Biography

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 Collab 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 Explicit Pop Sep 24, 2009 291
Big Mac Collab 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) Collab 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 Collab 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 Collab 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 Explicit Punk Oct 17, 2008 641
Gustav and the Devil Collab Jazz Sep 10, 2008 836
The Weathergirl Pop Aug 15, 2008 927
Your Wife Collab 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) Collab 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 Collab 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

Collaborations

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

Favorites

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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
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