Jonny - lead vocs, guitar, keys
Monkey - guitar, vocs, keys Hywel - drums, vocs, keys Phil - bass, vocs, cornet Jacko - guitar, drums, keys
All at the same time.
Influences
SFA, Elbow, Sigur Ros, Badly Drawn Boy, Radiohead, Stones Roses, Nick Drake, Beach Boys, Doves, Pink Floyd, Coldplay, Kings of Leon, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Spiritualised, The National, The Bees, Lemon Jelly, Editors, Muse, Ben Folds Five, Love, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Embrace, Longpigs, Simon And Garfunkel, The Verve, Arcade Fire, Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, Jeff Buckley, The Coral...
Sounds Like
...better than we look... Big thanks to Ben 'Filters' Hilton (LowFatFilms) for working his picture-box magic on This Life;
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Birds Need Trees at Urbis
Colin Warhurst (gig: 05/07/08)
Having Contact Mo kick off ‘Birds Need Trees’ at Urbis was both a great decision and a poor one, as they were one of the better acts on offer, meaning that while they started things well, they deserved a higher billing.
Playing to a huge space criminally under-filled, their dark operatic sound managed to fill the cavernous void quite dramatically. At times, they almost approach Sigur Ros in creating an emotional tone where you can't dissect where which part of the melody and feeling is coming from.
Their music is filmic, cathartic and full of haunting vocals. Putting a band with so much talent on first could have been planned as a way to cram in the punters early; in reality, it meant that too many people missed out on hearing a great band.
BAND WEBSITE contactmo.co.uk
Tickets SELLING FAST! £7 adv avaliable from (more on the door): wegottickets.com seetickets.com Ticketline Picadilly Records
Grouper (US) has her latest – Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill – of three albums on Type Records. She has also been involved in collaborative releases, contributing a track to Xiu Xiu’s Remixed & Covered and four tracks to a split release with Inca Ore. Her other contemporaries are Belong, Growing, Tim Hecker, Windy & Carl and Atlas Sound.
Jasper TX (Sweden), with a hefty back-catalogue of releases on labels such as Miasmah, and collaborations with buddy Machinefabriek, is an essential domestic appliance in the household of conceptual music. He is comparable to artists Fennesz, Sigur Ros, Múm and Tape.
Intricate and atmospheric songsmith, Danny Saul (UK) performs with different combinations of musicians, making each gig a unique event. His forthcoming release is "Harsh, Final", and he also performs with Greg Haines as Liondialer.
Fieldhead (UK) music delights in tape hiss, bleak landscapes and decaying analogue loops. He is also a member of The Declining Winter and Glissando. His debut album, "They Shook Hands for Hours" is released soon on Home Assembly.
Hi, I've been spending a bit of time checking out the pages of anybody
who has posted positive comments about the Mouse Outfit, and linking
them to 5 of the earliest tracks we wrote, which are FREE to download
on soundcloud.
We are an 8 piece hip hop funk band, based in Manchester UK, and we
have recently supported Akil (Jurassic 5), Speech Debelle, Fabio (Radio
1). Feel free to pass them on to friends. Thanks for the support and
don't forget to keep checking back for new tunes! Keepin real hip hop
alive!
STRANGER THINGS HAVE HAPPENED - A PROMOTER LETTING PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THEIR GIGS........WELL WE DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY AROUND HERE!!!!!
COME ON DOWN AND SUPPORT YOUR FELLOW MANCHESTER BANDS AND THE MANC MUSIC SCENE
ADVANCE TICKETS Sept 11th - Nice Peter @ Sub61 - American musical comedy genius follows hugely successful tours with a new Manchester date - £5 tickets from - http://www.wegottickets.com/event/53088
Sept 18th - The Violet May @ Night & Day - Sheffields most talked about band at the mo - you may recognise fronman Chris McClure as the face of The Arctic Monkeys and Toddla T's debut - £5 from - http://www.wegottickets.com/event/53191
Sept 25th - Doll & The Kicks @ Sub61 - As seen on 2 sold out dates with Morrissey @ Manchester Apollo - £6 tickets from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/50385
PAY ON THE DOOR GIGS August 1st @ Roadhouse - Sander Kommander, Der Die Das plus special guests - 7.30pm doors
August 7th @ Sub 61 - Sandbox, Daddys Milk, Elmer Thug and more TBC - 7.30pm doors
August 8th @ Roadhouse - Red Or Black, The Soul, Bonfires, Special K - 7pm
Svarte Greiner (Deaf Center/Miasmah/Type) explores deep into a dark, mysterious and disturbing universe. Drawing inspiration from artists such as Earth, Volcano the Bear, David Darling & Deathprod, the music is draped in Lynchian mysticism and horror film cinematics. "The music of Svarte Greiner is practically perfect. It's like that sound in our heads we've been imagining for ages but had never actually heard." - Type Records.
The Sight Below (Rafael Anton Irisarri/Miasmah/Immune) draws as much on modern genre progenitors like Brian Eno, Robin Guthrie and My Bloody Valentine as it does from the more historic traditions in neo-classicism from Erik Satie and Olivier Messiaen. His album Glider has appeared on Thom Yorke's radar in making the Radiohead's lynchpin's top ten playlist.
His debut album Navigare soon to feature on the Miasmah label, Simon Scott (former Slowdive) is set to be a household name in conceptual music. Simon is the former Slowdive drummer, co-producer of Televise, producer of Seavault, and owner of KESH Recordings label.
Our latest all ages (16+) show has just been announced so make it down if you can cos this band will be massive
Let us know what you think of them
ADVANCE TICKETS
June 19th - The Ruling Class @ Manchester Roadhouse - Just been on tour with The Charlatans and The Twang - £5 tickets from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/47829
June 20th - The Sand Band @ Roadhouse - one time Coral guitarist and just played Manchester gig with Nick McCabe / The Black Marquee - £5 tickets from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/48101
CONFIRMED BANDS FOR 2009 INCLUDE... NINE BLACK ALPS KID BRITISH WAVE MACHINES MISTY’S BIG ADVENTURE THE TRAVELLING BAND TEN BEARS THE VORTEX THE MAYBES KARIMA FRANCIS THE JESSIE ROSE TRIP FRAZER KING CASIO KID GIDEON CONN THE GAY BLADES THE WHISKYCATS TEN BEARS ..... with around 200 bands over the weekend
**** CHECK THE MYSPACE BLOG FOR FULL MUSIC AND ARTS LISTINGS ****
Music for Aborigines featuring Andy Clegg and Andy Whitaker from The Sun and the Moon play the Retro along side The 66 Saturday 11th April. Steve Wilson will be on drums and original MFA keyboardist Col Smith will be on keyboards. For tickets and further details contact www. myspace. com/redatretro
We will be on stage around 9pm but give us a shout nearer the time if you want to double check
A welcoming hello and thanks for being our friend, oh this e-life we lead.
Here at the London City Love Affair we have a right treat in store. Get your diaries out as our official launch party this Saturday, 24th Jaunuary, @ The Lexington, is sure to be a raucous affair. Come and see what all the excitement is all about...
The poster below links to the Facebook event... go click!
The poster above links to the Facebook event... go click!
http://www. facebook. com/event. php?eid=68258449224&ref=ts
LCLA x
After recent operations with Glasvegas and being the one-man backing band of ex Libertines/Dirty Pretty Things Carl Barat, the cramped out and debauched Dennis ’lovechild of Dick Dale & Nick Cave’ Hopper Choppers returns to FNF this Tues.09th Dec ...........
und dann: THE SWAN HAS LANDED!!!!
"The Swan With Two Necks - Album of the Week." - Clash Magazine
"...if ORKB smelt any stronger or brilliance you could probably paint a white stripe on it and call it a skunk. Sniff. Big things beckon." - Artrocker
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