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Name?Adil Yaqub Salik.Date of Birth?12th April, 1980.Hobbies?Music ( duh ), Artwork, Poetry, Self indulgent ramblings, avid ex- xmencomic freak, photography.Education?Final year student of BDS ( Dentistry ) @ Lahore Medical & Dental College.Music Education?Self taught - started playing guitar when i was 13, started really dwelling onit since i was 15/16, studied music a bit on my own and listened to tonnesand tonnes of records from grunge to alternative rock to neo-power pop tocontemporary adult music to piano music etc. Started songwriting around 16and have been writing and singing ever since. Music compositions,orchestration, percussion, drum sequencing and mixing of all songs on thetrusty pc and in my virile head :)Music Equipment?Mind, Words, Guitars ( Ibanez rg370, Yamaha nylon acoustic, Emip solidelectric ), Voice, PC, Tambourines, Salt shakers and postcards from flickeringnight skies.Other Occupations?I just recently finished a book of post modern poetry entitled " Dirty Street-lites", have been writing for a long time now.Sources of inspiration (while creating music)?Roadside emotions that are clichéd and at times overspent :love/hate/empathy/jealousy/bliss/chaos/ambivalence. A lot of real lifeevents that occur that effect you as a person: body mind and soul as well asthe people around you. the gravity that glues us all to one place. I also learnta LOT from the musicians that I’ve heard and adore, the list is endless but afew of them are : REM, Counting crows, Nirvana, Pearl jam, Foo fighters,Hole, Bush, Tori amos, Sarah McLachlan, K's choice, Stereophonics, Live, AniDiFranco, Dave Matthews band, Goo Goo dolls, Cake, Cranberries, SmashingPumpkins, Duncan Sheik, a plethora of unsigned bands and artists like Emilywells, the shermans etc whom you could found on the net on mp3.com orepitonic.com etc. and the list goes on and on, i've probably not mentioned 40or 50 more bands that i avidly listen to, but it just goes to show that i listento a whole lot of music ranging from Contemporary adult alternative topunkrock to piano-singer-songwriter stuff and that just carries the torch of real music for me onwards, to which i become a part of. Music not for thesake of doing something as a hobby or perhaps getting famous or just assomething "kool" but making music and songs that directly speak out of experience and intelligence. Songs that you could relate to in your life, not

bubblegum pop music. The ultimate feeling is knowing that you can raiseawareness or that you can change someones life or way of thinking just bycommunicating to them through your words and your music ... that feeling isthe ultimate high and that also instills in you this sense of responsibility andbelonging while at the same time allowing you to go out on a limb andscream revolution in the face of the four-walls holding you back.What drew you guys towards music?Well, to me, growing up was something i did around a lot of exposure tomusic, through my fathers classic huge vinyl record collection and to my firsttaste of american/english music and onto the first wave of Pakistanipop/rock. And then came a time when i discovered grunge, Nirvana andpearl jam from that time, every milestone or every event in my life can berelived by listening to some song which ran in that era, each verse carrying avision of some forgotten childhood folly. Creating music and writing words tocomplement it, or writing poetry and creating music to complement that wasso addictive and it became such a bare necessity that it just becamesomething i accepted as a part of me and my everyday life. The taste, thebittersweet laments, the angry revolution, the sunkissed summer love song,that all drew me radically into making music.Tell us something about your upcoming album?Well, i've been working on tonnes of songs, broadly classified under twodifferent projects. The english songs ( i've written more than a 100 englishsongs over the course of 5 years ) are intended for two Lp's: one a moreskeletal and bare record called " A cuestick for malice" consisting of moreacoustic based songs, and the alterna rock ripper record " Let you blur ".The second project is the urdu record, called " Mahaz", and for that about25+ urdu songs have been penned and are currently being recorded. A lot of these songs are up and available at http://dye.iuma.com, but i would like tobelieve that at one time i'd like to rerecord them perhaps, so in a way thosecan be considered very hifi demos. Mahaz would deal with the concept of moulding songs that would reflect either a: personal experiences, b: areabout the real world, real problems and real issues that as human beings andas people of this land we must understand and react to and c: songs aboutindemnity, reveling and retaliation ( preferably at the same time ).Music Recognition or achievements?I've performed several times, and @ the RMS ( rock music show ) andReadyHO!TV ( both tv shows ) and the band has also enjoyed good reviews inThe News and the Sunday Times etc. + Regular airplay @fm101 (highvoltage). The most enterprising thing is perhaps performing at a concert andinteracting with the audience or puting your songs up as mp3s on the weband reaching Canada, Mauritius, states, uk and australia and getting lots of fain mail and being able to communicate with all those people on a personallevel.Type of Music you like?The bands i listen to mostly have already been mentioned under theinspirations, but as far as genre is concerned it'd have to be Alternativerock/ Contemporary Adult Alternative, Post modern/neo emo and punkrock.A lot of conventional singer songwriter stuff. Country/alternative countryand americana.Type of Music you hate?Dance, Techno, Death Metal, Rap, Rock-Rap, Indian film music, Bubblegum,Corporate produced acts al'a boybands and avril and britney and all such,Middle of the road rock. ( this was fun :) )What do you think about other Pakistani Artists?There are a lot of good musicians out there save for their egos that i reallylike. Junoon have always been an inspiration. I think what they really need isdiversity plus acceptance of more left field acts into the mainstream plusthey all severely need to stop promoting people with money and contacts and

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