Foundlings are
Paul - guitar & voice
Tom - guitar
Kim - bass
Tes - drums
Influences
All sorts of bands have influenced us. Here's what we love and listen to: My Bloody Valentine, Do Make Say Think, Pavement, Electrelane, Can, Zombie Zombie, Killing Joke, Felt, Loop, Quack Quack, Godspeed You! Black Emporer, The Boredoms, Ill Ease, Joy Division, Boards Of Canada, Sonic Youth, Tortoise, The Early Years, Yo La Tengo, Broadcast, Neu, Stereolab, PIL, Sparklehorse, American Music Club, Spacemen 3, Guided By Voices, Shudder To Think, Ski Patrol, Broadcast.
Thanks Tom Robinson for introducing us on your show, "its was wicked"
"We've been introduced by Tom... "
"A fine blend of pin-point almost spoken word vocals and tales of journeys along England’s psychotic autobahns - the spirit of the age."
"..refined blend of gentle progressive kraut rock."
"The Rickenbacker twelve string adds a contradictory jingle that makes their inspired sound rather unique – a kind of My Bloody Valentine for Motorway City times and One More Grain disciples."
"Robert Calvert, Mark E. Smith, Boards of Canada, Tortoise, and all the time the contradictory jangle of that Rickenbacker – so obvious a combination, why hasn’t anyone else done this? Stone Roses for Neu heads!"
Hey Foundlings! I heard you on the Tom Robinson Show on Monday night - you were the best thing on there - a shining diamond in a sea of shite. Nice one!! Mr Randall.
Come October and I'll be free to do some musak...well not as busy as usual so yes I will be up for it! I think you can spare Andie the Chinese burns as I have a feeling she might also be up for laying down a track or two. HeUp Ken! X
Superb gig Saturday!!! Nice to solve the world's problems Sunday too. Hope to catch up with you again soon. Remember the big Campaign Against Climate Change march December 6th...Guy
Hello Kennet! Quiet Sun has been remixed into something else. I wasn't happy with it as it was. It'll be released on tape (fingers crossed) soon. Looking forward to hearing the fruits of your labour. xx
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Easily one of the most important bands of our times (and we don't say that lightly), Stars of the Lid are the highpoint of the ambient genre. Their influence on the music that really matters over the last decade has been huge, and we're incredibly honoured to be hosting them again in Leeds. This gig will be very very different, and very very special. Stars of the Lid have excelled at designing subtle, minimalist epics which sound like they're being played on a single multifaceted organic instrument. A wise man once described SOTL as "divine classical drones without the tedious intrusion of drums, or vocals. "
The Declining Winter is the musical project of Richard Vincent Adams of Leeds UK, the co-founder of the continuing group Hood and a full time stricken office worker. What does it sound like? Richard says "cassette tapes spilling out of the glovebox of a 1970's Datsun Sunny somewhere in the north of England, captured on Super 8 film". He's not far off. Live he is joined by a few more people to bring the beautiful pastoral feel to life. Wonderful stuff.
Golden Diskó Ship combines a mass of instruments and found objects (guitars, viola, glockenspiel, sticky tape, compact disc cases, toys…) together with perfectly crafted laptop electronica to form a world of beautiful, original and individual music - “…dreamy, experimental folk electronica that sounds like walking on the beach with the sun in your eyes."
The Declining Winter is the musical project of Richard Vincent Adams of Leeds UK, the co-founder of the continuing group Hood and a full time stricken office worker. What does it sound like? Richard says "cassette tapes spilling out of the glovebox of a 1970's Datsun Sunny somewhere in the north of England, captured on Super 8 film". He's not far off. Live he is joined by a few more people to bring the beautiful pastoral feel to life. Wonderful stuff.
Hands and Fingers makes minimally gorgeous cerebral music. He mixes samples, acoustic guitars, glockenspiel and ambient atmospheres with drum breaks that have been described as "Tortoise having a fight with Four Tet in the dark, with John Bonham trying to split them up". It's ace. Very ace.
A Forest of Sound presentation. It’s £4 on the door, doors are 8pm.
