Ink Wilson - guitar, vocals
Martin Docherty - bass
Chris Brown - hitting things
Paul Kelly - guitar, keys
Anna Webster - vocals, keys, glockenspiel
Ross McCrae - trombone
Annie McFarlane - violin
Rich Merchant - trumpet
Nicola West - cello
Influences
Pavement, Talking Heads, Tom Waits, "Foreplay with a Tree Shredder" by Anal Cunt, The Velvet Underground, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Half Man Half Biscuit, Jim O'Rourke, The Polyphonic Spree, Lambchop, Devo, The Fall, Jonathan Richman, David Bowie
Sounds Like
Genesis P and Me (2008):
“Genesis P and Me…shines with demented inventiveness.” The Skinny
“Effortlessly Pleasing.” The List
The Littlest Orgasm (2006):
"Genuinely off-its-head and relentlessly entertaining." Lickmag.com
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How to Swim are a ten piece pop band from Glasgow, Scotland. They've been about for longer than they care to mention.
A revolving door policy in terms of line-up helps to guarantee that live, you'll never see the same version of HTS more than once, something the band regard as a complete positive, and their unofficial MO.
Since 2006, the band have released a series of singles and EPs to some acclaim. In 2009, they will release their first album proper, Retina (or More Fun Than a Vat of Love).
How to Swim write songs about corpses in underground stations, the disadvantages of partial blindness, love, death, sword-swallowers, deliberate disfigurement, anxiety and happiness.
They could easily be your favourite band, if only you'd let them burrow into your heart and lay their little eggs.
This Friday at Mutant Music at the Flying Duck, 7pm : Big Ned (Optimo Music), Louise McVey & Cracks In The Concrete and Bad Bad Men's Acoustic Carnival...
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