Composing cool tunes for warm people
by Nicole Skeltys When we introduced ourselves, the large black doorman broke into a big sly grin, showing a gold capped tooth. “The Jilted Brides, huh? Ha ha ha. Thats a great name”. A couple of babes dressed in uptown fashions for their night out in the East Village, teetered[…]
Read More »By Nicole Skeltys Back to the garden “We are stardust, we are golden,We are caught in the devils bargain,And we got to get ourselves back to the garden”.“Woodstock”, Joni Mitchell, 1969. Whitehead’s autocratic personality jarred with his espoused libertarian views and alienated many of the artists that initially gathered to[…]
Read More »By Nicole Skeltys Taking the load off Its January 2008. I am curled up on the couch, its very late. Down the other end, Mark is drooped in a corner, a guinness parked close by. We’ve just spent a few hours in Mark’s home studio, laying down guitar parts for[…]
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