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Cobblestones

Album: Cobblestones / I Will Follow

Released: Feb 22, 2010

Label: Ho Hum

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Genre: Acoustic / Down-tempo / Folk Rock
Location London, Un
Profile Views: 55381
Last Login: 7/25/2011
Member Since 11/4/2005
Website www.facebook.com/customblue
Record Label Ho Hum Records
Type of Label Indie
Bio
...... ...... ...... ............ .... Custom Blue's debut album "All Follow Everyone" was released via DJ Ross Allen's Island records A&R stable Island Blue on April the 15th 2002. The album and debut single "So Low" (released on the 8th April) had been widely acclaimed throughout the music press. .... The fluid grooves and restless heart searching of 'All Follow Everyone' stalk a sundown landscape. It could be the empty streets and dimly lit bars of an alienating metropolis. Equal it could take you to distant shores with the moon rising and space to think of the girl or guy that got away. Certainly, its going to take you on a mesmeric journey like no other album so far this decade. .... While your regular British mid-twenties song writing pair have been busy with crash chords and histrionics, Alex Pilkington and Simon Shippey have allowed shadows, soul, string sections and electronically nuanced suggestion to seep into the acoustic songwriter heart of their work. .... Small ideas and fashion loyalties have been set aside and the needs of the songs have been allowed to lead. So light another cigarette, pour a glass of something dark and sweet and let their haunting, poignant, sublime songs go to work on memories good, bad and yet to form. .... Plenty of great atmosphere, "In a Rut" is a particularly beautiful moment... can't wait for the album" - (5/5) MUZIK .... "All Follow Everyone" is a collection of unforgettably well-written, well arranged songs. Graceful, thoughtful and poignant - (4/5) SEVEN .... That was then.... .... Farrout Records have since released a 7" and a whole new Custom Blue dawn awaits on Ho Hum Records. In 2008 Custom Blue released the digital download "When it Burns' available at www.hohumrecords.com. New album (working title) 'All Will be Well' is expected for release in 2008 also. WATCH THIS SPACE. .. .. .............. .. ...... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..................
Members
.. .. .. .. .. .. .. Alex Pilkington & Simon Shippey are the main members of Custom Blue, with constant input from Mark Tucker, Caroline Daniel and Dirty Roy....as well as past flirts with Chris 'Tits' Taylor, Tom Simmonds, Crispin Weir and Ben Jacobs.... .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
Influences
...... Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Wilco, CSN&Y, Plaid, Joni Mitchell, Neu, Faust, Teenage Fanclub, Tom Paxton, John Fahey, Dorothy Ashby, Arthur Verocai, Cedric Brooks, My Bloody Valentine, Portishead, TheEye, Max Tundra, Flotilla, Yo La Tengo, Traffic, Dr John, JayDee, Spacek, Mark Pritchard, Troubleman, Harmonic 33, Kenny Rankin, Wayne Jarrett, David Axelrod, Phil Upchurch, Muddy Waters, John Mayall, John Martin, Elliot Smith, The Cure, James Yorkston, Daniel Lanois, JC, Linda Perhacs, Vashti Bunyan, Gary Bartz, Ray Lamontagne, Smog, The Be Good Tanyas, The Byrds, Democustico, The Fields, Mark Hollis, Cat Power, Eno...
Sounds Like
Plenty of great atmosphere, "In a Rut" is a particularly beautiful moment... can't wait for the album" - (5/5) MUZIK .... "All Follow Everyone" is a collection of unforgettably well-written, well arranged songs. Graceful, thoughtful and poignant - (4/5) SEVEN

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Bio:

Custom Blue's debut album "All Follow Everyone" was released via DJ Ross Allen's Island records A&R stable Island Blue on April the 15th 2002. The album and debut single "So Low" (released on the 8th April) had been widely acclaimed throughout the music press.

The fluid grooves and restless heart searching of 'All Follow Everyone' stalk a sundown landscape. It could be the empty streets and dimly lit bars of an alienating metropolis. Equal it could take you to distant shores with the moon rising and space to think of the girl or guy that got away. Certainly, its going to take you on a mesmeric journey like no other album so far this decade.

While your regular British mid-twenties song writing pair have been busy with crash chords and histrionics, Alex Pilkington and Simon Shippey have allowed shadows, soul, string sections and electronically nuanced suggestion to seep into the acoustic songwriter heart of their work.

Small ideas and fashion loyalties have been set aside and the needs of the songs have been allowed to lead. So light another cigarette, pour a glass of something dark and sweet and let their haunting, poignant, sublime songs go to work on memories good, bad and yet to form.

Plenty of great atmosphere, "In a Rut" is a particularly beautiful moment... can't wait for the album" - (5/5) MUZIK

"All Follow Everyone" is a collection of unforgettably well-written, well arranged songs. Graceful, thoughtful and poignant - (4/5) SEVEN

That was then....

Farrout Records have since released a 7" and a whole new Custom Blue dawn awaits on Ho Hum Records. In 2008 Custom Blue released the digital download "When it Burns' available at www.hohumrecords.com. New album (working title) 'All Will be Well' is expected for release in 2008 also. WATCH THIS SPACE. ..

Member Since:

November 04, 2005

Members:

Alex Pilkington & Simon Shippey are the main members of Custom Blue, with constant input from Mark Tucker, Caroline Daniel and Dirty Roy....as well as past flirts with Chris 'Tits' Taylor, Tom Simmonds, Crispin Weir and Ben Jacobs....

Influences:

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Wilco, CSN&Y, Plaid, Joni Mitchell, Neu, Faust, Teenage Fanclub, Tom Paxton, John Fahey, Dorothy Ashby, Arthur Verocai, Cedric Brooks, My Bloody Valentine, Portishead, TheEye, Max Tundra, Flotilla, Yo La Tengo, Traffic, Dr John, JayDee, Spacek, Mark Pritchard, Troubleman, Harmonic 33, Kenny Rankin, Wayne Jarrett, David Axelrod, Phil Upchurch, Muddy Waters, John Mayall, John Martin, Elliot Smith, The Cure, James Yorkston, Daniel Lanois, JC, Linda Perhacs, Vashti Bunyan, Gary Bartz, Ray Lamontagne, Smog, The Be Good Tanyas, The Byrds, Democustico, The Fields, Mark Hollis, Cat Power, Eno...

Sounds Like:

Plenty of great atmosphere, "In a Rut" is a particularly beautiful moment... can't wait for the album" - (5/5) MUZIK

"All Follow Everyone" is a collection of unforgettably well-written, well arranged songs. Graceful, thoughtful and poignant - (4/5) SEVEN