"It's just a hobby!"

I bought my first guitar about 10 years ago, I was 56 years old. I had wanted to learn long ago and decided with my early retirement, now was a good time! I had no musical experience but with the help of many YouTube videos (mostly JustinGuitar.com), I started to learn. Along the way, I wrote my first original song and started videoing and recording my music, both originals (@lenaloise) and covers (@lenaloisecovers). My first song was posted about 5 years after that first guitar!

My music "hobby" has really grown since I started! Many guitars, pedals, gadgets, equipment! But it's a hobby! I work hard for every note and learning this instrument at an older age is different from starting in your teens! My page is a mix of things that I enjoy in my "hobby"! I record "almost live" with minimal takes and editing. I strive for fun, not perfection, and I learn as I need to for that enjoyment!

So please subscribe (if you like) and follow along! Thanks for listening!

Len

Zoom Unit - 21st century avant rock fused with electronica. With a helping of krautrock on the side. Served up by Andy (Duke) Whitehurst and Andy Pidluznyj. Best sampled loud! 
 https://zoomunit.bandcamp.com/follow_me

ZU2 was written and recorded remotely in lockdown. All words and music by Zoom Unit:

Andy "Duke" Whitehurst - Vox, Guitar, Bass, Microkorg, Assorted Electronic Sounds

Andy Pidluznyj - Vox, Bass, Korg Kaossilator, Arturia Microfreak

Review of Zoom Unit's last album, ZU, by Dom Gourlay of Under The Radar magazine:
 
"Perilously uncertain times call for purposely uncompromising sounds. So, it’s just as well that New Apostles' Andy Whitehurst and Andy Pidluznyj, the creative duo behind Zoom Unit, have exerted all their energies into crafting a soundtrack befitting of the times.

Clocking in at just under 50 minutes in total, ZU encompasses a range of human emotions. There’s an underlying message in every one of the nine pieces here and it’s not for the fainthearted. Whitehurst and Pidluznyj might just have stumbled across their finest collection of material to date."

RED DOGS - Osaka -Japan. 
Band members are:-
HARUKA - Vocals & Bassist...
SATOKO - Chorus & Guitarist...
KAZUMI - Chorus & Percussion....

The band have released 3 cd's since forming in 2012. 
Firstly "Tricky Triangle" (which has now completely sold out) their second cd called "Break out your radio" and their new cd called 'Howling Red Invasion'.

Welcome to the Red Dogs reverbnation page. Red Dogs were formed in 2012 in Osaka, Japan and have been steadily growing in popularity not only in their own country but across the world.

The band specialised in the sort of catchy choruses that could put an ear-to-ear smile on the face of any music fan.

Red Dogs, a Japanese all-girl rock/punk band all the way from Osaka. With Haruka on vocals and bass, Kazumi on drums and Satoko on guitar – these three women commanded the stage with an electric presence, their pop-culture dress at a creative clash with their songs of shaken-up rock slicing at the ears with almost haunting vocal harmonies.

Red Dogs have played in numerous venues in and around Japan but in 2015 saw Red Dogs play at the AWOD festival in Derby - UK supporting punk legends 'Conflict' and numerous other bands. As quoted by Steve AWOD they 'smashed it' at this years AWOD!! 
 
Rock in Japan is still seen as a primarily male genre of music, but that doesn't discourage Red Dogs. They are aware that the odds are stacked against them but that isn't going to stop them in their tracks. Many people think that girls can't be cool as boys as drummers or as musicians in general so they work damn hard to be cool as them. 

The band wants to show people the power of women and that they can be just as good. Red Dogs really want people to see their shows and think "Wow", explains the band. 
 
Even though Red Dogs might look like cute girls but they say their live shows are intense, spectacle with thick solid slabs of sound soiled with attitude and specialised in the sort of catchy choruses that could put an ear-to-ear smile on the face of any music fan. 

The band describes their music as definitely rock with a punk tempo and some metalcore influences mixed in to their sound. Also the band says that even though their music uses mirror melodies the lyrics are positive and "forwarding facing". 

The band themselves sing in Japanese but it's proof too that rock music doesn’t even have to be in our native language for us to feel part of it.

In October 2016 the girls set off on their first ever tour of Japan with The Varukers (UK) and Extinct Government (Japan). 8 cities including 1 punk festival all crammed into 9 manic days.

(2017) saw the girls back to the UK with a four day tour taking in: 
London - Thursday 13th July - The Unicorn - Camden 
Manchester - Friday 14th July - The Star and Garter 
Leicester - Saturday 15th July - Duffy's Bar 
Derby - Sunday 16th July - The Hairy Dog (Punks against Cancer festival)

With more offers of gigs, festivals, numerous radio play from around the world and 1 of the band songs taken from "Break out your Radio" cd which ais featured in a new "Vampire" film it looks like it is going to be a very busy time ahead for the Red Dogs girls. 

For UK and European bookings please contact the following:-
Tony (band Manager)
Email: completecontrolevents1@gmail.com

Rotherham based electronic artist, making beats and bleeps for your entertainment.

UltraVoog Studios

EXTREME Productions

   I suppose I have been gone for quite some time. Busy reading,cleaning and dealing with a ton of cleaning and remodeling. Will hopefully be back to recording here soon!

5 Piece Rock/Punk/Goth/Grunge/New Wave band from Rotherham/Sheffield area.
Smoking Beers, Painting with Soup, Cidre Dors and Jolly Subs. New music coming soon, head over to https://www.facebook.com/thejollycode/ & www.tendeadrecords.com

Songwriter, musician, performer and producer. Mainly a vocals and keys guy, but also play guitar and other string instruments, drums/percussion, and whatever else I can get my hands on. First album (EP) to be released in April 2021 followed by a full-length album hopefully this fall. Love comments/ideas! Why "Us And The Otters?" Where we live in VA's beautiful Northern Neck, it's just us and the otters.

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