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BIO
I've been writing music since the mid 90's and this is a collection of my solo work. There's tons more has still never seen the light of day. Mostly ambient ideas.

To date I've also been in 6 bands (discounting all the others where we never played in front of more than 10 people):

Elves In The Attic
An antidote to previous loud bands I've been in (my ears can no longer take it). Restricted to acoustic ideas, samples and unusual chord progressions - gradually expanding to incorporate cellists and other musicians. 

LISTING SHIPS
Nautical Post Rock band based in Oxford with Stuart Fowkes (bass, synths), Jim Hey (guitars), James Pamphlion (drums, guitar), Dave Balch (drums) & Russ Wainwright (drums). Different drummers at different times.

PIEXO
Long time collaboration with Jon Pound who's based in Weston Super Mare and builds excellent Lateral Sound guitar pedals.

SHAMBOLIC COLLECTIVE
Basic premise, let anyone join the band if they meet two basic criteria: 
1) They work for Oxfam. 
2) They own a musical instrument and/or can sing and aren't tone deaf. 
Far too many people to mention here but the core group were Al Kinley, Sally King, Nick Bryer, Emma Blunt, Andy Barnes, Jeroen Breman & Ben Morgan. I'm not going to begin to detail all the instruments we played.

THE TARTAN SQUIRRELS
Ceilidh Wedding band pulled together by caller Kim Wallace (Rowe). The rest of the band pretty much turned in to Shambolic Collective when she headed back to Scotland.

GECKO
My University band at Northampton
Graham Berridge (bass, vocals)
Paul Robinson (vocals, guitar)
Jez Lee (drums)

Links below if interested in hearing some of these projects.

Listing Ships are an Oxford-based, nautically-inspired instrumental post-krautrock band. Everything about their songs reflects the band’s obsession with ships and the sea, from the titles and samples collected everywhere from Venice to Blackpool, right down to the songs’ very construction, based upon and often built around tales of the sea. The band produced their first 12" in 2012, The Hayling Island Sessions, by converting an RNLI lifeboat station into a recording studio, with artwork and samples collected from the surrounding area. 

In 2014 they released 'The Flat Holm Island Sessions' a collection of tracks recorded on the Island in November 2013. The USB release also contained a band documentary of the excursion, photographs and a map of the island incorporated in limited edition 'Message in a Bottle' style packaging.

Musically, Listing Ships take inspiration from classic krautrock like Can, Harmonia, Neu!, Ash Ra Tempel; sample-heavy, intricate electronica like Boards of Canada, Amon Tobin, Seefeel; expansive, exploratory guitar music like Tarentel,The Alps, Collections of Colonies of Bees; kings of the soundtrack world like Clint Mansell and Krzysztof Penderecki.

Listing Ships have performed alongside the likes of Damo Suzuki, Health, The Big Pink, Karma To Burn, Arbouretum, Mark Gardener (Ride) and Tall Ships, and have played at festivals including Truck, Audioscope and Supernormal, as well as in venues including art galleries and record stores.

Press quotes:

"A heavyweight battle between bass and guitars. A battle so ferocious it'd leave Black Sabbath cowering in a corner with their fingers in their ears... Spellbindingly intense and uncompromisingly relentless." 
- The 405

"Reminiscent of similarly relentless Factory Floor, (Listing Ships) are bursting with exciting ideas… Their seemingly unending and coruscating guitar lines and excellent drumming are the foundation of a superb set”
– The Line of Best Fit 

"A rollercoaster from deep, dark bass vs. deadly guitars, to light, airy synth heavy moments; ebbs and tides of sound, surging, falling, and surging again. Well done, mateys!"
- Louder Than War

"A nod to the jarring rhythms of bands such as Slint and Rodan before easing into the expansive, airy sound of Tortoise and stretching out to the horizon.” 
- Music In Oxford

Bass, Synths: Stuart Fowkes
Guitar, Synths: Mike Bingham
Guitar: Jim Hey
Drums: Dave Balch / James Pamphlion / Russ Wainwright


Streaming a track a day till release day .... cos that's what we does.

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HotHooves - Fake Modern Art -Released 30/11/12 on Rivet Gun Records.

Deep crunch.  This is what sets Oxford's punk melodists Hot Hooves apart from people who, like, want to be in a band, yeah?  

They’re back . . . 10 more scintillating, sideways glancing, wry, rollicking, combustive cuts of quality latter-day punkrok, made by twilight dwelling daddy-o’s for the refuse-nik to grow up generation. 

Locked into Shonk Studios and lashed onwards by former Candyskin John Halliday, the four fools wept real blood (a miracle) and sweated real ale and vegetarian jalfrezi in order to complete Fake Modern Art.  That’s the title of their new album.  

It opens with footstomping anthem Youth Activator, in which singer Mac, recently released from a Middle Eastern prison cell, rages against protest as a subsidized leisure option.  The ten songs range from demented robot wars to pounding hyper-disco.  By the end, in desperation, HH turn to 70s guitar boogie as co-vocalist Momtchiloff warns they are 'Too Fuxxed Up To Fix'.

So, everyman …. 6.5 metric songs about how your lives are being messed up by forces you have no control over and 3.5 metric songs about ‘characters’ who appear to have needed no help in the process …. It’s like Charles Dickens grew a Mohican.

The dissident foursome have been linked to anti-capitalist and anti-Swindon protest movements.  At recent concert simulations the band have deployed sonic assault and radical performance ritual to disrupt the audience's use of handheld devices.  One band member has a small child and is hoping for clemency.


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HotHooves debut LP AVOID BEING FILMED is out now. Available from all decent retailers, or 'proper' copies made of plastic from

www.rivetgunrecords.co.uk 

For all the up to date spiel, gigs, an' that find us on Facebook. 

Formed from bits of Talulah Gosh, Arthur Turners Lovechild, Heavenly, The Hulas & Lucky and The Losers.

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