Jan
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New project: The Stark Palace on Radio 6
Hello chums,
A new year (hats off to yer) and another new project! This time with some old friends.The Stark Palace is the alter ego of Roger Simian of Dawn and The Replicants and Pluto Monkey, the Scottish Borders maverick misanthrope working in cordial sonorous collaboration with bro Mike (from The Replicants) and I’ve been known to pop by for toast and jam… If I described them as Beefheart meets Beck meets The Fall that would undoubtedly sound cliche, but there you have it.
Check em out on MySpace and join friends now:
http://www.myspace.com/starkpalace
I play a little sax at the end of smash his ‘Cromagnon Man‘, which was played by Tom Robinson on BBC 6Music “introducing” show in Jan 2008.
I also play some keyboards on ‘The Void Replied‘ .
But best of all, check out our new TOTP anthem ‘Egyptian Bizarre‘, which Roger calls ‘Girls on Ghost’ which I narrate. It’s set in 1920s Constaninople (now Istanbul in Turkey) and is another sort of Arabian nights epic (in the vein of “Snake Seller’s Wife” track I did with Babyslave) which tells the tale of a dark-eyed temptress who gets more than just the Turkish Delights she bargained for at the market: it cumulates with an intimate encounter with a lady spectre. It’s sort of Aladdin versus Debbie Does Dallas based on a recent 18-30 holiday. Hopefully, this track will appear in some form on the fothcoming Hypnotique studio album 2.
