Hey folks,
I’m just down in London recording some promo videos for my new TV show, the banned.
On Wednesday we’re filming the opening titles and need some extras in the London area to come join us.
Importantly we need a single guy to come down and snog the face off an actress. She is the girl that played my love interest in the Remember Who Are video.
http://youtu.be/sWRDhtYMOKY
I say single because I’m not being responsible for any infidelities!
Email sean@thepeoplesvoice.tv to apply.
Here is a wee video made at the Studio today.
http://youtu.be/bviCZj90Nfc
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Oi!
My new TV show, The Banned, launches on The Peoples Voice Channel, on Thursday November 21st.
The music and comedy show will allow bands and comedians, that aren’t established in the mainstream, to be heard.
The show is going out live on a Thursday night, and will feature live bands, interviews, stand up comedy, and pretty much anything else that comes along.
It will also allow mainstream artists to come on and voice real opinions, that would be censored on normal television.
Let the fun begin.
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The third single off ‘A Brand New Battle’, is out on December 16th.
The single ‘Beat up’ will also feature a B side of the song, live from Wembley Arena.
It will be available from itunes, amazon and all the other big kids.
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Hey Studmuffins,
This Saturday (Tomorrow) I am on The Abstract AIMEE Show on 2oceansviberadio.com, Tune in from 12:00noon – 1:00pm GM+2 to hear us chat about everything from the X Factor, to Derby County Football Club.
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Yo.
I had a photoshoot with Tim Pritchard (www.talktotippers.com) for the cover of the Beat Up single.
Big thanks to Sheryl Watson for the make up work. Check out her site here.
Looking rough!
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My York show was reviewed by ‘Cool Manchester‘. I am aware that sounds odd.
Here’s what they wrote…
LIVE AT FULFORD ARMS YORK
Gareth Icke Band Supported by Sam Moran
Review By Kelvin Knight
Lovely warm summer night – great intimate venue, free entry. First up was Sam Moran a young singer songwriter who plays with admirable passion as the blood splatters on his acoustic guitar body testifies. Its a crowded market Sam’s in but he stands out for me, great songs and great confidence and belief. Great misheard lyrics what I thought was “cat on a bus” was kid on a bus…….Made Sam laugh after anyway.
And so to Gareth Icke and band – first thing to say is this was only the second gig with his new band but you’d never know they sound like they’ve been touring for years. Secondly its a low ceiling at The Arms and Gareth is a tall chap there was about an inch of headroom, I remember thinking “don’t go on tippy toes mate you’ll get wedged in !!
They tear through songs from Gareth’s second album “A brand new battle” with the rhythm section of Kev (drums) and Dom (bass) tight as the proverbial ducks arse.
‘Remember who you are‘ is as catchy (sic) a song as you’ll hear and the new single ‘Beat up‘ wonderful…..
Occasionally Gareth will introduce a song with a brief explanation “this ones about a messy break up” and “y’know when you’re drinking so much you feel your sanity slipping away” (I paraphrase) followed by “cheerful; fucker aren’t I” !!!
“What’s love without meaning” closes an excellent set of songs with more hooks than a fishing shop.
Those that were there loved it “best gig I’ve seen this year” was one comment…..
I have one problem with Gareth… He’s very, very talented, good looking (so my female friends inform me) and sickeningly he is a really nice, witty guy….Bastard !!!!!
Seriously if he’s playing near you go I promise you’ll love it…..
Oh yeah and his Dad played in goal for Coventry City.
Gareth Icke and his Band are performing at the Salford Music Festival.
Hey all,
The email has been all set up for The Banned, my TV show on The Peoples Voice.
If you want to appear on the show, please email talent@thepeoplesvoice.tv
Thank you.
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Hello.
I feel somewhat compelled to write a blog. Partly out of guilt, partly out of counter insurgence (I learnt that term from Sky News).
I said some things over the last few days about the Isle of Wight, and took some flack for it. I grew up on the island, and for all it’s beauty, beaches and ‘old schoolness’, it’s a place that fills me with nothing but horrible memories.
A childhood spent getting abuse for being in a wheelchair, then abuse for having an outspoken father. So much to the point that my parents were told to remove me from a school because I was becoming a problem (smacking twats for calling me names). Yet these are the ‘ADULTS’ that I should be happy brushing shoulders with and smiling in the beautiful island scenery.
This looks like its turning into a me me me blog, and who gives a fuck about my opinion? Well, you’re on my website, so you must care a little.
I’ve spent my adult life writing songs. All full of anger and pain. It’s my release. It’s how a man with as much darkness in his soul as me, is still alive.
He’s being miserable to be cool! Trust me, being dark ain’t cool. Skinny brats that watch 90210, hate their parents (while letting Dad pay for their Uni tuition) and want to kill (be popular) themselves, aren’t cool. And I want nothing more than to smile…a lot.
But I don’t. I’m not a happy person, and I harbour fuck loads of anger. But that works for me. It made me an international beach soccer goalkeeper, and it makes me write meaningful songs.
For those of you that like my songs, I am iternally grateful. But please accept that every now and then, I will snap.
I had/have band mates. They take the plaudits for those songs, and rightly so, because without them, they would NEVER have been expressed in the way they were. But they go home to their wives, to their children, and to their happiness. I go home to the very bile, the very inner torment that CREATED those songs.
So don’t hate me when I outburst.
I apologise if I offend, because offending is never my goal, but I don’t apologise for being honest, because that, as humans, is the only freedom we have left.
The Isle of Wight, the Island I grew up on, is being murdered, and YOU the locals are doing NOTHING to stop it.
You accept a ferry company that charges £166 for a car to travel FOUR miles to go on holiday (KILLING THE TOURISM) and YOU elected an MP that stands vehemently AGAINST gay marriage.
YOU did that.
Again, I apologise for offence, but…
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pV1Xibu07Qo#at=29
