MATT RICHARDSON - Vocals/Rhythm Guitar
RANDOM GUY - Banging on things or shaking them/Backing vocals
MEL MACCALLAUGH - Bass
RIC BOOTH - Mandolin, Violin and Dingalin'
PIERRE - Violin...
Influences
Dylan/The Beatles
Sounds Like
"Beautiful, it draws you in, from the soul" - Poet Steve Woan.
"Upbeat but twisted" - Sheffield bluesman Tom Rodwell.
"Gentle but witty, Sheffield based acoustic singer-songwriter" - Sheffield Telegraph.
I'd like to introduce Matt Richardson , Mel Maccallaugh , and Guy Whittaker .
As individuals, they don't really add up to much. In fact, they mostly wander the earth in a state of fear and confusion, apprehension and bewilderment. Their lives, desolate islands, devoid of any real meaning. Their souls, having been crushed repeatedly by the weight of a cruel world with no mercy for such pitiful wretches, weak of mind and feeble of heart. Their stories, already told. Their destinies, already fulfilled.
But together, they are THE SICKNOTES !
A cheery, charming, pop-folk trio group combo outfit from Sheffield with music to lift the spirits of all who can be bothered to listen to it.
Speaking of which, they have recently recorded a CD record of their recordings which they seem to think is good enough to sell for real money. They call it 'Cravings'. About three quid should cover it.
Issue 12 of Sheffield Music Scene contains live reviews of Slow Club, Mumford and Sons, Playground Mafia (at Soundclash), Lovvers, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Twang (with Little Comets and Vigo Thieves), Little Man Tate, Nat Johnson, Paolo Nutini, Neil McSweeney, Volcanoes, Richard Hawley, Nena Kubu, and Sheffield Music Scene's 1st B'day featuring Rosie Electro, Last Night's Mistake, and Kalenko. We've also got reviews of releases from Philippa Hanna, The Light Streams, and The Sicknotes; demo reviews of The Vontraps, Goldsoul, Emma Webb, Steve Birks, Anna Haigh, and The Violet May (just click on the pictures to listen whilst you read; and interviews with Nena Kubu, Starlings, Billy Talent, Michelle Andrews, and Friends of Heroes.
Plus we've got news about Raw Talent Live 3, new feature "Readers Letters" that let's you have your say, the latest 90 Minute Melody 2 (Fantasty Football) scores, and several FREE downloads thoughout the magazine including our much anticipated 22 Track SMS Birthday Compilation!
....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our second official LP release...
"Modern Mediaeval" is the third LP from singer-songwriter DAVID GARSIDE, and the first to receive the full Frizz Records vinyl treatment. It’s also clearly the most fully-realised statement of his distinctive vision so far…
It’s an easy route to locate David in the tradition of his ‘classic’ influences (McCartney, Nick Drake, Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, The Beach Boys, Love, Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, Dexy’s…), but there are few songwriters working today that have absorbed these influences so fully, and arrived at a mature style as David has…
This is ’singer-songwriter’ music in the sense that it’s focus is on song-craft and the unfolding of the lyrical vision of a single individual, but if so then it’s definitely at the sophisticated end of the scale (’progressive’ if that term isn’t too loaded…), filed alongside ‘Bryter Layter’, ‘The Hissing Of Summer Lawns’, ‘Pretzel Logic’ or ‘Surf’s Up’...another FRIZZ RECORDS instant classic!
"Modern Mediaeval" can be downloaded from the iTunes Store
The album is also available on heavyweight vinyl LP, or on Digipack CD from www.FrizzRecords.com & all good retailers
....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our first official LP release...
"It's Not The Wand, It's The Magic" is the debut release from AUGUST, the London based band centred around the songwriting partnership between vocalist VEDINA MOSE and multi-instrumentalist / producer RAPHAEL MANN (MR HUDSON / JOY JOSEPH / ART TERRY), with master drummer CLEAN CUT MARK and clarinetist / vocalist MAREE CHOIE completing the core line-up, and a supporting cast including ART TERRY (keyboards), SHOHEI KAWAMOTO (AKA Japanese producer Baraki, Bass clarinet, soprano sax and flute), and KAI HOFFMAN (French horn)
Always an act that juggled a diverse set of influences, the album has been compared to artists as diverse as KATE BUSH, PRINCE, DE LA SOUL, SLY STONE, MADLIB, SERGE GAINSBOURG and THE DELFONICS, for its concoction of wild experimentation and traditional song craft, organic production and futuristic electronic touches, funk bass & drums and jazz & orchestral references, infectious melodies and lyrical flights of fancy...with nods towards classic soul, JB funk, Studio One, 60s pop, psychedelia, left field hip hop, new wave, doo wop, tropicalia, high life, & avant garde jazz, without any song ever fitting squarely into any of those categories...new music, basically...and an instant classic!
"It's Not The Wand, It's The Magic" can be downloaded now from the iTunes Store
The album is also available on heavyweight vinyl LP in a sumptuous gatefold sleeve, or on Digipack CD from www.FrizzRecords.com & all good retailers
A mini Sheffield festival 4th-6th September. Spread across two great venues; The Harley and The Wick at Both Ends. Click the poster for full line-ups.
Headliners include: The Crookes, Max Tundra, Paul White, JFB, Dark Sparks, Shmoo, Findo Gask, Ed Maker (Reverend & The Makers), Party Horse (Ex Tiny Dancers), Hallo...I Love You (Ex Elle S'Appelle), Squire Of Gothos, Pygmy Globetrotters & many many more..
Everyone at indiecater records would like to wish you a happy summer and let you know that there is an indiepop song from the Very Most available to download FREE from our site!
La Folie are having a launch party on the 8th of June at The Forum in Sheffield! £2 advance tickets/£3 on the door! Plus the added bonus of if you film some stuff from the night of us, you or anything else connected and send it us, we will send you a free copy of 'Risus Sardonicus'
On tour in Yorkshire with blues guitarist Tom Rodwell - Madame Pamita, the world's foremost euphonious prognosticatrix! Coming all the way from the city of Los Angeles with her pack of tarot cards in one hand and a ukulele in the other, she brings a wagon-load of authentic rural blues, jug band and comic proto-jazz numbers to curious seekers. Romance and revenge and mirth and mayhem. Fans of Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Alan Lomax's field recordings or what Greil Marcus likes to call "the Old Weird America" will be in for a evening's entertainment like no other!
*** Tuesday May 19 - The Cricketers Arms, Coney Lane, Keighley, West Yorkshire / 9pm *** Thursday May 21 - The Harlequin, Nursery Street, Sheffield / 8.30pm *** Saturday May 23 - Lantern Theatre, Kenwood Park Road, Nether Edge, Sheffield / 7.30pm / £10 with Miller's Modern Music Hall
Hey guys sorry for our early departure, but hope your set is going well/went well depending on when you get this lol.
Thanks again for having us, the green room is a very nice venue for acoustics; it was probably our best gig we've done albeit not a lot of friends of ours turned up, lol.
Would love to play there again some time soon with you guys, catch you guys soon.
Just to let you know that we've recently changed our booking proceedures so that dates and booking info can be obtained by emailing a blank enquiry to:
redhouseenquiry@gmail.com
Since we're booking up now for the summer and September I wanted everyone who's taken the time to seek us out on Myspace to have a chance to get a gig booked.
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