On bass guitar and remembering to turn his amp on this gig
-----MARK ("Pirate") ROBERTS
On drumrolls, breaks, and other fancy things, cool calm and collected as you like
-----ANDY "Gaffer tape" ARGYLE
On rhythm / lead guitar and backing vocals, this website / organising gigs / practices and just about everybloody thing.....
----GREG ("Mayhem") SCHOFIELD.....................
On lead vocals and whipping the crowd up, we have the "Reverend" Dangerous DEAN DAVEY
Influences
There's a lot of old school punk influences - Sex Pistols, Stranglers, The Damned, Stiff Little Fingers, Uk Subs, The Vibrators, The Alarm (so underrated), The Adverts / T V Smith, The Buzzcocks, Anti Nowhere League, Sham 69, Vice Squad, The Stiffs, Angelic Upstarts, Subhumans, GBH, Goldblade, Peter and The Test Tube Babies, The Rabble, Green Day, Undertones, The Dickies, Dead Kennedys, Siousxie and the Banshees, The Clash, The Cult, The Exploited, Killing Joke, The Macc Lads, Bus Station Loonies, Green Day, Penetration, The Notsensibles, Slaughter & The Dogs, The Cure, Rise Against...............Jesus, the list is endless
Sounds Like
Hopefully, our own stuff sounds original to us - I'd say it's tuneful old school punk - tuneful like a lot of stuff from 77 and 78, but with the simplistic harder edge of the later punk years. We've "punkified" a few other band's songs and hopefully we sound quite like the original songs that we cover.This is the current setlist..........
NANNY STATE('cos that's what we're living in)...........ANARCHY IN THE UK (Sex Pistols).................BASKET CASE(Green Day)..........GARY GILMORE'S EYES - The Adverts............FALLING APART (our signature tune)............TEENAGE KICKS (Undertones)..................WHITE RIOT (The Clash).................AMERICAN IDIOT (Green Day).........JUST WHAT I NEEDED (The Cars - our version)..........WARHEAD (U K Subs)..............I WILL SURVIVE (Gloria's diva classic, punked up).........MY PERFECT COUSIN (Undertones).............IF THE KIDS ARE UNITED (Sham 69).........
RISING SUN (our version of the Animals House of..)...........CUM ON FEEL THE NOIZE (Slade - punky version)........NEW ROSE (The Damned)............PRETTY VACANT (Sex Pistols)............nO gOVERNMENT 2009 (our version of ANTI Pasti's classic).............DONT FCUK WITH 'COMBE (our song)...........LORD'S PRAYER (TV Smith).........JINGLE BELLS (punk style, but only at Christmas)........BLITZKRIG BOP (The Ramones)...........BASKET CASE (Green Day)... I WANNA GO (our song about anyone who's been told that they can't go out to something they deperately want to go to..haven't we all been in that position? )
AVAILABLE FOR HIRE ! THE REAL PUNK EXPERIENCE ! We'll prostitute ourselves at any gig, party, event, wedding, festival - more or less anywhere a lively band is required - if you're a charity or local good cause, we'll probably do it for free !
The band consists of the remnants of "Probably the only Round Table punk band in the whole world!! " (The original members are / were members of that fantastic hard working worldwide blokes charitable institution.) Basically we play our own stuff, punk covers and our versions of other peoples songs.
Whats the Crack then ? Well, for 3 of us in the band its a good deal of nostalgia, rather than protest (albeit this Government is a disgrace) Our formative teenage years involved punk rock, the music that helped get rid of an era of bad taste, of fake american accents in every song on the radiogram and an opportunity to complain noisily that life for young people was just pretty crap. Loved the attitude, loved the music, loved the style and how it upset the older generation. It just summed up our teenage years.
Well, we just love playing, we're bloody enthusiastic and if we can do that, have a laugh, please a few people, get the odd few bob to replace broken kit and bring down the Government in the process (LOL), thats what its all about !
The band formed at the end of 2004 following a chance discussion at a Vibrators gig in sunny Ilfracombe. The rest is history. We've played at some amazing and unusual places, with some amazing and unusual people, supported punk legends including The Vibrators and Vice Squad and been on the same bill as Arthur Brown (as in "the incredible world of ") and are about to support The Wurzels at Birdman 2009 !
Other "claims to fame" include ex pro drummer Andy having drummed for Alvin Stardust when Al was at the height of his career in the mid 70's and touring for two years with 999. He's made daleks for Little Britain and has presented (badly) on a satellite TV goods channel. The band also features a Solicitor, a rude shopkeeper and a semi professional actor / dancer. With a line up like that, how can the band fail to impress?
The emphasis at Falling Apart gigs is on providing a show, some lively entertainment, "the real punk experience" and getting people onto the dance floor. We just love it.
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thanks for a superb set at birdman on sunday,it was a pleasure to work with you as always and hopefully we will have beaten last years toatal for charity. i hope you enjoyed the day and see you soon ray
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hahaha it was just fun, some people seem to have got the wrong idea , it's quite amusing tho. haha you should of seen when i walked down barnstaple highstreet with it on, and my pink shoes , haha i got some really funny looks. :) nad x
haha thanks. XD. its a well cool boat for pictures i found it in barnstaple by the leisure centre, and its so rusty and dead and looks awesome, i wanted to go inside but i have a feeling it might of collapsed on me. haha
Thankyou for adding Sonic World Festival, 4/5th September 2009. Tickets are available from www.sonicworldfestival.co.uk and www.myspace.com/harveybainbridgemusic as well as our own myspace site. £30 for the whole weekend, indoor toilets, free showers, free camping, bars, bar meals and restaurant, indoor venue.
well hello there, i just wanted to tell you guys that when i was FALLING APART, i found that you were JUST WHAT I NEEDED, and i thought i should tell you that WE'RE LIVING IN A NANNY STATE, and at times things may seem PRETTY VACANT!!!! haha oh arnt i funny!!!! so excited to see you guys this weekend, bad friday, bad friday, looks fuckin untidy!!!!!xxxxxx
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