New Order, Talking Heads, The Smiths, Flaming Lips, MGMT, Vampire Weekend, Hot Chip, LCD Sound System, Arcade Fire, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Depeche Mode, Eighties Electronics, 50s Rock and Roll, Beats, Handsome Family, Wheat, Wilco, Lambchop, Sleepy Jackson, Beastie Boys, Beck, Bill Hicks, Richard Pryor, Bukowski, Goldfrapp, Gossip, Auster, Kinky Friedman, Bjork, Dylan, George Pellecanos, bonnie prince billie, Brian Wilson, Beefheart, Regie Perrin, Newman, De Niro, Pacino, Stewart, Grant, Bogart, Eastwood, Hoffman, Peckinpah, Scorcese, Coens.....Daft Punk, Kraftwerk, Pixies, Alt-country, stax, chess, motown, De La Soul, Adam Green, The Decemberists, Klaxons, Hal Ashby, Kings Of Leon, Andre 3000, Elliot Smith, Antony and the Johnsons, Queens of the Stone Age, Otis Reading, Martha and the Vandellas, Aretha, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Radiohead, Neil Young, Willard Grant Conspiracy, The New Pornographers, Crispin Glover, Warren Oates, Jack Nicholson in "The Passenger", "Five Easy Pieces" and "The Last Detail". Harry Dean Stanton, Beruit, The Velvet Underground, a variety of cheeses, West Ham, Gilbert and George, Elbow, The Fall, The Living Museum, Jeff Combes, Thelonious Monk, The The, Sufjan Stevens, Arcade Fire, Band of Horses, Fugazi, The Hold Steady, Beruit, Black Keys, Bon Iver, Calexico, Cat Power, Cold war kids, Devo, CSS, Echo and the Bunny Men, Eels, red wine over £5, The Prisoner, Lost, Prison Break, The West Wing, Flight of the Conchords, Spaced, The Wire, The Sopranos, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Peter Cook...
Sounds Like
City Of Glass: elements of rock, punk, indie, pop, country, electronics, thrash, noise, squelchy stuff; emphasis on lyrics and economy.
Paranoia. Unrest. Unemployment. Society on the edge of ruin. The state against the individual. Sounds like eighties, doesn’t it?
But it’s now.
That’s why Hull-based City of Glass are a relevant, exciting new voice that must be heard. Driven by an eighties-nostalgic synth engine, all rippling arpeggios and robotic interjections, interwoven with wiry and insolent guitars, and underpinned by bass and drums that are simultaneously danceable and threatening. This is music that has been waiting to happen.
Let’s not forget the songs – they’ve got more hooks than a thigh-length boot, but these are intelligent observations that talk about what it’s like here and now. Singer Deeaay sounds like he’s been there, come back and now he’s going to make you listen, by force if necessary.
Remember social commentary you can dance to?
City of Glass have eaten it up and spat it back at us.
We need this
Lyrics on life, death, love, poverty and all things unseemly.
Get behind the city.
City of Glass are also proud to announce that they have signed a publishing deal to the record company Invisblegirl Records. This deal involves the bands first official release, which is their debut album entitled “Tales From The City”
Press
"Tales From the City" has a nice balance of dark and light with Deeaay's lyrics being the real focus. Issues of insecurity, arrogance, image, the difficulties of love and city life give the listener a real wake up call and remind us that not all songs are just broken up into happy or sad songs and that there is a lot of grey area out there"- Angie Barnes, Hullvibe User
"City Of Glass deal with issues all too common in northern industrial Britain, that of paranoia, unrest and unemployment. The band's brand of eighties inspired synth driven electronica could at its best take a seat at the vacant throne of Hot Chip" -Iain Ferry, Sandman Magazine
Album
City of Glass' debut album "TALES FROM THE CITY" Available now from I-tunes now
Click the album cover above to purchase "Tales From The City"
“Tales From The City” features 11 songs from the band and is currently available on I-tunes and hardcopy CD. The CD can be obtained at Beasleys (hull) and Chinese Laundry (Hull) plus various gigs that City of Glass will be playing across the country. The Band do hope to set up a mail order system for those wanting a hardcopy but details of that will be announced later in the year.
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Are you a band that have just started and wish to get some early demos recorded to get gigs?
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The Deal The 7-11 deal is a great opportunity for bands to come and record their music in a top professional recording studio. The deal runs on Monday and Tuesday evenings (at the moment) between 7pm and 11pm and lets bands play together live and record the results! This gives bands 4 hours of straight live recording (as opposed to multi-tracking) where they can get as much or as little done as possible….
The Price Right, here comes the important bit…. the price! For this service we are charging a very competitive £80 which includes a rough mix of the tracks recorded. If you're in a four piece band then that works out at £20 each!!! Well worth it!
Even more importantly we are offering the first 5 bands who book on this deal 50% off!! Thats four hours of live rehearsal or live demo recording for £40!!!
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