Post-Indie Bricolage - The Auditory Revolution

People ask me: What kind of music so you play?

I call it Post-Indie bricolage. it’s a term I’ve devised to describe what my music, and what motivates it really is.

I cut my teeth in the nineties as an indie musican coming out of the post-punk New-Wave generation, to cut a single and create a label (‘Go Discs”) with some band members in an attempt to publicise ourselves. Te music industry was in stasis at the time, dominated by the major labels who had successfully fought a rear-guard actions to contain the enthusiasm of punk.

•Like so many other of my musical generation, I got a job, raised a family, became embittered and isolated feeling like music was passing me by.

•The common perception that music is dominated by the mainstream, again asserted itself, and the tide went out, leaving a mass of old men with guitars to play at local markets and to reminisce about how they once ’were in a band’

•But the desire to write and perform music never left. That’s why I never stopped. I consider my musical career to be in its fourth decade now. Only problem is, I’ve never been famous. Have shifted hardly any ‘units’. I am not a household name. but I am a post-indie bricolage artist.

•My percussion section consists of a shaker and old-school tambourine bought at a boot sale, and a piece of dowling and old axe handle (claves).

•I have a three-stringed Bass into which I put an old guitar pick-up (again, boot-sale purchase) , an electric guitar with earth problems, an acoustic guitar my dad gave me and a few mouthorgans. Oh, and a ukulele.

•I’ve dabbled with computer-recording, but really prefer to use a workstation – a sixteen track Roland digital recorder then ‘drop’ it into the applemac so I can publish it on bandcamp.

•I write unfashionable and catchy songs, and I am unconcerned about fancy production, or how to ‘auto-tune’ my voice. I actually ‘autotune’ my voice by using it to sing .. Like, … you know,  … in tune’.  (yes, this too, is debatable).

•I’m a post-Indie Bricolage songwriter. That’s my ‘microniche’.

•This means I set my own recording schedule, and release my songs when I want to. I get to keep in touch with friends and relatives with the ‘gift of song’ and I hold total artistic control (or lack of it) over my material.

•That being the case, it’s my birthday on January 12th, and I’m putting out a single.

•Because I can…..