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.
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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!...
Yo dude hows it going? We just put two new songs up from our new EP up on our page. Check them out and let us know what you think if you get the chance:) Cheers Niall, First Step!
Hi Raymond just wanted to say thanks for letting us be part of the unplugged session last night. It was a great evening ,wide range of music and smashing people to boot. Ill keep you posted re the Lazzas night coming soon.... Best wishes Alec
Hi Raymond, whats the sketch on thu what time - where is the venue - how long is the set time - do we bring amp for bass etc,etc,etc cheers the noo tom 07979963310
