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duke cottonhead

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First Name duke
Last Name cottonhead
Gender Male
Birthdate April 1, 1969
Location: TOURS

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Bio i used to play in punk/post-punk bands back in the early eighties in london, and black rockers were quite rare in those days! i was a maverick even before i knew the meaning of the term. anyway, i played or jammed with some pretty good musicians back in those days including jazz musicians, funk musicians, blues musicians, soul musicians, reggae guys, folk artists. not that i considered myself a good musician, but i was surrounded by them. in the late 80's my band "welfare heroine" were signed to non-fiction, and we recorded a couple of crappy singles. at the time, i was studying politics at the "school of oriental and african studies", and as soon as my band signed a deal, i dropped out of university. i hated it anyway! to cut a long story short, in the late 90's i joined a fabulous soul singer called WINSTON ROBERTS, replacing a guitarist called TODD SHARPVILLE. shortly afterwards, winston signed a management deal, and i made the bizarre decision to follow a girl i was in love with to France rather than stay and work with winston in the studio. i guess i'd become cynical about the music business. for the next 10 years, i taught myself photography, taught english, taught myself graphic design, learnt french, and forgot about music, although i did photograph a lot of reggae artists that passed through Tours, and i did briefly have a radio programme called "stranger than paradise" on a local community radio station. anyway, how did i start playing again? i discovered "fruity loops", and messing around with that made me realise that i missed making music. WASTED CONVERSATION was created to be a vehicle for anti-conformist music, art and poetry, by ex-punks who are old enough to know better. the aim of WASTED CONVERSATION is to eventually have 7 die-hard fans in JAPAN, and to appear on the soundtrack of a JIM JARMUSCH film. after which we will disband. JIM JARMUSCH IS GOD, AMEN!
Favorite Music link wray, guitarwolf, johnny thunders, screaming jay hawkins, suicide, flat duo jets, bo diddley,dan sartain, last poets, pil, tom waits, 101ers, hamell on trial, slits. lo-fi, post-punk, rwanda-billy, garage.
Favorite Movies repo man, stranger than paradise, ghostworld, drunken master, les vacances de monsieur hulot
Other Hobbies/Interests i'm doing a graphic novel that i hope to finish in a year or two.