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Harvey Ovenden

HARVEY OVENDEN

Growing up in in the mean streets of deepest darkest Kent I naturally found my escapism in music.

At school I took up the trumpet, having narrowly dodged the stigmata of tuba due to my chubby teenage frame, and spent most my school life tooting away in various bands an orchestras. The rest of my time I spent loitering in the dungeon of the music department listening to classical, jazz, punk, rock and my first love, Britpop.

To avoid the deadly onset of Ford Mondeoitis I packed of to London to study music at university, and a world of gigs and strange new sounds shook me to my suburban core. To the baffelement of my fairly traditonal lectures I churned out essays on everything from French hip hop to the ecstasy-fuelled illegal rave scene and somehow managed to get away with it.

Now I reside in London, working for my gin and cigarettes in some too dull to describe job whilst still hunting for music that lets me escape it all, and of course bringing those findings to you, dear reader. When I'm not doing that I write and perform comedy to a degree of success from being bought a couple of pints afterwards to being chased out of Roehampton by an angry mob.

View Harvey's 4or The Record Documents :

Lightspeed Champion : 'Madame Van Damme'

Anais Mitchell : Hadestown

Plasticines : 'About Love'

Creed : 'Rain'

Corrine Bailey Ray : 'I'll Do It All Again'

Foreign Office : An Introduction

Delphic : 'Acolyte'

Girl Meet Girl : Angels With Filthy Souls

Meeting Of Important People : 'Meeting of Important People'

Japanese Voyeurs : 'Sicking and Creaming'

Fenech Soler : 'Lies'

The Scratch : 'Whatever Happened to Friday Night'

Little Comets

Biffy Clyro : HMV Forum

Lissy Trullie : 'Self-Taught Learner'

La Roux/Dan Black : I-Tunes Festival

Citadels : 'Golden Islands'

Marmaduke Duke : 'Silhouettes'

Blur: The Homecoming

The Jacks : Interview

Lucky Elephant :'Edgar'/'Lucky Elephant'

Eels : 'Hombre Lobo'

Starsailor : 'All The Plans'

Amazing Baby : 'Headdress'

Jarvis Cocker : 'Further Complications'



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