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LinkedMusicians posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Say hello! Share what you’ve been up to, even if it’s nothing! 🙂
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HI Paul, You should share it with us in our Share Your Music forum and on your PROFILE PAGE! I’d love to check it out. What style of music is it?
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– LinkedMusicians (@linkedmusicians) February 25, 2026
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Thanks, I’ll pop a post over there. The second album ‘Night Call’ has a darker edge to it, taking some of its cues from ’80s/90s synth bands and brought right up to date. Soundwise, there’s elements of The Cure, Depeche Mode, Editors, Verve, Radiohead etc.
https://skypatterns.bandcamp.com/album/night-call
The first album is more of a blend of folk, pop, dreampop and pastoral pop – elements of Nick Drake, David Gray, James etc.
https://skypatterns.bandcamp.com/album/answers-on-a-postcard
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You caught me when I was here, listening now — very cool! I can’t lie, I made a joke (my daughter and wife are in the room, as everyone took the day off), when I heard the English accent, I said, “Ah, maybe he’s a Chicagoan!” That was a joke because Chicago has a long history of singers pretending to have an English accent. I suppose Al Jourgensen’s early hit, “Everyday is Halloween,” is one famous example. But cool music! I like it!!!
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Hahaha I’m 100% British, I live close to Manchester, home of Joy Division, The Chameleons, The Smiths, Oasis, and an absolute ton of other bands.
I know Ministry and can see why you’ve mentioned the accent. I know RevCo better, I saw them many moons ago playing in Manchester. I remember that they wanted to bring live animals onto the stage along with greased naked women in cages – and this caused a bit of a stir. The tour went ahead – but without the animals or greased naked women!
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I’m an American, from Chicago. The most popular band I played in — back in the 90s — had a singer originally from England, but he moved here when he was around 5 years old or something. He had no accent–but when he sang, bam, English accent! You know, there’s not a lot of demand for songs sung by guys with Chicago accents! Hahaha. Everyone in Chicago wants an English accent. As ridiculous as it is. I think the Beatles caused rock singers in the US and around the world (okay, the same goes for dance music) to think English accents are the coolest to have in songs. (Now I’m getting controversial here. I’m going to rank English, Scottish, and Irish as the coolest for rock or dance.) I mean, yeah, Joy Division and Depeche Mode kinda did the same The Beatles did but for dance music and I’m sure they had a lot to do with Al Jourgeson doing a fake English accent in songs back then. He actually did interviews with a fake English accent.
Here’s another Chicago band from back in the day when I was playing (90s). To this day, the phenomenon of Chicago singers with fake English accents continues:
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I rather suspect that if I tried to sing with a fake American accent, it would be laughable! I’d probably sound like the Sheriff in The Dukes Of Hazzard
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While I was never a singer — always a drummer professionally, even though my first instrument is piano. This was my attempt to jam a song I never played before (I had to stop playing after an injury causing tendinitis). So, this was me just looking up the lyrics and chords for the song and doing a bunch of first takes for Wurly, drums, etc. — 20 yrs after I stopped playing professionally due to tendinitis. Obviously, the timing isn’t great. I don’t think I have an English accent. Well, maybe just a little! Hahaha. I guess I’m not even immune. No one wants to hear, “I em da wall-res.” That recording actually led to me to attempt to record little one-man jams, some of my original songs and then this community. (It all started during the pandemic lockdown).
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That’s a faithful version of the song, really good!
I don’t know if you’ve seen Carpool Karaoke with Paul McCartney, but he visits his childhood home and is recalling a story of when he wrote ‘She Loves You’ in the front room. Excited by it, he then walks through to the back room and plays it for his Dad, who says something like, “I like it, but instead of ‘She Loves You, yeah yeah yeah’, it really should be ‘She Loves You, yes yes yes’ !!”
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Yep, I saw it. I actually was a little too young for The Beatles as a kid and became a McCartney fan first. Huge, huge, huge Beatles fan. I didn’t play their music much as a working musician, but now, with pretty bad tendinitis limiting what I can play without pain to really simple stuff, it’s fun to just crank out a Beatles song. I know them well from memory that I have never practiced — and I’m sure that it shows! But I have such diverse taste and am a huge Radiohead fan, a huge jazz fan, a huge Peter Gabriel fan — or more recently a fan of Madison Cunnigham, Billie Elish. The only reason I did a bunch of Beatles covers are because I know them well and my voice seems to fit John Lennon’s vocal range (like 4 notes? Hahaha). I’m pretty obsessed with constantly wanting to hear new artists and new music.
My big motivation to attempt to record music was to record some of the songs I wrote long ago. I basically accomplished what I set out to do, so I suppose I can stop now! 😉
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The surprising thing about seeing McCartney performing live is just how many songs we do know. I grew up after they’d already split up, and have very few of their albums, yet I know the words to many of their songs, which says a great deal about the quality of their songwriting. Whatever your personal goals with music are, simply stick to those. I personally never went into it for “fame and fortune”, I just love creating and performing music. The albums that I’ve released are to realise an itch that was never scratched when I was playing in various bands in the early-nineties.
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I’ve been preparing for our very first Love Music Hate Racism gig tonight in York – the original one 🙂 – we sold out a couple of weeks ago so it is going to be busy on the door!
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Well the gig was great – lots of teenagers having a lovely time (all so polite and friendly). Unfortunately an alarm went off several times towards the end of the gig and was eventually tracked down to someone vaping. We had to pull the plug half way through the headliner’s encore 🙁 From what we have pieced together from comments it seems like we may have had an infiltrator in our midst as the person responsible seems to have been making anti left wing comments (we know someone like that don’t we @peter) . We don’t know if this was deliberate subversion or just drunken stupidity yet but it has almost certainly led to the cancellation of our second gig at the same venue (through no fault of our own) which we have already publicised. This weekend’s job is probably going to be taking down posters I have put up around the city 🙁 My colleague is going to have a difficult conversation with the venue manager tomorrow. Hopefully he can smooth-talk her into letting us continue!
Sorry I just needed to get that off my chest! The good news is that we raised lots of funds for Stand Up To Racism here in York 🙂
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Why apologize? This place was intended to be our outlet to express our love of music — and you’re combining that love of others and doing good in the world, I think that’s great and love hearing about it, even if there are some jerks here in there. Overall, it seems like the jerks — or jerk — was the minority; their behavior isn’t greater than the good you did. You and the others involved in that show did something meaningful, something good for others and the world. I’m proud to know you and grateful to have you here. Please don’t ever stop sharing or caring for others. Look at this place. 99 percent of the people here are really decent people — but you know that there have been some very bad actors — including the kind of people that make events like Stand Up to Racism so important. I am very encouraged to learn about the work you’re doing, even if there are some setbacks.
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Thanks @peterPeter – we are a bit down after a sad end to what had been a great night but certainly not out. No Pasaran as my friend Joe Solo and many before him would have said 🙂
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Fascists always appeal to the stupidest, most hateful among us, to manipulate them by their weaknesses (their hate for their fellow man), even against their own self-interests. Sadly, there’s always hateful fools who hand over their souls to them. I applaud you and all who stand up against hate. Fight the good fight, my friend.
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We’ll never stop – and you, my friend, have done the same by creating this lovely space where we can be safe away from the evil rhetoric that sadly pollutes some other forums. Onwards and upwards!
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Following on from my gloomy post earlier, early signs for the next gig being saved seem positive as the venue manager seems to have understood that the situation leading to the fire alarms being triggered was out of our control so (fingers crossed) we are still on for the March gig at the same venue! What a relief!
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I’ve recently released my second album after spending much of the past 12 months writing & recording it. I tend to play a lot of open-mic events, as they’re a good barometer for which songs go down well and which sit on the shelf. I played a launch gig last weekend, have received some radio play, and also an online review. The album is ‘Night Call’ by Sky Patterns.