I started out as a mellow folk singer with nice little songs about hope & understanding which over time has just turned pop & generally up beat in an attempt to win over drunken audiences and stand out against the other acoustic acts I was playing along side.
These days I play with The Relay Rips which helps to get people movin and give the whole show even more balls! I guess I take a lot from 50’s Rock n Roll/R&B 60’s Beat pop, Folk & Soul as well as my love for Indie,punk/New Wave Classics with a bit of Country & 60s Lounge Jazz sneaking in.
Its all in there somewhere, make of it what you will!
Thanks kids.xxx
MOST RAD NEWS ----------------------------- The awesome GANG GANG DANCE have re- scheduled the Bristol show. This will be one of two only headlining shows in the UK this year. The Bristol show will be the official warm-up for their show at Brixton Academy (supporting ANIMAL COLLECTIVE !) Wednesday 19th of August 2009 Qu Junktions & Glaive Concerts presents: GANG GANG DANCE + The Color of The Sun ~ Fleece ~ 12 St. Thomas Street Bristol BS1 6JJ 0117 945 0996 - 8PM - 12.00
Tickets 10 pounds in advance On sale at Bristol Ticket Shop, Here Shop and See Tickets. ------i-n-f-o-------------------- This gang gang from Brooklyn, have emerged from a very fertile, indigenous music scene in their neighbourhood but have branched out way WAY further with their hook ups and hooks. It is a ghetto world music that declines fey introspection but invites in disparate saturated sounds and bang bang dance dynamics. Their multi-faceted music style was first brought to our attention following a series of releases on forward-thinking label, The Social Registry; and subsequently, they have found a suitable home on Warp Records.
The bands assemblage of wonky techno, outer rock, faux arabesque and other strange, spiralling, sinuous music forms that transcend categorisation. Utterly unique and iconoclastic.
“The eclectism is exhilarating” Uncut
“Excellent… a psychotropid mind meld” – Plan B
“Gang Gang Dance may now ascend to the bona fide league of geniuses.” 8/10 – NME
Hey! Appologies if this is the second comment we've sent you recently...bit of a mix up in the bands communication :)
Anyway.. we've been a little quiet for the last few months but we are very pleased to announce our new EP is finished and up on our myspace! It's called Bright Lights and has four brand spanking new tracks to blow your mind. Please have a listen and tell us what you think and if you love it, buy it! :)
"Exciting, Striding and assured. It has an energy reminiscant of everything that was good about the Klaxons debut album.." - BBC Radio Bristol
hey y'all come and check these guys out from baltimore. way to get loose on a friday night! + i play alone but still bring the dirt pop glistening with noise sprinkles x A
Fresh from their show at Barcelona's Primavera festival, Teeth Mountain will be unleash their heavy concoction of new-wave tribal psychedelic sounds on Cube, using driving percussion like other bands use guitars.
Deep, thick layers of rhythms and overlays of ambiance, from the gritty to the sublime, this eight-piece outfit create a controlled mayhem of weighty neo-tribal trance music, part Indian, part African, part Balkan, and part Baltimore, that transforms consciousness and carries the group and their listeners to higher states.
The Wire magazine recently praised their 'refusal to acknowledge any kind of destination point for their jamming, achieving a convincing state of suspension throughout, helped by some engagingly forceful drumming.'
Teeth Mountain pummel with noise and drums but are always inviting and joyous, a new wave of tribal sounds in underground music. Be prepared to witness a heady, peyote-voodoo brew, getting you out of your seats and on your feet. Teeth Mountain will enthrall you in a rhythmic, musical spell.
"I don't know what god or gods you all are praying to but you're praying too fucking loud" Boston Police Department
MONDAY 18TH OF MAY (POST ATP WEEKEND REJUVENATION EXPERIENCE)
Icy Demons is an experimental music project started by Bablicon's Griffin Rodriguez (credited as Blue Hawaii) and Man Man / Need New Body's Christopher Powell (Pow Pow). A project of various Chicago musicians, they have released three albums, Fight Back! on the Elephant 6-associated label Cloud Recordings. Tears of a Clone on the Eastern Developments Music, and in 2007 Miami Ice on Easel (Japan release only).
The Mighty Stef [AKA Stefan Murphy] is a singer and songwriter from Dublin Ireland, celebrated for the storytelling nature of his songs and his passionate live shows. He and his band are a veritable band of rock n roll Pirates, sailing a sea of influences that include everything from The Rolling Stones to the Pogues, Nick Cave To the Clash and Johnny Thunders to Johnny Cash.
Howlin' Lord - 'Galloping raw country blues. It's terrific, entirely in keeping with the spirit of Hank Williams, whining, urgent and desperate.
' Kid Pensioner Venue Magazine
+ DJ's spinning country, blues, r'n'b, primitive and not so primitive rock'n'roll.
RNDM SLKTR RITES OF SPRING ALL DAY-R SATURDAY 21st of March / The Croft £5
the bands DETHSCALATOR GUM TAKES TOOTH THE COLOR OF THE SUN COWMAN
the DJs Antoni Maiovvi (Seed Records) - Italo Disco Future Space Love Party Machine Christopher - Flooded Treehouse Morpho - hard psych, kraut G - Russian Records Reliant - left electroniks, dark swing
DAYWARD - Quirky lab-coated Electro/Indie duo promoting new single 'Ice Cream'
www. myspace. com/dayward
FRANCOIS - Rare Bristol outing from Francois, expect GORGEOUS , idiosyncratic Indie Pop as heard on the MIGHTY track ’Tour de France’
www. myspace. com/francoisinbristol
With the Gimme Shelter! club night , John The Mod and guests spinning 60’s Garage & Psych, Northern Soul, Freakbeat, Punk, Rock & Roll and Go Go! against a backdrop of vintage lights, films and projections.
www. myspace. com/gimmeshelterclubbristol
Takes place Upstairs@ The Hatchet, Frogmore St, Bristol 9.30pm-2.00am, Entry £3/£4(lastentry1. 00am)
Doktor Combover…. Stripbeat Sleaze from Liverpool…. filthy instrumentals with a Hammond backbone and driving Sax. Mondo Topless raw, ass-shakin grooves!!! Plus…. The Mantawrays.… Lively Surf Supremos with a splash of Raucous R’n’B, Frat stompers! Plus… Los Imbasils DJ formation team & special guests Andy & Carl Combover from the Go-Go Cage club & Mishka She-Creature for your Garage, Soul, R’n’B, Surf and Beat dancing needs. 9pm - 2am … £5 @ the Fratcave, below the Crown, St Nic's Market, Bristol. BS1 1JH.
LOS CONIOS - Fantastic ’HIGH OCTANE’ performers make their Gimme Shelter! debut! www.myspace.comlosconios
MATT BEATPUNK - Solo set from the BEATPUNK frontman.
With the Gimme Shelter! club night , John The Mod and guests spinning 60’s Garage & Psych, Northern Soul, Freakbeat, Punk, Rock & Roll and Go Go! against a backdrop of vintage lights, films and projections.
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