WILLIAM BLAKE

Band's Myspace: http://myspace.com/williamblakeband

Band Members: Everyone who wants in, plus Carlos Mal Pacheco, Erasmo Acosta, Fugo Medina, Xavier Munguía.

Influences: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Dethklok, U2, Daler Mehndi, Johnny Cash, Los Tigres del Norte, Tom Waits, David Haselhoff, Loudon Wainwright III, The Pogues, Ramón Ayala y sus Bravos del Norte.

Record Label: El Club Chufa Records.

IMPORTANT: First, we suck big time. And the band is dead. We split up in 2002. But that doesn't mean we're not a band. I'm the band now. My name is Carlos Mal Pacheco and this is William Blake, the band.

We started with covers of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, but now we're writing songs and working on the concept. William Blake puts music to William Blake's poems, 'modernizes' old Mexican folklore songs and gets a kick of making songs about almost anything, like "You make the move", about Robert DeNiro's monologue in Taxi Driver. And the Mexican National Anthem.

William Blake is back from the dead thanks to the marvels of money. Now we have the ways to record again and we're determined to bring to the light all those songs that are not covers, but neat, original songs written by us and performed in the same shitty manner you all know and love (you all? Who's reading this anyway?)

We'll start with The Mexican National Song, a love song about how Jaime Nunó's ghost appears to a lover and encourages him to use the Mexican National Anthem's music to win his beloved's heart.

I hope you all (?) like it as much as I did.

Download The Mexican National Song.