James Robinson lead vocals,
accoustic guitar.

"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do".
Bob Dylan.

Thoughts;
"If I didn't have music it would be as if I was sitting around waiting for something to happen. Music can take me to a place different from anywhere else, where I experience an entire spectrum of emotional states. With the band, I am so happy at the direction our music is taking, it seems as though musically we all understand one another and we are all comfortable with the sounds that we make. At times it's like nothing else".
James.

Currently listening to:
4Hero – ‘Two Pages’
The Roots – ‘Phrenology’
Free – ‘Molten Gold’
The Beatles – ‘Love’
Stevie Wonder – ‘Songs In The Key Of Life'.

JAMES ROBINSON BIOG
James first picked up an acoustic guitar when he
was twelve but didn't take it up seriously until he
was fifteen:
"After my Dad had taught me a few Clapton riffs
on a battered old acoustic guitar I was hooked.
My folks had always promised to buy me an
electric guitar if I got to grade five on the clarinet.
But by the time I had got to grade three I had
definitely had enough of wind instruments so saved
up and bought my own! It was a second hand
Japanese Fender Stratocaster, cream coloured
just like the one Hendrix used to play".

Having been subjected to artists like Bob Dylan,
Crosby Stills Nash and Young and James Taylor
from a very early age, James soon discovered that
after a brief love affair with an electric guitar it was
the acoustic sound that really grabbed his attention:
"When I first heard people like Ben Harper, Jack
Johnson and Cat Stevens, I pretty much ditched the
electric guitar and spent the whole time on my new
electro acoustic covering other people's songs and
just playing them over and over again until
eventually I felt comfortable enough to sit down and
write a few tunes of my own".

A few 'open mic' nights later, James recorded his
first solo EP "Scrap Paper" (at the end of the
summer 2004, it contained two original songs and
two covers). Although only locally released, the
four-track recording was so well received that it
encouraged Plymouth born James, now graduated
from Sussex University, to write more original
material. Having jammed with one or two well
known musicians on the Southwest scene James
confesses to having never really played or written
any music with anyone else, until he met Dino and
Rob:
"I was living with Dino, who I didn't even realise
played guitar at first, but soon we were jamming
all the time. We wrote a couple of quality tunes
together, but it all started happening after a mate
of mine introduced me to Rob, who brought a
brand new perspective to the tunes we had
composed. When the three of us started writing
and recording for Melodious Star EP,
Two Spot Gobi was truly born".