Artist description Song writer for 30 years, sessions, musical arrangements. Write and record alone - occasionally friends drop by and add to whatever is in progress. for fun.

Music Style Blueswingrockaboogiefolkfunkalatincountryjazz

Musical Influences Every note that's ever been played - and a few that haven't

Similar Artists The aim is that every song is different, in truth this can't always happen, but it does make for a long list.

Artist History full history plus discography can be found at www.robbeckinsale.com

Instruments Guitar, Piano, Vocals & programming

Albums see discography on my web site

Press Reviews Borderland Review of - "The Year I forgot" Rob Beckinsale - The Year I Forgot Who I Was [Acoustica Productions] For many musicians having a home recording studio is a very liberating experience - the freedom to explore and create your own music away from the constraints of commercial pressure and expectations must be a godsend. Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rob Beckinsale is such a musician, and The Year I Forgot... is his first self-released cd album. And what an impressive album it is - Rob Beckinsale writes his songs from the heart and they are direct and honest. It also helps that he is a damn fine musician and this album is in turn haunting in its directness and swings like a bitch. Tracks such as They Never Wanted To Be... would make any Steely Dan fan sit up and do a double take - it's a classy bit of ice-cool jazz funk that Fagan and Becker would be proud of. Rob Beckinsale is an impressive musician, and a track such as Love Songs For Grown Ups starts out with a latin feel and then shifts into rock mode with one of the best economic and precise guitar solos I've heard in a long time. River Of Blood is a valid and strong condemnation of the way tragedy and death has become a news commodity in our society - I suspect that watching reports about Kosovo or the latest Northern Ireland attrocity was the spur for this song. So what we have here is a fascinating album by a mostly unknown songwriter who ploughs his own furrow releasing cassette albums and now this cd. And do you know what the most frustrating thing is? That all the major labels are so in love with their bloody boy and girl bands, or have their heads jammed up some DJ's boom box that when faced with real talent they bottle out of it. Okay, The Year I Forgot... won't change lives or influence other musicians [well, it would be nice to think that it did, but let's be realistic] but it is so much better than what you can buy in HMV, and it deserves a chance to find an audience! Review from AutoReverse Issue 12 - http://www.autoreverse.net/auto12 ROB BECKINSALE THE YEAR I FORGOT… CD acoustica@btinternet.com Fully-realized, guitar-centric homepop. Beckinsale is a talented one-man army. The CD opens with "Sometime Soon", an uptempo rahhk numbah with epic keyboard swells and multiple guitar tracks. And a guitar solo! Nobody plays guitar solos anymore! "You changed" is Prefab Sprout quantized. "Someone Could Kill" employs a massive, global tone - probably due to the dripping-water and percussion sounds. Oh. And the accordion. The same kind of Paul Simon "Graceland" vibe pervades "They Go Shopping". Hell yeah. You don't hear many people doing this kind of stuff. "And the Rain It Fell" is a grey-day acoustic near-ballad. "They Never Wanted To Be" recalls Thomas Dolby's excursions into funk. "Love Songs For Grownups" has me wondering, Aztec Camera? Hell, I don't know. "River of Blood" is an acoustic ballad about, uh, the evils of war. "Microcosm" leaves on a relatively "up" note - jazzy piano building into a "full band" crescendo. Definitely a CD worth having. Ian C Stewart ROB BECKINSALE "UNFAITHFUL ONE" MP3 From the album The Confectioner's Weakness. More sequenced homepop with Dave Gregory on at least one guitar. Grown up pop that makes me think of Aztec Camera because I'm a fucking moron. This song is great because it makes me think. And it doesn't sound exactly like anybody else. And after five listens I can usually sing along all the way through. Ian C Stewart

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Location Swindon, Wiltshire - United Kingdom

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