neil 'the lamb' watson,
scott 'blade' wilkinson,
ryan 'O/C' hadnett,
mic wheeler,
atzi...
Influences
in a vague order of when they were on our stereo's from the late 80's to our present day favourites... thanx to :- The Jesus and Mary Chain, Sonic Youth, Spacemen 3, Mudhoney, Pixies, Curve, My Bloody Valentine, The Stone Roses, Ride, Slowdive, Verve, Loop, Swervedriver, Pale Saints, The Boo Radleys, Teenage Fanclub, The wedding Present, The Breeders, Mazzy Star, PJ Harvey, Spiritualized, Chapterhouse, Madder Rose, The God Machine, Nirvana, Papa Sprain, Drop, Swell, Leonard Cohen, Swans, The Amps, Stereolab, The Blues Explosion, Can, Pink Floyd, DJ Shadow, Kitchens of Distinction Dog Faced Hermans, Ennio Morricone, John Barry, Henry Mancini, Mogwai, Arab Strap, EAR, Angeltech, Nectarine no9, Low, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Mojave 3, Silver mt Zion, Clinic, Trans Am, Sigur Ros, Bright Eyes, DoMakeSayThink, Explosions in the Sky, Dirty Three, Broken Social Scene, The Fucking Champs, Refused, Interpol, Mollasses, Suicide, Envy, Isis, Turbonegro, Valley of the Giants, Guapo, Forkeye, Mono, Hope of the States, Arcade Fire, The Angels Of Light, and hundreds more probably.....
it all started in the early nineties..
mic and ryan got together in Inverness. Ended up in Edinburgh mid nineties. Teamed up with blade and neil and started gigging and developing their sound.
Released 'Alexanders dark band' in 1999 and quickly disappeared again around
2002. After three more years of not much they re-appeared with the album 'An
uncertainty principle'. The band returned to the stage with a little help from their friends - cutter(guitar&bow), newton(guitar) & di(violin) in 2006.
Two years on, gasgiant are back writing new stuff for the next release, due out
whenever it manifests itself. Cutter, newt & di are sadly no longer with the band and there is now a cello player - atzi.
Before the next album is released, the band plan to put out a cd of unreleased tracks and versions called 'Fear is only a dream' available only on cd-r at gigs.
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Hi there, we've uploaded a couple of tracks from our new EP. Check them out and spread the word if you like them!
Also
if you are local to us, we are launching the E.P. this Saturday at
Cabaret Voltaire in Edinburgh. If you buy a ticket for the show we'll
give you a free copy of the cd!
We are very excited to announce our first 'real world' photograph exhibition at the 13th Note in Glasgow. To launch this exhibition, we are putting on a show on the opening night - the 6th July.
Tickets are £4 and all profits of the gig will be given to Yorkhill Childrens Foundation.
You can also bring along a mixed cd which you can swap with someone else. Please include a tracklist and have fun with the cover. This is a great opportunity to promote all the bands you love (or your own band) and show your creative side. Please come along, get some new music & badges, view photos, enjoy amazing bands & say hello. :)
This Friday 26th June 8PM SecretCDs @ The Tron Hunter Sq £5
Lypsync for a Lullaby "Edinburgh's answer to Sigur Ros" "invigorating mix of light and shade. . . Big, big music!"
Foundlings "A fine blend of pin-point almost spoken word vocals and tales of journeys along England’s psychotic autobahns - the spirit of the age." ". . .a kind of My Bloody Valentine for Motorway City times and One More Grain disciples." "Stone Roses for Neu heads!"
The Foundling Wheel "It's beepy, it's insane, it's shouty. It's angry but clever. It makes me want to drive a motorcycle the wrong way down the motorway. Naked." "braiding chromatic sheets of singeing electro-bending between frayed laces of gleaming melody." "Experimental mental music for robots to have sex to"
Hey, there. Just dropping by to say hi, since you're new to our page. There's a couple of demo tracks up already, and a few videos too. Hoping to get summit new up next month-ish. So, hope you're digging 'em so far, Thanks for having us and mosh on!!!
Check out tracks from our fantastic recording session which produced the EP - 'Problems - Solve Youselves' and see what i could do for you over on my myspace
Buy the EP itself and find out more about the band on their myspace: Hey Vampires
North Atlantic Oscillation's "Hollywood Has Ended", from the forthcoming album Grappling Hooks, is featured in this month's Police Box compilation from TenTracks. It's here:
In case you haven't heard, TenTracks is a new music delivery service where you can buy exclusive 10-track compilations for £1, i.e. a mere 10p per track.
This month NAO are in the illustrious company of the excellent Found, Orkestra Del Sol, Fence Collective luminaries James Yorkston and King Creosote and exactly 5 others. Once again, that's £1 for ALL TEN TRACKS. Not bad, really.
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