bertie401577 + Musician in London, EN

SEEKING

ABOUT

Looking for on for two musicians laptop artists or similar / keyboards to tour with my forthcoming album release - from November onwards - preferably young and very enthusiastic - who want to do work live and work on new material for a 2nd album - I write sing and compose basic tracks - so looking for people who can experiment and play well - a lot to ask but well...

Bertie Marshall is a writer/ performer. Berlin Bromley - his critically acclaimed memoir about his life as part of The Bromley Contingent and mid 70s pre-punk London. His books include the debut novel Psychoboys(1997) Berlin Bromley (2006) Nowhere Slow (2014) collected writings and From Sleepwalking to Sleepwalking (2016) Wild - re write (2017) The Peeler (2018) and Pete’s Underpants (2019)
In 2015 the British Library purchased his writing archive.
From 1980-83, Bertie was the front man for band ‘Behaviour Red’ - they released one single, did a mini tour and broke up; Bertie, then moved into spoken word and performance poetry and then into writing and performing in his own plays and devised theatre pieces - during the late 90s, he lived in NYC and wrote books and did readings; having lived in Berlin, San Francisco, and Brittany, he now lives in London.
After several decades away from making music, Bertie returns with a compliation album of songs and spoken word tracks from the 80s and 90s entitled ‘EXHIBIT’ released autumn 2021 by Upset the rhythm records - with a digital single ‘Shaking Johnny’ out late summer and an album of new material to follow in late 2022.

Screen name:

bertie401577

Member since:

Aug 01 2021

Active over 1 month ago

Level of commitment:

Very Committed

Years playing music:

7

Gigs played:

50 to 100

Tend to practice:

2-3 times per week

Available to gig:

4-5 nights a week

Most available:

Days

Influences

too many to list - Billie Holiday Nico Patti Smith Marianne Faithfull

Instrument experience:

Vocalist:

Expert

Vocalist - Tenor:

Expert

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