Welcome to Zapp Royce's world.
Zapp's musical journey started with his first ever instrument being a euphonium, which he tried at primary school whilst living in Wales, but after about three months gave it up, that was really the only time he had any music lessons. His brother started to have piano lessons, so he used his brothers piano tutorials, and taught himself to play the piano.

He eventually bought a guitar, at the age of about 14 used to sit in his bedroom, listening to Never Mind the Bollocks, by the Sex Pistols thinking that they were the best thing since sliced bread, thrash his guitar knowing only the bar chord and; of course the chords to House of the Rising Sun, then he and a few of his mates from school formed a band, called themselves the Migraines. Their first real gig was in Lifton church hall (in Devon) with Josh Joshua McCrae's band Inconvenience, there were fights going on in the back of the hall amongst the local chavs.
Terry Hodge who was in the third band unfortunately, lost his brother as he made his way home, he was hit by a lorry, for some reason he was walking on the left hand side of the road even though there was a pavement on the right had side of the road.

A few years later Josh Joshua McCrae later got a job with Roger Taylor from Queen playing drums for Rogers band The Cross, he is now the main engineer for Queen, has just finished working on their latest album.
Josh introduced Roger to one of Zapp's best friends Debbie Leng, who was also at the same school.
Queen were making a video hired some model's one of which was Debbie, Josh introduced Debbie to Roger and they ended up having three children together.

Josh sold Zapp his old drum kit and a very ropey surfboard, which again Zapp only really messed about with, but Zapp's collection of musical instruments was gradually growing, well the band fell apart they all left school went their separate ways.

It wasn't until Zapp was 24 when he bought a saxophone, which was when Zapp got bac into music again but this time he decided to learn all his scales, so he spent roughly a year practising around five hours a day, he would learn a song and then play it to death in the London underground system, (get chased around by the cops) normally a Charlie Parker tune or Take Five, make a few quid in the process.

Well after about a year two friends and Zapp formed a band called The Big E, they went to South East Asia to record the album Mightier Than Mike, which is available on itunes,The Big E on itunes
Mightier Than Mike on Amazon.co.uk & all the other good download sites. The whole experience took around two years from start to finish, they are currently talking to Hollywood about making a film about the story as the whole episode warrants a film being about the whole adventure.
Anyhow eventually the band split up and the three lads went their separate ways.

Living in Amsterdam, Zapp carried on playing and learning the saxophone he lived mainly on busking, but did do a couple of theatre performances both of which got write ups in the local press. Eventually he moved back to London. Hes oon discovered that Norton, Stone had started working together again they managed to get a twenty thousand pound deal with Virgin records although it came to nothing. Soon after Norton set up Trinity Records / S.O.U.R. records Sound of the Underground Records, started producing records like

Sour-cream volume one,
S.O.U.R NU SKOOL FLAVA with 1.(Elementz of NOIZE) 2.This Style (DJ Krust Relick) Shy FX. 3. Mid Town Method (level ii) (DJ Trace) 4. Stick Up! (MC DET) 5. Mass Hysteria (Shapeshifter) 6. Hit The Deck (Elementz of Noize) 7. Let Me Be (L. Double mix) (Elizabeth Troy) 8.The Way it Goes Down! (DJ Kane) 10. Funkindem Up! (Shy FX) 11 The Difference(Skyskraper) T Power - the self evident truth of an intuitive mind Intellect 1. Circle 2.square.3 trapezium 4. octogon 5. triangle 6. indigo. 7.silver. 8 turquoise.9.amber

One of the most successful was ORIGINAL NUTTAH UK Apachi with Shy FX on SOUR 1994 Stone & Norton eventually went their separate ways, Stone set up Meltdown in Brighton a Drum & Bass club which started of in the and then moved into The Beach.
He now runs Digital in Newcastle and Brighton.
During this time Zapp had been working in mainly sales jobs in London he worked for Stirling Audio System and Syco systems a high end studio supplier where he met Andy Gray Andy Grays Myspace profile who did the music for Big Brother with Paul Oakenfold amongst other things.
Zapp introduced Andy to a good friend called Kirsten Price and he made a few tracks with her which I believe were probably some of her first recordings ZappRoyce on Soundclick Have a listen to "Don't Get Left Behind" .(she also did a track with Josh Joshua McCrae with her friend Joanna called "Get out of London" (It's a great track by Josh) this is also on Soundclick which is a kind of SOUND GALLERY for random songs which Zapp recorded or was somehow involved with - with various friends from the past.
Kirsten now has a record deal in America and is doing very well, unfortunately they have lost touch or she just decides to ignore Zapp I'm not sure which but they were great friends & used to hang out in various venues in Camden Town & Islington
Kirsten Price on Myspace After Stirling Audio Systems & Syco Systems Zapp got a job for an American company distributing Audio equipment & soon became the Managing Director.
Soon after resigning from the job, Zapp moved to West Sussex, after about a year or so joined a band called Fat Lounge, they played Acid Jazz at local Venues in Brighton like the Sussex Arts Club, The Freebutt, and Stars & Stripes, they only recorded three songs which are available on itunes Fat Lounge on Itunes
Fat Lounge on Amazon.oc.uk
While in Sussex Zapp also worked with Joseph Plant & recorded saxophone on Josephs song Teleporter. So after roughly twenty years of meddling with music Zapp continues to record songs in his spare time. In May 2007 Zapp was diagnosed with Non Hodgkins Lymphoma which is cancer of the Lymphatic system & spent four months on intensive Chemo Therapy this happened two years after running his own property refurbishment business, he has now decided that is time to get back into music again & is now starting up a new band & doing some djing.

Award: "Teleporter" wins Ambient Track of the Day

Joseph Plants & Zapp Royce's song, "Teleporter" will be featured as GarageBand.com's Ambient Track of the Day on Saturday, the 29th of November, 2008.

posted Tuesday, Nov 25, 2008 at 00:05am (2 days 10 hours ago)

A New Law Has Been Passed that Earns You More Money

Agreement Royale

On September 23, 2008, songwriters, publishers, record labels and digital music services announced they had reached an agreement on mechanical royalties for songs played on online music services.

Called a ?breakthrough that will facilitate new ways to offer music to consumers online,? the voluntary agreement crafted by the Digital Media Association (DiMA), the National Music Publishers? Association (NMPA), the RIAA, the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) and the Songwriters Guild of America (SGA) ended a longstanding dispute about mechanical royalties for interactive streaming and limited downloads.

According to the agreement, which still must be approved by the Copyright Royalty Board to take effect, limited download and interactive streaming services will pay a mechanical royalty of 10.5 percent of revenue, less any amounts owed for performance royalties. In certain instances, royalty-free promotional streaming is allowed.

This agreement garnered a significant amount of press and blog coverage last week, but lots of it jumped to the conclusion that this was the answer to the ongoing digital performance royalty fight between SoundExchange and webcasters like Pandora and soma.fm. Not so. That?s a different issue, related to a different part of copyright. We know this stuff can be horribly confusing, so we?ve put this blog post together in an effort to explain what happened last week, and how it affects musicians, music services and webcasters.

OK the reason I haven't written a bio is because I don't really know where to start, as there is so much that I could write about, but there are a few things that I could say like the reason that I am not allowing all my tracks to be downloaded, is because I have spent over ten thousand pounds over the years on equipment of which most is now obsolete, I have spent hours learning various different instruments, hours learning to use various software & hardware & I'm still f--k--g broke, OK I have had my fair share of bad luck, but what really pisses me off is why people who set up sites like limewire think that they have the right to freely distribute, artists music, & record companies music most of which has taken thousands of pounds / dollars & hours to make.
Zapp Royce is a self taught musician, programmer,songwriter,producer,philosopher,inventor.
"When things go wrong as they sometimes will
When the road you're trudging seems all up hill
When the funds are low and the debts are high
And you want to smile but you have to sigh
When care is pressing you down a bit
Rest if you must but don't you quit."
Look out for the humour in his work,& don't take it too seriously.
Enjoy.

garage band info for
HIGHLY RADIOACTIVE Awards!
Track of the Day on 4May2008
Best Guitars in Experimental Electronica, week of 14Jul2008
Grooviest Rhythm overall, week of 14Jul2008
Grooviest Rhythm in Experimental Electronica, week of 14Jul2008

CHARLIE GOES BHANGRAH Awards!
Track of the Day on 28Dec2007
in World Fusion Track Of The Week on 28Jan2008
in World Fusion

Best Female Vocals in World Fusion, week of 21Jan2008
Best Production in World Fusion, week of 7Jan2008
Best Production in World Fusion, week of 21Jan2008
Best Melody in World Fusion, week of 21Jan2008
Best Beat in World Fusion, week of 21Jan2008
Best Mood in World Fusion, week of 21Jan2008
Most Original in World Fusion, week of 21Jan2008

ChARLIE & THE SPACE SHIP Awards!
Track of the Day on 20Mar2008 in Experimental Electronica