Grandaddy, Pavement, Gorkys Zygotic Mynci, Love, Bright Eyes, Lemonheads, Neutral Milk Hotel, Daniel Johnston, Mercury Rev, Sparklehorse, Beach Boys, Pink Floyd, The Coral, Bob Dylan, Captain Beefheart, Flaming Lips, The Pixies, The Doors, Midlake, Flotation Toy Warning, Sleepy Jackson, SFA, Gram Parsons, Syd Barratt, Ben Folds, the Earlies, Mojave 3/Slowdive, Low, Micah P Hinson, Arab Strap, Iron & Wine, Devandra Banhart, The Smiths, OASIS!!!! ... The seaside, arcades, mountains, shit holidays and JOHN BARNES
Sounds Like
Skewed indie country folk pop with added banjo, trumpet, piano, screaming ALOHA!
The Brotherhood of Gintis welcomes you with open arms, though it is not for the faint hearted. If you like your music to come with scarves, blazers, shit haircuts played by pretty boys in jeans way too tight, then just fuck off now. Gintis are about having the bollocks to do something that matters, to stick their necks out and say "hang on, lets do something beceause we beleive in it, be true to ourselves, so what if it sounds a little odd, do it" why mute your imagination? let it wander, let us take you on that journey, it's a fucking insane world out there, embrace that! Gintis will lead you on the way, we may make you see things you never wanted to see, or think thoughts that make your head hurt and bring that white sheet over your mind, blanket bombing it to stop you from taking it too far! but i'm sure we will make you smile too. It is heart warming and sincere, so come on Join us. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"They come from the University of Beefheart and graduated with Flaming Lips honours. I once spent half an hour with them looking for a wizard who was making magic potions in a caravan in Skegness. They are a little offbeat but in the best and most charming way." - Lupine
"It's different, it's diverse to the point where even Gorky's Zygotic Mynci would throw the towel in & say, 'Hey lads, please take our pedestal'. Gintis are like laboratory rats fed on a cocktail of psychedelic drugs who have escaped to set up a commune in a nuclear power station" - Link2Wales
"The world’s finest example of 'spazchedelia' - invite it into your ears and your hearts"
- Adam Walton, BBC Radio Wales
"'Happy Drunken Accidents' is the first Gintis album. Life just got better." Ben Clay, Flotation Toy Warning
"Quite, quite beautiful." BBC Wales
"Gintis are a bit like a kebab. Fucking awful unless you're pissed" The Colin 2008
Video for "Wonderful Show" from the album Happy Drunken Accidents, Hidden Hive Records, 2006
Saturday January 16th at The Dudley Arms, Rhyl - The 'Alright All-Dayer, Alright?' featuring The Autonomads, Flat Back Four, Global Parasite + loads more. Should kick off around 4pm or so, more info soon.
Wednesday March 31st at The Dudley Arms, Rhyl - A welcome return for The Dangerfields (on their 10 year anniversary tour), Stuntface + more tbc.
Ha ha! Gary remembers being sick but doesn't remember where... Mystery solved... Cheers coming man, it was fun! I was really drunk when I left... I didn't maroon you without somewhere to stay did I? I remember searching, but a lot after that is a little hazy.
Check out 'The Bridge EP', our first ever proper recording. You can hear all the tracks on our Myspace page, and there's also a link if you want to download them for free.
Contained therein are Paul Draper from Mansun's Words of Wisdom. Mansun dared to go against the unimaginative, recycled, Britpop zeitgeist. They took some influence from the sophisticated pop conceptualists of the 70's and 80's, bands like Tears for Fears, Talk Talk and Magazine, when such bands were generally deemed to be unfashionable, and Mansun managed the difficult trick of combining such originality and ambition with no small amount of commercial success.
Associated Minds are a kite mark of quality and ideas in British hip hop and they treat us to their second audio blog.
Our poet in residence is Bangor-based student, Nick Major.
As part of our ongoing series looking at people who work with new musicians at a grassroots level in their communities I talk to Dave Mounter from Deeside's Panic Promotions. And we hear from a selection of the bands that Dave's organisation is encouraging.
Huw Pooh brings in something old and Welsh in the shape of Llanelli's boisterously entertaining Andy Pandemonium. Which brings about an embarrassing revelation for me... but you'll have to listen to find out what that is. I'm not going to spell it out here, too. ;)
Soundhog trawls Pete Townshend's demos for something with which to inspire us.
And there is new Welsh music. Not as many different artists as usual, perhaps, but that's because of the two phenomenal tracks bookending the show.
** If you have any new music for the show, regardless of wherever you are in Wales or what genre your music falls under, please send 1 or 2 of your best tracks as a high quality .mp3 to: themysterytour@gmail.com with a short biography and a contact number.
"Hate Isn't The Opposite of Love, Indifference Is" on my radio show, The British Breakfast, on WRIR 97.3FM Richmond, Virginia USA and streamed live on www.wrir.org this Saturday between 9-11AMEST and 2-4PMUK.
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