My names Wil Atkinson, I mainly produce house and techno. DJ under the alias in:valid and run WAX in Swansea. Please enjoy my music as much as i enjoyed making it...

The debut EP "Memories Never Fade" here on itunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/memories-never-fade/id601493413 

 - Rise In Our Time 
 - Alternative Rock 
 - From Cardiff South Wales. 
 - Made up of 5 musicians
 - We spend a lot of our time in the studio recording, writing and mastering our performance.

Take a listen and ... 
Peace!

A place for my solo stuff - been playing around Cardiff for many a year, now in 'Rum Puppets' but I still get the urge to go all introspective sometimes...

-- Shows 2016 --
8.01. - Rosis, Berlin
15.01. - Fusion Club, Münster
13.02. - Salon Hansen, Lüneburg
26.02. - Nochtwache, Hamburg
18.03. - Kassablanca, Jena
26.03. - Gloria Theater, Cologne
9.04. - SOS 3000° Records, Lärz
29.04. - Honky Tonk Festival, Luzern (Switzerland)
07.05. - Bergschenke, Halle (Saale)
14.05. - Kieler Schaubude, Kiel
15.05. - Ritterakademie, Lüneburg
20.05. - Open Air, Suderburg
28.05. - TBA, Dresden
04.06. - Stadtfest, Papenburg
17.06. - Glockenhof, Stadtfest Lüneburg
30.07. - e-Ventschau, Ventschau
12./13.08. - 3000 Grad Festival
27.08. - Barmbek schwingt, Hamburg
27.08. - Prinzenbar (Docks), Hamburg
03.09. - Le Zoo, Geneva (Switzerland)
09.09. - Evangelisches Jugendfest, Pirna
08.10. - Salon Hansen, Lüneburg
12.11. - Ritterakademie, Lüneburg
18.11. - Kühlhaus, Flensburg
3.12. - Salon Hansen, Lüneburg


-- SHOWS 2015 --
10.1 - Kieler Schaubude, Kiel
16.1 - Badehaus Szimpla, Berlin
13.2 - Fundbureau, Hamburg
28.2 - Musikcontainer Uster, Swiss
7.3 - Hafenklang, Hamburg
27.3 - Zwölfzehn, Stuttgart
28.3 - Gloria Theater, Cologne
3.4 - Rote Fabrik, Zürich
9.4 - Salon Hansen, Lüneburg
11.4 - Das Wohnzimmer, Wiesbaden
30.4 - Bollwerk, Lübeck
8.5 - Kühlhaus, Kiel
30.5 - Salon Hansen, Lüneburg
5.6 - Wilwarin Festival, Ellerdorf
12.6 - Fundbureau, Hamburg
13.6 - Green Swan Gallery, Fulda
19.6 - Badehaus Szimpla, Berlin
25.6 - Fusion Festival, Lärz
26.6 - Junges Theater, Göttingen
4.7 - Herthastraßenfest, Köln
31.7 - Unicef Festival, Kiel
3.8 - Salon Hansen, Lüneburg
7.8 - Skufe Festival, Kiel
8.8 - Berlin
28.8 - MS Classic Queen, Hamburg
6.9. - At.tension Theaterfestival, Lärz
10.9. - Café Leopold, Wien
25.09. - Salon Hansen, Lüneburg
26.09. - Sabotage, Dresden
9.10. - Fundbureau, Hamburg
10.10. - Helgas Stadtpalast, Rostock
23.10. - Unterm Strich, Hamburg
14.11. - Anna & Arthur, Lüneburg
28.11. - Jekyll & Hyde, Lüneburg
29.11. - Hotel Am Steinplatz, Berlin
3.12. - After Work Club, Hamburg
5.12. - Electro Swing Crew, Kiel
13.12. - The George Hotel, Hamburg
19.12. - Green Swan Gallery, Fulda


my name is wil atkinson, im dj/producer and go by the name in:valid..... currently living in cardiff & into anything and everything. Dj house and techno but pushing more towards the house side of things of late... thanks for listening.

SORRY BUT CAN'T FOLLOW ANY MORE PPL BACK HAVE HIT 2000 LIMIT...ARTIST BIO: Started playing guitar young, also piano, bass, drums and singing, also harmonica. Began tape recording and taking Classical Guitar lessons in Gamlin's Pianos music shop in the centre of Cardiff, capital city of Wales. Began to write songs and go to gigs aged 13 or so, also to jam frequently around town. I was given a reel-to-reel and took some jazz lessons, continually jamming guitar and bass and going out drinking. Got me a steel-string and a four-track...not much changed ever since! I'm now 42 years old and a lot wiser, which means I don't drink much...fell ill a couple of years ago and emerged with Nerve Damage (painful) to the left arm, also the bicep, forearm and shoulder muscles had wasted away. Undaunted by the negativity of some experts who said I was henceforth stuck unable to play guitar ever again, I received physiotherapy here in West Wales where I now live and worked hard to redevelop the muscles and feeling in the left arm and, especially, left hand. But the Doctors were half-right. Because I can't turn my arm at the wrist properly or move the hand up and down the neck, I've had to develop a capacity to play over-the-top of the neck, as opposed to underneath, with my fretting hand. It ain't easy! But I love music, and hope to make sounds for the rest of my life.


Yo, I'm Simon John and I play & record a Mix of Blues, Acid-Rock, Jazz and Stoner Psychedelia-type Music, featuring Acoustic & Electric Guitars & Bass, Piano/Keyboards, Drum-machines & Vocals...

The "Guitar" in my Name is just to identify me, there's a few different "Simon John"s on the web who play music. I'm not especially fast or fluent on the guitar, there's thousands of people who can play better than me, but at one point in my life, when I'd just come out of a Coma, one of the Doctors said "Son, you'll never play again" so I've been busy proving the guy wrong ever since. My Guitar-playing is limited, but I always give it my best shot, same when I'm playing Bass, or Piano, or Singing, even Harmonica. 

My stuff is done using a Zoom 8-track, a Yamaha keyboard, a Vintage bass and various guitars, percussion and microphones.I've used other equipment before, and will use different stuff in the Future.

I'm a 43 year-old multi-track recording artist with nerve-damage in the left arm. Ouch.

I started playing guitar and piano and writing songs (and recording) as a child in Cardiff in the 70s

These are some of the works I've put together over the last few years...

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