Aretha Franklin - Ben E King - Beth Orton - Bill Withers - Billy Holiday - Black Crowes - Bob Marley - Dexys Midnight Runners - Ella Fitzgerald - Eva Cassidy - The Four Tops - Nina Simone - Stevie Wonder - The Temptations - Van Morrison
Location:
London
Web Site:
myspace.com/thehoneyden
About The Honey Den
Luck came our way last year, without which ‘The Honey Den’ may not have come into existence. To play an instrument and make up a tune needs no more justification other than pleasure. We’d been doing that for some time; the walls bore witness to our songs, but inside a desire grew to have our material in a recorded form, but simple pleasure couldn’t justify the expense. Enter luck. A friend gives us a proposal, “If I gave some money towards recording, would you create some songs for me to use in a dance piece?” No restrictions on us, we could make whatever songs we fancied and at the end of it all, we’d still keep the full rights to our own material. Perfect. The proposal gave us the justification to record our songs, which as I’m sure you’ve realised, is the music you hear now. This isn’t to say that our ambitions for these tracks have been fulfilled, we’d be ecstatic if an agency came along and wanted to use it for an ad, or better still, if a label offered to release our music. I like to see the original proposal as an extra decibel that allowed our music to burst out and be heard outside of our four walls. So what about the dance piece our friend said she wanted the music for? Well… it hasn’t happened and I don’t think I’m too sceptical in thinking that the proposal was a cover for her to hand us over money to record our tunes. Thanks Petra!
