Music
After taking up guitar whilst in hospital after his accident in 1978, Ian finally took the instrument seriously in 2000 and eventually joined East Vancouver's legendary "The Carnival Band". In September 2006 Ian started Mr M and The All Nighters, a Northern Soul tribute band, that plays classic Northern Soul. Strongly influenced by the music of his native Wigan and the Wigan Casino Mr M and The All Nighters plays locally around Vancouver.
Read more about this topic: Ian Gregson
Famous quotes containing the word music:
“While the music is performed, the cameras linger savagely over the faces of the audience. What a bottomless chasm of vacuity they reveal! Those who flock round the Beatles, who scream themselves into hysteria, whose vacant faces flicker over the TV screen, are the least fortunate of their generation, the dull, the idle, the failures . . .”
—Paul Johnson (b. 1928)
“The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always greater than its performance—Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, for instance, is always greater than its performance—whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being performed.”
—André Previn (b. 1929)
“I used to be angry all the time and I’d sit there weaving my anger. Now I’m not angry. I sit there hearing the sounds outside, the sounds in the room, the sounds of the treadles and heddles—a music of my own making.”
—Bhakti Ziek (b. c. 1946)