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gingerjamesfair

Folk Rock / Experimental / Alternative

Birmingham, United Kingdom

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I wanted to be pilot but at thirteen I found out that my eyes are poor, so I started using my ears. Wondered why the world was blurry in the eighties and my mum was always telling me to listen. So began my love affair with all things sonic. Initially my music was just an excuse to play with sounds, but it soon found a structure and I started to write 'songs'.

I would like to think that my music has an honest quality about it, with frank and personal lyrics that are often universal amongst listeners. My latest project "Et Cetera" is a collection of rough tracks that never made it onto either "My Piranha" or "Sagittarius", and I think it gives a good impression of how the embryonic demos transform into fuller songs over time. That said, none of the tracks upon "Et Cetera" could ever be deemed complete, instead they were abandoned at different stages of the production, and we never returned to finish them. However, I do think they have a value, and I am proud of them all, as they all belong in a particularly productive period of my life and pseudo-publishing them means they finally leave my 'maybe' pile forever.

You can buy my first two albums My Piranha and Sagittarius upon iTunes.

I'm a busy little boy and I also make independent films with a company called Grand Independent. Very serious stuff. You can see a selection of my films upon my myspace page.

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Page_1 Me James Fair

Band Members - see all 3

  • James Fair - Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Bass Guitar, Piano, Oud, Kazoo, Didgeridoo, Drills, Harmonica, Tamborine, Stamping and Furniture Crashing, Floor Tom

  • Larry Smith - Vocals, Lead, Rhythm & Bass Guitar, Piano, Drums, Bodrhan, Low Whistle, Melodica, Programming, Stamping and Hand Claps, Viola, Indian Thumb Piano

  • Beth Smith - Vocals


Friends - see all 207

WE READ MINDS's Picture Caroline Rose's Picture bez peri/BPnoise Partnership's Picture The Shins's Picture IG - Ivana Gatti  / Gianni Maroccolo's Picture Ch@rli's Picture Pete Philly & Perquisite's Picture cartoon monster's Picture hp/ matt illustration!'s Picture hollAnd's Picture

Discography - see all 3

  • Et Cetera

    Et Cetera

  • Sagittarius

    Sagittarius

  • My Piranha

    My Piranha


Videos - see all 2


Stats

plays today - 0

all-time plays - 499

profile views - 1692


Comments - see all 16

valour says:

I'll check them out! and if i'm free i may make it to ealing!-s'close by x

posted Apr 6


valour says:

beautiful music :)

posted Apr 6


Homeslice says:

Aw, I'm glad that made you smile! Though, I can't claim it as my own. It's from some stand-up comedian. But, thank you for making music, it makes me smile :)

posted Feb 11


Driftkikker says:

Many friendly greetings from, Driftkikker

posted Jan 13


Fifties says:

Thanks, glad you like them! I've not really finished the music page yet as I only started it the other day when I was bored at work! Setting up all these profiles is like hard work :-Z

posted Dec 11


Fifties says:

Hey there James, thanks for the friendship! I really enjoyed listening to your tunes especially Far From Sight. Keep in toch & have some cat love:

posted Dec 6


hp/ matt illustration! says:

hey thanks for the add and the message u left me, i no ella through uni, your songs r really cool espscially turn it around, am gona b added stuff all the time so just drop on by and ave a look..

posted Nov 21


The Benja Men says:

i'm listening with the headphones now... these sound great! i haven't given motorway pony the attention it deserves yet... sorry. i shouldn't be trusted with horses. peas, ben

posted Nov 19


Ella Tamplin-Wilson says:

thanks for the kind words-i'm adding new work up all the time, so be sure to drop by again! your tunes are ace, have you got any more shows lined up round london?

posted Oct 10


tcha-tcha says:

of course, we can be friends;) thanks for add! :) good music!

posted Sep 28


No Star says:

make smile happen.

posted Sep 26


The Walla Recovery says:

blessings... -zack

posted Sep 24


Nina Slash says:

Thank you for finding me!:) Cheers!! Nina Slash

posted Sep 22


catze says:

hello!

posted Sep 14


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