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NEIL FILBYlead vocals, guitar, piano
lies hier ein Interview mit Neil
Neil Filby was born in 1964, five years
before men first walked on the moon. From an early age he was forced by
his evil and ambitious parents to attend endless piano lessons, violin
lessons, and choir practises. This experience..... (see below)
neil©pheromones.tv
.... instilled a hatred of
music so great that only repeated listenings of that Velvet Underground
album with the banana on the cover were able to cure him. The first of
his many menial jobs was delivering newspapers at the age of 13, and he
diligently saved his wages to buy his first electric guitar.
Other jobs followed; hospital incinerator attendant, postman,
washer-up, cable tv salesman, bike courier, unemployment benefit
fraudster, and many others. During his limited free time he strummed
listlessly on his guitar and wrote hundreds of depressing songs, which
he played to noone for fear of being laughed at. However he was finally
persuaded by a girlfriend to play his first public concert, at the
Charles Dickens pub in Broadstairs, England. His odes to teenage misery
were met with an ecstatic reception, and set him on the path to a
stellar musical career. Having achieved international obscurity with
the seminal glam-rock band "The Sticky Sisters", Filby set off in
1990 to Australia, where he entertained various Sydney prostitutes and
alcoholic tramps with his street music show. On returning to London he
began recording his tunes in his first recording studio and played
guitar and keyboards with a succession of unsuccessful bands, including
Irish rock with "The Best Way To Walk" and English pop with "The Rhythm
Method".
During this time Filby was also able to gain a foothold in the English
film industry. Starting as a runner, he gradually worked his way up to
becoming an art department assistant, and finally art director on a
variety of commercial and music video shoots. He continued to invest in
his studio, and composed and recorded a few tv film and advert
soundtracks which helped to finance his tireless search for the perfect
hihat sound.
In the spring of 1994 he loaded all his recording equipment and
instruments into a big yellow van and set off for Switzerland, where he
eventually became the chief music man for Karls kühne Gassenschau, The
Zurich based theatre group known for their limp humour and liberal use
of fireworks. During the last 11 years he has composed and performed
for shows including "Steinbruch", "Stau", and "Akua", at the same time
building up a backlog of even more depressing songs, which now see the
light of day with the Pheromones.
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