Here's a video of my band BAANEEX performing at the Lock Tavern:
Our next gig is at The Wilmington Arms on April 15th.
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Tuesday, 29 March 2011
Monday, 14 March 2011
BLAHNEEX
Hello there,
My band BAANEEX have got a fair few gigs coming up, click on the link to read all about them:
Blahneex - BAANEEX
Will be posting a silly short film in a few days!
Owain
My band BAANEEX have got a fair few gigs coming up, click on the link to read all about them:
Blahneex - BAANEEX
Will be posting a silly short film in a few days!
Owain
Wednesday, 22 December 2010
BAANEEX: Football Round Up
Merry Christmas all, here's a video I made for my band BAANEEX and our song 'Football Round Up', hope you like it!
Wednesday, 24 November 2010
Bits and Bobs...
Fear not there is another Captain Neon on the way, it's all been shot and is just waiting for the pain-staking green process that I severely under-estimated on the most recent shoot. But expect the introduction of a new character who isn't (shock horror!) played me/a puppet...
Explaining this lack of Neon is the fact that I've been very busy with my band BAANEEX, we've been in the studio a couple of times (at More or Less Mono in Bow) and we've got an EP coming out in January (on Odd Box records) that houses all the tracks from the first of those two sessions.
We've also been gigging a fair bit, and have a show TONIGHT (!) at the Victoria in Dalston and shows on the 10th of December (Bird's Nest, Deptford) and the 12th of December (The Social, Little Portland Street) but you can find out more at http://www.baaneex.com
Explaining this lack of Neon is the fact that I've been very busy with my band BAANEEX, we've been in the studio a couple of times (at More or Less Mono in Bow) and we've got an EP coming out in January (on Odd Box records) that houses all the tracks from the first of those two sessions.
We've also been gigging a fair bit, and have a show TONIGHT (!) at the Victoria in Dalston and shows on the 10th of December (Bird's Nest, Deptford) and the 12th of December (The Social, Little Portland Street) but you can find out more at http://www.baaneex.com
Sunday, 6 June 2010
BAANEEX
In lieu of May's podcast I'm going to witter on, somewhat selfishly, about myself. Well, not about myself, but about myself and three other people who all make musical noises at the same time.
When I was living in Cardiff I started writing for the website God Is In The TV (still do, I'm sub-editor there) and in early 2009, maybe late 2008, a CD came my way by a London based band called Muarena Helena. I reviewed it on the 15th January 2009 and said nice things about it. As is usually the case I befriended the band via my MySpace profile and also through my own musical MySpace profile, which didn't previously admit to any 'human' presence.
To my surprise, Muarena Helena - more specifically singer and lead guitarist - Joel began sending my musical profile messages via MySpace, and we can began a dialogue that ultimately lead to me sending him a CD of my some songs. In return he sent me a cover version of one of these songs (Song to Self) and eventually suggested we collaborate on something...
So, it began by him e-mailing me some musical ideas, I'd put stuff on top, e-mail it back, and the whole relay would continue until we felt we had something. We ultimately came up with 7 tracks and put them up on MySpace under the name Neuschwanstein.
In late August I moved from Brighton, where I'd been living since February, and so it was somewhat inevitable that Joel and I would meet face to face. We had a drink and he suggested we meet up and jam somewhere, potentially with Andy who had been playing bass in Muarena Helena. After I met Andy in late October this was all confirmed and we had a three piece session on November 12th. What was ultimately decided was the need for a drummer.
Sometime in late 2009 Joel and Andy got Rosie to drum, but I didn't return to the fold until a rehearsal on February 12th 2010! At this point they'd got three songs together (Magic Square, Saskatchwen and The Punk Song) and I did my best to slot my keyboard playing in here and there. Over the following sessions we came up with another five songs (Weird Dance, Football Round-Up, Hoovering Concrete, Jumpin' Chinese Restaurant and Weird Dance II) and started discussing playing live sometime in the Summer.
And so, on Wednesday 2nd June 2010, we had our first gig - and my first ever gig - as BAANEEX at the Buffalo Bar in Highbury & Islington. We wound up head-lining and eventually went on stage around 11pm, it was very nice to see that people had stayed on till the end of the evening, so we got to play to a full room who were very receptive towards our songs. I can't really judge how it went, but - currently - you can hear some recordings taken from the Buffalo Bar gig on our MySpace.
We've got another gig booked for late July, so check the MySpace regularly to find out the details as and when and we'll hopefully be playing some more dates and going on a little tour before the year is out...
When I was living in Cardiff I started writing for the website God Is In The TV (still do, I'm sub-editor there) and in early 2009, maybe late 2008, a CD came my way by a London based band called Muarena Helena. I reviewed it on the 15th January 2009 and said nice things about it. As is usually the case I befriended the band via my MySpace profile and also through my own musical MySpace profile, which didn't previously admit to any 'human' presence.
To my surprise, Muarena Helena - more specifically singer and lead guitarist - Joel began sending my musical profile messages via MySpace, and we can began a dialogue that ultimately lead to me sending him a CD of my some songs. In return he sent me a cover version of one of these songs (Song to Self) and eventually suggested we collaborate on something...
So, it began by him e-mailing me some musical ideas, I'd put stuff on top, e-mail it back, and the whole relay would continue until we felt we had something. We ultimately came up with 7 tracks and put them up on MySpace under the name Neuschwanstein.
In late August I moved from Brighton, where I'd been living since February, and so it was somewhat inevitable that Joel and I would meet face to face. We had a drink and he suggested we meet up and jam somewhere, potentially with Andy who had been playing bass in Muarena Helena. After I met Andy in late October this was all confirmed and we had a three piece session on November 12th. What was ultimately decided was the need for a drummer.
Sometime in late 2009 Joel and Andy got Rosie to drum, but I didn't return to the fold until a rehearsal on February 12th 2010! At this point they'd got three songs together (Magic Square, Saskatchwen and The Punk Song) and I did my best to slot my keyboard playing in here and there. Over the following sessions we came up with another five songs (Weird Dance, Football Round-Up, Hoovering Concrete, Jumpin' Chinese Restaurant and Weird Dance II) and started discussing playing live sometime in the Summer.
And so, on Wednesday 2nd June 2010, we had our first gig - and my first ever gig - as BAANEEX at the Buffalo Bar in Highbury & Islington. We wound up head-lining and eventually went on stage around 11pm, it was very nice to see that people had stayed on till the end of the evening, so we got to play to a full room who were very receptive towards our songs. I can't really judge how it went, but - currently - you can hear some recordings taken from the Buffalo Bar gig on our MySpace.
We've got another gig booked for late July, so check the MySpace regularly to find out the details as and when and we'll hopefully be playing some more dates and going on a little tour before the year is out...
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