Dave Hale - Cool Lead Guitar & Vocals..............
Mark Ormiston - 6 & 12 Strings a strummin' & Vocals
Influences
The Smiths - Rory Gallagher - The Beatles - Paul Weller - Bowie - Talking Heads - Magazine - Buzzcocks - Ramones - The Who - Neil Young - My Old Friend The Blues - All of you who have the guts to play live music up close and personal - 110% Ron Saunders
Sounds Like
It's music, Jim - but not as we know it............
The Apostrophes were formed in February 2005 with the concept of high-octane formula 2 blokes / 4 guitars, covers & originals; an approach stripped down to the skinny bones with no safety net!
Both Dave & Mark have been in full-out rock, punk, cover/cabaret and psycho-ska bands – too many to mention – within Merseyside and the Midlands all their dissolute lives.
The Apostrophes is an act designed to get away from the idea of a 'proper' 4-piece band with fights, prima-donna attitude and the drummer that lets everyone down too often, turns up p!ssed and tries to get off with your partner... at an APOSTROPHES gig, you'll wake up rudely and think, "Well - how did I get here?"
The Two Blokes.........................
Mark was the original lead-guitarist for 'A Flock of Seagulls', a 1980s new-wave pop group, while at University. Of course, as luck would have it, after Mark left to complete his "eddykation" they started becoming successful! Since then marriage, two kids and a printing business put the music career on hold until now. We now expect to see a pending divorce, bankruptcy and a visit from the Child Support Agency!
Dave - The Lord of The Strings. Dave has been in numerous pub bands since making his first appearance aged 15 at The Fighting Cocks, Moseley with school pal Paul Wood. He has not spoken to Paul since falling out over a dodgy offside decision that went against him during a Subbuteo tournament. A musical career that started at the bottom has since worked its way rapidly sideways and a man for whom the phrase 'always the bridesmaid' could have been invented - until now......................
The Four Guitars -
Mark's two 'babies' are a Yamaha 12-string and a Guild 6-string 'Jumbo'.
Dave's geetars are a Gibson Les Paul and a Taylor T5 (& a Takimine but that would make 5 - shhhhh).
Thanks goes to...............
A big thank you to our friends & families:
* TONY & PETE of Loop Promotions / Meaningful Music Management
* JIMMY FRANKS of BBC WM for being brave enough to let us loose on live radio!
* MIKE GATES (cool cat) & STEVE GATES (The Moans - rockin')
* NAT & CARL of The 4 Whorsemen
* ANDY VARNEY
* ANNETTE, MICHELLE, HANNAH, ALEX & THOMAS
* plus a huge round of applause please for DAVID ENCILL for all his efforts in creating our website.
www.the-apostrophes.co.uk
e: info@the-apostrophes.co.uk t: 07703 107443 or t: 07903 421315
what's up APOSTOPHES . Thanks for the love and support. We just wanted to remind you our exclusive EP Let Go is coming out next week. Pre-order now and we'll hook you up with a bonus gift.
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Sunday – Antiques Roadshow…NO… Last of The Summer Wine… Nah…The Love Boat... Then, one last ditched attempt to find something decent on, using the TV guide - only to confirm your worst fears. THERE IS NOTHING ON! Sound familiar? We can solve this – We’re playing at the Academy on Sunday 17th May! Come on down!!! www.ticketweb.com
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I'm writing cause I finally set up a record label & released an EP. It'd be awesome if you took a sec to have a listen / look at what i've made to go with it, and see if you felt like grabbing one
Here's the links:
GET THE EP It's called Settle, 8 tracks for £5 (anywhere in the world)
Ta if you get to have a peek, one more final thing:
If you can think of ANYONE who might be interested in a listen, PLEASE FORWARD THESE LINKS TO THEM, will be a big help to me spreading the songs a bit.
