Mike B - Guitar/Vocals, Ben (The Admiral) McCulloch - Drums,
Gary - Hammond/Keys,
Bran - Bass
Influences
Santana, Prince, Jon Lord, The Meters, Talking Heads, Jane's Addiction, Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, Beck, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, The Doors, Marvin Gaye, The Mars Volta, The Beatles, Air, Bill Withers, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Cat Stevens, Daft Punk, Kate Bush, Funkadelic/Parliament, Deep Purple, Beastie Boys, Jamiroquai, Lou Rawls, Pink Floyd, Donny Hathaway, Dave Grusin, Herbie Hancock, Bob Marley, Ulrich Schnauss, The Police, Iron Maiden, Bjork, Royksopp, The Clash, David Bowie, The Isley Brothers, Roberta Flack, U2, Michael Jackson, Minnie Riperton, Chemical Brothers, Supergrass, Manic Street Preachers, The Cinematic Orchestra, The Who, Chic, Led Zeppelin, Alicia Keys, Bob James, Gilles Peterson, Rage Against the Machine, A Tribe Called Quest, Kool & The Gang, Jefferson Airplane, Earth, Wind & Fire, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Brian Eno, Captain Beefheart, Miles Davis, Dusty Springfield, Radiohead, George Benson, Massive Attack, Average White Band, Roy Ayers, Ozric Tentacles, Freq Nasty, The Prodigy, Soil & "Pimp" Sessions, Floratone, Jimmy Cliff, Fela Kuti, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Black Sabbath ...
Sounds Like
All the above mixed up in a lettuce spinner then dressed with a fine balsamic
Formed in 2001 on the Isle of Bute as a humble 3-piece rock band, Chi Weapon have since re-located to Glasgow and evolved into a genre-defying quartet.
Mixing many styles of music to create a funky brew the band have been wowing audiences in Glasgow at venues like King Tuts as well as throughout Britain, including the famous Wickerman Festival and the Carling Academy in Islington, London. Influences range from the Meters to the Mars Volta, Prince to Pink Floyd. Haven't heard Chi Weapon? Imagine rock songs played by a funk band with a left-field record collection.
“Chi Weapon is a centre left funked up new act whose lead singer needs all of the stage to perform. " Sid Ambrose, Wickerman Festival
“...fast, energetic and captivating, the atmosphere was electric.” Evening Times
"Chi Weapon has an interesting sound - a bit of prog rock mixed with reggae. They are good musicians and the tunes are infectious!" News & Star
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We have a few tickets left at the discount price of £5. Get in touch and we can arrange getting them to you. DO IT NOW AND AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT!!!
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Hay Lovelys your welcome it was a grate night, well if its you last gig im sure i could try and make an apperance lol my Aunt lives there so id have some ware to stay. Jezo cant belive it could be the end, i remember coming to see you lot when i was still in school and you played at the piv for thunder over bute lol that was yonks ago. Hope that your all good and that you work something out. Meygan x
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My aim is to prolong the existence of something close to my heart, something currently under severe threat from the download generation - The Album! With the modern world increasingly more interested in cherry-picking individual tracks, it seems to me a great shame that the sacred long-player is losing its importance. I'm on a mission to save the album before it's too late.
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I heard you're playing this year at the Bute Jazz Festival? What a great weekend. I'll be there with a huge crowd for the Saturday and Sunday. It would be really great to catch up.
Forget that other rubbish you had planned for this weekend, diy, painting the cat etc, going out to some booooring club with booooring music and even more booooring people - this is where it's really at...
It's all happening at the new studio:
The Tollhouse 10 Possil Rd Glasgow G4 9SY
10 Mins walk from Charing Cross, straight up St Georges Road till you see the Tower Bar in front of you & we're right above it.
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