This man and this man only. but sometimes it is not him.
Influences
Too many things - good and bad. The concept is ill.
So, i thought i’d take down the list and use this space to rave over some of the musicians i’ve shared stages with & deserve a worthy mention. These include:
Rose Kemp
Z+
Simon Finn
Joolie Wood
Team Brick
Brendan Casey
Ratface
Team Brick
Bela Emerson
Hawk & A Hacksaw
JM Kados
Blanket
Wooden Spoon
Wild Billy Childish
Charlie Parr
Chris Cundy
Alex Ward
Longstone
Brickwerk
Josephine Foster
Parge
SJ Esau
Knowledge Of Bugs
Marissa Nadler
Alasdair Roberts
Arrington De Dionyso
Alex Neilson
Ignatz
Caroline Martin
Betika
Elizabeth
Rozi Plain
Rivulets
Benjamin Weatherill
Chris Corsano & Alan Wilkinson
Tony Allen
Dave Pearce
Clayton Blizzard
Stanton Delaplane
Scout Niblett
Voice of The Seven Woods
Rob & Jez Howard
Kitsu Killjoy
Edd Donovan
Sequins
William
Korova
Honeytrap
The Empty Set
The Bellows
Curtis Eller
Puppy Bucket & Donny Choonara
Dash
Cath & Phil Tyler
Ice Bird Spiral
Pekko Kappi
Mr & Mrs
Anni Rossi
Rollin Hunt -
loads at Shhh! I can’t remember their names
Pirate Ship Quintet
Kathryn Sawers
"Mad Jimi"
Pmanassah
Freeze Puppy
Little Sparta
Gerry Mitchell
John & Jehn
Lawrence Wasser
Gareth S Brown
and so many more that my brain will explode if i continue.
MEN DIAMLER plays live regularly as a (sometimes) guitar-accompanied singer.
to contact Men Diamler email mendiamler at googlemail dot com
Men Diamler's second album, "SEA SHANTIES FOR THE FAR INLAND(on dulcet thud) is sadly now out of print.
"Men Diamler is a young man with a cult reputation in the South West who will not be tamed by the powers that be, reconfiguring a English/Welsh soul music through woozy operatics and wild and weird song/stories. Sweet and darkness have never sounded so close or so intense in such performer. Despite his tender age he is a channel for old thyme ways - footstompin' blues, two string serenades, backwoods drinking hollers, horse play and pagan folk all get exorcised. Psychosis never sounded this good and people clap" Qujunktions
" tears away at your singer/songwriter preconceptions, replacing them with black humour and visceral gore" Rottenmeats
"imagine Roy Orbison with a two punctured lungs and John Fahey with a fractured hand?well, he sounds better than that"
"Mr. Diamler's music seems to carve its initials somewhere between Son House & Syd Barrett on the musical park-bench. That said, this is fiery and unapologetic music that lives in a fucked up, peculiar world of it's own. Lopsided folk music that leaps at you, sometimes very literally" Thora Zine
"Men Diamler cannot be ignored. He looks a little like electric-era Bob Dylan, and it's just him and his guitar, and sometimes it's just him, a cappella – not even always in front of a microphone – but his voice is so astonishing that traffic literally stops. Yes, I know what I've just said. He makes sure we know we're watching a performance of spiritual-gospel-blues, but it's authentic as it gets. Again, I know what I've just said, but it's true. It's ridiculous, in all honesty, because somebody with much more influence than I have should be writing about him. FACT MAGAZINE
CIAN NUGENT 'Childhood, Christian Lies & Slaughter' CD Cian Nugent is a 19 year old guitar player from Dublin who combines squicky pre-war blues, Appalachian string band music, and the Takoma school into a deeply personal style. This cd documents a great live set, produced by Jozef Van Wissem.
Thanks. Hope all is good. I do not think I will actually ever get around to putting on that "Super gig" we spoke about. I just can't stand promoting. Cheers mate.
Hey Richie! Hope you're good? No doubt I'll see you around sometime soon. Sorry for being cheeky...
BROKEN ARM - four dudes from Leeds making garage-rock filled with killer bozo riffs. Their first Bristol show and part of their first tour, they will have their brand new debut EP available at the show, which has come out on Liverpool's Sea records. Members of Broken Arm have previously been in Sailors (gringo), Static Waves, Woman (sea) and Like a Kind of Matador (tumult). Now that's pedigree.
FRINGES - new band from Bristol with members of Soeza, Line, Headfall and ex-Scarecrows and ex-Murder of Rosa Luxemburg. More sweet pedigree. A tight, jagged, uncluttered, direct sorta sound made by clean-cut squares and scruffy slacks. They are a quartet, with two guitars, saxophone and drums, they keep it instrumental.
COREY ORBISON - play abrasive, messy, short-sharp, stop-start songs about our cold cold world. Members also in Headfall and involved with the very excellent Local Kid thing. Check the new tracks up on their myspace!
AT THE JUNCTION, 51 Stokes Croft, Bristol, BS1 3QP
Thank you for coming and playing, everyone was blown away, especially myself.
Couple of questions about what we were talking about after. Who were the family band you told me to listen to and what's the name of the guy who makes his own instruments?
Hope you're well. Owen was singing your praises yesterday, we were watching you on you tube. Can yo come and play in November? Is that possible? I'm coming to see you play an all-dayer beginning of September, see you then Catx
Wow! I"m so touched you took the time to listen to it!!! Wow. That's amazing! So glad you like it!!
Yeah, now I'm just waiting for MySpace to make a decision whether or not to shut me down?? I've requested a yes OR no if they have the time?? Rather than them just shutting me down??
Again ,THANK YOU THANK YOU for the Blind Duet, sir, it was an honour to sing with you....
Just in case you're in town at the time. This show is Leicester. Alex Thomas was fantastic and a great guy too.
Hope the tour is going well....You'll have to finish it off with a Tin Angel brekkie?
Jenna x == The Blessing and Black Carrot Record Deal Party! Saturday 12th July LEICESTER's The Musician
The Blessing has grown out of trip-hop cult band Portishead's powerful rock-driven rhythm section (drummer Clive Deamer and bass guitarist Jim Barr) with two young jazzers as its front line, in former National Youth Jazz Orchestra trumpeter Pete Judge and tenor saxophonist Jake McMurchie.
Like the popular and sometime Mercury-nominated Acoustic Ladyland, once described as sounding like The Damned with a saxophone, The Blessing couples hard-hitting, high-volume rock with wailing jazz-horn choruses. The group's flat-out drive, fiery virtuosity and strong, anthemic tunes certainly grabbed the audience, including the scattering of older jazz devotees lurking in the shadows like me. And those qualities, plus the association with Portishead's reputation, should bring The Blessing a lot of admirers, some of whom might well go on to discover a wider world of jazz and improvised music. - The GUARDIAN
Yeah, great to bump into ya on sunday! Best of luck with forthcoming gigs - keep me posted w/ details of any releases n I'll try'n plug 'em for ya! Now James Brown's dead you must be the hardest working man in showbiz lol!
