Tim Rippington - Guitars, Vocals, other stuff: Ruth Cochrane - Bass, Keyboards; Tom Adams - Drumming; Paula Knight - Violin, Keyboards, Vocals; Pete Stillman - Guitar
Influences
Great pop music starting with the Velvet Underground and moving forward in time through the Clash, Joy Division, Orange Juice, The Smiths, The Chills, Pavement, Galaxie 500, Belle and Sebastian and even Snow Patrol.
Sounds Like
Everything you've ever wanted, but were afraid to ask for...
Forest Giants were formed in Bristol, England by Tim Rippington (Guitar, Vocals), Jo Head (Drums) and Ruth Cochrane (Bass) in 2001. In 2003 Jo was replaced by former Beatnik Filmstars drummer Tom Adams, and they were joined by Paula Knight on violin and keyboards. Between 2003 and 2007 the band released four CDs on various labels, as well as recording four sessions for the BBC and other radio programmes and performing intermittent live gigs.
The CDs were all extremely well received by the fringe music press, but by 2007 the band had lost the collective will to live, and decided that their fourth CD would be their last. Tim has since gone on to form a new band, The Short Stories, with former school friend Steve Miles. They will be releasing their first CD sometime in early 2008.
This page survives as a record of the band, together with the website at www.forestgiants.co.uk.
Discography:
Closure (CD single) - Mobstar (2001)
Closure/Rain/Turn Down/
Postcards (7" single) - Invisible Hands (2003)
Postcards (new version)/Mr Doorman/Genius
In Sequence (9 song CD) - Invisible Hands (2004)
Teacher vs Pupil/Route A419/Jello/Do You Know What I've Been Through?/Nervous/Postcards/f.w.l/Baby/Holiday Song
UFO Stories (6 song CD) - Breaking Down records (2005)
Beards/Oh No/Peculiar Feeling/Sunrise/UFO Stories/Late Night in the Park/
Planes Fly Overhead (3 track download single) (2006)
Planes Fly Overhead/Pick Up the Pieces/Gone Away
Welcome to the Mid-West - (11 song CD) - Cherryade Records (2006)
I Don't Think You Understand/So You Think You're Unhappy/Why Wait/Hurtful/Planes Fly Overhead/The Message/Wasted/Closure /Stars/ Namesakes/Reverse Outro3
Things We Do When We're Bored - (12 song CD) - International lo-fi Underground (2007)
Goodbye/One for the Road/Tour of the Future/Leave/At the Dog Track/The Life I Have/Pick Up the Pieces/Better World/Tina's Child/Victim of a Fashion Victim/Car Crash/Play Your Trumpet/
Sessions
BBC 6Music (2004)
Postcards/The Message
Bristol Uncovered (2005)
Turn Down/Filmstar/F.W.L/Stars
Cielo Liquido (2006)
Beards/Oh No/Do You Know What I've Been Through?
Dandilion Radio (2007)
Billy Boy/Let You Know/Leave/Planes Fly Overhead
Forest Giants Trip to London
Forest Giants are featured in my December show on Dandelion Radio, a Peel-inspired online station playing exciting new and unsigned music. We are a fully-licensed Internet station that is run and presented by volunteers recording monthly shows.
To view the schedule and listen to the audio stream - and hear the results of the 2008 John Peel Festive Fifty from Xmas Day onwards - visit our website www. DandelionRadio. com, or find us on MySpace at myspace. com/dandelionradio.
My new EP, 'In Miracle World', is now online! It has four brand new recordings and you can either listen on my profile or download it absolutely FREE from www. filthylittleangels. com
If you live near Bristol (or even if you don't) here's news of a great double-bill of indie-pop for you featuring The Westfield Mining Disaster and The Hi-Life Companion.
It's happening at The Wunderbar in Midsomer Norton on Saturday April 12th. What's more, this show is absolutely free! It all kicks off around 9pm. The perfect start to Spring!
An exclusive, unreleased session track by Forest Giants is featured in my January show on Dandelion Radio, a Peel-inspired online station playing exciting new and unsigned music. We are a fully-licensed Internet station that is run and presented by volunteers recording monthly shows.
To view the schedule and listen to the audio stream, as well as listen to the results of the official 2007 Festive Fifty, visit our website www.DandelionRadio.com, or find us on MySpace at myspace.com/dandelionradio. Hope you can find the time to listen to our fine shows...
GHOSTS OF PASHA'S "DIRTBAG" PART 1: tim kasher of CURSIVE and i talk on camera, some fun with members of THESE ARMS ARE SNAKES, the crowd likes my game music, i eat alot.
PART 2: quite hot live performance clips of: CURSIVE, ghosts of pasha, THESE ARMS ARE SNAKES, back stage with the bands, cheesecake.
Hey Guys Many thanks for accepting Verbal Tiger's paw of virtual friendship. You should post some more tunes - really enjoying the one that's on your page. Do Giants tower over the trees in the forest? I suppose it depends on the forest. dAVe ouT of VerbAl tigER
what were the only ones like? probably awesome. Glad you enjoyed the set. disasters follow dan and I around - if we tried for a million years theres no way we'd get it to happen like that again. We had some cds for you but didn't have a chance to give them to you (if you want them I can send them). An excellent evening all round.
Just a quick reminder that you can hear Forest Giants in session right now during my April show for Dandelion Radio. Visit www.DandelionRadio.com to see the schedules and hear the shows.
There's less than a week left to hear these exclusive recording for my show before our May schedule begins!
The HONEY. THE DOG'S HOME compilation CD we are donating any profits to local dogs homes. However assuming no one on the compilation has any objection, the first money generated by sales, will be given to a dog called Ozzy who has been on the news in the last few days. he was taken and tied up and set on fire by a bunch of complete bastards who if i got hold of, i'd kill stone dead with my bare hands, and they could lock me up forever, and i'd never regret it. Ozzy only managed to be alive after the electric cable he was tied up with burnt through, so he managed to run and put the flames out. Vets say he is lucky to be alive, but it's still 50/50 as to if he'll survive. He's so badly burnt, and is going to need a lot of special care and expensive treatment. His owners say he is a kind loving animal, who would never hurt anyone. This happened in Bristol where i live! I can't believe it. I sickens me. I DON'T CARE IF YOU LIKE ANY OF THE BANDS ON THE CD OR NOT. BUY THIS CD NOW! CLICK & BUY!
Features: Steveless, Inspaceno!, Forest Giants, Das Wanderlust, Horowitz, Watercolor Paintings, Beatnik Filmstars, Hulaboy, The Healthy Home, Idiosyncratic Routine, The Westfield Mining Disaster, Chronicity, Ghosts Of Pasha, Jen Turrell, The Girl from Headquarters, Tiger MC's, Captain Polaroid, The Bobby McGee's, Boyracer, Ghouqueu, Steveless, The Projects.
Forest Giants are my exclusive session guests in my April show forDandelion Radio, a Peel-inspired online station playing exciting new and unsigned music. We are a fully-licensed Internet station that is run and presented by volunteers recording monthly shows.
This specially-recorded session features five unique versions of songs, including four new songs and a new version of a well-known classic.
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Tim I've done the travelogue for our gig in London this week. I did post a blog to accompany it but it doesn't seem to have worked. I did swear in it...twice..do you think that's messed it up?
