{"id":967,"date":"2020-08-17T08:05:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T08:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americannoirpaintings.com\/blog\/?p=967"},"modified":"2020-08-20T05:05:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T05:05:17","slug":"life-after-lockdown-mark-refoy-from-spacemen-3-to-slipstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americannoirpaintings.com\/blog\/life-after-lockdown-mark-refoy-from-spacemen-3-to-slipstream\/","title":{"rendered":"Life After Lockdown &#8211; Mark Refoy &#8211; From Spacemen 3 to Slipstream&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"blue-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/refuzz\/?hl=en\"><strong>Mark Refoy<\/strong><\/a> is a musician and songwriter known for his work as guitarist with <strong>\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firerecords.com\/spacemen-3\/\">Spacemen 3<\/a>,\u2019 \u00a0\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/3914-spiritualized\/\">Spiritualized<\/a>,\u2019<\/strong> and the English synth-pop duo, \u2018<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.petshopboys.co.uk\/home\">Pet Shop Boys<\/a>,\u2019 <\/strong>as well as recording and touring the world with his band, <strong>\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/slipstream1.bandcamp.com\/\">Slipstream<\/a>.\u2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn a way, the lockdown has impacted upon me probably less than other folk, because I\u2019m a key worker, so I\u2019ve been going to work as normal.&nbsp; That, coupled with my almost hermit-like existence, means that it\u2019s business as usual in a very unusual world, which is consequently very unusual.<\/p>\n<p>The key things are not having the normal interaction with friends and family.&nbsp; You don\u2019t know what you got until you lose it, said John Lennon once\u2026so true.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been working on a lot of music, but that\u2019s a given.&nbsp; I\u2019m always doing that.&nbsp; I\u2019ll send you a Dropbox download link to a rough and ready version of our next as yet unfinished next album, tentatively titled, <strong>SlipTones.&nbsp; <\/strong>I\u2019ve become pretty adept at cutting my own hair \u2013 I bought some clippers a couple of months ago and have been perfecting my style.&nbsp; It\u2019s become a bit of a habit, so I\u2019m thinking of carrying on doing it myself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/americannoirpaintings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Fa2ovuFQ.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-973\" width=\"390\" height=\"451\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"trackTitle\">A\u200b.\u200bE\u200b.\u200bI\u200b.\u200bO\u200b.\u200bU. (Lost For Words)<\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/slipstream1.bandcamp.com\/\">Slipstream<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 588px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=240312641\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=e99708\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/slipstream1.bandcamp.com\/album\/a-e-i-o-u-lost-for-words\">A.E.I.O.U. 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