Hola.

My name is Arron and I am a professional musician and writer. I love music & words (obviously...), cheesy potato gratin, trees, pragmatism, comedy, human beings and creativity.

Nice to meet you!

I'm positive, helpful and I'm easy to get along with. Je veux parles plus de Francais - mais je n'ai pas une autre personne au Pays de Galles pour parler avec - je perds la langue!

I'm looking to make friends, write new material, get rest and gain perspective. I want to learn.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm working on a project during the next 6 months called 'musicunity' to raise money and awareness for refugees through performance and volunteering for various charities.

I'm planning on travelling through Europe - November 2016 - May 2016. I'm planning on spending the time learning about different languages and ways of life, spending time with refugees and refugee projects, networking with local musicians and music groups, writing new material, raising money for charity and doing both creative & manual work.

I would welcome a musical residency/single performances at venues, hotels or bars. I'm open minded and I am eager to find alternative ways of living and consuming.

I'm a solo gypsy jazz-ish musician under the stage name of 'ap Cooper'

facebook.com/apcoopermusic
soundcloud.com/apcooper

I offer free house performance & any manual/creative work as required in exchange for lodgings - I would also be interested in contributing to living costs. Sharing is caring x

Interests

• photography
• music festivals
• cooking
• traveling
• music
• live music
• folk music
• philosophy
• food
• reading books
• creativity
• humans
• creative writing
• gypsy jazz

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: LOTS! The Doors / Black Keys / Modest Mouse / Radiohead / The Velvet Underground / Angel Olsen / The Parrots / DJ Yoda / Simon & Garfunkel / David Bowie / The Kinks / Junius Meyvant etc / etc / etc...

Movies: Tarantino / Kubrick / Wes Anderson

Books: Douglas Coupland / John Wyndham / David Mitchell

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I had such vivid dreams of flying when I was a child that I truly believe that I could fly when I was a child. Which is pretty amazing.

Also...I performed at Festival No.6 in the beautiful Italianate setting of the village of Portmeirion.

Teach, Learn, Share

Everything in life works in cycles.

Sharing is indeed caring x

What I Can Share with Hosts

Music, bread baking, philosophy, gardening/manual labour, poetry, cooking, house work, guitar lessons, English/Welsh lessons, marketing advice, speculative conceptual science chatter, low-level comedy, contribution to living costs.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Morocco, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, France, Morocco, Wales