Tempest

Specialism: Mild to Extra Strong Cheddar Cheeses circa 2007 onwards

Favourite Artists: The Academy Is…, Explosions In The Sky, The Gaslight Anthem, You Me At Six, Boys Like Girls, Quietdrive, Dashboard Confessional

Most Random Artist in iTunes: either B*Witched, The Coors or the audio to this (Jeremy “Beadle” Lowen, UPHC Amsterdam Tour 2010; 4.57 AM, “Getting awkward”)

Most Listened to (according to Last.fm): The Ataris- So Long, Astoria

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Contact: miketemp101@hotmail.com Last.fm Profile here.

“When it comes to Tempest; eclectic doesn’t quite cut it” Richard “Rigid” Beaver, 2010.

A student of the school of Last.fm, Tempest’s ability to write in the third person is second to none. “Play Similar Artists to Boys Like Girls” (who are MINT) essentially started the love affair with Pop Punk, one which Tempest almost shamelessly accepts. Clearly in everyone’s iTunes there are artists they’d rather not admit to having listened to, and Tempest is a rare exception to this rule. Metro Station’s first (and now only album) was good. JoJo’s Too Little, Too Late has over 10 plays. What of it?

The past year is really where the eclecticism grew, still in no short part to Last.fm, forums and Rapidshare. Hard drives came, went (often cited as “the great hard drive fire of 2008”) and were rebuilt; currently stating at 70GB and over 13,000 tracks ranging from the Pop Punk Tempest’s musical interest was built on, to Hip-Hop from his year long stint living with Ajay(182), to Miles Davis’ 1957 jazz classic; “Birth of The Cool” to instrumental Post Rock to The Best of B*Witched.

Unnecessarily verbose, mountains are easily made from mole hills when Tempest actually decides to drop a sick post, with a twisted sense of humour and usually a vast procrastination for University work.

“Not sure that I’ve got enough letters to express what I’m trying to say to you, I’m holding out for the triple word score”
Tokyo Rose- Less Than Four