Steve Noire - Lead Vocals/harmonica
Nick Oram - Drums/bleeding fingers
Tim Fanning - Guitar/backing vocals
"TO BE DETERMINED..."- Bass
Lez Paul Dennis - Guitar (what else?)/backing vocals
Dave Moore - Trumpet/Flugelhorn/anything made of brass
Influences
Love, Beatles, Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, CSN, Moby Grape, Jefferson Airplane, Richie Havens, Captain Beefheart, Gram Parsons, Nuggets, 13th Floor Elevators, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Small Faces, U-Roy, Big Youth, The Melodians, The Paragons, Pere Ubu, Patti Smith, The Clash, Deaf School, Ian Dury, New York Dolls, Stooges, MC5, Pentangle, Sandy Denny, Donovan, Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan, Kevin Coyne, Wade Flemons, Wilson Pickett, Parliament, Sly Stone, The Beau Brummels, Muddy Waters, BB King, RL Burnside, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Skip James, Skip Spence, Slim Harpo, Slim Smith
Sounds Like
The bastard offspring of the Phil Spector and PJ Harvey. In a good mood, that is. Hammering drums, funked up bass, a singer who also writes novels and a guitarist with better hair than you or me. We had to genetically engineer him. Oh yeah, and a doctor on saxophone.
The Ambush formed when five very different individuals met in Manchester and found a way to stop music from ever being boring again. Described as "The Bees with attitude" with a dangerous sound of psychedelic indie-dance sweetened with barbershop harmonies, expect a live set full of endless frenzied energy plus random instruments like saxes, mandolins and kazoos. The driving force of the lead singer Steve Noir resembles Ian Curtis writing an upbeat song and dancing like it's his birthday. No two songs are ever the same with these five unpredictable lads. The band's manic gigging schedule has won performances with classic bands such as The Beat and The Specials, with invitations to support new acts such as Pete and The Pirates and Alabama 3.
Get Your Own back - the Ambush live
WANTED TO WISH YOU MERRY XMAS AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT IN 2009 AND CONTINUED SUPPORT IN 2010!!!!!!
We've still got a few gigs before the years out with * The Futureheads @ Moho Live - Dec 18th * Jingle Bell Rock @ Satans Hollow - Dec 21st (All Ages Xmas Special) * Gideon Conn & guests @ Moho Live - Dec 22nd
Hopefully see you down there before xmas but if not have a good one
We're pleased to announce that our XFM SESSION on PETE MITCHELL'S RAZOR CUTS will be broadcast this Sunday - Dec 6th between 10pm and Midnight (UK Time)
Its on air nationally in the UK so you can tune into your local XFM dial or listen online at http://www.xfm.co.uk if abroad
For those who can't wait till then there's a preview vid on our myspace of our time at XFM....
Which one of you ho's is on line? I spotted a very nasty note in the 2nd violin part of are string quartet, so I've made a harmonic adjustment to the melody line. It's gonna sound quite evil. looking forward to tomorrow. Putting fresh strings on the weapon now.
*** THE MANDIGANS ARE COMING BACK HOME - 20TH OCTOBER - MANCHESTER DRY BAR ***
We've spent the past few months away from Manchester gigging around the UK while writing our new album
You can hear all these songs in MANCHESTER at Dry Bar on 20th Oct - get tickets online from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/59016 or message the lads on myspace for them
*** NEW PHOTOS AND MYSPACE LAYOUT - CHECK IT OUT ***
Also check out the new photos on myspace and comment them so we know which you think are the best - they've been done by Karen McBride, the photographer behind iconic images of Liam Gallagher, The Ting Tings and Robbie Williams
26th Sept - Uni of Cumbria, Lancaster
campus 27th Sept - Uni of Cumbria, Penrith campus 1st
Oct - The Dry Bar, Manchester 3rd Oct - Uni of Cumbria,
Ambleside campus 10th Oct - The Park Hotel,
Lancaster 24th Oct - Fuel, Manchester 30th Oct - The
Yorkshire House, Lancaster 21st Nov - Carpe Diem,
Leeds
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THE VIOLET MAY @ Night & Day - Sheffields most talked about band at the mo - you may recognise fronman Chris McClure as the face of The Arctic Monkeys and Toddla T's debut
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Hey ! what's up ! how are you? Thank you very much for accept! We add a new song "Don't let the wolf play in you backyard" Check it out ! I hope you like it! Greetings and see you !¡!¡
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STRANGER THINGS HAVE HAPPENED - A PROMOTER LETTING PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THEIR GIGS........WELL WE DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY AROUND HERE!!!!!
COME ON DOWN AND SUPPORT YOUR FELLOW MANCHESTER BANDS AND THE MANC MUSIC SCENE
ADVANCE TICKETS Sept 11th - Nice Peter @ Sub61 - American musical comedy genius follows hugely successful tours with a new Manchester date - £5 tickets from - http://www.wegottickets.com/event/53088
Sept 18th - The Violet May @ Night & Day - Sheffields most talked about band at the mo - you may recognise fronman Chris McClure as the face of The Arctic Monkeys and Toddla T's debut - £5 from - http://www.wegottickets.com/event/53191
Sept 25th - Doll & The Kicks @ Sub61 - As seen on 2 sold out dates with Morrissey @ Manchester Apollo - £6 tickets from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/50385
PAY ON THE DOOR GIGS August 1st @ Roadhouse - Sander Kommander, Der Die Das plus special guests - 7.30pm doors
August 7th @ Sub 61 - Sandbox, Daddys Milk, Elmer Thug and more TBC - 7.30pm doors
August 8th @ Roadhouse - Red Or Black, The Soul, Bonfires, Special K - 7pm
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