BarbedJuly 24, 2006
*Name: Barbed
*Are there any additional names used to describe this project: No
*Members: Alex Burrow & Alex McKechnie
*Founding Member: Alex Burrow & Alex McKechnie
*Would you classify Barbed as Tape manipulations, digital deconstructions or turntable creations: No, I wouldn't.
*Another genre descriptor: Like John Oswald and the Toyota Yaris, we also are too unconventional for description by existing language, so we also have invented a new word. It's a secret right now. But we have got one.
*Location: London
*Original Location: Near London
*What is your creative/artistic background: Punk Rock / Art Rock / Band members gradually replaced by machines. Home Counties UK. 1970s.
*History: Since 1984 / From Boyz 2 Men. (I mean, since 1984. Then we were boys. But now we are men. As in "I've worked in that pit man and boy.")
*Born: Are you from the Inland Revenue?
*Motivations: There's always a loose end that needs tying up. It always leads to another thing, with another loose end. Forever pursuing beauty. The naive desire to make something lovely that nobody else could possibly have made, persists.
*Philosophy:
a) Nihilist / Situationist / Dada / BlaBla
b) Different sounds create different realities
c) Sometimes music is too much fun and meaning is saved for later: this is ideal
d) If you can't hum it, dance to it or laugh at it, it's probably shit
e) If you can't hum it, dance to it or laugh at it and it's definitely not shit, then you're on to something.
*How would you like to be remembered: As the friends of men / lovers of women, witty, wise, fruity, vain, disdainful, sarcastic, petty, mean, sickly, profoundly sexual, cautious, lucky, shallow and wacky. And for our macabre double suicide.
*Web address: http://www.barbed.org
