Buswell

Bio:

BUSWELL - BREAKUPS & BREAKDOWNS

New single out 26th May 2008, directed by Mathew Hamilton Green from Funkton Films

Order single from iTunes here.

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BUSWELL - SLEEP

Check out the new video here
Order CD single from HMV
Order CD single from Amazon
Order 12" vinyl from HMV
Order 12" vinyl from Amazon
Download from iTunes

All formats are limited edition, and feature remixes by Lighterthief (FSOL guitarist who's recently been working on projects with Andy Partridge & Barry Andrews) & Ben One (Creative Control/Type + JB).

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BUSWELL – LET ME LOVE
Buswell - Let Me Love

Order CD single from Amazon
Order CD single from Boss Tunes
Download from Napster
Download from iTunes.

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BUSWELL – DON’T GO WASTING TIME

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Order CD single HMV.co.uk
Order CD single through Amazon
Download from Napster
Download from iTunes.

All singles taken from the album “Buy Me New Shoes” which is available from most UK record stores, and online from hmv.co.uk, play.com, amazon, asda and woolworths

The album is also available to download from iTunes & Napster as well as many other leading download sites.

Sleep, Don't Go Wasting Time and Let Me Love vids have been filmed and worked on by Ben Fardon of Parasite Productions

The early Buswell solo album, Proudness, and singles are also available from Rhythm Online and to download from iTunes.

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BUSWELL - THE BAND
Summing Buswell’s musical style is an enigma in itself. Al Bridges from The Attica Seasons put it best. He said they were like The Magic Numbers, but sadder. And that made them The Tragic Numbers.

In the last year or so, they’ve supported Foals, Amy MacDonald, Frank Turner, Baxter Dury and The Sweeney, whilst completing two full UK tours, have been playlisted on MTV’s “This is Americana”, reached number 1 on the Amazon Hot 100 CD singles chart, and have been heard on XFM and BBC’s radiowaves.

And that goes a little way to showing some of the diversity that’s hidden with what can sometimes appear to be “nice” music. Yet the edge is there. It’s just sometimes sugar coated. Maybe because the reality is that it’s more bitter and intense than a lot of seemingly edgier stuff.

Coming from post-rock, indie & hip-hop backgrounds, Shaun Buswell had been making music in many guises before deciding to settle into a solo project. Content with making music away from the live circuit, the aim was to just record music with heart, and enjoy the freshness and freedom to do whatever he wanted. Samples, beats, breaks and live instruments were all mashed together and singles and albums were made. Then a phone call from a girl working for Sony in the States changed all that, and within a month Buswell was on a plane to LA, looking to put music into movies for Trimark.

When happened over the next year is not a secret, but there’s no real space to properly explain it in print either. Let’s just say everything you can imagine that’s crazy in Hollywood happened to Shaun. Highlife, lowlifes, strippers, engagements, drug abuse, breakups, jailtime, homelessness.

Returning to the UK in 2003, he set about writing an album to document this, and with the assistance of some of the finest musicians from his hometown, Buy Me New Shoes was created, and the band Buswell was reformed, stronger and fuller. And the album is testament to this. It’s a folk album with a rock’n’roll tale, but with the bravado stripped away. Told through the eyes of an intelligently funny but sensitive man who has a free-spirited approach to a unique compositional style.

Since the first single (Let Me Love)’s release, Buswell have been busy touring twice, recording two new albums and have generally made a nuisance of themselves. They’re touring again in 2008. Look out for them.

MESSAGE FROM THE BAND
Firstly, we promise not to send invites out to people for two reasons:
a)you're all scattered across the globe and
b)if you're interested in coming to a show, you can read about where we're playing here, and on our website. Invites are reserved for our parties wethinks!!

Secondly,we promise not to add big pictures and stuff to your comments. That really gets our goat. And we've now banned html because of this. Sorryu for those that leave geniunely nice pics, but using other musician's pages as advertising boards is a little rude in our books.

Thirdly, we felt that myspace was getting clogged up with spammers, so we've stopped bands from adding us. Of course, this doesn't mean we don't want to hear your music, far from it. Just if you think we need to be friends, drop us a line.

And lastly, thank you if you've added us, or have agreed when we've asked to be your friend. We don't spam out to anyone, and would have asked because we feel we share something in common with you. We're not interested in bumping up our friend count for the sake of it, but do hope to spread our music to more people via myspace. Therefore, if you're solely into stuff like Black Metal or one of the 'cores, and we've added you, it must be our mutual love of David Lynch or something non-musical.

Much love

Buswell

Member Since:

October 07, 2004

Members:

Buswell, ably assisted by a bunch of good folk
Musicians past and present include (but not limited to)
Zoe Mead - Vocals/Glockenspiel James Adkin - Drums Chris Uzzell - Bass Dan Stewart - Double bass Ben Kelly - Electric/Acoustic guitars Teresa Kelly - Piano/Rhodes Michelle Eaton - Piano Jenny Gleeson - Violin Owen Hughes - Violin Saerlaith Murphy - Violin Raquel Cabello - Violin Jayne Cullen - Violin Izzy Jones - Violin Cecily McMahon - Viola/Violin Debbie Wolfsohn - Viola Joe Pitt - Viola Karolina Borkowska - Cello Lizzie Kemp - Cello Jason Hull - Flute Ellie Verkerk - Flugelhorn/French Horn/Piano Rebecca Bates - Piano/Vocals Matthew Musella - Bass Rachael Birkin - Violin/Viola Leks Wood - Drums Marty D - Drums Jamie Trowbridge - Drums Henry Stuart - Drums Craig Aldridge - Samples/piano Pat Edmonds - Guitar Shaun Barry - Guitar Tim Duggan - Bass

Influences:

Morrie Schwartz Lutz Long Musically, anything from Badalamenti to Beefheart

Sounds Like:

As people struggle to put us in a box, so here are some of the comparisons we've had over the last year, to help you with a definition...

"like a mix between Natalie Merchant & Grant Lee Phillips" - BBCi

"Belle and Sebastian-come-Stars" - Indigo Flow

"imagine if the Arctic Monkeys had never heard Oasis and spent all their time listening to the Reindeer Section and Seafood instead." - High Voltage

"Prefab Sprout giving Julian Lennon a go on lead vocal with the ghost of ‘Number 9 Dream’ era Dad John proudly watching from above" - Losing Today Magazine

"Waterboys-esque" - The Independent

And here's a few reviews of the album
"one of those albums that has a feeling of longevity about it....'Buy Me New Shoes' is stunningly put together. 10/10" - Rhythm'n'Booze magazine

"A record that slides, shifts and then finally hammers home its assortment of uncomfortable messages, this is one that will linger on long after the music has stopped. 9/10" - Whisperin & Hollerin magazine

"When it comes to music charged with wistful reflection and dark emotion, Buswell are in a league of their own. They manage to weave fragile wisps of sound and heartfelt lyrics into songs that often relate to the fallen dreams and broken relationships of life. What sets them apart from other musicians pushing these same boundaries is that they manage to do it without wallowing in their own misery or being unnecessarily indulgent. " - Green Man Music

Record Label:

4th Street Records (UK)

Label Type:

Indie