Joy Division, Kate Bush, The Beatles, Tori Amos, Radiohead, The Clash, Sonic Youth, Laurie Anderson, New Order, Nine Inch Nails, Marlon Brando, Marvin Gaye, Badly Drawn Boy, The Rapture, Bernard Hermann, Monty Pythons, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Peter Saville, The Smiths, Trail Of Dead, Prince, Primal Scream, The Cure and obviously Kool And The Gang
Sounds Like
Take The ClerKs. Shake'em well. Split'em up. Put back together the bits that are left. Add a ray of sunshine and a splash of april showers.
Maudite Dance play The City Centre Social @ Channel M (05/06/07)
"'Echoin'' is a spiralling stadium epic, while 'Underground' sounds like The Killers if they spent less time counting their cash and more listening to Ladytron."
NME
"All the right pieces in the right order, that equals great music."
The Plastic Ashtray
"Very probably the sound of the future."
Manchester Music
In the recent past, some of us used to be The Clerks.
The Clerks is no longer. Here comes Maudite Dance.
No regrets, the future’s bright.
We formed in April 2007.
BIOG
Maudite Dance were formed from the much-loved carcass of The Clerks; a Parisian four-piece who met at film-school, penned a clutch of stomping songs, then fled their native city for the romance and frivolity of Stockport. The North West embraced them like a grizzly bear, hailing them as 'France's best import since Eric Cantona', and branding them 'potentially the coolest thing on 8 legs'. After the batting their live lashes, this was adjusted to: 'not only the coolest thing on eight legs but also the sexiest'.
The Clerks soon made themselves at home, living off cucumber sandwiches and repeats of Lovejoy, whilst playing with the likes of Starsailor, Mercury Rev, Polytechnic, Tiny Dancers and Dead Disco. Zane Lowe and Steve Lamacq championed them over the airwaves, and they released a single, The Dissidents, with Art Goes Pop. It sold like hot cakes.
2007 commenced with a French tour supporting The Automatic and The Sunshine Underground. Then, in May 2007, a week in which The Clerks were declared NME's 'Best New Band on MySpace', and enjoyed a rakish coquetry on MTV 2 as one of the winners of Oxjam's Get Seen, Get Heard competition, the 'art-pop-rock glory kids' spun themselves a music cocoon. The Clerks were dead, Maudite Dance was born.
Still leading a merry masquerade through the layered soundscapes and incandescent boy-girl harmonies of The Clerks, Maudite Dance are one member bigger, and rotund with renewed energy. The influences remain - Joy Division, The Beatles, Sonic Youth, Prince - as do the hypnotic live performances and rippling of guitars, samples, keyboard and popcorn drum beats.
DEMOS
Yeah that's right we've kept our lovely hands busy this week and have produced a few of these beautiful babies. And for only two pounds they could be yours. Just send us a message or an email and we'll see what we can do for you. Ta Ta!
BADGES
If you buy a demo from us, you'll get one of these beautiful badges as a bonus present. You can also buy them for £0.50 each (+ £0.50 for postage). All you have to do is drop us a message!
MP3 PLAYER FOR YOU OWLS.
Here is your chance to listen to the song in better quality than what Tom will let us have with his Myspace player. It's all mp3 so make your ears bleed please.
MP3 DOWNLOAD FOR YOU FOXES
Want to get your very own Maudite Dance mp3s? Well now you can also download by right clicking on the song names below to "save target as". What more could you want?
THE VIOLET MAY @ Night & Day - Sheffields most talked about band at the mo - you may recognise fronman Chris McClure as the face of The Arctic Monkeys and Toddla T's debut
Support from The Causeway The Ambush The Minx No Flash
Les Sons du Nord returns to the UK! An exchange programme of sorts between Northern France, Belgium and Sheffield established since 2006. The event takes over the excellent Shakespeare pub, Gibraltar Street, Sheffield, from the 28th - 30th August. Expect top bands, amazing sausages and nice booze. Sheffield is represented by Nat Johnson, Champion Kickboxer, the Yell, Yo-Yo Static and Rotary Ten whilst Curry & Coco, Frank Shinobi, Soy un Cabalo and the Appleseeds cross the channel.
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