Ahead of his appearance with Andrew Weatherall on Guardian Music’s first show on Beats 1 this Saturday, David Holmes explains how new project Unloved was all about finding the right sounds
At the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and Virgil Avenue on the edge of east Hollywood, there stood for several years a bar called Little Temple. On Tuesday evenings here, you might stumble across a jam night named The Rotary Room, where you could find Money Mark performing alongside the legendary upright bassist David Piltch, or Tommy Morgan, the harmonica player on the Beach Boys’ I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times, covering Van Dyke Parks tunes with John Lennon’s drummer Jim Keltner, while a member of the world’s best Led Zeppelin tribute band worked the sound.
The Rotary Room was dreamed up by singer-songwriter Jade Vincent and her partner, composer-keyboardist Keefus Ciancia, who together with David Holmes have now launched a new project: Unloved. Anyone curious to know about the musical influences on Unloved’s debut album need only consult the playlists from those Tuesdays at The Rotary Room: a little Shuggie Otis, a touch of Connie Francis, Brigitte Fontaine meets yé-yé, Broadcast and Morricone mingled with Bonnie Beecher’s Come Wander With Me.
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