Ste Lingard - vocals & guitar Tom Cunningham - drums Andy Dazzler - bass & vocals
Influences
Bad Religion Snuff Iron Maiden Street Dogs Sick Of It All Slayer The Clash NOFX Anthrax Biohazard Thin Lizzy
...and such
Sounds Like
You tell us. Sorta punky metally!
Discography
LPs
Who Dares Penguins, released October 2006. 1. I Told You I Was Ill 2. The Fallen 3. Share The Wealth 4. Over The Top 5. Psalm 23 6. Better Days 7. One Hundred Years 8. Wouldn't Miss It For The World 9. The Thatto Heath Song 10. English Civil War 11. The Wind Still Blows Down Webb Street
EPs
Once More Unto The Breach, released April 2008. 1. Burn The Flag 2. Once More Unto The Breach 3. Jeff's Rock Night 4. Dogs Actually 5. If I Die Tonight
Pork Pies and Snapped Strings: the Cider Session Tapes (live), released April 2005. 1. Wouldn't Miss It For The World 2. One Hundred Years 3. Share The Wealth 4. We're Only Gonna Die 5. Snuff Movie Princess 6. The Brews 7. FBM - Crawling From The Wreckage
Handguns and Hiding Places, released February 2005.
1. Tommy Gun Serenade 2. Truck Stop Romance 3. Script Between The Lines 4. Crawling From The Wreckage
Singles
Silent Night, recorded 2006 A. Silent Night
Do The Crouch - World Cup 2006, released June 2006 A. Do The Crouch B. The Thatto Heath Song
Split CDs
From The Streets, Vol. 1 (with The Kirkz and The Straitjackets), 'released' September 2007. 9. The Idiot 10. Once A Week Daydream 11. The News 12. The Thatto Heath Song
Contributions to compilations
Gamberro's Europunk Compilation, released by Gamberro, June 2009
Birdsout Records 2009 Compilation, online compilation, released by - you guessed it - Birdsout Records, Feb 2009
Lambination III, Dead Lamb Records, October 2008
Fungalskapunka Compilation released by OMD Fungalpunk, October 2008
Northwest Uk punk vol 1, released by Voltage records, August 2008
Home Sweet Home, released by www.punk4life.co.uk, March 2008
Lancaster Punk Weekender Compilation, November 2007
SLit Records Compilation, Summer 2007
Underdog vol I, released by OMD / Fungalpunk & Humdrum records, July 2007.
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BIOGRAPHY:
Flat Back Four are a punk band from St Helens and Manchester in the north west of England (or LANCASHIRE as they prefer to call large parts of it). They like football, beer, cricket, curry, history, sausage rolls and – of course – punk. Well, and metal, come to think of it. They play fast, catchy songs about the things they like (the studious can refer to the helpful list above) and enjoy playing gigs very much indeed. In four years they have played over 170, spending a small fortune on plectrums, sausage rolls and petrol on the way.
In the same period they have released three E.P.s, one album (Who Dares Penguins), and one split cd, eaten about two tons of Scotch eggs, had six drummers, played in Germany (five trips), Belgium and Sweden (they speak Swedish there, ya know) and had six drummers. Did I mention that? Yes, six. Not all at once. Thankfully, the settled down following the return of original drummer Tom Cunningham in October 2006 and things are looking up. The shows in the last year earned some damned fine reviews (seriously) and they have a steady stream of dates coming up. They are currently writing and recoring tracks for a split album with Japanese band Jolly Blobby Sex, due out on Dead Lamb Records later in the year.
If you see the boys on the road, throw a sausage roll at them, or perhaps a flump. Go on. You know you want to.
BUYING STUFF To buy any of the CDs listed on the left, or any of the four t-shirt designs, send us a message through this site or email us at flatback4punk@yahoo.co.uk
German biog:
Flat Back Four sind eine kraftvolle Punkband aus Manchester, England. Die Jungs schlossen sich im Herbst 2004 zusammen, nachdem sie bereits ein paar Jahre an anderen Projekten gearbeitet hatten. Innerhalb funf Jahres traten sie, zusammen mit einigen der besten englischen Undergroundbands, auf 170 Konzerten in ganz England auf, und ernteten dabei einige hervorragende Kritiken.
Die Musik britischer Legenden wie Snuff und The Clash hat einen starken Einfluss auf die Band, zusammen mit dem Sound ihrer amerikanischen Lieblingsbands wie Bad Religion und Anthrax. Ihre Songs handeln von den Dingen, die ihnen wichtig sind - Dinge wie Freundschaft, das Leben der einfachen Arbeiterschaft, und - naturlisch - Deutsches Bier.
Hope you had a good time in Stoke on sat, it was good to see you again, we'll have to get a show together soon otherwise you can't have your banner back! Take it easy, Wiv.
Cheers for last weekend - hope Saturday and Sun were as good as friday. Cheers for blowing us off stage too. Looking forward to Wakey - we have a few madheads comin along
Just put three 'new' songs up. They're unmixed demo's we've been
working on a while ago. If you get a mo' have a listen and let us know
whit ye think.
cheers
Dani p.s. they where mixed and engineered by Andy Dazzler but it wasn't his fault they never got finished
brought back happy childhood memories of hiking with my big brother. We'd always sing that song. Of course I was always Laurel and he was Hardy 'cause he's fat and I'm thick !!!!
Hi, thanks for beeing friends. It was a very very nice birthday for me! Hope Flat Back Four will play again in Druckluft. Best wishes from my brother. He was very lucky to hear from you. Marion
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