It's Bringing music back to the grassroots

Michael Heath (aka Fledderjohn) 44, Male London United Kingdom: Share

Blog Posts (9)
Discussions (159)
Events
Groups (5)
Photos
Photo Albums
Videos (1)

Michael Heath (aka Fledderjohn)'s Apps

Michael Heath (aka Fledderjohn)'s Friends

View All

Music

Loading…

Michael Heath (aka Fledderjohn)'s Groups

Live A Lot

36 members
The Highland Gathering...

35 members

The Cleveland Gatherings

36 members
Talent share and tech ...

107 members

AFcollective Song Revi...

50 members

View All

Michael Heath (aka Fledderjohn)'s Discussions

Track by track recordings - a beginners guide

Replied Aug 28

View All

Songs about stuff ...

Latest Activity

Michael Heath (aka Fledderjohn) replied to DOL ON THE DIAL's discussion 'NEED RADIO SHOW MATERIAL'

I'll try to get a recording of my nearly 4 year old son singing his new number, "Daddy's a cheeky monkey". It's a call and response thing. He sings "Daddy's a cheeky monkey" and I sing "No Louis' a cheeky monkey" to which he sings, "No Daddy's a c...

November 10

Michael Heath (aka Fledderjohn) replied to Lew Bear's discussion 'The Birthdate Challenge'

Hmmm. Fun idea for a challange. I'm not sure if I will have my stuff set up in time to record anything. My choice is between UK and US - The Beatles - I feel fine Australia - Billy Thorpe and The Aztecs - Somewhere over the rainbow It is gonna h...

November 5

A song by Michael Heath (aka Fledderjohn) was featured

play 01 moonkee man

03:24

November 3

Michael Heath (aka Fledderjohn) updated their profile

November 3

Michael Heath (aka Fledderjohn) replied to Lew Bear's discussion 'Track by track recordings - a beginners guide'

Yep absolutely. Recording yourself and constantly listening back never stops being an eye/ear opener. You are forced to analyse and listen slightly more objectively. I think you learn a lot about what is really necessary when recording and focus m...

August 28

Michael Heath (aka Fledderjohn) added a song

play 01 moonkee man

03:24

August 25

Michael Heath (aka Fledderjohn) added 3 songs

play 03 Water
play 02 Freud Or Something
play 04 Looking For Summertime

August 20

Djay Buddha replied to Michael Heath (aka Fledderjohn)'s discussion 'Cast them as cousins'

What an honour that would be :)

August 16

Profile Information

how did you find the afc network?

friend already here

Fledderism

The 40 odd songs on here are from various points over the last 16 or more years. Some of the newer stuff tends to be at the top of the player. The last four songs are not mine but I do play on them (please visit zarbo.co.uk for the creator of these songs)

I've just moved to Adelaide, South Australia. I've no idea what I'm going to do musically and at the time of writing I'm still waiting for my instruments to arrive from the UK.

I think it's about time I ditched all my old songs, did some serious writing of some new stuff and see where that takes me. I'm kind of thinking of a lo-fi experimental jazz blues burlesque banjo, piano and saucepan led punk band that provides music for dancing girls who have a collection of Ostrich feather fans. Actually I haven't a clue what I'm going to do but there is an idea just waiting to get out, I can feel it in my water.

Michael Heath (aka Fledderjohn)'s Blog

Old songs

I’ve just been going through a few old cd’s of my songs. A few things I found were either quite good or quite funny or both. That’s the weird thing coming back to old songs you’ve pretty much forgotten – you can be a little more objective. All the songs are just me, a 16 track and a selection of instruments. I've just posted them on my player.

The girl will decide

I always liked this song but nobody else did (at least not in my band at the time). As a result it was consigned to the bin. I'm no… Continue

Posted on August 13, 2009 at 10:04am — 2 Comments

Myspace

Sorry in advance for the very dull blog. I'm sure this is of no interest to anyone but I know how touchy people get about this sort of thing so thought I'd better explain. .....

I'm just about to delete my myspace profile (yes again!). This time it's purely a bit of pre-move spring cleaning. I set it up as an Australian networking profile. It didn't work. I therefore don't really see a lot of point in hanging on to it given that I'm in touch with everyone either here or on Faecesbook. I guess I… Continue

Posted on August 4, 2009 at 9:11pm — 3 Comments

Musings on online communities - It's not social networking, it's farming

I occasionally try to write a straight opinion piece. This is purely for my own entertainment but I thought I'd post this here as the AFC get a thumbs up .....

"Musings on online communities - It’s not social networking, it’s farming.

Online communities are the future. Everywhere you look there are online communities springing up like mushrooms. They provide a forum for people to interact, trade, fall in love, fall out of love, build friendships, even die. In our increasingly privatised yet m… Continue

Posted on July 26, 2009 at 8:45am — 2 Comments

Bound for South Australia

As a few people will know, I have been planning to move back to Australia for some time. I'll finally be going on the 7th September... Here's a song for the occasion. Performed by Aussie legends The Wiggles.

Continue

Posted on June 25, 2009 at 10:48am — 8 Comments

Grace Jones and my Dad

I saw today that there is a music festival being held at Devil's Dyke on the South Downs (this is just north of Brighton on the south coast of England for those who need a geographical reference). I know the area quite well and Devil's Dyke is the perfect place for an outdoor festival. Headlining the festival is Grace Jones - a woman once described/dismissed by my father when he saw her being interviewed on British TV as, "silly bitch". He was generally a very tolerant quietly spoken gentle man… Continue

Posted on May 17, 2009 at 1:09pm —

Comment Wall (51 comments)

You need to be a member of AFcollective Artist Network to add comments!

Join this social network

At 9:26pm on August 20, 2009, Cormier and Long said…: "Water's" Brilliant

cheers

At 9:41pm on June 2, 2009, Lew Bear said…: Btw good sir. After having the opportunity for a good chat with the members of Invocal on sat past, it seems you may have a few more audience members for your set at Spratton as at least one commented "Yeah, the Voltaires were great"

At 10:01pm on May 10, 2009, Jayne Johnson said…: cheers m'dear!

At 9:49am on April 15, 2009, Sammon said…: Didst thow perchance to happen upon the televisual experience that is 'Later with Jools Holland' last night? If not catch it on Friday to observe Marian Faithful completely massacre a Decemberists cover; The Crane Wife pt3. My wife commented that the silly old bat can't sing. I concur.

At 6:17am on April 15, 2009, Bill Wardley-Smith said…: Fledderjohn nice to have your comments, love the tracks, some nice Moroccan influences going on. The drum intro on Don't eat... is excellent. I will return for more. Thank for he comment on personal Jesus track, first time I used the guitar synth.
I will be back in the chat room.

At 1:54am on April 6, 2009, Haley Lamb said…: oh thanks it is nice to be here! :D

At 8:04pm on March 31, 2009, Donnie Reed said…: LOL!!!

I'm not makin any promises. ;D

Good to see you as well sir!!!

At 10:49am on March 28, 2009, Lew Bear said…: I'm not sure if I like Jo's thoughts on my crossdressing. I've only ever worn a dress twice!...no, 3...er, 5 times in my life.

This kind of slander I consider flamebaiting and will be reporting you both to the appropriate authorities for being transvestite nazis

hehehe

At 11:56pm on March 26, 2009, Jo2 said…: I'm confused as well. I still have this tux that needs an explanation. Lew cross-dresses on a regular basis (so I'm told) so he's undoubtedly been a bridesmaid numerous times. Do I still have to give back the dog?

At 11:10pm on March 26, 2009, Martin Giles said…: Hey Michael. All this time and you never read my surname on the Stryngs myspace profile? Call yourself a myspace friend? Err... hmmm.

You're right about the Elixirs though.