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Last Man Standing
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Member Since8/14/2006
Band Websitewww.last-man-standing.co.uk
Band Members.. Chris ''I-was-made-for-loving-you'' Cordoba; Herbacious Keys, Wylsie of Camberwell; Max Vanderwolf: Professional Charlatan; Lionel Hoops the sad-eyed elephant boy; No-More-Nora (whore to the stars); the binky twins, Will Power, philip seemore hoffman and his dancing hard-to-describe thing, The Legendary Mr. Art Terry; the toungue



InfluencesMax Bialystock, Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant, Mott the Hoople, Cab Calloway, Tex Avery, Nick Cave, Count Chocula, The Rutles, Gong, Barry Adamson, They Came From the Stars I Saw Them, Neil Young, Serge Gainsbourg, Skeleton Key, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weil, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, Buzzcocks, Neil Young, Ennio Morricone, Antonin Artaud, Patti Smith, Dmitry Shoshtakovich, Ernie Kovacs, Quay Brothers, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of invention, Fats Waller, Lord Buckley, Moondog, Rasputin, various assasins of the 1960's, George Clinton and Funkadelic, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Alice Cooper, the Chicago Eight, Ojays, Spinners, Philly Soul, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Egon Schiele, Lee Scratch Perry, T-Rex, Hank Williams, Duke Ellington, Bob Marley, Charles Mingus, Outkast, Soundtrack to Hair, Sammy David Jr., the Grateful Fuckin Dead, Wm S. Burroughs, Pete Townshend, The Specials, Sufijan Stevens, Spititualized, Mercury Rev, Joana Newsom, Can, Kraftwerk, George and Ira Gershwin, the Pixies, Cardinal,


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Super Furry Animals, Public Enemy, Igor Stravinsky, Biz Markie, Violent Femmes, Public Image Ltd., Tom Waits, the Banana Splits, The Byrds, Muddy Waters, John Zorn, Henry Mancini, Cat Power, Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, Howie Pyro, Danny and the Juniors, the Cramps, Charles Kaufmann's Films, Supergrass, Spike Jones, The Monkees, Black Sabbath, Carl Stalling, The Soft Machine, Robert Wyatt, Brian Eno, Air, Aphex Twin, The Arcade Fire, Badfinger, Barry White, the Beach Boys, Black Grape, Jan Svankmeyer films, The Pink Floyd, Divine Comedy, Dr. John, Flamin Lips, Little Feat, Gnarls Barkley, Incredible String Band, The Pretty Things, Thelonius Monk, Monty Python, Jacques Brel, Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Tenor, Joe Strummer, Velvet Underground, the Beat, Link Wray, Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Richman, Julian Cope, Yes, 13th Floor Elevators, Nina Hagen, Regina Spektor, Nico, Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, (girls in general arepretty spectacular lets face it), John Cale, David Bowie, Lambchop, Lemon Jelly, Haskell Wexler, Dennis Hopper, Mr. Bungle, Black Mountain, Leon Russell, The Polyphonic Spree, Gogol Bordello, Randy Newman, Rasputina, Rashaan Roland Kirk, the Residents, Richard Hell, Sparks, Robyn Hitchcock, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Scott Walker, Coen Brothers, Shangri-Las, Sigur Ros, Bob Dylan Beatles and the Stones.
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Review in MOJO Magazine January Issue by Andrew Perry

When did our capital’s rock scene last throw up a nonet? When, come to that, did it produce anything much besides Libertines wannabes and ‘’postpunk’? On both counts last man Standing are quite extraordinary. Their name derives from the embattled romantic life of their front man, Max Vanderwolf. As signposted by the album title, his lyrical world is one of disappointment and regret and unutterable sleaze, from which he emerges, song by song, bleary yet unbeaten. ‘’I’m so damnede depressed,” he yowls on the stomping Queen Kong, ‘’I just gotta rock’’. And rock his eight cohorts do, with a bredth of vision which encompasses the more ambitious end of glam (Aladin Sane, Bolans Zinc Alloy) and the cabaret splendour of Alex Harvey, even Tom Waits at his most theatrical. This blast of low-life pungency feels like a righteous breath of fresh air.

FOUR STARS ****


Review in UNCUT December issue by Gavin Martin

Max Vanderwolf’s band have a colorful ingenuity of Bowie’s 70’s floorshows and the wild spirit of Tom Waits- which means the are essentially rock theater, but with attitude. Stylisitically they cram a lot- sometimes too much- in, but the policy usually works. This collection of bedraggled songs duly incorporates the cabaret angst of ‘70s Lou Reed, dustbowl Mariachi, and Steely Dan cynicism. Their vision of wild-hearted losers, misfits and a world in collapse somehow holds everything together.

THREE STARS ***
Record LabelWildflower
Type of LabelIndie


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Where did it all go so wrong for Max Vanderwolf? When did he lose his faith in love and goodwill? Why did he give it away so callously or casually ? And what did he trade it in for? Some songs? Some words? Some memories of a vaguely good time that will haunt him for his remaining years?

Considering the reaction to the debut album by his band Last Man Standing, 'False Starts and Broken Promises', it may have been a fair trade. The songs are memorable, the lyrics powerful, and it sounds like he's stumbled down a colourful if crooked path.



"I thought, if I let these themes takeover the songs, maybe they would get out of my life. I thought that by their very materialization as a song that somehow I would be redeemed. I thought that I could give these problems to you or you or you... Then I could report it all at a safe distance like someone commentating from the sidelines of hell. But it didn't happen that way."

Vanderwolf felt this darkness grow inside of him. And after several attempts at recording a new record, the New York-based songwriter gave up and slipped in and out of various forms of self-abuse. Various demo tapes circulated through the music community and they became well-known amongst the community of underground song-writers.

Robyn Hitchcock recalls, ‘’He was taking all the wrong stuff. Bagels with too many capers, cream-cheese with lox from the wrong side of Delancey. One morning I found him clutching his guitar on Broome St, staring vacantly into an empty cup of chicken noodle soup:

"What's up, Max?" I enquired

"Up? Up..." muttered Max as if he'd never encountered the word up before, and had decided to take it for a walk. "Up? Up is down and back again"

He thrust his Telecaster towards me, then thinking better of it, slung it over his shoulder and padded down into the subway. He grimaced and was gone. I realized I hadn't offered him one of my antacids.

Poor Max - that finely tuned stomach would be the death of him. Yet his new album was already advertised in Bleeker Bobs. Jon Fox had been playing the shit out of on WNYU, and hopes were high.

But nothing more would come of it. Vanderwolf turned his back on music production he left his hometown of New York City and moved to London in 2000 vowing to keep his head out of the trappings of imagination but it wouldn't last long.

"Its a cycle. I'm a workingman. You could say I work in a factory. I work long hours and have responsibilities beyond my capabilities but I somehow hold it together. And then, I start to feel desperate and crazy and I think: this can't be it. There’s got to be something more. And the only healthy way to escape is to follow the dream, follow the music. Just write a little, just play a little, just record a little. Soon I'm 9-men strong ensemble. Personal standards must be met and the demands on ones purse and personal sacrifice must be justified with a plan for success- no matter how preposterous the plan is: Yes folks we're bringing back big band values and raw decadence and composerly electric sounds in 2007 single-handedly because I say so…. Then I go mad until I crash and have to straighten myself out again with a dose of reality."



Thrusting himself back into a world of despair and obsessed with artistic endeavour Vanderwolf finds himself in rehab. In an attempt to maintain normalcy, he joins a rehab book club where he is immediately discovered by guitarist and former-pill popper, Chris Cordoba who has himself experienced the verisimilitudes of the music business: "His demo tapes were widely known to the few in-the-know that knew. They were the stuff of legend – well, sub-legend--or probably sub-sub legend. After a discussion on that weeks’ reading--Evelyn Waugh, I think it was, I asked him point blank: can I produce your next recording? He agreed immediately without knowing a thing about me. We dropped out of rehab that week and started on the record."

Soon the band was playing gigs to enthusiastic audiences. A regular fixture at burlesque parties in London, the band was invited to perform at the Paradiso in Holland for the ‘’London Calling Festival’’, support slots with the Polyphonic Spree, Sparks, Violent Femmes, a tour with Bobby Conn, a slot with the White Stripes Festival in Hyde Park, a weekly residency at Madame Jojo's and festivals including Glastonbury, Lovebox Weekender, Secret Garden Party and Electric Picnic Festival in Dublin.

Now I'm in deep again," says Vanderwolf. " And I'm losing my mind… everything must go. Sacrifice it all. Damn the torpedoes. March, soldier. I can almost taste victory. Or is that nerve gas?

All this had led to a brave NY independent label stepping up and declaring that this record needs to be heard. Even better that had the guts, nerve and muscle to release for the first time in UK properly and for the first time ever in Europe. The band will support the release by touring the festival circuit with like-minded similarly depraved artists with the Launch of the Last Man Standing Saloon.


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Christian Lamitschka, Journalist for Country Music





Jul 10 2009 11:05 AM

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the henry brothers





Jul 7 2009 9:53 PM

howdy
reckon you might want to see the wonderful Norton Money and ourselves as we play the Greennote, Camden Town this Thur 9th July
cheers
mark& graham
the henry brothers
Catalán ART





Jul 7 2009 7:46 PM

Exposición Septiembre 2009
Cooper’s Market





Jul 1 2009 1:26 PM


parp!!!

Groanbox





Jun 24 2009 2:59 PM

hey, we are playing the luminaire in kilburn tomorow, we are contacting everyone on our friends list in london hoping you can make it down, we really wana make the london part of the tour special so if you can make that would be amazing.thankyou
Groanbox
Squirrel Skin Slippers





Jun 20 2009 11:44 PM

Hello!

The Squirrel Skin Slippers have a great new EP to soothe your skull and to put a large grin onto your mandables!!

Available in 10inch vinyl (for the ageing Fonzies), CD (for not-so ageing rockers), and iTunes (for the youngsters).

Buy a copy, tune in, relax, then put your hip out of joint while throwing drunken dance moves on your front porch to our Stomp'n'Roll Blues...


xx
***the Jim Jones Revue***





Jun 16 2009 1:05 PM

Hey Hipsters!
 
After selling out The 100 Club last week The Jim Jones Revue headline The Rock’n’Roll Circus at Inn On The Green in Ladbroke Grove this Friday (19 June). This will be our last London show until we tour the UK in October......

 



 

Tickets on the door only so make sure you turn up early in your best rockin' shoes!!!
CHUMAHO DRYU radical ethno-shanson





Jun 14 2009 9:17 PM

Mulish gondolier-CHUMAHO DRYU
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The Urban Voodoo Machine





Jun 13 2009 4:27 PM

..Hey Brothers & Sisters!
We are proud to announce the biggest GYPSY HOTEL event ever at The HACKNEY EMPIRE, FRIDAY 3rd JULY.


THE URBAN VOODOO MACHINE will be launching their long awaited debut album ‘Bourbon Soaked Gypsy Blues Bop ‘N’ Stroll’ (in the shops July 6th!)…Joining them on this momentous occasion will be …

The Fire Tusk Pain Proof Circus | Gawkagogo | The Cesarians | Empress Stah | Lady Ane Angel | The Texas Chainsaw Orchestra | Frank Sanazi | Lalla Morte | Missy Macabre | dj Scratchy | and maybe the odd surprise guest or two…



Tickets are priced £14.50 and are available HERE: http://www.hackneyempire.co.uk/1131/shows/gypsy-hotel.html


Doors 7pm - non-stop-show ‘till 2am! Don’t miss out on THE event of the summer!..

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Dirty Water ~ Live





Jun 9 2009 12:53 PM


A.Ladyland: album launch this Thurs!





Jun 9 2009 9:28 AM

Come see us on our tour! There will be exclusive hand-decorated vinyl for sale as well as other wonderful stuff! Album out July 6th... Photobucket
DJ Kid Stretch (Get Away out now -Juno & Beatport)





Jun 5 2009 3:50 PM


DJ Kid Stretch - Get Away & Remixes out now!!!



Out now on Juno, Beatport & DJ Download with remixes from:
Basement Freaks, Breakbeat Junkie, 70th Floor & The Scientifics.



elementary recordings





Jun 4 2009 7:54 AM

"Welcome to the film..

.....it is not fictional."

DIE SON! DIE! - The motion picture by Miss Halliwell. Released August 2009 on elementary films
***the Jim Jones Revue***





May 28 2009 3:36 PM

Hey Hipsters!
 
 
The Jim Jones Revue celebrate the release of their new single “Princess & The Frog” at The 100 Club on Thursday 4 June.
 
 
Click on flyer for tickets…..
 
 
 


 
Check out the video for Princess & The Frog at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX5O1aLO87k

 

The Revue will also be playing……..

 

June 5 The Farm House, Canterbury

June 6 The Komedia, Brighton

June 8 La Musicale at L’Olympia, Paris  w/ Placebo
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May 27 2009 9:48 AM

come help me enjoy my birthday!!!!

Phil Murray and the Boys From Bury





May 21 2009 9:12 AM

Hello Last Man Standing

Just stopping by to say hi and give you some news.
The new album 'Welcome To Murraysville' from Phil Murray and the Boys From Bury is now available worldwide from CD Baby and directly from the merchandise page of the official website.
You can also get the album from Apple iTunes, MSN Music, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon and many more.

Ana Silvera





May 20 2009 11:30 PM

really brilliant stuff! hope to catch you lot playing sometime soon...x
Splinter Music Group





May 20 2009 10:26 AM






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A) 'Soursweet' (Original)

B) 'Soursweet' (Petar Dundov Remix)



Out now on Beatport.com
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May 19 2009 3:32 PM

Don’t miss out on the last Bad Juju Lounge before the summer! Hosted by the infamous Texas Chainsaw Orchestra: a 13 piece “Nightmare Before Christmas meets Rocky Horror Picture Show” spectacular! Saturday 23 May @ The Gaff, Holloway Rd, London



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The Bad JuJu Lounge!

It's always a night to dismember! 

Featuring:
The Texas Chainsaw Orchestra
and Des Deville (aka Des O’Connor-compere) ..
With DJs
El Nino
DaveDisaster
and special guests

plus guest performers:
Joe Black
Betsy Rose 


www. texaschainsaw. co. uk



Porcupine





May 17 2009 8:22 PM

New video for the song "Dead Mint Club" from the album "The Trouble with You" by PORCUPINE. Enjoy!

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Porcupine - The Trouble With You
Junior Matayas





May 15 2009 7:20 PM

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Tom Rodwell & Storehouse





May 14 2009 3:08 AM

THE BACK TO WAX REVUE
Tom Rodwell, Madame Pamita, the Borough Cat VS the Vulcan Cylinder Record Co.

*** Wed May 20 - The George Tavern, 373 Commercial Road, Stepney, London E1 0LA - 8pm £6 / £4 concessions
*** Sun May 24 - The Luminaire, 311 Kilburn High Road, London NW6 7JR 7.30pm £10 door / £8 adv from www.wegottickets.co.uk

Weep not for the CD! Presenting the Back to Wax Revue, live onstage primitivist soundclash featuring genuine wax cylinder recording sessions. Witness performers battle with the original medium of recorded sound, Edison's wax cylinder, state of the art circa 1877. Ponder how recording mediums affect music; what changes in in the midst of form and content?

FEAT:
Tom Rodwell (NZ) - gospel-blues primitivist
Madame Pamita (LA) w/ K. Boogie - the world's foremost euphonious prognosticatrix
Borough Cat (London) - London's doe-eyed dude of dolorum
VS
The Vulcan Cylinder Record Co. of Sheffield, UK - one of only two studios in the world with the capacity to acoustically record cylinders in the Edison fashion, Vulcan is also the world's only cylinder pressing plant and label.

http://www.bluesinlondon.com/features/200905_back_to_wax.html

More tour dates & wax cylinder downloads at: http://www.madamepamita.com http://www.myspace.com/madamepamita / www.tomrodwell.com / www.myspace.com/storehousemusic

Bill Lancaster





May 13 2009 6:48 AM

Dropping by to wish you the best day ever and tomorrow do the same. If you have the means please give a couple of dollars to charity. Be it to fight Diabetes, Asthma, Cancer, Hunger, AIDS, or any other cause that touches your heart. I know of no better feeling than what you feel when you make another person’s day a little better. Bill
The Texas Chainsaw Orchestra


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May 8 2009 1:18 PM

Don’t miss out on the last Bad Juju Lounge before the summer! Hosted by the infamous Texas Chainsaw Orchestra: a 13 piece “Nightmare Before Christmas meets Rocky Horror Picture Show” spectacular! Saturday 23 May @ The Gaff, Holloway Rd, London



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The Bad JuJu Lounge!

It's always a night to dismember!

Featuring:
The Texas Chainsaw Orchestra
and Des Deville (aka Des O’Connor-compere) ..
With DJs
El Nino
DaveDisaster
and special guests

plus guest performers:
Joe Black
Betsy Rose


www. texaschainsaw. co. uk



WE ARE ONE THIRTY EIGHT





May 8 2009 11:24 AM

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