Girly by Featured

This album is a collection of songs I’ve written, some more recently and some that go back a number of years. In fact, a few were rejected by former colleagues and I was promptly shown the door for having ‘ideas above my station’. In hindsight, probably rightly so.
Being ‘shown the door’ or ’fired’ seems to come up a lot in my checkered journey though music. Asked to leave Nitzer Ebb after a number of years for not being much of a jazz drummer and having ideas that weren’t up to the standard of their legendary last album for Mute I then fired myself from the band I briefly formed afterwards, Shining, as, well, it was a bit crap. Moving on, I was never asked back to Die Krupps for being a drunken twat and trying to drive their tour bus somewhat ‘under the influence’. Later, I was politely rejected from both C-Tec and Cubanate before finally being kicked out of D.Kay.com for not being German.
Anyway, that said, water under the jolly old bridge as they say. Having managed to forge a career in all things audio related for most of my life and even though there have been quite a few questionable remixes / projects with my name attached to them and an awful lot of dodgy reality tv music (the former largely being quite forgettable and the latter I refuse to be ashamed of as the $$ are good), I thought it was time to put together an album of some of the songs that I’ve written and commit them to a release of sorts.
As I’m such a terrible singer, I decided to have some rather talented ladies (to whom I am eternally grateful) sing them for me, hence the title of this album, “Girly”.
I wrote and played most of the album, although I am thankful to Dean Garcia for adding bass and Melissa Evila, Steve White, Jamison Boaz and Moonhead for taking some of my poorly played guitars and making them sound a lot better. There may be a part two to this experiment as I have a lot of songs that simply would not fit on this release, so you have been warned.
In terms of additional thanks etc… if I’m honest, like everyone I’m sure, there are a few people I’d like to be extremely unpleasant to, both professionally and personally, but many, many more to whom I would like to say how grateful I am for their support and ongoing friendship over the years. However, I won’t do an enormous list at this juncture.
Even though, lyrically, this project is not particularly about animals (although a couple are, along with my distain for religion in general, the environment, stupid people, politicians and lost loves), I thought I would dedicate it to all the animals in the world that suffer needlessly and cruelly at the hands of a ‘so called’ civilized species. Humans are total cunts.

All that said, thanks for taking a gander.

Namaste Mother Fuckers :)

Joolz

FEATURED is a music project from Julian Beeston encompassing various genres of music from alternative rock, pop and industrial.

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