Itchy Tasty met and formed at college in Bristol in 2001. The original line-up consisted of various musicians that are not currently in today's version of the band. Musicians dropped in and out like people needing services from a NHS drop-in centre until some core members finally settled.
They were: Paul Gibbs on guitars, Matt Williams on guitars/ wrong notes, Jim Mather on drums and Jase "da Bass" Sweet . . . well, you can guess what he was doing! During this period the band started to play gigs in Bristol, as well as college showcases, including a national college show in Birmingham and a slot playing in the BBC Bristol live Music Festival in 2003.
Soon after this, Itchy Tasty went into the Whitehouse recording studio in Weston-Super-Mare to record their first EP (Unreleased as of yet) which consisted of 4 tracks, varying between Post rock, metal and traditional eastern european dance pieces. Shortly after this, Jase "Da Bass" decided he didn’t like the direction the band was going in and left to pursue other musical avenues. He currently plays Bass for Bristol based hardcore band “NWS”.
Directly after Jase's departure, a long-time friend of James and Jase and very much a lover of the band and their music was drafted in. Simon White came on board late 2003 with an enthusiastic approach to push things further and have fun with compositions and ideas.
His open mindedness cohered more with the band's ideas, and the music became less heavy and more interesting. With more metre changes than an OCD sufferer switches on and off lights, more pompous dynamics, more free-jazz cacophony and a little more space.
We are currently writing material for our debut album which should be recorded at some point this summer.
Hey! Appologies if this is the second comment we've sent you recently...bit of a mix up in the bands communication :)
Anyway.. we've been a little quiet for the last few months but we are very pleased to announce our new EP is finished and up on our myspace! It's called Bright Lights and has four brand spanking new tracks to blow your mind. Please have a listen and tell us what you think and if you love it, buy it! :)
"Exciting, Striding and assured. It has an energy reminiscant of everything that was good about the Klaxons debut album.." - BBC Radio Bristol
Dharmata are currently sitting around at Dan's house for the next few weeks playing music. We wont be appearing live any-where else. If you want to be involved with this event tickets are availble from "Pub-talk" promotions or reply "here" Draft-Paks are also welcome.
Come to Chicago Rock Cafe...Bristol Thursday 5th February. It's on the Waterfront, you'll see it. Electric and acoustic bands, then onto then club Oceana afterwards.
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hi how ya doin? we have three new tunes and a new version of 'pressure' up on our site,
hope you enjoy! thanks for your time!
................kabuki mono...................
The bodies of asylum seekers wash up on the beach outside miami condominiums. Their salt encrusted limbs refuse to burn & have to be hidden under the boardwalk before the tourists arrive.
Two strangers walk into a bar.
Feral children inhabit the Moscow sewers & underground. Locked out of the shopping malls they have almost entirely lost the power of speach. One of them has a piece of chalk.
Two strangers walk into a bar.
An elderly woman tearfully wraps the dead body of her pekinese in newspaper. When it is sealed she will place it on the shelf of her airing cupboard. The dessicated corpses over 40 other pets are distributed throughout her flat. The neighbours will sign her Christmas card.
Cheers for the add me dears!!!!! Yes I'm back after a short spell away but what the hell. Myspace is sooooo much more interesting than studying!!!! ;-)
Hopefully catch you guys live again soon, twas such a damned good night, even if it does feel like an age away already!
Take care, Nikki xxx
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