#harry morris

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The Dreams In The Witch House (1972)

Art by Harry Morris

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Dreams in the Witch House, by Harry O. Morris.

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Illustrations by Harry O. Morris Jr. for HALLOWEEN IN ARKHAM. 1979.

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Interview: The New Twentys

1: How did you decide on the name, “New Twentys"?

We were just having one of our random conversations where we try to set the world right and somewhere in that conversation Jimmy said ‘one day this decade will just be referred to as the 20’s and it will be the new 20’s whereas at the moment everyone would assume you mean the 1920’s’. Everyone just looked at each other and said ‘that is the band name’ (which had happened about three times before with previous band name ideas, but this one actually stuck).

2: What inspires you to create?

We are looking for inspiration pretty much everywhere to be honest! Our favourite bands, The Cure, Talking Heads, The Clash, The Police, etc, inspire us a lot obviously. But also we are often inspired by films, funny quotes, past dramas and anything else we end up speaking about.    

3: What advice would you give to someone who wants to be in a creative profession?

Well firstly definitely look for better people to give you advice! But if there is no one else than we would say get your head down, don’t worry about anything other than getting 10-20 finished tracks all recorded and sounding as good as you can get them, and that way you don’t have to panic about not having the next song ready and you can focus a bit more on your release plan.  

4: Do you feel open minded about what you listen to? Do you like going out of your comfort zone?

Yeah what we all love about this band is how open we are in terms of the music we listen to and where we draw influence from. If we hear a song we like that is always the most important thing, currently we are loving the Miley Cyrus song ‘Angels Like You’.

5: What outlets do you find out about music from? (Record stores, magazines, samplers, etc.)

Harry is always looking through new music Friday to keep his ear to the ground and then telling us what he finds. Jimmy is a victim of instagram ads and will actually click through and follow bands or artists that he sees pop up if he likes it. And Chris is an avid follower of the instagram page 'catatonicyouth' ahaha

6: What was the inspiration for your song “You Got Me Good”?

I (Harry) was recording a track when our friend Sam called.  He’s a great guy and photographer who Chris met on a trip in Minneapolis.  We ended up chatting for about two hours, he was really hung up on a girl he had got involved with during his trip to London.  He then had to go and see some family in Amsterdam and it was during Kings Day, which is where the city basically turns into even more of a party!  This is where the lyric ‘surrounded by thousands of people, all I can think about is you,’ came from, because although he was having a good time, he couldn’t stop thinking about this girl.  They had also only been talking for a short amount of time, but you could tell he was already in super deep which is what inspired the lyric ‘five years of five minutes, what’s the difference if your whole heart’s in it’.  Sometimes I think we all get carried away and create these hypothetical situations of what and how it could be, before allowing it to pan out, and then we get disappointed when the plan that only existed inside our heads doesn’t happen.  The song is about the penny-drop moment of ‘oh wow you got me’, because until then, you didn’t even necessarily know how hard you had fallen.  

Jimmy came downstairs and heard me working on ‘You Got Me Good’, and he loved it and added the “Who’d of thought that I, would say you always had me all along?” section, and also the opening guitar riff. I had created a rough demo of the track with my vocal on (even though Jimmy is usually the singer) but we decided it should be a duet which is cool because it is the only song of ours so far that is a duet throughout.  So at this point, it was a rough demo with the guitar picking riff, midi drums, some piano and just a simple recorded bass loop. Chris and Kamil then jumped on the track and really made it come to life by adding lots of flare and vibe, and they spent a while working out their rhythm parts perfectly around each other.  It is also the first track where we recorded live drums instead of programming them, and we definitely feel that was the right choice because on a faster track like this, that extra energy is magic.

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Daughter of WIU Alumni Headed for Rio Olympics

Daughter of WIU Alumni Headed for Rio Olympics

MACOMB, IL – When Western Illinois University graduates Harry Morris and Kerry Jamison Morris were members of the University’s track and field team in the 1980s, both dreamed of someday making it to the Olympics.

Harry, a 1982 graduate with a degree in geology, was a pole vaulter and decathlete at Western, and Kerry, a 1982 graduate with a degree in home economics education and a minor in…

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