MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! (almost but pretty much come ooooonn!!!!)

Someone did say about my band: "i wonder if they will survive the winter...."

Thats so typically English isn't it!! I mean.... Why would someone lug gear around the country and live such a strange existence only to go... oh.... its too cold we should stop... people are hardcore and this is a true fact... one can perish and fight it far more than the thought amount..

What the hell does that mean? Who knows...

Anyway i have been thinking and.... well it is cold and that therefore means that other places are hot... you know.. yin yang... so... a clever person would try to migrate to say... Australia... or.... i don't know somewhere closer to the equator....

Only rich people can afford to fly to Australia every year... or Musicians.... for Big Day Out... it's a long shot but i think we should go there... fo shooooooooooo!!!!!!

heres a little song i wrote...

"Plasters"

Where have all the peaches gone?

Where are all these leeches from?

We're so monetarian,

That's the way we teach our sons.

You've got to pick a pocket or two,

A pocket's never full of food, (just cash)

I never know what the hell i own,

but i can hit the megaphone;

"This time it came as a surprise,

My television died,

i had to go outside,

saw the world....

it's not fine but the weather is sublime!

My history teacher lied,

He just added t my fears..."

Monetarian, blocking out the shiny sun.

Monetarian, paper's king what's done is done...

It all started with a Psychedelic star,

A supernova made us who we are

And i can see those monsters in the sky

stars that we go back to when we die...

Are you falling away?

Too scared to know the answers,

Coz we're running out of plasters

To cover up our wounds..

i have lots of new music to play you all as well...

Merry Christmas!!!!!

love Will x

Animal hats and Toptwats...

Im in the back of our splitter van upstairs on the top bunk.. it is very dangerous and illegal… But really fun… always the way isn’t it..

I have been making a video about our band… I have been lucky enough to have been given a house… well.. lent a house… to live in with the people while we “nurture our art’ and “hone” everything we do…

I also have a new animal hat… it’s a cheetah… I love animal hats… I predict they will be in the height of fashion within a few months… mainly because some twat from the x factor wears one apparently… but nonetheless …they are cool.. and cheap…

The minute they are available in Toptwats I guarantee they will cost an arm and a leg so what’s his name who owns it can fuel his vivacious eating and sleeping habits.

Sorry

That sounds bitter

Well I am …. he has not only ruined unconvensional fashion by putting it all under one roof but he is also inanely rich and lots of people are cold and hungry sat outside all his stores..

Pret a manger don’t give sandwiches they are going to throw away to homeless people any more… they just throw them away…. Because they don’t want to be sued by a hungry person who eats an egg sandwich… weird…

We got back from Leeds this morning at about 10 am from a gig last night…. It was a big old show and thank you to everyone who was there…. I love playing in nightclubs and we even threw a cover of “santa baby” in the middle of “yellow’ (one of our songs)…. Everyone was tiptoeing pretending to be Marilyn Monroe…. Banging.

This is a revolution.. I promise you…. Animal hats will be included in all of this… so will music (big time)…. And so will the sparky little thought processes we are all having that are making us think…. “yes… I know that is true!”…. whatever “that” may be…. You are right…. There IS more……

Keep it light.. smile…. Listen…. And look on youtube for our new video’s or at least something that’s worth watching!!!

lots of love xx

mad dancing, sustainability

So i guess part of what a musician has to do is work out how he/she can keep playing and living.... sustainability.... yes... big word... big consequences...

Anybody who knows my vibe at all will know that there have been a fair few members in this band... and now finally we are at the point of true existence... far from the corrupt scene mother music has been thrust upon and sucked dry by... finally i am living under a roof with the people i make music with... it is a dream come true... we have been pursued by "nobler" creatures with "all the gift of the gab" but no substance to back it up.... I hate that don't you... talkers....

I am laying it down on the line now to say that we will be deciding our own destiny.. and in a world where everybody with a mouth seems to know better than you that is something to be desired...

anybody who is starting a band....

do your own thing and it if is ever going to happen it will happen faster than you could possibly imagine... book your own gigs... make your own CD you are happy with and take it to people yourself.... it will work...

We had a gig in the Water Rats about a week ago....

It was the 16th time i have played there and only this time did it really kick off... it felt like a moment when the crowd were making the room shake more than we were and i always love a good old fashioned stage invasion to end a show... and the girls were dancing like it was 1967.. it was mighty contagious and i was caught up in the moment big time

I saw a documentary and Mick Ralphs from Mott the Hoople (a cracking punk/psych/rock cult band from the 70's) was talking about one of their london gigs.... he said "yea it's cool people in london lose themselves now, it didn't used to be like that"

It made me think...

People in london are shit at losing themselves... no offence guys but you are.... we all are.... it's hard unless you are literally caught up in the moment, lost in the music.....

i love the correspondents... because of that... there is a guy onstage giving it all and a hundred percent more, it is completely addictive to watch and very easy to find yourself getting lost in the crowd and dancing like a nutcase... Why do you think they all look so silly dancing to us now when we watch the old 60's and 80's video's.... (unless it was MJ) because THEY DIDN"T CARE... they were on drugs admittedly but.... i think people should wake up and stop doing cocaine and take a wee bit of acid every now and then instead.... have you ever tried listening to music on acid?? Don't knock it till you have tried it it's no more dangerous than crossing the road.....

anyway.. i just think that people need to lose themselves more... in fact.. let me rephrase that... i can feel them wanting, no, needing to lose themselves more....

well that's our vibe and if you want to buy into it... then you can even go so far as to say you have joined this band....

come and give me a hug for gods sake life is too short!!!

we are going to Europe and doing all the festivals...

Will x

frantic

One minute i am oner there, then next i am here...

I seem to be dreaming inside daydreams at the moment... waking up is a mere continuation into the next day/night..... and i bloody love it.

Life is cruel sometimes but if you smile it can travel the world.... i like that idea...

maybe we don't need to physically travel to go far... Mr Buddha doesn't really move much does he but i can guarantee he does his fair share of astro-plaining..

What if my music were to travel the world... it would be weird to arrive in places after it, being greeted by it in a strange south american supermarket or a battered old taxi on the way from the airport in south africa....

Man that would be cool...

i think i am going to do that.

so i am sending my music to everyone in the world over and over again until one day it rings me up and says "Will.... i am all over Australia, they are playing me all of a sudden... quick... come here now" - i'd be on the next plain in a flash...

see what i mean? Dreams in daydreams...

Thats a good album title.... i said it first no pinching.....

we are looking for a lost soul who plays bass guitar...... someone who wants to uproot all they are doing and hop onto the WATP good ship of monkey business... pronto...

you have to walk, talk and act in time with the trees and all that shit.. and most importantly you have to be able to play bass rather fucking well as you would become essentially the riddim in my band... get in touch if you think think this person is you... Oh and you have to LOVE reggae music..... bottom line.... like we do..

Life rocks...

Nice people take drugs... not criminals

Open your minds

Dont be told how you feel...

SMILE and let it carve your path in style..

:)

Will x

WAT (U) P

Hello my fellow 26 blogspotters....

That is how many followers i have..

i want to share something with you...

I have been in a band for 5 years now called Will and the People.. we have just made an album and done some gigs which feel different somehow to the past shenanigans... i guess it's because people seem to be coming to the shows more, and dancing and laughing... but i also think there is just a general "energy" in the air which is probing people to let loose a little and enjoy life more.. whether it be by relaxing or partying or working harder and playing harder.... boom bang bosh... letting things flow a little more, you know?

Anyway..

We played at Secret Garden Party which was probably the most fun we have ever had while doing a gig.. we have recruited a magician called Kasrani, a Breakdancer called Jody, a Barrister called Sam and many more dancers...... I have been telling people to let everyone know they are in a band called Will and the People... so i am letting you know too.. you are in my band... if there is something you can do besides dance or even just stand in the corner and look awkward (anything) then let me know and get in touch we will work it... yea baby.. but dont forget to tell people about your band..

I am thinking about making a video for a song on our album called Eyes with lots of naked people.... which will be fun...

So

take care... and... if you are about next week we are playing at the purple turtle in Camden on Thursday night... swing down.

I love you..

Also..

Mother Nature does Rock.......very very hard.. so listen.

Will x

GLASTONBURY 2010

So heres a story for you.....

a few weeks ago i was told that the tent we were playing in at Glastonbury had pulled out of the festival, which meant we had no means of playing at the festival...bummer when you have been booked for months already. However to make it even worse we had a gig in a place called the "rabbit hole" in the festival.... which is a funky psychedelic tent run by some forward thinking music and festival lovers.... unfortunately this tent only books bands who are already at the festival and does not give wristband allocations....

Basically WATP were fucked...

A day before the festival... sat there feeling sorry for ourselves... me and some very cool people (KEO, Rallentando and Westy) decided we were not going to take no for an answer and the biggest and best festival in the world needed our presence... or more-so we needed it's presence... so we got in the car on tuesday and decided to go and break in...

everybody advised us against it...

so we obviously went....

with just a jacket each (please be sunny please be sunny)

no tents (please don't rain please don't rain)

and our guitars.

Upon arrival a lovely fellow heard us jamming outside the superfence (not climbable) and asked if we had tickets... we said no... he walked us in... easy peasy lemon squeasy...

WE WERE IN!!!!

The weather was hot... and we had a gig booked tomorrow (upon turning up at the rabbit hole they let us in and stored our instruments, and gave us a lovely cold beer, thats more like it)

24 hours to our gig.... only one thing to do really... get quite drunk! i think i got too drunk... because at about 6am on friday morning i was stumbling around alone and asked to show my wristband (which i didn't have)... i tried running but was rugby tackled by a big polish man to the floor and thrown outside the gates.... my world had turned upside down very quickly...

i realised my phone had ran out of battery and this was going to be difficult!!! The beers had gone to my head and i fell asleep in a random field on my face...

Bad idea

i woke up 5 hours later with a very red back (should have kept my shirt on) and most importantly... on the wrong side of the fence....

I met a load of interesting characters in the barrow-lands... all trying to devise clever plans of how to get to the promised land where the grass was undoubtedly greener!! Talk of hooks and ropes to climb the fence and bolt in.. we spoke of hiding in suitcases (someone did that and got in).. we spoke of jet packs... the list goes on... but it was VERY hot and i was burning and in need of water and a cuddle. My luck was running out..

then my leg started vibrating and i realised i had Kate's phone in my pocket.. and someone was calling me!!! amazing!!! I picked up... and.... yes.... it ran out of battery!!

The first thing i did was walk and walk to see if i could find a charger....

The funny part of this all is i met people working as stewards and security who knew my band and couldn't believe i had been kicked out... it was rather ironic that i was sat signing autographs and taking pictures with people who had seen us last year... but couldn't get in for love nor money.... anyway in the end i found a charger and managed to arrange a little plan... someone very kind came out and got me in... the feeling was second to none.. literally like arriving in heaven after a long intense questioning at the big golden gates with the man with a white beard.... beautiful...

the gig happened and was cracking.. so many of the hi visibility jackets i had spoken to on the outside and said "6pm at the rabbit hole.. be there or be square!!" were actually there and it was a proper moment... the band was shambolic (in fact 2 new members were just people who i knew in the festival... half my band were not there... but it rocked) we had some fans there, we sold some CDs.. we spent the money on silly things like massive hats and weaved jackets and corn on the cob... it was a massive success..

So i guess i feel now like we achieved something... we said no to not having tickets and just WENT.... if someone says no and you want something badly.. just go and get it!! This year at Glastonbury was piping hot and literally how i dreamed it to be when i first imagined the biggest festival in the world with all of the best music from around the globe... It was my heaven and i think it is the best thing mankind has ever come up with...

Man that is the 60's... it really is.... who was at glastonbury this year??? you will know what i mean.... comment on this if you were and tell me your experience was shared with mine!!???

I am going every year... because id be a fool to miss out... I hadn't ever been to a festival until last year.... and i caught up 20 years in 4 days this year.. my legs are jelly and my face is brown... i am ready to take on the world!!

GO TO GLASTONBURY EVERYBODY!!!!!

Oh and Stevie Wonder was MAGICALLY romantic...

I love you

Will

stories...and eventually an album...

So…. I guess I always thought… why don’t I have a story? Maybe I do and I don’t know it… or maybe taking it all with a pinch of salt is just part of growing up.

The truth is I still don’t feel, compared to the people and cultures that inspire me, that I have what I would consider to be an interesting story… but what I do have is an endless list of people I have met and instantly become lost with in the world of music, whether it be fellow musicians/friends, other bands, producers or managers… record industry people… or maybe just people from a far away land who have nothing in common with me but everything to teach and learn.

The truth is I love meeting people, hence the name of my band. I dive in and out of other people’s worlds and feel I learn something every time. The musicians I meet carry me around. We play and travel together… it’s like we are on a little cloud which will float anywhere at any speed we want and it fucking rocks my little world. This is such a perfect situation for me, and that’s why I would like to keep doing this for the rest of my life. And some other stuff like it.

The other true fact I have realized is that people who love music just because they get lost in it, or it makes the hairs stand up on the back of their necks, or because it makes them dance for hours on end, even just a minute at a time it doesn’t matter because it is basically magic. It changes everything. People like that make me want to smile, have fun and live. The problem is that lots of people see music for the business that it is, and… well they want to make money… which is obvious and to be honest very understandable… however it is done at the mercy of the real artists, and it has created a very fake world filled with sharks and cretins who know nothing about the music industry as it is in it’s current state… they have too much money to learn about it too…

So…. That is how I see things at the moment. Be it right or wrong.

But that is so totally overshadowed by the people who love music and laugh with it… so thank you to those people!! From the bottom of my heart!

Oh also you can get my album now from www.baggytrousermusic.com

Please order one I will send it to you... it’s like modern day car boot selling… BUT… and there is always a but… Bradley Knowell the deceased singer of an amazing band called “Sublime” sold 60 000 copies of his album from the boot of his car… music works in wonderful ways… please do tell your friends!

Love

Will