Ennio Morricone, The Doors, Talking Heads, Jojo Mayer, Jimi Hendrix, Deerhoof, Beastie Boys, Blur, Jacques Brel, Tom Waits, Trencher, Ultimate Thrush, Pavement, Brainiac, Enon, Nick Cave, The Beatles, Melt Banana
Sounds Like
People have said we sound like:
Deerhoof, Pavement, "heavy metal Prince, or Muse, if they were good", Scott Walker, Radiohead, early Blur, more recent Blur, The Pixies, Television, We Are The Physics, Belle & Sebastian, Cardiacs, King Crimson, The Fall
The Covergirls are a three-piece band from Glasgow who write intricate pop songs about comics, graffiti and cats.
Some of their songs are observational, and some of them are just wee stories that they made up.
You're likely to hear chirpy vocals, frenetic drumming and a kazoo; you’re not likely to hear any jazz-capades, political overtones or four beats in your bars. Like this:
The Covergirls live at King Tut's, Friday February 13th
The Covergirls live at Twisted Wheel
We recorded a bunch of songs at Chime Studio in October 2008; you can hear them on this page or, if you ask nicely, we'll send you a CD for your stereo.
Here's what some people said about us:
Yet another band unearthed from the rich seam in the Glasgow Great Bands Pit, The Covergirls' songs are musical ADHD - in turns scuzzy, twinkly and robotic. Songs like Catch The Tiger and La Casilla de la Muerte stomp aggressively just as unexpectedly as they tiptoe melodically, as if the band's kid sister has crept into the studio and is cheekily flicking the Fuzz/Clean switch on the guitar amps at random.
Riffs, clobbered drums and sweetly cooed vocals all meet in the middle, hoping to reconcile, but just end up having a spectacularly colourful and enjoyable brawl. As a consequence, songs like Say It Don't Spray It features one of the most violently choppy riffs heard for ages, and the band thrashes around to keep up.
If Stephen Malkmus had formed fIREHOSE with Mike Watt and George Hurley, they may have made music akin to Glasgow’s COVERGIRLS. Yes, they’re that good.
The band have had a stop start existence for a couple of years - recently shaking off their improvisational tendencies for a more structured and crafted pop sound. They’re still satisfyingly free form in places though, reminding of Deerhoof in the way the songs bob and weave about.
boo! im out of ur top friends! god i feel like a 16 year old emo girl saying that......wish I could play bass I'd help you out in a second. So..17th july???
hahahaha sound as man, we playing box on the 8th july but dont know if thatl be good, a hate box, should come to sleazys we playing wi the fatalists theyre amazing
aye me lady almost fainted in twisted was too hot :( me fear people wont want to go in to gig venuess through the summer.
nah a hink the p.a. in twisted is too wee, its awrite if yer standing down the front but any further back and the vox disappear.
nice show the other night lads, was liking some of the tunes :) especially the ones with jazzy chord changes in rythym wi the vocals and a was loving the tempo changes. it was shitty with the tiny p.a. though n shitty sound guy :(
wee had to guy it cause of the heat in twisted wheel was killing me and the misses.
a ended up talking yer wee brother for ages in the bog. he was talking about dananaaan bread belushi bollox and a nearly shat maself waiting for him to stop haha monster xx
no he wasn't, thats the thing! we were just chatting, but they were being all overprotective cos i'm only 3 feet tall. its quite funny now but at the time i was slightly mortified
it wasn't me! i was having an ultra nice chat, but my steaming steaming pal was a)steaming and b) being like a really drunk overprotective mum... nah i wasn't at dananananannananandakfdakf;dajfkd;froid, just went to the garage afterwards,
its mandy, don't beat me, it wasn't me, your bro's lovely, drunk folk are mental
hey matthew, i was chattin to yer wee bro last night, unfortunately, my mates were steaming and being slightly offensive (they were trying to be funny, but failing) tell him sorry n that x
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