What advice would you give young aspiring musicians?
GARRY - Perseverance is everything.
ANDREW – Practice and immerse yourself with other musicians
What inspired you to become a musician?
GARRY - Music.
ANDREW - Seeing others play music around me and wanting to be part of it and my first music teacher at school Rodney Ricketts.
Which piece of music never fails to make your hair stand on end?
GARRY - Voodoo Chile by Jimi Hendrix
ANDREW – Venus As A Boy – Bjork (Garry played on the track!)
Nitin Sawhney
What advice would you give young aspiring musicians?
Always be yourself and don’t let others try to define your identity, anyone who does that is looking out for their own interests and not yours.
What inspired you to become a musician?
Sound
Which piece of music never fails to make your hair stand on end?
The Verve – Bitter Sweet Symphony. Perfect soundtrack to life.
Jamie T
What advice would you give young aspiring musicians?
Get a real job!!
What inspired you to become a musician?
The music I listened to
Which piece of music never fails to make your hair stand on end?
Dancin in Chelsea by The Turncoat
Donovan
What advice would you give young aspiring musicians?
Listen close to my songwriting and keep it simple
What inspired you to become a musician?
poetry my father chanted to me as a babe
Which piece of music never fails to make your hair stand on end?
my own song 'Isle of Islay'
Paul Weller
What advice would you give young aspiring musicians?
Don't take shit but know when compromise is useful and the right thing to do.
What inspired you to become a musician?
I loved the sound of the visuals, later it [music] represented freedom and an escape from the mundanities of suburbia.
Which piece of music never fails to make your hair stand on end?
"Arabesque" by Claude Debussy.
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