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?
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.
Join the party on 16th March the line ups complete 9foldPunch, Lindas Nephew, The MoonJets, James Page with Special Guests "The Heatwaves" From Italy and Channel 4 Pop/Punk Sensation Stars AREA 15 Hope You enjoy it Get your limeted Free VIP ticket by commenting back with RSVP i will attend Limted numbers going fast
It seems like years since the last Moorfest happened and to be honest I think the weather was very much a factor in whether people enjoyed themselves or not. Some thrived in the mud whilst others wept until their dads could pick them up. Moorfest is still carving an identity for itself and in the three years that it has been established I think I can say that the one thing that most people love about it is the friendly atmosphere, and this gig is a good opportunity to meet up with friends that perhaps you haven't seen since the festival, to make new friends, enjoy quality music, get a flavour of Moorfest if you haven't already been and also to talk to the organisers in order to give your opinions on how to improve the festival. We'll also be projecting your favourite photos that you've taken from previous Moorfests to create a live mashup that will adorn the walls of the Brudenell so please send them to bandsformoorfest@yahoo.co.uk and make sure that everyone in the picture is cool for you to use them like this.
There'll be much more to boot like gorgeous organic food, t-shirt stall, films and raffles to win tickets to Moorfest 4 which we're working on right now and aim to make it the best yet.
We really appreciate your continued support in making Moorfest what it is and hope to see you all there.
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