On lead guitar and lead vocals - Adam Bleedin Fingers Crowley takes his coffee with no sugar and his preferred pastry is a Danish. He is a major songwriter and some may say the saviour of modern rock music.
On bass and vocals Toby The Beard Lunn enjoys fine wine, calligraphy and taking long walks in the country. He is a fine bearded bass player, and a writer of infectious rock and/or roll.
On drums Nick The Hitman Ward likes his drumming fast and his women even faster. A naturally gifted musician and, amongst other things, a keen ornithologist, he often passes time between songs with his renditions of native bird calls.
On rhythm guitar Barney No Nails Arrowsmith enjoys ringing peoples doorbells and then running away before they answer. He once covered 18 miles in one day across a portion of South East London, but is looking to beat that record.
Influences
Some of our influences....
Plowy, Collett, Aphex Twin, Sigur Ros, Boards of Canada, Massive Attack, Radiohead, Nick Drake, Bowie, Dylan, Hendrix, Mogwai, A Silver Mount Zion, Slint, Arcade Fire, Gravenhurst, Maximo Park, Joanna Newsom, Beta Band, The Kinks, The Stones, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Skip James, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie McTell, Missippi Sheiks, Elmore James, Robert Johnson, Leadbelly, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Jeff Buckley, Tim Buckley, Willy Mason, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, The Velvet Underground, Stone Roses, Cream, The Doors, Pixies, GSYBE, Elliot Smith, The Band, Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins, REM, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Weezer, The Fall, The Jam, Joy Division, Jurassic 5, Buena Vista Social Club, Television, Suede, The Cure, The Pogues, Rage Against the Machine, Leonard Cohen, Asa Chung, Beck, Ben Folds Five, Bill Withers, Bob Marley, King Tubby, Lee Perry, Brian Eno, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, The Clash, De La Soul, Prefuse 73, Nina Simone, The Flaming Lips, Frank Sinatra, Gil Scott-Heron, Gomez, Grandmaster Flash, Guns n Roses, Howlin Wolf, Ian Dury & the Blockheads, Janis Joplin, John Lee Hooker, John Lennon, The Lemonheads, Satchmo, Fats Waller, The Libertines, Mercury Rev, Simon and Garfs, Paul Simon, Moldy Peaches, Ray Charles, Pulp, RJD2, Roots Manuva, The Roots, Sage Francis, Sugarhill Gang, The Strokes, Talking Heads, The Cocteau Twins, Tom Waits, The White Stripes, Curtis Mayfield, Mahalia Jackson...
Frank Rapture have decided to call it a day. Thanks for all the support and good times. And who know what the future will bring. A comeback? Who can say?
Adam's down in London looking for a band to join at the moment. Give him a shout, his called 'Gattoox' and he's the top friend on here.
Here's a review of FR for old time's sakes:
Frank Rapture isn't a trendy guy with a strange name, no no they are a bunch of fun time boozers who like to make cocky rock n roll in the same vein as Gomez, Stone Roses & some trippy early 70's blues rockers simply all without cheese & spinkled with lashings of the ridiculous. Based in Worcester West Midlands, Frank Rapture use the Wah Wah pedal & don't sound like a pub band or a Hendrix rip off. This is a mean feat in itself.
Cocky pomp riffs, [and] bass & drums give the bounding swagger missing from Indie rock since Oasis went soft, Ian Brown learnt to sing(more in key) & The Verve imploded into the ridiculous.
Plastic Ashtray on ‘Money Shot’.
'Money Shot' might sound crude, i assure you it's a mix of Pavement's guitar fun mixed with some space blues rock.
It's mad as a hatter rock n roll. Computer manipulations litter their songs as does their funtime wah wahings & tongue in cheek lyrics.
Plastic Ashtray on ‘Grandma Died’.
It's a real headfuck of beats & treats. What a difference between the first 2 tracks. Frank Rapture are not afraid to just take a right turn, then 3 lefts & a right & still expect you to follow. Those who do will be rewarded by their nonsense ( & i say that in a complementry way!)
Frank Rapture do what they do, the best way they can, which makes no sense as they are all as mad. In otherwords (let me grab my spinning head), they are fantastic. They have many ideas which they fuse in ways which you wouldn't think would work but do in a really inventive & charming way.
Plastic ashtray on ‘Venus in Scorpio’.
Brash & beautiful. Totally early Radiohead, circa Pablo Honey meets Mansun on their 'Six' trip & mixing in some mega hard riffage.
It's hard to pigeonhole Frank Rapture. Why should they be, they slow the tape down, they speed it up, they go into space then come back to earth. What more can i say about a band who know how to have fun?
Frank Rapture are making a mockery of chin scratchers all over the land.
Genius.
2007 Review By Plastic ashtray Music E-zine.
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Hey Frank Rapture, long time no hear. Hope you are well. Just to let you know we have had a new review go onto our site www.bloodytourists.co.uk from VENUE MAGAZINE. We got 5 Stars ("Bath's answer to The Arctic Monkeys"). It's well worth a read. Let us know what you think.
We are also running a competition to win a limited edition 7 inch vinyl on the site, you just need to sign up on the website or our myspace page (2 seconds max!). All entries will get a free I-tunes download.
Our first ever single, 'Space', ihas been released through Native Tongue Records on 11/11/07, so make sure you check it out! All the details our on our myspace page...
Our first ever single, 'Space', is being released through Native Tongue Records on 11/11/07, so make sure you check it out! All the details our on our myspace page...
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hey toby if the rumours are true then congrats on the forthcoming addition to the bearded Lunn family. may he/she belt out as many basslines as his dad.
I hear you're back............!!!!!!I can smell it in the air! How exciting! See u at senior wolfs very soon! (it's a noodle palace in there don't you know!!) x
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