"Coming from the same, ultra-creative, brilliantly DIY, South East scene as Meet Me In St Louis, their recent EP, 'Everyone Runs Faster With A Knife', and forthcoming double a-side single, 'Lost The Magic'/'Broken Sound', are filled with the same explosive energy and excitement as the much-missed St Louis boys early demo recordings. With a slight nod towards an American 90's indie influence in the vocals, these are definitely one of my new favourite bands and they should be yours too."
Kevin Douch of Big Scary Monsters Recording Company.
"For a band that aren’t even supposed to be here today and experience technical hitches from their first song, last minute additions Hold Your Horse Is are pretty damn good too. Their punk rock lightning strike songs aren’t subtle and threaten to fly completely out of control at times but they possess some stellar rolling percussion that could out down wild beats."
Simon T Diplock of Moderate Rock.
"Speaky ‘Art Brut’-esque bits. Rough, sloppy arrogance in the vein of ‘Shooting At Unarmed Men’. Dark, quick-paced riffs that would sound at home with ‘yourcodenameis:milo’and the edge that Biffy Clyro had back before they became everyone’s favourite band – and you have Hold Your Horse Is."
Stephen McLeod of Artrocker.
"Some real killer riffs being mixed into full throttle high energy rock." Neil Richardson of RoomThirteen.
"Spiky three-piece who jerk their guitar riffs around like an epileptic at the Blackpool illuminations." Shane Blanchard of Tastyfanzine.
“Quite simply it’s all about the riffs, rhythm, and groove. Hold Your Horse Is have it in abundance and they rock motherhumpers!” Will Simpson of Brigade.
"This is good pie!!"
Guy Davis of Reuben.
"...and just in case you were thinking of tuning out ‘cause that wasn't quite loud enough for you, woah Hold Your Horse Is! ... thrashing their guitars like a mad axe man who has got out of bed, on the wrong side!’"
Steve Lamacq of BBC Radio 1.
UPDATE 22/10/09: Done a load of shows over the last couple of months, got a few more over the next couple of months but focusing on writing and recording for our next release. Got a Christmas Show Bonanza lined up! Keep your eyes peeled for information on that! x HYHI
Ah good stuff, Enjoy a good bit of the history channel myself ha! Yeah man all the way up there, can't really go much further without getting your feet wet! yeah i'm really digging the new album, Was so much more aggressive live.
ah good stuff, what you studying? Fireworks, Hells bells... Sitting tryin to calm my poor dog down, She gets well scared with all the big noises. poor mutt, Got e tv up full wack to try and down it out for the poor bitch.
Ah yeah just saw pulled apart by horses sunday past, was at the biffy gig in dundee.
Saw Manchester Orchertra aswell, they were excellent.
Was in the Caird Hall in Dundee, The place is fucking masssive like. Some acoustics in that place. Was insane!
I hope so too mate. Really have come to page a few times since you've added us to listen through the tunes again. That Beatcast shiz is quite professional, Only other band i've bothered watching on it right enough is the xcerts but they do a great job.
The key is mainly food. Most songs i write have lyrics about food, everyone loves food right? You can't fail.
Awesome if you're coming on Sunday. Sorry i didn't make Notting Hill, hope it was cool. Might have some gig news for the both of us soon, fingers crossed -speak sunday.
haha yeah i break up from uni the day before that, but it's definitely worth sticking around for! i saw copy haho supporting los campesinos in cov, they're alright but nothing on you haha:) right, cool. i'll try and see if we can sort something out over christmas. see you on the 14th! x
the victoria is a really good venue - a bit like playing in someone's living room. see you there! we should sort out a gig together sometime next term in brum:) x
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