Writhe UK

Sunday, September 9th, 2024. 12.28 am. London Bridge. Still rockin'...

Writhe Uk:

Eddie Turjan-Janz - vocals, guitar

Past members:

Alfie Casan Ortega - lead guitar, bass guitar (went back to Malaga and got married)

Dave Hutt - rhythm guitar (got into techno)

Roland - drums (still about)

1 I'm currently in the process of tidying up these pages...

2 I'LL UPDATE PICTURE CREDITS SOMEDAY!

3 There's a couple of tracks on YouTube now... Also on Bandcamp:

https://writheuk1.bandcamp.com/releases

4 If you're a guitarist or whatever and fancy a jam, contact me on Twitter. I live in Central London. (London Bridge). Arty/leftfield/alternative/indie/grunge.

5 I'm @eddietur on Twitter. I don't post much there, but I log in almost daily, just following what's happening.

Anything guitar-based, from experimental rock to 60s to indie to glam rock to grunge to atmospheric black metal: Abba, AC/DC, Beach Boys, Beatles, early Black Sabbath, Blondie, Bob Dylan, Burzum, Byrds, Celtic Frost, Cocteau Twins, some Coldplay, Cure, Dinosaur Jr, Doors, Fall, Free, Groundhogs, Guns N' Roses, Joan Baez, Joy Division, Kate Bush, Killing Joke, early Led Zeppelin, Leonard Cohen, Metallica, Mötley Crüe, Motörhead, My Bloody Valentine, Neil Young, early Pink Floyd, Psychedelic Furs, Radiohead, Rammstein, early Rolling Stones, Satyricon, Sepultura, Sex Pistols, Sigur Rós, Sisters of Mercy, Slayer, Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, Stereolab, Stone Roses, early U2, Velvet Underground, early Who.

And more contemporary indie/shoegaze/dreampop bands such as: Alt-J, Grizzly Bear, Beach House, Diiv, Ringo Deathstarr, Cemeteries, Sufjan Stevens, Pinkshinyultrablast, Drahla, Tearjerker, Heavy Heart, Pia Fraus, Flyying Colours, Bon Iver, Deathcab For Cutie, Notwist, Queen Adreena, Mogwai.

Recommended shoegaze/dream pop internet radio stations: DKFM Shoegaze (and variations), Radio Stacey, Ignoreland, Big Sonic Heaven, BBC Radio 6. And for black metal: The Metal Plague, True Black Metal Radio, Moshhead, DJ Geordie Blackcore, Metal Messiah. Also, The Slaughterhouse (death metal).

And here's a bunch of stuff I'm not into whatsoever: Elvis Costello, Muse, anything Paul Weller, Pulp, Blur, Madness, Manic St Preachers, Suede, Green Day, Babyshambles etc, Stereophonics, Arctic Monkeys, Elton John, Eagles, PJ Harvey, Kasabian, Kaiser Chiefs, Proclaimers... Pirate/Pagan/Squawk Metal.

Sun, sex, black leather, beauty, blondes, Camden, Soho, Liverpool FC, Huddersfield Town FC, cricket (Yorkshire), chess. TV: Midsomer Murders, Bargain Hunt, CNN, MSNBC, Morning Joe... Arty films/film noir. Laughing (Black Adder, Young Ones, Ali G etc). Home recording, CD sleeve/goth costume design using AI. Lolling about in Green/Hyde Park, lazing in the sun. Leftie liberal. Anything but Trump.

My head. Her beauty. Roland Dimension D.

Guitar pedals include: Strymon BigSky reverb, Line 6 DL4 Mk II delay, Boss DD-8 delay, MXR Carbon Copy delay, Digitech X Series Reverb and Delay, Boss Dimension C chorus, Boss CH-1 chorus, EH Electric Mistress flanger, MXR Phase 90, Death by Audio Fuzz War, EH Big Muff Pi, RAT 2, Boss Blues Driver, EH Pitchfork+, Digitech Whammy 5, old Morley wah, Origin Effects Cali76 compressor.

Beautiful white Fender Squier Jazzmaster with red scratchplate. (On Long Time Cryin' I was playing a white Squier Strat with 3 pickups.) Small Blackstar tube amp. AKAI MPC One. REAPER DAW. Lots of VST/VSTi plug-ins.

Anybody wishing to make contact should do so either here or (better) on Twitter. I'm @eddietur .

NOTES ON ARTWORK - all art/artists found on Deviant Art.

Church Song - 'Take My Heart' by DaStafiZ.

The Blue Room- 'Decurtare' by DaStafiZ.

Devil's Song - 'The Fool' by E-X-O-G-E-N.

Indian Love Song - 'Psychosomatic' by E-X-O-G-E-N.

You're Beautiful - 'Willkommen Bienvenue' by anjamillen.

Goddess - '+' by podobycko.

High, Walking in The Morning Sun, Long Time Cryin' and All Thru The Night plus a few others are by me.