Steve Noire - Singer/harmonica
Nick Oram - Drums/bleeding fingers
Tim Fanning - Guitar/backing vocals
Lord Kitchener - Bass/keyboard/sax
Lez Paul Dennis - Guitar (what else?)/backing vocals
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
Sept 25th - Doll & The Kicks @ Sub61 - fresh from 2 sold out Apollo dates with Morrissey, D&TK returun for a headline show in Manchester - £6 from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/50385
LOTS LOTS MORE GIGS ON THE MYSPACE SO CHECK THE FULL LISTINGS......... IF YOU WANT TO PLAY A GIG FOR US MESSAGE US VIA THE MYSPACE
THE MANDIGANS - LIVE @ MANCHESTER ARNDALE........ JULY 1ST - 7PM
Its our only Manchester gig of the Summer as we're taking a break to write some new songs - so come on down for your last chance to hear the old Mandigans songs
WHATS THE DATE AND WHAT TIME? Wed July 1st @ 7pm
WHERE? Halle Square - its where JD Sports and Henri Lloyd store are
(Note: There's a very very small chance the gig may get moved to Exchange Square, near Next, so if you dont see a PA system and band around 6.30pm at Halle Square you know where to move to)
ISNT A GIG IN A SHOPPING CENTRE A BIT WEIRD? Yeah, in the UK maybe, but they happen all the time in America.... so come down, make noise, invite your mates and make sure everybody knows the Mandigans are in the building
IM NOT IN MANCHESTER SO CANT MAKE IT? We have gigs throughout the Summer in Wigan, Blackburn, Leeds, London, Birmingham and maybe a few more TBC so keep checking http://www.myspace.com/themandigans
CONFIRMED BANDS FOR 2009 INCLUDE... NINE BLACK ALPS KID BRITISH WAVE MACHINES MISTY’S BIG ADVENTURE THE TRAVELLING BAND TEN BEARS THE VORTEX THE MAYBES KARIMA FRANCIS THE JESSIE ROSE TRIP FRAZER KING CASIO KID GIDEON CONN THE GAY BLADES THE WHISKYCATS TEN BEARS ..... with around 200 bands over the weekend
**** CHECK THE MYSPACE BLOG FOR FULL MUSIC AND ARTS LISTINGS ****
yo guys hows things. would come down to gig this friday if we werent playing ourselves.hope it goes well. will defo get down to the july gig. catcha' soon lads. radar
WE'VE GOT LOADS ON IN MAY / JUNE / JULY SO HERE'S JUST A HANDFUL OF THE GIGS SO FAR - CHECK THE MYSPACE PAGE OUT FOR THE FULL LISTINGS
LOTS LOTS MORE GIGS ON THE MYSPACE SO CHECK THE FUL LISTINGS......... IF YOU WANT TO PLAY A GIG FOR US MESSAGE US VIA THE MYSPACE
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ADVANCE TICKETS
June 19th - The Ruling Class @ Manchester Roadhouse - Just been on tour with The Charlatans and The Twang - £5 tickets from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/47829
June 20th - The Sand Band @ Roadhouse - one time Coral guitarist and just played Manchester gig with Nick McCabe / The Black Marquee - £5 tickets from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/48101
Hi, just wanted to say great to meet you on Saturday and thanks for giving us a fantastic show in London. You guys are amazing live and everyone really enjoyed the gig. Lisa (organiser of The London Rock Meetup Group).
Thanks for the lovely message guys. Really looking forward to seeing you play tomorrow. Its been tough trying to drum up interest purely because there are so many good gigs going on down here at the moment but I wouldn't miss it for the world. Safe journey, Lisa.
Cheers for the message. Angie from Brixton JAMM replied back to say you are on about 9:30ish so will be getting there about 8:45pm and Paul got in touch too. Explained to him that sadly I really haven't had a great response from The London Rock Meetup members so at the moment only bringing a few with me but people tend to edge their bets and then sign up last minute...I've already booked my ticket online but when asked who I was coming to see I said The Ambush, not Alabama 3 ;o). Look forward to seeing you on the 7th!
Look forward to seeing you at Brixton JAMM on the 7th! Any idea what time you're onstage yet?? Jeez these venues are so hard to get info out of. Lisa and The London Rock Meetup Group.
If you don’t know or haven’t noticed we have changed our name from ‘The Perrys’ to ‘Moscow Square’ and with that we have just put up 3 new tracks on our page. Please check them out and tell us what you think it would mean a lot to us. Much love.
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