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Jodie Lowther - Vocals, keyboards
Dominic Green - Bass, baritone guitar
El Stephenson - Trumpet
Shalini Santhakumaran - Violin
Helen Jackson - Cello
Steph Fuller - Violin, accordion
Tom Harrison - Drums
Rob Britton - Guitar, vocals
Influences
The Cure, Pulp, Belle & Sebastian, Sonic Youth, Grandaddy, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Hidden Cameras, Arcade Fire, Ramones, Le Tigre & Bikini Kill, Siouxsie & The Banshees, My Life Story, Velvet Underground, Pixies, Altered Images, Kenickie, Blondie, Elastica, Tim Burton, Robot Blues, And What Will Be Left Of Them? etc
Sounds Like
"How can you not adore a group called Brontosaurus Chorus? T'Chorus have a host of instantly lovable songs - traces of B&S, Hidden Cameras, the runaway day-glo pop of Tullycraft, and the sense that here's a band that knows how to leave you smiling." Ian Watson, How Does It Feel To Be Loved?
"London's Brontosaurus Chorus are purveyors of Technicolor dream pop. They come off not unlike a less mental Los Campesinos jumping around with Arcade Fire's bubblegum pop playing cousins in a parallel universe..." God Is In The TV Zine
"Brontosaurus Chorus endear them[selves] to you with their versatility - adding violin, accordion and trumpet to the otherwise standard set up -and their nice sense of melody. Their slightly dishevelled ‘chameleon indiepop’ is strangely charming." SoundsXP.
"Littered with summery nuances and pretty choruses Brontosaurus Chorus evidently take inspiration from bands like Belle and Sebastian, Elastica and (although musically they aren’t as macabre or deep) Joy Division. These are the type of people you’d invite to a party, get drunk and force to play an assortment of instruments just to make you smile..." Kalico Queens Blogspot
PAL004: 'You've Created A Monster' Mini-Album OUT MARCH 16th 2009 ON POP ART LONDON!!!
PAL001: 'The Myth of Love' Ltd Edition Split 7" Single with AWWBLOT! NOW SOLD OUT!
PAL002: 'Covered at Christmas' featuring our cover of the Laurel Collectives 'Cruel Thing' and the Pocus Whiteface cover of our track 'Now We're Making Out'. All proceeds from this record are to be donated to St. Mungo's
“Seven songs of supreme melodies... A great start for an impressive band." Artrocker
Brontosaurus Chorus have been kicking around since late 2006, gaining a reputation for joyous, life-affirming live shows which leave the audience grinning like fools. October 2007 saw the release of the cutesy Myth Of Love as a pink split 7” (with Worcester's And What Will Be Left Of Them?), but with their debut album, You've Created A Monster, we've seen the band shrug off the Twee tag in place of something more dynamic and layered. The string section and lilting trumpet sat alongside guitars and drums that weren't afraid to fizz and bang. The vintage pop voice of Jodie Lowther further enhanced the juxtaposition;a soaring vocal which plumbed far darker subjects than its indiepop contemporaries.
NME gave the album 8/10
Artrocker said “Supreme melodies... more of this please”.
The band have played festivals such as Offset, Indietracks and Ireland’s Electric Picnic, gigged in Germany and the Netherlands and shared the stage with Los Campesinos, Micachu, David Devant & His Spirit Wife, Ruby Suns, Laurel Collective & Polysics.
Video for Louisiana! Free download of the song available from 31/10/09 (Halloween!), watch this space...
Video directed by Oran Tarjan, filmed & edited by Can Evrenol and written & produced by Jodie Lowther.
Music video for 'Now we're making out' made by 'Lonesome Peanut' www.lonesomepeanut.tv
Video for 'Love is the Path to Self Destruction' skillfully created by Jodie!
'Louisiana' Live Acoustic Radio session at the Manchester Academy January 2009!
'Now We're Making Out' Live at Indietracks Festival July 2008!
Video for our debut single 'The Myth of Love' featuring Goat.
BRONTOSAURUS CHORUS LIVE AT BUFFALO BAR, N1, THIS SATURDAY (14TH)! KICK OFF 8,30PM. ALSO PLAYING... MR SOLO (DAVID DEVANT & HIS SPIRIT WIFE), THE NEW ROYAL FAMILY ............AND ........... THE NEW FORBIDDEN, FEATURING NONE OTHER THAN..... TV'S .. LOYD GROSSMAN !!!!!!! ..... ON GUITAR/VOCALS!
Please support our Indie Pop "EP CLUB" presented by Series Two Records and Eggnog Records. It is a collaboration between an Indie Pop label in Nebraska and one in New Zealand. The indie pop EP CLUB's include artists from around the world.
You like beer right? You might get a kick out of this Ozzy skit. Here's the new film Gabby Skab and I made last night for upcoming Pabst sales convention. The Skabs "PBR Me Right Now". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGPLSnltauk
Hi there, loved seeing you guys at Offset on Sunday! I'd forgotten you had so much going on when on stage! Hope you had a good time too. Listen out for yourselves on tonight's Curveballs - 10pm at www.phoenixfm.com!
Its been selling faster than we expected, and we currently only have around a quarter of our stock left - so we thought we'd better you all know that if you want a copy then now would be a good time to pick one up! If you buy it from the link above then you're buying it direct from us, the label aren't taking a cut - so its a bit like Fair Trade for struggling musicians.
International mail-order is available, just follow the instructions.
Thank you very much, and sorry for making a mess of your profile. If its any kind of consolation, we don't have a MySpace bot, so I'm leaving these comments the old fashioned way. Three -and-a-half thousand of them. My life is so exciting.
so sad we won't be playing with you guys again *sniff sniff*, but it just means when i come to see the Brontos now i can get very very drunk yippeeeeee!
Super smokey, psychedelic visuals with beautiful shoegaze/dreampop music, live and direct at the Fiddlers Elbow in Camden. Lots more besides!! A great evenings lineup for the perfect post Easter weekend warmup! Bring along a flyer: (http://autorotation.org/cmsms/uploads/flyers/flyer_cf.jpg) for speedy entry!
the rest of the evenings lineup is as follows: (caution promoter speech!! ;) )
blimey! you guys get scarily better + better each time we see you - thank you so much again for opening last night in Cardiff - hope you got to Bristol in time and had a good show there.. see you very soon we hope!! liz + ryan xxx
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