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20th November, 8:00pm - Stephen James Buckley & The Feverdreamers @ The Lonsdale Club, Rose Lane, Preston

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I'm currently involved in a number of music projects at the moment, the alternative folk rock melancholy of Stephen James Buckley & The Feverdreamers and the as yet indefinable yet sensational Bizzi Twyg. Here's a wee bit of background information on the two projects:

In 2008 I was approached by my good friend Stephen to play lead guitar for his solo project Stephen James Buckley & The Feverdreamers. I've admired Stephen's songwriting ever since my previous band Psillobian played the live music circuit with him back in 2003. Having spent a couple of years out of the music scene to concentrate on my art, the chance to play guitar again for such a talented and seasoned songwriter was too good an oportunity to pass up. The timing seemed perfect as I wasn't sure what I wanted to do musically at the time. The Feverdreamers gave me the opportunity to try something a little bit different to what I was used to, and has greatly improved my own songwriting and guitar playing.

Whilst playing with The Feverdreamers I became acquainted with Liam Doyler, bassist extraordinaire. After practicing with Stephen I would head back to Liam's to hang out and jam. As it happened Liam turned out to have some mad guitar skills as well. What's more, our playing styles fit together perfectly; Liam's erratic licks and my low slung grooves. A band was born, the mighty Bizzi Twyg! Not wanting to pigeon hole ourselves, we've remained open to whatever diverse influences we channel into our instruments. As of November 2009, Bizzi Twyg are currently writing and jamming new material to be aired in the new year. Keep em peeled folks.

Any musical leftovers I have will no doubt be used in some sort of strange solo project that'll always remain incomplete, such is the nature of my beast!

In terms of art I will embark on the occasional project here and there, but given my general dissatisfaction with arts funding and attitude toward art in this country, these projects will remain few and far between. Art seems to have become a commodity of beaurocratic demons and disingenuous fools looking to sow the seeds of their ethical and political vanity. While this may indeed be the predominant hegemorony [sic] of contemporary art, I'm not sure there is anything I really want to say in this climate.

Of course, I still have ideas, some fantastic ideas actually, but these can wait. I'm a great believer in letting creativity emerge and grow naturally and for that I'm afraid I require a fertile environment. I will, where possible, continue to work with the talented genius Jac Charlesworth. Jac's art often touches upon similar notions to mine, yet her theory and practice places more emphasis on intuition; an area I would encourage more guys to explore in themselves. Having worked on a couple of projects together, namely 'The King & Gravity' and 'A Book About Death', we have developed an excellent working relationship, freely sharing methodologies and ideas. I still have much to learn from this nutcase.

I have further plans to continue my writing. Over time my academic writing has moved away from art (it was never intended solely for art in the first place) and more toward straight up philosophy, semantics and perception. This academic writing is a long term project I intend to complete over my lifetime, however long or short that might be! I am also engaged in creative writing which should run parallel to the academic writing, in that themes expressed in the academic journals are also being expressed in the creative journals. I hope that one day I might combine the two in some sort of monstrous orgy of literature to create a metafunctional baby of rationality and intuition, replacing the [con]textual with the sexual. Yeah baby! You can't get more creative than that now can you?!