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  • Genre: Alternative / Experimental / Rock

    Location Bristol, Un

    Profile Views: 12235

    Last Login: 11/6/2012

    Member Since 3/26/2006

    Website www.badgertrap.com

    Record Label Kangaroo Kourt Records

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    ...... .. .. Hal Camplin came to Bristol via an operation on his spine in New York to form a band with ex-Chronics frontman Jimmy Barnett. .. .. They setup a gambling company called The Flying Foal instead. When Barnett was taken into care, Camplin set up an arts space in 2002 called Kangaroo Kourt where he recorded in a floorless loft studio. He helped develop a new performance scene with local poets and graffiti artists. .. Badgertrap is bar-room black humoured blues and twisted bollock-madness. A one badger band with beat, melody, melancholy and mean lyrics. Hal Camplin came to Bristol via New York on Sept 2001 to start a band with ex-Chronics frontman Jimmy Barnett. Since Barnett was put into care Camplin shut down their gambling company and carried on regardless, producing 4 EPs: New Health System (2004), Songs for Peter Singer (2005), Pity the Fool (2006) and Performance and Other Complications (2007) and 21 track album Human Sweet Shop (2009). 2010 has seen a very hectic year with a residency at the Blue Lagoon, culminating with a tour through England up to Edinburgh with 20+gigs played in 10 days and a new album Agony of Choice to boot... .. "Mercurial musician and performance artist Hal Camplin was the surprise hit of BBC Upstaged - or rather his furry alter ego Barry the Badger was. Hal will aim to unleash the full expanse of his brilliantly unhinged music. Expect wired charisma, black humour and killer tunes in equal measure." (Thanks to Pat Reid, The Great Admirers, for description.) .. .. NEWS... new album ready by end of 2011 .. .. ********************************************************************************************* .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..<iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Vm8rCyT7XMY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

  • Members

    Hal Camplin, Andy Brown, Barry the Badger, Zoe Henderson, Collaborators, Geoff in 'Tandem Tales' and Discoco and Jo Cooksley in Closet and the Plank This MySpace page no longer active. See instead - http://www.badgertrap.com http://www.reverbnation.com/badgertrap http://www.facebook.com/badgertrapmusic http://soundcloud.com/badgertrap

  • Influences

    Neutral Milk hotel, Mountain Goats, The Fall, Beck, The Velvet Underground, JJ Cale, Dr FeelGood , Leonard Cohen, REM, Beastie Boys, Elvis Costello, Neil Young, Radiohead... of the famous ones but BADgertRAP is very much a product of the liberated breeding ground of Bristol DIY culture. That's what made me come out of the bedroom and go public.

  • Sounds Like

    At times a zanier, funkier, camper, young British version of Johnny Cash and the rest of the time a cross between an angry, fucked up Syd Barret doing a Milli Vanilli tribute act and Leonard Cohen chewing a wasp. Now with added percussion to pull out that Velvet Underground infused pulse. .. ..

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