Matt Clubb - Vocals/Guitars
Sueleen Fletcher - Vocals
Philipp Hall - Guitars
John Rivers - Drums
Alex (Mr Zea) Powley - Bass
Influences
Pearl Jam
Alice In Chains
Soundgarden
Chris Cornell
Stone Temple Pilots
Brad
Satchel
Mother Love Bone
Temple Of The Dog
Pavement
Beck
Mad Season
Kings Of Convenience
The Beatle's
Elton John(only the old stuff)
Jeff Buckley
Nick Drake
Jefferson Airplane
Bob Dylan
Joe Cocker
Jose Gonzalez
PJ Harvey
Bueno Vista Social Club
Billy Holiday
Chuck Berry
Kander and Ebb
Cole Porter
anything from Crete
Gypsy Jazz music
My mum playing Joan Baez songson her guitar when I was young....
Sounds Like
Pearl Jam meets Bob Dylan
to watch the sun rise on the beautiful Kent countryside.
Somewhere like Martin Mill or 'The Thinky Place',
which is on top of a big hill overlooking Dover......
paradise.......the view that is....
NOT Dover!
There's just something about this band that makes the hair
on the back of your neck stand up.
Amber Room started as an acoustic duo, playing heartbreaking
delicacies with whimsical vocal harmonies that would silence
some of the most unforgiving crowds.
It was like casting a spell. It was just Matt and Sueleen back then.
Sueleens natural ability to throw unobvious harmonies over our songs
is breathtaking, making everything sound epic and effortless.
So things have a habit of evolving, expanding, so we did.
Drafting in, what would later be,
the perfect musical compound, comprising of:
The genuinely insane John Rivers on drums.
The absurd kiwi Alex 'Zealand' on Bass,
and the mighty Afro Phil on lead Guitar.
The most talented and bizarre musicians that i ever had
the good fortune to meet.
Now the monster has been created.
There's this feeling, I can't describe, something magical.
Drawing influences from early 90's west coast rock/grunge
bands like Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains
and Stone Temple Pilots, with flavours of hendrix and Super tramp,
the tenderness of Nick Drake and interludes incorporating
traditional spanish, middle eastern and baltic styles.
Sometimes funky, sometimes David lynch soundtrack.
British cynicism with American trailer park frustration.
Striving to be the best that we can,
getting the most out of each other through brutal
honest communication.
Passion and integrity run at the core,
it keeps the fires burning day and night.
Amber Room can be enjoyed with rum,
Neil's Farm cider, liberty caps, weed or a cup of (shit)tea.
LIVE @ ORANGE STREET MUSIC CLUB CANTERBURY (+LOCAL SUPPORT ACTS) Friday June 27th 8.00 PM £5.00 ON THE DOOR OR from VENUE-01227 760801 or CANTERBURY WHOLEFOODS-01227 464623 www. tvsmith. com
sup! liked you're shizzle last night... the type of band that shouldn't be couped up inside with a sound system which cu(n)ts out! Great vocals, me Gord thought the drumming was ace, subtle double bass pedals etc... pyromania....plagues...rotting flesh... i eat the dead!!
alright AMber Room! did a couple of you guys go to Si Pearsonwood's barn party last summer? the name Afro Phil definately rings a bell! anyway, looking forward to playing with you tomorrow nite, see ya there
TWENTY ONE SEVEN PROMOTIONS PRESENT… ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER
LIVE @ ORANGE STREET MUSIC CLUB CANTERBURY FRIDAY 16TH MAY 8.00PM FIVE POUNDS ON THE DOOR Sharp tongued, high energy, social surrealist rebel poet and songwriter. His themes are topical, his words hard-hitting, his politics unashamedly radical. Inspired by the spirit and the ‘Do It Yourself’ ethos of punk rock, and above all by The Clash and their overtly radical, political stance, he started as a punk bass player in 1977 and took the name Attila the Stockbroker in 1980, blagging spots for his poems and songs in between bands at punk gigs. He quickly got a couple of John Peel radio sessions, a deal with London independent label Cherry Red Records and before very long was on the cover of the UK music magazine ‘Melody Maker’. He hasn’t looked back since!
Attila has done about 100 gigs a year since 1982, over 2700 in total, visiting 19 countries, and has published 4 books of poems and over 20 LPs/CDs. In the UK and other English speaking countries he mainly performs solo poems and songs, in mainland Europe mostly with his band Barnstormer, which combines his hard hitting lyrics and what he calls ‘Renaissancecore’ – a melodic punk sound with added violin, mandola and recorders, somewhere between a 16th century peasant band and The Clash!
Sat 3rd May...Gandalf's Garden Party & Phat Pilgrim Recs @ The Jamm, Brixton...BeatNik, John Monkman (Flip Flop), Fromem Ory, Bonze, Agent Orange, Circulus LIVE....Tickets £9 in advance from access all areas... http://www. onlinestall. com/cgi-bin/stall2. pl?act=ep&id=3462
hello from minifest! so glad to get a request from u, was goin to chat to phill about u guys comin to play for us. it's the 5th and 6th of july. i see u've got a gig tbc for the 5th but if it doesn't go ahead please consider us, if it does would u like to come play an accoustic set on the 6th? let me know soon as u can so we can put u on the line-up, thanks :)
TWENTY ONE SEVEN PROMOTIONS PRESENT… ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER
LIVE @ ORANGE STREET MUSIC CLUB FRIDAY 16TH MAY 8.00PM FIVE POUNDS ON THE DOOR Sharp tongued, high energy, social surrealist rebel poet and songwriter. His themes are topical, his words hard-hitting, his politics unashamedly radical. Inspired by the spirit and the ‘Do It Yourself’ ethos of punk rock, and above all by The Clash and their overtly radical, political stance, he started as a punk bass player in 1977 and took the name Attila the Stockbroker in 1980, blagging spots for his poems and songs in between bands at punk gigs. He quickly got a couple of John Peel radio sessions, a deal with London independent label Cherry Red Records and before very long was on the cover of the UK music magazine ‘Melody Maker’. He hasn’t looked back since!
Attila has done about 100 gigs a year since 1982, over 2700 in total, visiting 19 countries, and has published 4 books of poems and over 20 LPs/CDs. In the UK and other English speaking countries he mainly performs solo poems and songs, in mainland Europe mostly with his band Barnstormer, which combines his hard hitting lyrics and what he calls ‘Renaissancecore’ – a melodic punk sound with added violin, mandola and recorders, somewhere between a 16th century peasant band and The Clash!
kept getting an error message whenever i sent you a message. Don't know if you ended up getting it (maybe you got it three times lol) but this is what i said:
Hi guys. Just wondering, i was trying to buy the album off songcast but you don't seem to be on there anymore. I checked and it seems that the link on your page goes to their front page and when i search for you you don't exist on the site! HALP! Also whats the new default photo, is it an album cover? It's lovely :D lovelovelove cazzy
Watcha.......
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