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Michael Collins
» label: unsigned
» for fans of: Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Rufus Wainwright
» latest album:
"Skeleton Key"
9 tracks
running time 30:00
$5.00
9 tracks
running time 30:00
$5.00
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Ben Collins
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A piano, a boy, a computer. 88 keys, vocal chords, electricity and a kaleidoscope mind.
Enough of that . . . self-promotion makes me queasy.
If you're willing to explore it, the key to my subconscious is available. A Skeleton Key. It will unlock all the doors, although you have to struggle with some of the bolts. A slow journey into madness all in a 30 minute album-ette! (so-called because too big for an EP but too small for a proper album).
I used to record as Michael Collins. That is what my parents called me. It's already been claimed twenty times over so I decided to take up this one. Songs I wrote as Michael Collins are relics. A collection of some of those songs (called 'Relic'; purely coincidence I assure you) is available.
Once upon a time I put out a disc called Fixate. Fixate was OK I guess but some bits of it pissed me off and I had a bad attack of low self-esteem and leprosy (mostly low self-esteem) so I don't talk about Fixate anymore OK?
Enough of that . . . self-promotion makes me queasy.
If you're willing to explore it, the key to my subconscious is available. A Skeleton Key. It will unlock all the doors, although you have to struggle with some of the bolts. A slow journey into madness all in a 30 minute album-ette! (so-called because too big for an EP but too small for a proper album).
I used to record as Michael Collins. That is what my parents called me. It's already been claimed twenty times over so I decided to take up this one. Songs I wrote as Michael Collins are relics. A collection of some of those songs (called 'Relic'; purely coincidence I assure you) is available.
Once upon a time I put out a disc called Fixate. Fixate was OK I guess but some bits of it pissed me off and I had a bad attack of low self-esteem and leprosy (mostly low self-esteem) so I don't talk about Fixate anymore OK?
Do you play live?
I give 'living room concerts' sometimes. I really love it when I do though; maybe some day I will venture forth from this place and actually put on a real rockin'show. Probably not though.
How, do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?
It allows people to better hear the music they want to hear, rather than the force-fed CRAP that's on popular radio. 90% of my favourite musicians I've never heard on pop radio - how would I ever know about them if it weren't for the internet? I love you intarwebs.
Would you sign a record contract with a major label?
Only if they gave me total creative control and buckets and buckets of $100 bills once a month.
And a private continent and a personal jet plane and fellatio from non-herpes-infested label VPs.
This is my funny way of saying "no."
And a private continent and a personal jet plane and fellatio from non-herpes-infested label VPs.
This is my funny way of saying "no."
Band History:
1983: Born
1987: Taped myself singing songs into my Fischer-Price tape recorder.
1989: Began learning piano; took to it like a duck to water.
1990-1999: My career as a classical pianist, including many Kiwanus Music Festival awards, RCM Certificates up the Grade 9, harmony and theory classes, summer music camps, piano students of my own, and monetary awards for composing instrumental piano solo pieces
1999: First started writing things other than piano instrumentals (ie songs to sing!)
2001: 10 Song Demo
2003: Fixate (35 copies made: all gone!)
2004: Fiddling about with Cakewalk Home Studio, a good omni-directional mic, and Fruityloops.
1987: Taped myself singing songs into my Fischer-Price tape recorder.
1989: Began learning piano; took to it like a duck to water.
1990-1999: My career as a classical pianist, including many Kiwanus Music Festival awards, RCM Certificates up the Grade 9, harmony and theory classes, summer music camps, piano students of my own, and monetary awards for composing instrumental piano solo pieces
1999: First started writing things other than piano instrumentals (ie songs to sing!)
2001: 10 Song Demo
2003: Fixate (35 copies made: all gone!)
2004: Fiddling about with Cakewalk Home Studio, a good omni-directional mic, and Fruityloops.
Your influences?
Kate Bush, Chopin, Tori Amos, Bjork, Rasputina, Grieg, Portishead, Nine Inch Nails, David Bowie
Favorite spot?
Covent Gardens, London, UK