From the seeds of the fallen come greatness

I wanted to talk briefly on the fickle, yet amazing nature that is music! It occurred to me when i was uploading the photos from the band Algernons Mouse. This was a band that i was involved with briefly when i heard their sound and decided they needed an outside influence to help steer them in the right direction. In saying this i had never done any proper artist management before, though i had a decent amount of experience in promotions, having worked a few nightclubs when travelling through Europe and Canada. 


Here was a band that had, in my opinion, one of the freshest sounds to recently appear. It was a combination of Hip-hop, pop and blues. And i get what you're probably saying right now..."Fuck not another rap rock group". I thought that until i realised the guitarist is probably the offspring of Tom Waits and Buddy Guy, and an MC who leaned more towards Wu-Tang, Buck 65 and K-OS than your typical Bitches and hoes dialogue, an MC who seems to have a section in his brain reserved entirely for pop melodies, a drummer who leaned on the heavy side of music and a bassist, well the bassist was an entity of his own.


My first ever show i put on was at Spectrum on Oxford Street in Sydney. It was a Sunday and the line up included Vanstorm, The Decades and Algernons Mouse. It was the scariest shit i'd done up to that point. A booking agent said we need 100 people to be considered...We did just that. Now this is where it went sour. Due to conflicting band interests it was drifting apart. They had been playing for 4 years but were tired of it. The MC finally moved back to Canada for reasons not so hilarious to the ones that know, and that was the end of that! I know that this is a bit of a ramble, but i thought it was pretty amazing how music can arrive and disappear in the blink of an eye. It is also something that can be played, anywhere, anytime and mean anything. It truly is a blessing!
 
If your interested check them out at http://www.myspace.com/algernonsmouse and see if you thought they had it. The singer is now in a band called Deadmuppets and the guitarist is in Mother and Son.  
www.myspace.com/deadmuppets 
www.myspace.com/motherandson  


Think of this as a promotional plug if you like, because thats exactly what it is. I am not working with any of these bands, but they deserve recognition and are a perfect example of the beautiful nature of music and how six degrees of separation can still apply to music  


Apologies if this is nonsensical writing, but it was a thought i felt like writing down.  


Peace loving Mungbeans!!!