Small Talk
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Small Talk is actually a combination of various collaborative/solo efforts purely within the confines of my home studio, the majority of these pieces come from working with Mike Barclay a long time friend and collaborative partner, the music is actually in a variety of styles and forms the pair of us not being the kind to wallow in our own creations and then re-hash them.Band/artist history
Small Talk is a nebulous entity only existing when we can get it together and make up some new stuff (or restructure and flesh out older stuff). The "band" (we have never really thought of ourselves as a band in the classic definition of the word) started in (approximately) 1997 when I started work on the lyrics for a concept album and my friend Mike Barclay offered to help, I immediately agreed and three months of lyricising began. This was followed by much begging around our more musical friends (at the time I had been playing guitar for six months) asking them to compose tunes for our hard written lyricisms. We failed to stir the imagination of anyone and so I began learning to play the guitar better in earnest and much college study ensued, in the process the lyrics were lost...so, not to be defeated in the year 2000 Mike and myself re-convened with acoustic guitars on a clifftop and improvised with reckless abandon entertaining passing dog walkers with Tragically Hip-esque pop-rock, this led me to purchase a digital recording system and Small Talk moved into the studio experimenting with various styles of music and arrangements of guitar/bass/drum-machine, which then simplified and distilled down to the two acoustic guitars approach we had originally worked with, although we are currently opening up again to do music in the way it feels best not constrained by a specific instrumental arrangement.Have you performed in front of an audience?Small Talk do not play live at this time although there have been plans and who knows what the future may hold!
Your musical influences
Marillion, The Tragically Hip, King Crimson, The Police, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, the list goes on and on but I won't.What equipment do you use?
Custom Built A & P Richardson Bass, Fender Stratocaster, Tanglewood 335, Kimbara solid top Electro-Acoustic, Zoom Drum Machine & Guitar MultiFX, Sans-Amp GT2, Computer with Cubase on it and Delta44 soundcard & a recently aquired Behringer Bass VAMP.Anything else?
I'm in quite a few other projects & bands who may appear here before very long.
Small Talk are currently working on material for our first album tentatively titled "Isolate" or something to that effect!All comments (1)
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