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Toby Burton
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Town or City you live in
Chalk Farm
County/State
London
What instrument(s) do you play?
rhythm guitar, Vocals, Guitar
Describe your musician status (you can pick more than one description):
Hobbyist, In a band
Can you categorise the music you like to play?
rock, indie, punk
Please tell us more about your band/music:
Rock, with a pop sensibility and always with an English accent.
Your website address, or your band's:
http://www.pocketrocket-uk.com
What do you do for a living?
Drug Addiction Treatment Co-ordinator

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About my band, Pocket Rocket

Pocket Rocket began life as a studio project for ex-67 singer and guitarist Toby Burton and his drum machine, The Phantom Limb in 1998. Before long though, Burton began drafting in musician-friends to back him up live, and by 2000 Pocket Rocket could be seen playing both electric and acoustic sets, with various instrumental support around both London’s rock and chilled-club circuits. The earliest line-up included Toby’s lifelong friend Michael Wilson on bass, Stewart George on saxophone and Jean-Marc Brunerie on drums. Jean-Marc was later replaced by ex-67 drummer Gavin Richards. Between 2004-2007, as a result of other commitments and the departure of Richards, Burton redrafted The Phantom Limb into the line up. However, in September 2007, with more time on his hands again, Burton began rebuilding the band, first drafting in ex-Demented-Are-Go guitarist ‘Lex’ Luther Taylor and completing the new line-up with ex-Fairground Worker Nigel Edginton-Vigus on drums.

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Pocket Rocket's website/gateway URL

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Visit Pocket Rocket's ME Musicpage (Metro Newspaper on-line)

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Visit Pocket Rocket's London Tourdates page


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What Colin Gillman AKA Axevictim has to say about Pocket Rocket:

I have come to know Toby Burton (above left) reasonably well since I was pointed in his general direction by Kenny back when I was having a crisis about what to wear on stage. Toby had recently founded his global social networking site for mature musicians Rock Til You Drop and what with me being a highly opinionated type personage I rapidly found that I was calling Toby up for chats and inviting him to come along and meet with me and the lads in Magic Ship for a drink. Since then I’ve been a supporter of his RTYD gigs which are showcases for the bands that populate Toby’s site. I’ll even go so far as to say that I have managed to persuade the dear fellow to set up a music download site and even a social networking site for music fans. I like Toby. I’d say that I am proud to call him mate. And here’s the thing. When he wasn’t a mate I wasn’t all that bothered about checking out his band Pocket Rocket’s back catalogue. Let’s face it. Most musicians are far to self absorbed and competitive to be thinking about someone else’s band. We’re far too busy thinking about ourselves. However, since adopting the moniker of mate I have begun to listen more to Toby’s songs and to his lyrics (which are odd but quirky odd like Jarvis Cocker might be considered odd) and I have come to love his singing style which is very English provincial (which is also what a lot of his lyrical subject matter is about) and coming from Godalming and wanting desperately to become a punk his music simply oozes small town frustration. The band is another matter entirely. A really great bunch of tight sounding musos with a highly distinctive and original style. All said and done Pocket Rocket are a terrific band that I am delighted to have discovered since joining the RTYD networking site. So, if you like the kind of English quirkyness as described above and want to check out his band’s music you can do so at the RTYD Download site. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

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Hi Michael, I'm interested in this pedal, how about a review of it here in the the forum: http://www.rock-til-you-drop-musicians.com/forum/categories/guitar-effects-pedalspedal/listForCategory Cheers, Toby
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At 1:21pm on January 11, 2010, Timothy Jones said…
Hi Toby,
Web-Developer: James Pearce (Pause Studios)
this guy did our web page for the company that I am now a director.
I used to work with him and he is a good guy (but not music orientated) although he will be able to give you advice on web stuff . He appears to know about accessability and various things like how to get "googled" better etc. He also creates web pages but will not use animation (as this restricts the hits you may get and who can view you).

Either way you could give him a call or drop him an email. He works from home in the evenings (after 9pm) during the day he is a house husband (sound familiar?).

Let him know who gave you his number (he knows me as Tim and he worked with me at Colourview).

james@pausestudios.co.uk
Tel: 07913 792 226
At 12:28pm on January 11, 2010, Timothy Jones said…
Read your "Miss World" comment on the state of the union. So yeah ... we do read them.

Toby, you DO NEED TO DELEGATE MORE.
If there is no money to earn from putting the shows on then you have nothing to lose by delegating the duty to those who would happily do it for the love of it (especially outside of London, to help establish the "brand").

And ... so far the brand HAS grown (in membership) considerably since I joined, I'm sure Mr Gilman has given some ideas that are probably worth mulling over.
The Brand outside of London, when some growth is achieved, could be a franchaise operation in the making ....

How about a small yearly fee for those acts that wish to be put on a RTYD gig bill?
This could provide income for other more profitable routes to be "exploited".
Poll the members about the ideas to increase revenue to utilise for RTYD projects.
Any money that is made an income of sorts would be justified as part of the expense.

Either way ... whatever you choose to do .... GOOD LUCK!

Tox.
At 9:57pm on January 7, 2010, Keith Buckman said…
Hi Toby,

Many thanks for your welcome.

All the best,
Keith
 
 

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