Andy Porteous Vocals, Guitars, Keys Andy Moore Vocals, bass Ryan O'Donoghue Guitars Kieran Petvin Drums Steve State Keys, Vocals, FX
Influences
The Notwist, Steve Reich, Aphex Twin, Keith Jarrett, Gorecki, Arvo Part, Yo La Tengo, Afghan Whigs, TV on the Radio, Red House Painters, Flaming Lips, Talk Talk, Jaga Jazzist, Nick Drake, Orbital, Ride, Tortoise, Madlib, Tindersticks, Marvin Gaye, Jesus and Mary Chain, Robert Wyatt, Prefuse 73, Four Tet, Cinematic Orchestra, Bjork, Midlake, American Music Club, Boards Of Canada, Clouddead, Pavement, DJ Shadow, Wolf Parade, Pink Floyd, Liars, Elliott Smith, The Cure, Larry David, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Secret Machines, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, Nick Cave, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jason Pierce, In Flagranti, Jean Jacques Burnel, Andy Warhol, David Bowie, Andreas Gursky, Dinosaur Jr, M83, The Velvet Underground, David Sylvian, Can, Air, David Fridmann, John Lydon, Pixies, David Byrne, Broken Social Scene, New Order, Joy Division, Giorgio Moroder, Animal Collective, Jimi Hendrix, Mark Linkous, !!!, Sigur Ros, Roxy Music, Chris Morris, The Clash, The Arcade Fire, Buck 65, Soft Machine, Sufjan Stevens, Mogwai, Vincent Gallo, Yes, Joao Gilberto, Roy Ayers, Momus, Fela Kuti, Charles Mingus, Edward Hopper, The Sleepy Jackson, Beta Band, Derek Bailey, Spring Heel Jack, Devo, Jim O'Rourke, Jackson Pollock, The National, Wong Kar-Wai, UNKLE, Sonic Boom, Akira Kurasawa, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Haruki Murakami, Henry Rollins, Bill Fay, Miles Davis, Jeff Tweedy, John Coltrane, Pablo Picasso, Constantin Brancusi, Elvis Costello, Keith Tippett, Thelonious Monk, Squarepusher, Lambchop, Yasujiro Ozu, Norman Mailer, Beans, Rotary Connection, Erol Alkan, David Axelrod, Tom Waits, Antipop Consortium, Albert Ayler, Daft Punk, Optimo, Hood, Death in Vegas, Prince, Phoenix, Mew.
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In 1738 when Lewis Paul and John Wyatt patented the famous Roller Spinning machine, they began a long historical lineage of industrial and scientific innovation in Birmingham.
In 2007, following in the footsteps of their industrial forefathers, five Birmingham men have developed and perfected a musical formula so utterly unique and innovative as to restore hope in the city’s faded glory.
Destroy Cowboy have been assembling klaxons and magnetic sound machines that pulse and vibrate, harnessing the power of the elements and the spirit of the crowd to explosive effect.
Successful live tests have seen these brave men exhibiting alongside such leading names of music, science and industry as Cold War Kids, Tapes ‘n Tapes, Humanzi, 2ManyDjs, 1990s, The Stills and Tokyo Police Club.
The scientific community and the people of Birmingham now wait expectantly for news of Destroy Cowboy’s next move.
To Die By Your Side
... a Birmingham five piece with a talent for intense, melodic assaults ... a melting pot of ideas that meld pounding drums to heavy guitars while swathes of elctronics and synths swirl around ...
... Don't you just love unexpected surprises? Life just plods along in all its mundane familiarity, work work pub club sleep and all that. Then wham, something new, something exciting. For me, it was my first live experience of Destroy Cowboy ...
... Destroy Cowboy are a seriously impressive band. One anthemic classic after another … I can really see Destroy Cowboy making it, not just nationally but across the pond too. They are, in my humble opinion, THAT good. Now go listen, see 'em live and if you're not 100% satisfied then you don't have ears. ...
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Featuring Fyfe Dangerfield (from Guillemots), Gannets posit an alternative jazz history in which 30's swing developed straight into a combined form of the free jazz and fusion movements, without any of the intervening decades.
Fyfe Dangerfield - keyboards + electronics
Alex J Ward - clarinet
Christopher Cundy - bass clarinet
Dominic Lash - double bass
Steve Noble - drums
Featuring Fyfe Dangerfield (from Guillemots), Gannets posit an alternative jazz history in which 30's swing developed straight into a combined form of the free jazz and fusion movements, without any of the intervening decades.
'Gannets' Fyfe Dangerfield - keyboards + electronics Alex J Ward - clarinet Christopher Cundy - bass clarinet Dominic Lash - double bass Steve Noble - drums
Hey Hows it going guys!? Liking your stuff by the way, very nice indeed. biglove for coming aboard with us too, as we were saying...if you'd like tickets for our show with RA RA RIOT @ Brum Barfly, drop us a msg as we can do them for a fiver for you and your friends!
UNWED SAILOR is helmed by Oklahoma-born songwriter Johnathon Ford. The basis for the instrumental project came into being while Ford was still writing with Seattle luminaries Roadside Monument. Pulling towards a bass guitar-oriented sound, the songs he had begun to craft did not fully feel right for Roadside Monument, thus the unbeknownst predestined forming of Unwed Sailor. Not aiming for Unwed Sailor to fall into the regular confines of a typical band, Ford's ever evolving cast and crew has been tirelessly composed over the years of good friends and company. Throughout the past decade, Unwed Sailor has shared the stage with the likes of Pedro the Lion, Mary Timony, Low, The Danielson Famile, Sufjan Stevens, Early Day Miners, Minus the Bear, The Advantage, The Starlight Mints, Battles, Mates of State, and Beach House(just to name a few…). The band has since been relocated and based out of cities across the United States, including Chicago, Seattle, Washington D.C., Jackson MS, Little Rock, AR, and most recently Lawrence, KS. With numerous tours in the U.S. and Europe, the band has traveled almost as much as it has evolved.
Connect Four: Magic 8 Ball is approaching. Its on the 9th October, check the flier below for the lineup. The BIG news is that Connect Four is now completely FREE OF CHARGE.
Hello Destroy Cowboy we had a few complaints last week that we were using a MySpace program to send out our messages. So believe this when we say that you Destroy Cowboy are very important to us, just as important as the other 1000 people who are on my personal and the Exiles MySpace page. Destroy Cowboy you may think that you aren’t special to us but Destroy Cowboy Exiles (like Metallica) loves you.
So where Destroy Cowboy are you going to get your fix of awesome music this week because Exiles Birmingham’s Genre Straddling Rock Behemoth is just itching to give you Destroy Cowboy a dose of sticky Rock infection every Thursday leaving you Destroy Cowboy feeling dirty and molested. Speaking of molested Marshall made a flyer, thankfully so did Tim Ki Kydd who is partly responsible for our awesome website. Check it out at exilesbirmingham. co. uk
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This Saturday I am stage managing at Project X and you have to look at some of the links below to believe how awesome this event is.
So Destroy Cowboy we have a wonderful plan for this Thursday night.
You definitely should go and see The Mirimar Disaster, I am Colossus, Slab and Mothertrucker at the Asylum ........and then you should pootle on down to Exiles and get all drunk with all the aforementioned bands as they will be coming out to play and celebrate being awesome altogether.
If you turn up with a ticket stub from the gig we will let you in for £2 where you can boogie on down to Rock music not normally heard in Shiny Brummingham.
Check out our website and see what awesomeness we’ve been playing.
TREMBLING BELLS Since serving apprenticeships with some uniquiely talented songwriters (Bonnie Prince Billy, Jandek, Baby Dee, Alasdair Roberts, Red Krayola, Richard Youngs, Josephine Foster, Current 93, 6 Organs of Admittance et al) Alex Neilson has formed a new song based group who seek to reanimate the psychic landscapes of Great Britain and relocate them to some vague, mythic land where basic human crisis' are encountered and conquered via a love for canonical rock, traditional folk and Earlie Musik. The Trembling Bells will perform as a quartet with Alex Neilson, Ben Reynolds and Lavinia Blackwall and Simon Shaw.
Different Girls consists of Tenerbous Liar drummer, Brendan Casey, Bassist Alex Miles and Dave Ridley on guitar. Having formed the group recently they produce a concoction of loosely structured music that delves into Black Metal, Folk and Shoegaze to create a music that often seems dreamlike with a sound reminiscent of Sonic Youth. While obtaining the ever recognizable Nick Cave style vocals. They've recently made appearances with the Castanets, Jesse Sykes, and an opening slot at Coventry's Sonic Boom Festival.
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