The Beatles, Joe Meek, Röyksopp, Raymond Scott, The Smiths, Nick Drake, R.E.M., John Coltrane, Nigel Godrich, Sean Lennon, The Move, Pulp, Super Furry Animals, PJ Harvey, Jellyfish, Pink Floyd...
Sounds Like
A 45-year old ice cream van making its way to the moon
Hey kids. Fancy a brew? Somewhere in Sheffield (well, Shirecliffe if you want to make bones about it) you'll now find me tinkering with some sixties recording stuff and a laptop, making a load of silly noises really. Or dancing to the Smiths like a big girl. It's all good. I hope you don't actually find me doing that though.
I shall soon be setting up a second myspace for my recording and production work for other people. Simply fuss free!
In the meantime, my new album Moondogs And Other Toy Animals is now for sale here on CD; 6 tracks with full artwork packaged in a DVD case, at a bargain price of Five of your English pounds! Two tracks from the album - Kid and Nocturne - are featured on this very page. If you would like to hear more on a shiny new CD, Click the PayPal button to buy, and it will be posted to you, P&P included in the price!
i think my system volume is up to loud hahahaha- hope you have a suitably chilled winter solstice snow man James B....glad to hear your pitting your undoubted talents to good use. ; @
That was a ret good sales pitch you put out in your bulletin! Makes you sound like a really honest decent bloke, which i suppose you are really mate! Teach my foooking keyboard player how to use his feckin synth!!
Whatchya up to about 4 o clock ish ? Oxjam at the french horn and i've only landed the opening slot, be good to see you and try and drag some conversation out of you...lol...been listenin to KID A its bloody clever stuff that !
He sounds like a right dick! Evidentially he is deaf! I was well impressed with the JJH album! Yeah i'm at higher rhythm part time, i get to use a trident desk and drawmer outboard gear! Theres even a real 2 real but i aint got a clue how 2 use it but when i saw it i thought 'i bet james would like that...'!!!!!
alright there Boyo, i have just purchased one of ur cd's, i now feel a bit like an excited school girl waiting for her next issue of boy's in their pants! How r u any way? i'm a bit random on the whole internet corrispondence, cos i dont have the tinterweb myself. would b nice to have some sort of get together with some of the old NNC hopefuls back in the sop at some point as i have not seen pretty much any of u in a long long time! speak to u soon! Dom
yeh which apparently u don't know the date for yet???chris said this anyway.......organisation at donny college whoop!!yeh defo,ir you're in sheffield anyway you'll have to come see us or we'll come up to you,we'll hitch hike ha x x
yeh the view is good from meltdown i do agree.......you'd have to be in a castle or summat to get better lol.well make sure u do go out in sheff,i've only done it once gonna do it agen this year methinks!!!how is that possible nicer during the day than donny???ha x x x
aaww......isn't that the way all musicians and that start off??poor??i thought so.......infact actors,singers anyone in the businesses we wanna be in ha.sounds good about the band though glad to hear thats going good,hows living in sheffield??missing meltdown?? x x
am alrite sir bennett!!how would you be?? am looking forward to getting back to uni have come to the conclusion i don't like work if i know i don't have to!!ha.what have you been up to then??besides the studio stuff.pure chance i found you on here!! x x x
cheers for having a wee listen there james i avent been to depeche mode, where is it ? lol and who you calling a llllady tron, i'll check lady tron out cos i've not heard much of them but i've allways liked depeche mode just never bought anything of theirs ! How are you doing and what are you up to ?
cool was the festival any good? I quite like leicester, my old girlfriend used to live there so I spent a fair bit of time there.
Yeah I'm still on stupid dole and applying to as many jobs as I think I could possibly do. Got an interview or 2 nest week... one for a car hire company to be trained as a manager and the other is to be a licencing executive for a poster company. both are pretty lame but I would much rather use them than be on the dole!
I am waiting to hear back form a few live venues and other bits and bobs too but i'm not holding my breath lol!
Good luck on the recording and sorting out the wireless router!
cheers man, finally ive found someone who appreciates that track! alot of people ive asked about it dont really appreciate it. you've made my day!
youre stuff is sounding mint dude! btw
yeh wouldn't mind using tape, I dont know a lot about it though what can u use it for besides mastering? u were telling me u used your fisher price tape recorder for compression?
Dont really know why Im sending you this message as I live in the same house as you but just thought I'd say your tunes are sounding very fine indeed...
thanks man. i hear you are thinking of puting an event or a regular night on in your area. let us know if you have any spots available and we'll come play :)
James You little Bugga! Who the fudge are you i hope all is well and good in the land of james of the bennett veriety? glad uv tracked me down its nice hear from you! keep in touch buddy take care! Dom the Fat1 From Kosher nancy ;)
Loving the tunes Mr.Bennett...dead chillout. Kid reminds me of old album style Zero 7 - jazzy chillout and dead retro...I think Scuba is my fave - just love that dirty bass! Have you heard of Fourtet before? I think maybe you'd like his stuff :)
cool, atleast you have a bit of something going on. I'm contemplating doing a bit of teaching and i have a mixing job for a band next week. I have also set up some voluntary work experience at a local studio so i might be able to sort something out.
either way things are a little slow and the assholes at the dole office piss me off beyond belief!
not alot i can do about it for now lol.
Next time you lot all go out give us a shout and money permitting ill tag along!
i musta just got to the ozone whence i heard this bizarre tinkling sound and spotted your cosmic ice cream van, i just fancied a strawberry split to ! enjoying your lo-fi offering james, out of the 2 i've listened to, nocturne is just retro bliss, good to hear from you again % _)
