bbq's and natural views, summer nights and drunken fights, cold 'blue mountains' and panther outings, books & rhymes and stars that shine, surfing - not surfing, xmas cake and girlfriend mistakes.
Sounds Like
loud noises, outside noises, band noises, indie noises, rock noises, classical noises, soft noises, animal noises, radio noises, beer noises, bbq noises
"Summer Is Here" is a beautiful gem of a song with hushed vocals over a very lush combination of sounds, from shoegaze elements to sweeping keyboards, but propelled forwards by a very tight drums and guitar weave, and a piano trickled in the mix, to create a masterpiece that will keep you coming back. Beautiful Music, Canada (2009)
"...Their demeanour of trucker caps, big shorts and even bigger riffs leaves several punters bewildered, yet those of us who stay throughout their Mew-inspired set are also transfixed by the huge sound emanating from the altar. Occasionally they fall into prog-territory in a similar vein to bands like Kyte, but the deceptive charms of ‘Summer Is Here’ and vast soundscape that is ‘Estuary’ should ensure Countryside a wider audience in the not-too-distant future." Drowned in Sound review of IndieTracks Festival (2009)
"Countryside are potentially one of the best new English bands out there with their delicate warmth and experimental undercurrent that runs underneath their beautifully sublime songs. This CD has kept us happy for most of the morning now, sweetly weaving around our semi subconscious with that slightly glitchy synth textures, the intimate glowing voices, the hopeful uplifting passages of goodness and most importantly the delicate songs that are worth investing so much time in..." Organ Magazine (2008)
"Gosh... what a hot band! The Pixies go bossa nova with a good dose of psychedelic electro... the result?… extremely soothing Guided By Voices style tracks with original and interesting dynamics Sonic Youth would be proud of... soundscapes of weird psychedelia (without getting too over the top!), kick arse guitars and all round x, y and z factors…." Bugbear Promotions, Dublin Castle, London (2009)
"A beautiful soothing seductive voice, the lo-fi d.i.y messy home-made production is spot on, the textures, the radiance, the shafts of sunlight. Dreamy tiny epics and radio hiss and gentle warmth and backward guitar and pastoral melodies and hazy summer warmth – Sea Nymphs and Flaming Lips and My Bloody Valantine and Guided By Voices and a delicate fragile lo-fo star touching Grandaddy – most of all Countryside are unique – music to absolutely fall in love with..." Organ magazine 2007
"Internet buzz can make a band. If you put your song up on your MySpace and the right person likes it, you have a career even before you thought. Shows in your friend’s basement can become sold out shows at the Bowery Ballroom before you even blink. Usually this kind of “king making” is reserved for uber-cool blogs full of movers and shakers that are more interested in selling ad space and parties they can get into than music, but I am proud to announce that I beat them all to it and found the next band the world is going to be buzzing about. The name of this mystery band is Countryside..." Broken Dial - New York
"...warped pop loveliness of CountrySide. With their gentle electronic sounds and hypnotic vocals interrupted by loud blasts of guitar, they could either be Bristol’s answer to cult American acts such as Grandaddy and Mercury Rev or a bunch of oddballs let loose in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop." Bristol Evening Post
"...a seriously top band and a great addition to Bristol's vibrant music scene" - Bristol Uncovered
"Countryside. Rocked like the indie rock gods they are destined to become. A touch of Grandaddy here, and a hint of Flaming Lips there, all adds up to a great band...When they're massive, I hope they'll give us some support slots!" - Beatnik Filmstars
"..one of Bristol's best new bands, pilers of dreamy, psychadelic, distorted pop soundscapes" & "Psychedelic guit-pop shaped soundscapes, dreamy, laconic vocals, and the reason for that their red star" & "Band of the Year 2007" - Venue Magazine
"Epic and dreamy synth-tinged rock from these fine melodic shoegazers - hints of Grandaddy & Guided by Voices topped with heavenly laconic vocals and a heady psychedelic sensibility" - RaRaRa Promotions
"Hypnotic gentle vocals and acid-trippin' melodies from this weirdy beardy but beautiful guitar-pop band. Fuzzy guitars and squelchy Moog sounds, Countryside have wowed Bristol audiences on their epic musical journeys. A style of their own, but sprinkled with the warped genius of Grandaddy, Mercury Rev, Flaming Lips, Guided By Voices and White Album-period Beatles. So join us for a trip through the Countryside..." GO APE
"Gentle psych-beat pop songs wafted in on a wave of backwards guitar...something like a dream Bagpuss had about something the mice found on the way home from a party that turned out to be a British psych-pop box set. Choral choruses, pastoral melodies and impish fuzz guitar slide in and out of the sound picture to make a hazy summers day of a song. Search somewhere between the gentler side of Love, The Beatles, when they discovered all you need is love (and acid), and the poppier side of Guided By Voices." - PURR Records
Slacker rock / indie / alternative.
Countryside are from somerset which is very far away from london. They have played support to Athlete, Secret Machines, Animal Kingdom, The Infadels and The Deadbeats amongst others...
Hey, it's the return of David Devant & His Spirit Wife, now
performing under the name of Mr. Solo. Plus War Against Sleep + Howlin'
Lord @Lousiana, Bristol Thurs 26 November. £5 adv from
http://www.bristolticketshop.co.uk
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ha thanks for the status comment, i did see your acoustic set today and thought it was rather wonderful :) will most probably see you again soon. much love x
SAT 31ST OCTOBER - 5TH ANNIVERSARY & HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
COUNTRYSUDE, McDOWELL and one more tbc
A night celebrating loads of great bands/performers and loads of great nights over the last five years at Gimme Shelter! It's Halloween too so got to town !!
COUNTRYSIDE - Previous Venue magazine 'Band of the Year' winners and rightly so, serving up a fine mix of Indie Rock with shades of 60's Psychedelia.Countryside deliver WARPED POP loveliness with favourable comparisons to bands like Grandaddy and Flaming Lips !!
McDOWELL - Amazing SPOOKED Folk, Rock, PSYCH and Baroque Pop outfit with Ken Pustelnik of legendary 60's/70's outfit The Groundhogs on drums. Expect material from new album ' The gap in the curtain' and more.
With the Gimme Shelter! club night , John The Mod and guests spinning 60’s Garage & Psych, Northern Soul, Freakbeat, Punk, Rock & Roll and Go Go! against a backdrop of vintage lights, films and projections.
hey! nice set tonight :) i only knew you were playing when i got there and suddenly remembered speaking to you on myspace a long long time ago :) hopefully see you again soon.. loved the fairy lights haha x
Come and see us headlining at The Cooler in Bristol this Saturday 17th October. Doors 8pm, Entry £5 / £4 (NUS). Entry also gets you in for Klub Kute - indie tunes til 4am!
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