Well my name's actually Martin and I was born and raised in a small town outside Johannesburg, though I've been living in a small town just outside Leeds in Yorkshire for the past 400 years or so, playing in various bands and duos and ensembles of nefarious type.
I got my first guitar when I was 15 and started writing songs the day after as I was too dumb to realise that you were allowed to play other people's music. Then 15 years later, in April 2008, I discovered the Mac and finally started getting my songs down and out there into iCompland where all the strange yet somehow lovely people live. I didn't know it was possible to have so much fun by yourself on the computer.
At the moment I'm using a mac book, a semi-acoustic Ovation guitar, an SM58 mic and two Lightsnake USB-to-instrument leads to record everything and I'm having a whale (wail ... wale .... whail??? Where the hell did that saying come from?) of a time!
Hope you enjoy it too.
Cheers

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Title	Genre	Released	Plays
Help (Evil Beatles Cover)	Rock	Mar 4, 2010	199
Save Yourself	Metal	Jan 21, 2010	163
I Wrote This Song In Pencil	Alternative	Jan 14, 2010	270
I'm Just Doing What Everybody Else Is Doing	Alternative	Dec 10, 2009	258
Frozen Little Robot	Pop	Nov 26, 2009	286
We Are This England	Pop	Sep 24, 2009	291
Big Mac	Blues	Aug 29, 2009	349
Living (It's All Borrowed Time)	Alternative	Aug 7, 2009	308
Never Gonna Cry Again	Country	Jul 28, 2009	463
Crawl Creature ... Crawl	Metal	Jun 11, 2009	441
Fires Light The Way	Alternative	Mar 15, 2009	621
Piano Quartet (For Legs with Traffic)	Classical	Feb 25, 2009	329
Come To Me You Dirty Little Rock'n'Rollers	Electronica	Feb 17, 2009	308
Love Is In The Air ... Breathe Deeply	Pop	Feb 5, 2009	506
Christmas Prayer	Holiday	Jan 22, 2009	461
Tis the Season ... (The "Luka" Years)	Alternative	Dec 27, 2008	427
Merry Birthday	Holiday	Dec 24, 2008	301
Bless the Good Ship iComp Lord	Folk	Dec 17, 2008	1489
Sick Spirit ... Hold Me In Your Arms	Metal	Dec 9, 2008	722
Hey! Hologram! ... (The "Luka" Years)	Alternative	Nov 30, 2008	377
Guess Who's Coming ....	Alternative	Nov 6, 2008	482
iwantiwantiwantiwant	Punk	Oct 17, 2008	641
Gustav and the Devil	Jazz	Sep 10, 2008	836
The Weathergirl	Pop	Aug 15, 2008	927
Your Wife	Country	Jul 30, 2008	1052
Harvey ... (The "Luka" Years)	Alternative	Jul 11, 2008	922
Lie, Steal and Cheat	Folk	Jul 10, 2008	786
I.C.B.M. Sexy	Alternative	Jun 29, 2008	555
Words on Words	Spoken Word	Jun 24, 2008	450
Rock n Roll Soul Cake (aka Mercury)	Rock	Jun 23, 2008	740
The Girl With No Shame	Folk	Jun 18, 2008	1165
What happens to the words I hear?	Spoken Word	Jun 16, 2008	417
Friend	Alternative	Jun 11, 2008	788
Hold On	Pop	Jun 10, 2008	728
Get That Finger Up ......... (mini-song 53 seconds)	Rock	Jun 8, 2008	451
I Hear You Don't Know ... (mini-song 55 seconds)	Alternative	Jun 5, 2008	461
Tis the Season	Rock	Jun 3, 2008	399
Mischief	Pop	May 29, 2008	471
Set in Stone	Alternative	May 22, 2008	565
I Heard It In The Bass Line	Jazz	May 19, 2008	1219
You're All Of This (and more)	Alternative	May 15, 2008	455
Funny You	Alternative	May 15, 2008	333
Let's Start A Little War	Alternative	May 15, 2008	413
Famous	Rock	May 14, 2008	716
All Night Talkers	Pop	May 13, 2008	686
Man United	Alternative	May 13, 2008	565

Title	Genre	Released	Plays
Flying to Orion	Inspirational	Sep 17, 2009	317
Crawl....Creature Crawl	Industrial	Aug 9, 2009	171
Don't Hear The Distance	Electronica	Aug 4, 2009	337
Maggots All	Punk	Jul 29, 2009	1526
A Christmas Prayer	Holiday	Dec 20, 2008	1640
Loving All The Wrong People	Rock	Sep 19, 2008	2382
Dear Prudence (Beatles' cover)	Rock	Sep 7, 2008	514
What A Mess	Alternative	Aug 31, 2008	404
All Night Talkers	Pop	Jun 18, 2008	528

Title	Artist	Genre	Plays
Fragile Glass (Song Bird)	Jovana	R&B	254
World Class Fad	Dylan	Alternative	238
SWING THE CIRCLE	SISTERS	Jazz	246
WALKIN IN THE RAIN (w/Cathi Rice)	MickD [+1]	R&B	556
Don't Hear The Distance	8MonthMalfunction [+2]	Electronica	337
5LUG 5P4WN	KnqulearShift	Rock	237
Oo Ee Oo Ah Ah	NomadicMind	Alternative	219
WONDER	MickD	R&B	245
Teabox Artist	carolineguenther	Jazz	362
lizard [an original song!]	randolf	Childrens	472
Dendrites	AcetyleneJukebox	Electronica	446
XYscm (o)	Garni	World	631
Nebulus-Elevade/Bild	JanCivil	Other	205
Where Do I Fit In? (Video)	Abstractvision [+1]	Music Videos	948
I will make you forget you were sad	Luvream	Pop	254
Lord Is It Mine	etgilles [+1]	Rock	695
South of Vulcan - 4- Last Touch	Surak [+2]	Metal	1230
The iComps International Agnostic Monotone Choir	Mark_Hayes	Other	583
A Song For Wendell	Trilobite2	Inspirational	622
Stjärnor på mitt täcke	brnPetra [+2]	Alternative	657
iCompositions v1	pm [+1]	Music Videos	899
When the Earth Lies Still	Kybele	Folk	271
Season for Pain	Sloparts	Country	279
Yesterdays (2)	pedroberto	Jazz	341
The PAIN in Loving You by Storkaas	TheOmegaProject [+3]	Jazz	630
Sweet Pea	mdestiny	Ambient	248
Ex Astra Cuniculus -10- Never See the Sun (Final)	Surak	Rock	520
Bachelorette (c)	Garni [+1]	Pop	690
Symphony No. 8 in C Minor-II. Scherzo minaccioso-Allegro con moto	gloebs	Classical	199
Symphony No. 8 in C Minor-I. Allegro vivace	gloebs	Classical	226
I CAN'T BELIEVE	SISTERS	Alternative	346
Wanna buy a Monkey?	monkeyscat	Alternative	282
Heart on Trial (w/Lunatrick & RamonaJi)	MickD [+2]	Alternative	535
The Beds Too Big Without You (Police cover)	pete	Pop	379
Once Again	sonicbrat	Folk	258
Heaven	Jovana	Dance	520
What Kind Of Fr**nd Are You?	JackFancy	Alternative	326
Sarabande from Bach Cello Suite #5	AcetyleneJukebox	Classical	470
Alman	AcetyleneJukebox	Classical	336
Broken Key	Abstractvision [+1]	Rock	597
THE ICEHOUSE (c)	Garni [+2]	Music Videos	1473
Dont Look Back	Abstractvision	Pop	583
El Conquistador	visualine	Other	345
I can’t wait to meet you boy (When you become a man)	mfwmiles [+2]	Rock	773
Damn, Well Here I Am	jimdonaldson	Country	258
Tigre	ochrestomanci	Pop	369
Footnote	Browntones	Alternative	377
Isn't Fair (Polished)	Lbarringer	Pop	319
Zooloo (o)	Garni	World	815
Workin' hard all day	TeddyC [+1]	Dance	1071