Dylan Bates

Music

FEATURED SONG

Play
Play Next
Add to queue

Old Ladies on the Bus

Album: live at the Vortex

Released: Jun 19, 2007

Label:

1. Play
2. Play Next
3. Add to queue
Old Ladies on the Bus
4:56
296 plays
1. Play
2. Play Next
3. Add to queue
'Tween Me and My Twin
5:20
309 plays
1. Play
2. Play Next
3. Add to queue
Knowledge Bump
7:46
220 plays
1. Play
2. Play Next
3. Add to queue
Hats Off to Laboratory Rats
5:11
236 plays
1. Play
2. Play Next
3. Add to queue
Earthworm Epitaph
5:05
193 plays

Total Plays: 29,575 / Plays Today: 1See All Featured ►

General Info

Genre: Experimental / Jazz / Other
Location Clapton, London and South East, UK
Profile Views: 53258
Last Login: 5/22/2012
Member Since 4/19/2006
Website under boa constriction
Record Label Lost Marble (soon)
Type of Label Indie
Bio
Born early in Lewisham, where I enjoyed a comfy incubator until a visiting boffin suspected that I had a perforated colon and had me whisked to Great Ormond Street Hospital to have some of my guts removed. When I eventually got to go home (Beckenham), it was not as cosy as the incubator. .. A violin hung on a picture-hook in the study. Today it is mine (the violin, not the hook). I learnt the piano (from gnomes) and the three Rs (from my mum), and played in the street in a donkey costume. .. Then I went to Bromley Rd Infant's School. When the headmistress asked who wanted to be a Brownie, I was the only boy with his hand up. I never got to be one, and nowadays the uniform is rubbish. .. At Worsley Bridge Junior School I rushed through violin exams, did some tapdancing, appeared in a ballet in Penge, and discovered Ovaltine. .. At Dulwich College I was made to relearn the violin because I had never been taught vibrato. I sang in choirs, fiddled in orchestras and formed bands like 'Satan's Goats' and 'The Purple Groovys' (for which I wrote lots of tunes inspired by Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy and Albert Ayler, and for which my mum knitted purple hats). Outside school, I played in my brother Roland's bands 'Blood, Blood & Blood', 'Funky Red Bag' (my first paid gig), 'Crazy People Stuff', 'the Freaky Peasants Orchestra' and others. .. I went straight from school to Nottingham to do a BA in 'Creative Arts'. This entailed drinking in the sunshine, playing with mousetraps and composing outlandish music. I assembled a jazz quintet, The Supreme Pancake. Our only gig was attended by SME drummer John Stevens, who encouraged me to buy a cornet and "just blow the sh*t out of it, Dylan!" So I did. Under the heteronym Geoffrey Sick I played with the A Band and some of its spin-offs, and made numerous home-recordings. .. In 1997 I returned to London and joined Billy Jenkins's Blues Collective. ..The following year I assembled Waiting On Dwarfs. .. .. The many & varied bands with which I play include "the A Band", 'Bitten By A Monkey', 'the Blues Collective', 'Burch & Bates', 'Cardboard Whale', 'the Flea-Pit Orchestra', 'Folysshe Noyse', 'Ladywoodsman', 'Liquorice Fish', 'Pipe-Rack', 'the Real Lowdown', 'Rude Mechanicals', 'Shelf Unit', and 'Waiting On Dwarfs'. .. .. ..MyGen.. ..Profile Generator.. ....
Members
WAITING ON DWARFS (what you hear here): ....Dylan Bates (violin, voice, xaphoon, overtone flute, saw, spoons); Dai Pritchard (alto sax, bass clarinet, stunt clarinet); James Allsopp (tenor & baritone sax, clarinet, bass clarinet); Roland Bates (piano); Tim Adnitt (bass); Mike Pickering (drums, perc) plus various guest-stars .. .. .. .. .. PIPE-RACK: ....Shabaka Hutchings (tenor sax) or Nat Facey (alto); me (piano, violin, pocket cornet); Oren Marshall (tuba, electronics); Mike Pickering (drums) .. .. SHELF UNIT: .. .. me (violin, piano, cornet, stuff); Jackie Walduck/Corey Mwamba (vibraphone); John Edwards (double bass); Thebe Lipere (percussion) .. .. CARDBOARD WHALE: .... Julie Kjær (alto sax, flute); me (violin, cornet); Roland Bates (keyboards); John Edwards (double bass); Paul May (drums)
Influences
include: Cannonball & Nat Adderley, Hans Arp, Svend Asmussen, Fred Astaire, Albert & Donald Ayler, Hugo Ball, Billy Bang, Mr Benn, Billy Bennett, Quentin Blake, Eldred Blatty, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Tycho Brahe, Ole Bull, Captain Beefheart, Leonora Carrington, Cheburashka, Gloria Coates, Bob Cobbing, Ornette Coleman, Peter Cook, Arthur Cravan, Donald Crowhurst, cuckoos, Fred Delius, Eric Dolphy, Franz Drdla, Gus Elen, Duke Ellington, P.H. Emerson, Max Ernst, Fingerbobs, the Flumps (especially Pootle), George Formby, George Gamow, geese, Bob Graettinger, Percy Grainger, Edvard Grieg, Sofia Gubaidulina, Alois Hába, Fergus Hall, Wilbur Hall, Patrick Hamilton, Knut Hamsun, Rondo Hatton, Paul Hindemith, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Gerard Hoffnung, Henrik Ibsen, Brian Irvine, Charles Ives, Tove Jansson, Billy Jenkins, Leroy Jenkins, Spike Jones, Boris Karloff, Daniil Kharms, Roland Kirk, Yusef Lateef, William Lawes, Michel Legrand, György Ligeti, Peter Lorre, René Magritte, Samuel Morse, David Munrow, Conlon Nancarrow, Gérard de Nerval, nonsense, Norway, Flann O'Brien, Leo Ornstein, Parliament, Hermeto Pascoal, pelicans, Penge, Art Pepper, Phrygia, Harold Pinter, Dudu Pukwana, Raymond Queneau, W.V.O. Quine, Raymond Roussel, Michel Sampson, Erik Satie, Kurt Schwitters, Raymond Scott, Stuff Smith, Eddie South, spoonbills, Carl Stalling, John Stevens, Sun Ra, John Taylor (the Water Poet), tea, Ernest Thesiger, Lennie Tristano, Edgard Varèse, Remedios Varo, Boris Vian, Louis Wain, Mal Waldron, Anton Webern, xenharmonic music, Eugène Ysaye (won't let me use the diaeresis), Frank Zappa, Zebedee.
Sounds Like
asinine ninths. .... "The Magic Roundabout meets Psycho" - Mark Lockheart