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About Me

i'm 22 now but i won't be for long, i use 4 track tape and a portable mp3 player w/mic to record and sometimes use laptop effects, i live in edinburgh now and it's grand

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/29/2006
Band Website: nah
Band Members: local living guy - epiphone les paul jr electric guitar that has bits of green paint on it, ageing casio & yamaha keyboards, fendurrrr jaaaaazmaaaasturrr, jagstang, objects, cheapo drums, elc glockenspiel, audition, laptops and other gadgets i don't really understand, my own hohner acoustic guitar, my sister's 5 string concerto classical guitar that's constantly out of tune, my nephew's mini guitar and vox/scat
Influences: pavement, morrissey (w/the smiths), television personalities, mos def, nas, pavement, magnetic fields, king leer, white wine and multivitamin juice, pint theft
Sounds Like: 'fred astaire with a guitar and no dancing''daniel johnston but not really''the best ever death metal band out of gort''a man who's got more rhymes than a bookful of rhymes''a 21st century captain hook reincarnated in the body of a young irish lad''what we need is awareness, we can't get careless'tunes that i feel like playing or singing, i like lots of stuff, some of it weird, some of it indubitably great, some pretty shite...i like you too. maybe i'll write you a song someday...not bloody likely though really!
Record Label: 'a single image is not splendour' records
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Lowest of the low (fi)

Put up 2 covers, mp3 recorded, lowest of the lo-fi, be nice to Tell Me (galaxie 500), be brave for I Like Birds (eels). It buzzes!
Posted by local living guy on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 11:01:00 PST

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (V.I Lenin)

Lately.. I have been doing a variety of things. i) Wandering the streets of Edinburgh, looking for record shops(Unknown Pleasures on the Royal Mile is fucking great), avoiding neds and seeing int...
Posted by local living guy on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 08:21:00 PST

Really loving..

..all (well, all I've heard that is) of Scritti Politti's stuff as of now. The Early E.Ps = Scratchy post-punk, some funky, some reggae basslines, politicised (read: socialist) and articulate lyrics, ...
Posted by local living guy on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:37:00 PST

New One (pure b, or even c side material)

Four track, with some 50's echo from the Audition.. Tune nicked from the Television Personalities, lyric about a waitress known to us as Polish Caoileann. C-side, rough sounding, but I like it.....
Posted by local living guy on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:52:00 PST

Mini Rant

Viewing random people's profiles reminds me of what I most dislike about myspace - reams and reams of comments saying more or less the same sycophantic thing about someone's music. To quote a hoary ol...
Posted by local living guy on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:29:00 PST

Theoretical Mixtape

Just got an idea for a good mixtape.."ballooning weight mindstate"...circa 80 something minutes.. A side ('she says she'd take me anywhere, as long as I'm nice and clean') Belle and Sebasti...
Posted by local living guy on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 06:48:00 PST

Annoyingness and "wanton badness"

"Wanton badness" = a quote of one of Galway's favourite judges a few years back when describing acts of vandalism Anyhow, yesterday the Tralee gig didn't happen. Our lift's car got robbed (with Gibson...
Posted by local living guy on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 05:26:00 PST

Gig next week...

..more details to follow. Playing with Johnny and Tony supporting Heliopause in Tralee. Let's call it "Local Living Guy And The Escorts". Suits may be worn. :)
Posted by local living guy on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 10:07:00 PST

"Have we got a video?"

(obscure Young Ones reference - above!) Ahem, yes. Two videos from the Stress!!busk at the Spanny Arch with Tony. More to come, maybe, if I feel like it..Here 'tis! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTp...
Posted by local living guy on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:44:00 PST

Gig reportage

Right...Played a couple of gigs recently. The Bell Book gig on Friday was a strange one, quite odd playing in a well lit venue for a change, and a book/music/allsorts shop at that, but it went fairly ...
Posted by local living guy on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:18:00 PST