Gareth Owen on Acoustic and Keyboard, Chris Williams vocals.
Influences
The Beatles, Oasis, Stereophonics, Paul Weller, U2, Coldplay, Sting, James Morrison, Newton Faulkner, James Blunt, Muse, Snow Patrol, The Kooks and most guitar based music
Sounds Like
We like to think we have our own style and sound to our own stuff and the covers we do....
It all started on the back of a coach on the way home from a South Wales trip. I used to torture the lads on the long trips home with the guitar but after they’d had a few beer’s they all thought they were Robbie and wanted to sing so it was all harmless fun until the side I played for signed Chris and you can imagine what happened on the next away trip. ’Firkin’ Hell ’Bung’ you can sing, as we banged out Faith by George Michael, (It was the only one we both new!!) Chris is affectionately known as ’Bungle’ around his hometown of Flint and this has stuck (If you ever get to meet us, ask why and we will gladly explain!!) Anyway, two weeks later, Chris bounds up smiling ’We’ve got a gig’, ’Wass a gig I ask myself!! ’We’re on in the Boro’ Club Saturday night 8.00’. At this point I was still asking myself what does he mean a ’gig’. So we got a set together, learnt the songs and off we went. We are both massive fans of acoustic music obviously and we both believe that it sounds best when a song is stripped down to the bare bones and heard how it was written. As we progressed we both confessed to trying to write songs (I think we thought it wasnt a very blokey thing at first) and we found we shared similar experiences in life as lots of people do. We then set about writing together and as you can hear we put a lot into it and don’t just write about anything.
So here we are today with 20+ gigs behind us and we are both bitten with performing. We have about 100 songs to select our set from depending on where we are playing which is great and we also include some of our own stuff (audience permitting) at out gigs now. If you want to book us, just drop us a line.
It’s all about the music...
Gareth and Chris
Thanks for the add... saw you on S4C tonight - who would have thought that after all these years of watching welsh prem Id discover that bungle has a lovely voice!! :-) All the best!
For the record, both my 'tache and the beard are gone, I shaved about two weeks ago. They'll be back eventually, no doubt about that. ;) That's a really nice guitar, anyhow, I think I'm gonna look into a new one if I ever get a job. Another tasty acoustic/electric, or maybe a sweet Telecaster. Dunno yet.
I downloaded all the new studio-produced songs. Love it. Your guitar playing is a lot more stylish now, I think, it's got this folky kind of rhythm to it, kind of like how KT Tunstall plays. It's good stuff.
