Second hand book fairs, Nick Cave & The Fall, Hammer Horror, Obscure bands that Oli & Dean like but Daniel has never heard of, Roy's Cafe in Middlesbrough, P.G. Wodehouse, Tindersticks, Test Match Special, A good tour book, The History Channel (but NOT UKTV History), The quiet upstairs Reference Section in Middlesbrough Library, Lunch.
Idiot Savant are a history-rock sextet from Middlesbrough.
But seriously, wait...
As opening gambits go it's not the best, but despite this Idiot Savant have gained a loyal following over the last few years, garnering 6music and Xfm play and lots of nice, if slightly strange, press (see below). During this period the band also persuaded Huw Stephens to become the first ever Radio 1 DJ to play a song about Marco Polo's wife; the band's own Emilione.
Formed just after the turn of the millennium by (ex) flatmates Oli Heffernan and Daniel Cochran as an ego project, the band also comprises former Junior Elvis drummer and folk singing monkey hanger Ben Muriel (A.K.A. Folk Daddy A.K.A. F-Diddy), faux nice guy Dean Langstaff, cheekboned poulatarian Robbie Major and Nathan "alright Nath" Stephenson.
Idiot Savant's first record will be out in early 2010. Check back for details.
None of Idiot Savant now live with their mothers.
"Fuck off" - Ian McCulloch (to a starstruck Ben - 2007)
"Seamilione" - Live on Brighton Beach
"Last Cigarette" - April 2008 - SOLD OUT.
Tracklisting:
Last Cigarette Now Then Streetwalkers of the Phoney War
Praise for Last Cigarette
"...dark and brooding and quietly epic in an English boys kind of way" Organ Magazine
"Superb" On The Beat
"willfully unfashionable lyrical themes and epic intent" Sounds XP
"...a bit like an Editor’s ballad but with all the smugness replaced by great lyrics and a nice singing voice" The Crack Magazine
"EMILIONE" - Sep 2007 - SOLD OUT.
Tracklisting:
Emilione Athelstan
SOLD OUT.
Praise for Emilione
"Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man. don't have a monopoly on partying like The Birthday Party these days. Nah, Middlesbrough's Idiot Savant are pretty fucking amazing themselves. Like Nick Cave ripping holes in Oceans with iLiKETRAiNS, these bleak rock monsters are ripping apart the NME Stereo as we speak. It's really fucking loud and I think someone's going to start moaning. Bastards."
- NME
"Splendid" Sounds XP
"Corking stuff" Sandman Magazine
"Definitely the only half decent thing to come out of Teesside since paint" Playlouder
"Decidedly strange" CD Times
"Brimful of atmosphere, pomp and melodrama" Evening Gazette
"Sounds like a more tuneful version of what iLiKETRAiNS might come up with" The Crack
"STANDARDS" EP - March 2007 - SOLD OUT.
Includes 'His Last Act', a duet with the wonderful Benjamin Wetherill.
Tracklisting:
Beams Paolo The Cartographer Sincerity His Last Act
Hey folks was an honour gigging with you tonight, you sounded massive! P.S. You need to get a really big gong incorporated into some stuff, i think you are a gong type band. Hope our paths cross again soon
Hello, ive been asked to being in MTV series.I am gone start a new mtv series!! But need a girl to be my GF on the show. Because, this show goes about a couple! Anyone interested being in MTV ?
