Jon Dailey: guitar/bass
Darren Johns: vocals/guitar
Simon Marsh: drums
Tim Rowing-Parker: bass/vox
Influences
Hapsudden & The Mankind Band
cups of decaf tea
Manx Shearwater
underachievement
Constantines
peace and quiet
born against Christians
Ennio Morricone
Kurt Vonnegut
Sounds Like
Hard twang with sweat-corroded pick-ups. A city-grown abscess bursting out on the moorlands. 16 Horsepower with 100w Marshall heads. Fugazi with banjos, but without banjos.
From Devon, UK, hard-twang, roots-punk quartet, Crazy Arm, properly set up camp in mid-2006.
They very much enjoy listening to 16 Horsepower, Murder By Death, Fleet Foxes, Constantines, Hüsker Dü, The Clash, Fugazi, Dick Gaughan, Austin Lucas, Ted Leo, The Replacements, Gene Vincent, Led Zeppelin, CSNY, Bruce Springsteen and Baroness, and sometimes end up sounding a bit like all of them, sometimes all at once.
The band have toured the UK underground many times, sometimes with other bands, sometimes alone. Their favourite two tours were with Cornwall’s Bangers and Manchester’s Sonic Boom Six.
Debut album, 'Born To Ruin', recorded by Pete Miles on the edge of Dartmoor, was released on Xtra Mile Recordings in June 2009. The title is a celebration of history’s conscientious trouble-makers. Not easy to categorise, and all the better for it, ‘Born To Ruin’ is an accumulation of years and years of influence and inspiration: rooted in hardcore/punk, ‘60s protest folk and classic rock’n’roll. Available at the top of this page. Click on the header banner.
Band members are all atheist, internationalist, vegetarian/vegan and support human/animal rights struggles worldwide. They consider these things important to mention even if you don’t.
Debut 7" limited-edition single, 'Broken By The Wheel', is out now on Seven Inch Records (digital formats via Xtra Mile).
The self-produced demo EP, 'Cross Country', is no longer available so feel free to burn it off someone else.
What they said about 'Born To Ruin'
‘Stunning’ KKKK – Kerrang!
‘Quite brilliant’ – Rock Sound
‘One of the most instantly addictive albums you’ll ever hear’ – Last Hours
‘Storming roots-punk debut’ – Big Cheese
‘Sure-fire contender for best debut album of 2009’ – Rock Midgets
‘An explosive blast of glorious creativity, power and honesty’ – Go2
‘Easily up there as album of the decade’ – Allgigs.co.uk
‘They deserve to be huge’ – Mass Movement
‘Born To Ruin erupts into the room’ – The Music Fix
‘A dramatic, intelligent and impressive debut’ – Sputnik Music
‘Undeniably authentic and fiercely intense’ – God Is In The TV
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We used to be called "Mumrik" that was looking for a singer and now we finally found a singer and the band name became STM since we are working together at a distance of 6000miles from Leeds, UK to Kyoto, Japan. And we uploaded 3 songs now. Check them and let me know what you think. Thanks.
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NEW ALBUM ON SALE!: 'We Bake Our Bread Beneath Her Holy Fire', the third studio album from Thumpermonkey Lives is now available direct from www.genin.co.uk, (and other sources linked from here. If you need convincing, you can listen to / download the whole thing here). Also, check out the ecstatic latest review from Organ Magazine, and check out the video to the album's closing song '419' here.
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