Reuben, Oceansize, A Perfect Circle, good films, bad films (Spaceballs!), The MJ cha'mon, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Green Wing, Peep Show, Queens of The Stone Age, Tool, the man in the 24 hour garage who picks up everything but what you asked for, van envy, Magners with lots of ice, and lots of ice, a damn good chippie, David Lynch, The Arcade Fire, macbook,The LongPigs, Duck tape, AKG MotherF*cker!, On The Go Playlists, Family Guy, George Romero, album sleeves, big explosions and beautiful actresses, never wanting a Real Job, Nine Inch Nails, The Mars Volta, Biffy, Milo, the proper cold one half way through a sweaty practice, the unique feeling you get from being in a strange town in the middle of a tour, GrannyWaggonTM, playing to your mates in your home town, playing to your mates in someone elses home town, everything being fucking Loud, new strings, filthy guitars, breaking sticks, "free" mugs from service stations and comfy beds.
"ENERGETIC, AWESOME, EDGY AND LOUD" Jo Whiley - Radio 1 "Raw, heavy and melodic" Rob Sandall, editor of Playmusic “One of the best bands around” Dan Garrett - BBC well worth the listen if you like your rock with vocals you can understand, and seeing a band that show what they love. Jodie Humphries - Live Music Scene
"Decora...a bit better than us!" Jamie Lenman (Reuben)
DECORA are: Nick Weston (Vocals & Guitar) Doug North (Guitars & Vocals)
Sam Tarling (Bass & Vocals) Dan Carroll (Drums)
2007 was a great year for Decora seeing the band play their 250th show, get a debut release on itunes, an interview from the BBC and share the stage with heroes, Reuben. Two tours of the UK , three gigs in one day and shows at In The City and Sound Festival kept the boys plenty busy.
An opportunity to record at Rak studios afforded the band an awesome start to the new year, working with Helen Atkinson, protege to heavy weight producer Adrian Bushby (engineered the latest FooFighters Album - Echoes, Silence Patience and Grace) with Adrian on hand to oversee proceedings. Rak was the sudio in which Radiohead recorded the bends and more recently, the Arctic Monkeys made a flying visit to record a live take for the video of Teddy Picker.
Decora are currently locked down in a garage preparing material for a debut album.
100% self financed and organised, their strong DIY work ethic has seen them travel the length and breadth of the country taking in venues such as Camden’s Dublin Castle, The Hoxton Square Bar and Grill in Shoreditch, The Fleece and Louisina in Bristol, Moles Club in Bath, Redruth’s Green Rooms, Josephs Well in Leeds, The Waterfront in Norwich, The Bullingdon Arms in Oxford, The Jailhouse in Coventry and The Phoenix in Plymouth and share stages with the likes of Reuben, Zico Chain, The Ghost of a Thousand, Kill Kenada, Br:gade, Enjoy Destroy and Exit Ten.
Receiving radio play from BBC Wiltshire and underground music stalwarts such Total Rock and Pulse Unsigned, along with airings from as far a field as the Serbian alternative radio station Breaking the Silence, Decora have recently topped the charts of cult web-zine Subba-Cultcha.
Top photographer Alyson Blanchard recently worked with the band and has snapped the likes of, amongst others, Liam Gallagher, Kasabian, and Green Day.
Press for the EP: "its hard not to be drawn in to ingeniously constructed cuts like Louise, So Long Farewell and I Will. Given a top flight producer theres nothing to stop this lot taking on the likes of Funeral For A Friend and coming out on top". - Johnny Black, Mojo, Q.
"If the band don't get a major deal on the back of this then there's really something wrong woth the world today" - Jeremy Chick, Subba Cultcha Webzine
Muchos Gracias to the folks and Strings and Things for putting us in the way of all this good shit...
Hey guys, never really go on myspace now but I noticed you decided to give the band a rest...gutted! I really wish the best for you lot and hope we bump into each other at some point! Keep in touch x
Just stopping by to say hello and give you some news. The award winning album 'Coolgilly and the Freakshow' from Centascope is available worldwide from CD Baby and directly from the merchandise page of the official website. You can also get the album from Apple iTunes, MSN Music, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon.co.uk and many more.
Really glad I made it along to catch the final gig! Great songs, great band, perfectly performed....it just leaves the question why, why why? Why did no label snap U up? If I saw U supporting a someone like Muse or U2, you would not seem out of place....U were that good!!
Good luck with future projects...please keep me in the loop for any future off shoot bands.
Hi, through JUNE AND JULY we are slashing our day time rehearsal prices. Between 10am and 5pm all our rooms are either £6 or £7 per hour including weekends. Making us one of the cheapest in SUSSEX. Plus If you buy 3 hours we will even throw in a 4th totally FREE. YES TOTALLY FREE.
OUR RECORDING RATES ARE STILL JUST AS AFFORDABLE TOO, FULL DAYS FROM £200 ALL IN.
So come and rehearse and record in one of the best equipped music complex's in the South.
NO FUCKIN' WAY!! DECORA SPLIT!! That is such sad news!!! Wot a fucked up country this is that one of the best bands in it don't get a deal....and wussy shite like Jack Penate / Rumble Strips are ridin high!! How about one more farewell gig?????? Where can I get the CD's from???
Hey! Appologies if this is the second comment we've sent you recently...bit of a mix up in the bands communication :)
Anyway.. we've been a little quiet for the last few months but we are very pleased to announce our new EP is finished and up on our myspace! It's called Bright Lights and has four brand spanking new tracks to blow your mind. Please have a listen and tell us what you think and if you love it, buy it! :)
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