Dwight C. Eisenhower, Beauregard Goldwater III, Otis T. Nixon, J. Clancy Reagan and Thadius Driftwood-Bush.
Influences
There is a long list of artists we like: Elvis Costello, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Aimee Mann, Radiohead, Lyle Lovett, Joni Mitchell, ELO, Crowded House, REM, Steely Dan, Alison Moorer, The Kinks, Roxy Music, XTC, Nik Kershaw, Justin Currie, Jellyfish, Hank Williams, Squeeze, kd lang, Stevie Wonder, Jimmy Webb and anyone else who thinks that 'moon' doesn't necessarily have to rhyme with 'sausage'.
Sounds Like
Elvis Costello suffers a massive blow to the head. When he wakes up in hospital, he finds that he is living in an 'alternative' reality in which he is a former member of Jellyfish who is trying to write a novel about a delusional guy who thinks he might be living inside the head of someone playing in an XTC tribute band.
The Eisenhowers is not so much a band, more a loose collection of people making a noise with musical instruments.
Their music has been compared to the likes of Aimee Mann, Elvis Costello, Ben Folds, Crowded House and Steely Dan. The 2006 debut album 'Almost half-undressed' featured -according to most experts- a whole bunch of literate, punchy and thoughtful songs about sex, celebrity, love, money, parenthood and serial killers.
The newly-released second album ‘Film your own atrocities’ keeps the laughs coming, with songs about betrayal, cynicism, stupidity, financial impropriety and psycho-sexual trauma.
All members of The Eisenhowers collective are politically aware and very much focused on the important issues of the day. When they are not spending their hard-earned royalties on girlie magazines and alcohol, the musicians like to watch daytime TV and read celebrity gossip rags, pausing only to binge on ice cream and make the occasional crank call to the emergency services.
The new True Margrit CD - The Juggler's Progress - is now available for pre-order, along with t-shirts and artwork, photo and drumheads, check it out here: http://bit.ly/7Cu8J
Next shows: November 5, Molly Malone's in West Hollywood, CA November 12, Fox and Goose in Sacramento, CA November 15, Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco, CA
Our tour wraps up with the big show at San Francisco's best rock club, Bottom of the Hill! For the complete show schedule, check here: http://bit.ly/1UgGqQ
hey raymondo, how goes it in eisenhower land? just thought we'd mention a gig the we're gonna play on the 29th of november at capitol on sauchiehall street. it'd be awesome if you could make it along, it's a bank holiday so no work the next day hopefully, you can stay up past your bedtime (if youre allowed). hows things with pulse going? i'll be moving back to barrhead (borrheid) at the end of the month, so let me know if there are any slots going. speak soon
The new True Margrit CD - The Juggler's Progress - is now available for pre-order, along with t-shirts and artwork, photo and drumheads, as we get ready for our monthlong tour of the Great Northwest! Check it out here: http://bit.ly/7Cu8J
Look for us in Washington, Oregon and California between October 15 and November 15, when our tour wraps up with the big show at San Francisco's best rock club, Bottom of the Hill! For the complete show schedule, check here: http://bit.ly/1UgGqQ
Just to let you know that you are featured in one of my Liverpool IPO internet radio programmes on MikeLive. The shows regularly play in rotation, so if you’ve missed one it won’t be too long before it’s repeated. Happy Listening! www.mikelive.co.uk
thanks for having us! we love a good old sing song, especially an alcohol-fuelled one! Hope to see you again soon, keep us posted on your up-and-coming radio show and if there's anything we can do for you, it sounds like a great project, cheeeerrrrssss!!! XXX
thanks for the opportunity to play at, and spend a great night at, the rascassa yesterday. great fun and what a night of music, hope to be back again soon
Paying one of many return visits here, but am now trading as a connoisseur what with now being the proud owner of "Film Your Own Atrocities". Must say, I thought Ben & Jason and Ben Folds had used up all the remaining good tunes in the world... but I was wrong. Hearing this kind of joyous pop takes me back to the first times I heard XTC's Orange & Lemons and Jellyfish's Bellybutton! Well impressed and love it all to bits, especially Gathering Dust, Reign Of The Stupid and 1969.
Someone who's tapping into a similar vein of pure pop is Duncan Roberts ofDictafone. Similar levels of Finnesque artistry, with a bit of Divine Comedy where you might be more Squeeze and Costello-like. I reckon you'd enjoy him/them.
I would go on but mustn't outstay my welcome!... A pleasure doing business with you and hope to see you live somehow sometime somewhere. To paraphrase that old 1980s slogan, life sounds better to the Eisenhowers!...
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