I can't quite remember the circumstances in which I met Liam Stefani, I think it started with a phone call some 13 or so years ago (before we used email and all that) when Liam contacted me to as...
http://bagrec.blogspot.com/2011/04/music-questionnaire-no-25-liam-stefani.html
OK, I've never actually met Lee Noyes , for the very good reason that he lives on the other side of the world. I encountered him online him at ImprovFriday where I found Lee's music far closer t...
http://bagrec.blogspot.com/2011/04/music-questionnaire-no-24-lee-noyes.html
Back at the turn of the seventies, just as post-punk was turning into new pop, I used to hear a band called The Chefs on John Peel a lot, then in the early 80s I used to hear sessions and records...
http://bagrec.blogspot.com/2011/04/music-questionnaires-no-23-helen.html
I've actually worked with Ian in two different places over the years, in an office and in a record shop, and I've occasionally played with him too, most recently in a trio with Kev Hopper called ...
http://bagrec.blogspot.com/2011/04/music-questionnaire-no-22-ian-r-watson.html
I've never met Alex Stone, but I've known him for about 10 years. We got to know eachother initially on The Fall Forum , where we bonded on many subjects, free improv, traditional music, post-pun...
http://bagrec.blogspot.com/2011/04/music-questionnaire-no-21-alex-stone.html
I can't quite place where I first met Duncan Goddard, but somehow living in Teesside and sharing a love of Faust and Can it was inevitable our orbits would collide. We've collaborated a couple of...
http://bagrec.blogspot.com/2011/04/music-questionnaire-no-20-duncan.html
I first met John about 18 years ago when I turned up for the first ever practice of the London Electric Guitar Orchestra - and after the initial rush of interest we struggled on for what seemed l...
http://bagrec.blogspot.com/2011/04/music-questionnaire-no-19-john-bisset.html
I got to know Chris Cundy in the mid 90's when he he used to play at "The Club Room", the improvised music club I ran. Later his band "Transmissions of Not" played at my "Baggage Reclaim" club. ...
http://bagrec.blogspot.com/2011/04/music-questionnaire-no-18-chris-cundy.html
I got to know Wavis after I enthused about his character "The Hard" on my blog, and he wrote to me to recommend a few videos I might have missed. I later started collecting his records (not cheap...
http://bagrec.blogspot.com/2011/04/music-questionnaire-no-16-wavis-o-shave.html
I guess I've known Monster Bobby for about 10 years, since he kindly asked me to play some songs at the "Totally Bored" club he was helping to run at the time, and we've kept in touch ever since....
http://bagrec.blogspot.com/2011/04/music-questionnaires-no-16-monster.html
Jude Cowan is an artist who resists categorisation. As a singer/songwriter her work ranges from ukelele accompanied neo music hall like Doodlebug Alley to Hammond organ backed arrangements of Wi...
http://bagrec.blogspot.com/2011/03/music-questionnaires-no-15-jude-cowan.html
I've known Alan Savage, or "Sav", since the late 70s when I was in a post-punk band called Drop and he was in a more successful post punk band called Basczax , he's always been an explorative and...
http://bagrec.blogspot.com/2001/03/music-questionnaire-no-14-alan-savage.html
I arrived at Middlesbrough Railway Station (a place so full of sentimental memories of departures and arrivals that I never like to linger long) and was picked up by my Dad in his car. This in it...
http://bagrec.blogspot.com/2011/03/23-hours-over-teesside.html
Jack Sanderson plays the viola in the chamber ensemble "The Candlelight Players" who play for social functions around the North East of England. He also plays the organ at some of the local churc...
http://bagrec.blogspot.com/2011/04/music-questionnaire-no-13-jack.html
Scott Taylor is a guitarist and composer. He has released several recordings of his own music which basically consist of treated or remixed field recordings. These can be alternately comforting ...
http://bagrec.blogspot.com/2006/09/music-questionnaire-no-12-scott-taylor.html
Sam Fendrich is a composer. He was born in Novosibirsk, Siberia in 1947. His music playfully mixes elements of popular music with atonality and wit. His works include "Octophobibone" for solo tr...
http://bagrec.blogspot.com/2006/09/music-questionnaire-no-11-sam-fendrich.html
I've been playing music with Mark for over five years now, as "Braby/Sanderson Underdrive", in our acappella duo singing Copper Family songs, and in Lost Robots. For many years Mark was the leade...
http://bagrec.blogspot.com/2006/09/music-questionnaire-no-10-mark-braby.html
Kev Hopper has been one of my best friends for the last 12 years or so, although he already had a quite successful music career behind him before I met him. As bass player with Stump he'd alrea...
http://bagrec.blogspot.com/2006/09/music-questionnaire-no-8-kev-hopper.html
I suspect Rhodri Marsden needs little introduction to LiveJournal users, and I think he would squirm with embarrassment if I went on too much. Needless to say, his was one of the first blogs I e...
http://bagrec.blogspot.com/2006/09/music-questionnaire-no-9-rhodri-marsden.html
Caroline Kraabel is an improvising saxophonist who has been working with extended techniques (employing simultaneous voice and sax for example) to produce a new language for the instrument. Sh...
http://bagrec.blogspot.com/2006/09/music-questionnaire-no-6-caroline.html
Graham Halliwell is a saxophonist, whose work has recently been exploring ideas of stillness and sparseness, to this end he has been supplementing its normal sound by utilising it as a device ...
http://bagrec.blogspot.com/2006/09/music-questionnaire-no-7-graham.html
Dan Whaley is a self proclaimed purveyor of "sinister stripped down instrumental" music. For many years Dan played lead guitar in the instrumental "mondo wray" band THE CHARLES NAPIERS releasing...
http://bagrec.blogspot.com/2006/09/music-questionnaire-no-5-dan-whaley.html
Kate Waterfield is a vocalist, violinist and guitarist. She has sung with several bands and composed music for theatre. Her vocal work has seen her taking an experimental "extended technique" ap...
http://bagrec.blogspot.com/2006/09/music-questionnaire-no-4-kate.html
Brian Inglis is musician whose work falls into two very distinct camps. He is classical composer whose recent projects demonstrate a prevailing interest in connecting ancient spiritual themes w...
http://bagrec.blogspot.com/2009/06/music-questionnaire-no-3-brian-inglis.html
Doug Adams is a musician who performs English traditional music. As an enthusiast and performer his reputation is respected widely within the traditional music community, albeit below the radar o...
http://bagrec.blogspot.com/2006/09/music-questionnaire-no-2-doug-adams.html