Flicker

The name Flicker is derived from several sources. Primarily, the flame in your heart. Flicker is also an appropriate name for film music, which is something that interests the band a lot. That’s not all. After the word had been printed out, it looked very similar to something rather rude and derogatory involving a letter ‘u’ rather than the letters ‘li’. Similarly, somebody suggested that if one were to put a space or perhaps a hyphen between the ‘f’ and the ‘l’, another term of smut resulted. The Flicker collective found that this rather appealed to their senses of humour, and kept the name.

Flicker started as the brainchild of George, chief composer of the project. He had various spare instrumental pieces that were left over after various bands had not managed to put lyrics to them. Some of these were electric guitar pieces and others were acoustic pieces that were the results of his experimenting with non-standard tunings. Rather than just throw them away, the plan was to try to produce them as the musical pieces which they were.

Flicker’s central idea became the creation of instrumental music for film, TV and computer games. Several people had commented over the years that this tune or that one would make a great theme tune for such-and-such. The band were also feeling rather disillusioned with the music industry as a whole, which seemed overly obsessed with the idea of image, and more akin to the soft porn industry than anything to do with music. Being reluctant to take up miming and being handicapped by obviously being rubbish at music due to having long since passed the age of 17, Flicker was seen as a way forward.

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