be in shops now. if you can't find it get yr shop to order it in. or just buy it ...
Posted by lonely ghosts on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:14:00 PST

trips to london

last week i went and played two shows in london. the first was playing guitar for the tumbledown estate. he was supporting danananakroyd. they were good. the show was fun, i enjoyed being the man at t...
Posted by lonely ghosts on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 09:41:00 PST

the show with final fantasy

i played a gig with final fantasy the other day at the komedia in brighton. it was a pretty big show for me and the tumbledown estate, who also played, and it actually went really well. hooray!it...
Posted by lonely ghosts on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:10:00 PST

single review - losingtoday

Another nice review of the split 7"this is from rom loosingtoday.comVarious 'split' (OIB). And sticking with Gay Against You (see previously) - see we can do links as good as anyone else - pah - piece...
Posted by lonely ghosts on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:06:00 PST

last time in london

seeing as i've written about every other show i've played on this blog i guess i should write about the last one I did.It was an odd one.I had just got home from tour and was due to be playing a help ...
Posted by lonely ghosts on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 03:45:00 PST

PRE-ORDER SPLIT 7"

the OIB split series vol 1 7" is available to PRE ORDER NOW!!!!,so do it already.it comes with 4 different covers and 4 different badges, designed by all 4 bands.covers: badges:...
Posted by lonely ghosts on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:25:00 PST

Lonely Ghosts vs The Tumbledwon Estate - TOUR DIARY

So recently I went on my first uk tour along with The Tumbledwon Estate playing our 'VS' show. Also along for the ride was our pal, and head honcho of OIB records, Bootleg Al. It was fun times indeed....
Posted by lonely ghosts on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 07:42:00 PST

split 7" review on subba-culture.com

a very nice review on subba-culture.com OIB SPLIT VOL 1 - OIB RECORDS TUMBLEDOWN ESTATE: Raucous rock n roll with a fuzzed up delivery that beckons the question, how comes we haven't heard of these gu...
Posted by lonely ghosts on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:24:00 PST