Mike, Steli, Alex, Sam, & Mike
Mike St. Jude & The Valentines doing Jack the Ripper's Sunday Morning at the 28th Annual Studio-A-Rama hosted by WRUW 91.1 FM Cleveland - filmed by Steve Barrett. Thank you Steve...
Influences
short, sharp pop songs. harpsichord solos...short, sharp pop songs with harpsichord solos. & of course rock & roll music.
Sounds Like
Mike St. Jude & The Valentines actually. Or Peter O'Toole reciting Holland Dosier Holland, Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers playing "Wild Honey". The Spiders From Mars copping Booker T & The MG's, A Beat Group full of hooks. Who knows? The Valentines dig everything. Kinks meets Guided by Voices Dylan meets Faces Galileo meets Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe Ferlinghetti meets William Shakespeare Bill meet Sally, Sally meet Bill, Hello Sally, Hi Bill.
A few words about us courtesy of Francis:
Mike St. Jude & The Valentines play a fantastic blend of pop music oftentimes energetic, other times pleading & soulful, careening between the rhythm & blues energy of the great beat groups of yore [though they're not a bunch of Yorists] or heading down an absurd path of heavy hooks and colorful shape shifting pop. It’s difficult to pigeonhole this exciting combo. Following the grand tradition of great rock and roll, pop, soul and dance party music from the past forty years, the Valentines treat each song as an homage to all influential groups they’ve known and loved since their ears could make sense of sound. Fans of the Valentines liken their sound to an amalgam of mid-period Kinks, Faces, Some Girls era Rolling Stones, the American psychedelic scene of the late 60’s married with a healthy dose of Bob Dylan’s knack for strange tale telling at his most electric period. All the while the sound the Valentines produce is thoroughly modern without being too conscious of trying to fit into any niche other than rock and roll. The Valentines prefer to let the music speak for itself, so what are you waiting for? Here’s To Your Black & Blue Heart! Thank you for listening.
Also look for the previously released: Fallout Patterns of The Hoodshot Blues, 2006.
Mike St. Jude & The Valentines's Friend Space (Top 1)
thanks so much for being our myspace friend, your shit sounds fucking sweet, nice to hear some other good local stuff! keep in touch ..here is a little bit about our band:
"We are four unemployed henchmen that started a band to rock out for Satan. First off we're broke as fuck so if anybody has a job for us,or anything they need "TAKEN CARE OF" we're your mother fucken niggas. We're trying to get fucking payed out this bitch. Second,..bitches, we have big ass dicks and we want to fuck. when you come to our shows, you better wear something sexy as hell, we're not fucking around we will punch you in the mother fucking face! and if you bring a friend tell her "prepare to get fucked" and "you better be good at sucking cocks mother fucker"......etc. thanks for checking us out, we hope you like the tunes. -GB.45"
P.S. the quality of our recordings are crap but the songs are fucking awesome, let us know what you think, thanx
We're giving away FREE beers at our FREE show this coming Friday, Dec 11th at Bela Dubby at 8:30 PM to thank our myspace friends - so, if you want in, send us a message so we can put you on the list, homeslice! XO Sean Panoramic Panoramic
How are you, Mike St. Jude & The Valentines? Haven't checked in on you lately, so I swung by to say Happy Labor Day Weekend & hope you are feeling well! Listen, I have another track up on my page, "Attack Of The Mushroom People." You can hear it right now, if you'd like at: www.myspace.com/psychedelicpablo adios for now! Pablo
THE 28TH ANNUAL STUDIO-A-RAMA!!! SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5TH 2009 2PM - MIDNIGHT / FREE!!! @ MATHER MEMORIAL BUILDING 11220 Bellflower Road corner of Ford & Bellflower just one block north of Euclid & Mayfield directly across from Hessler Street on the campus of CWRU in the University Circle area FEEL FREE TO BRING ANY FOOD &; BEVERAGES (as long as they are not in glass bottles) BROADCAST LIVE ON 91.1 WRUW STREAMING LIVE AT WWW.WRUW.ORG
FEATURING
MISSION OF BURMA!!! (Boston post-punk legends; Ace Of Hearts, Taang!, Ryko, and Matador Records; members have also been in Volcano Suns, Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic, Alloy Orchestra, Moving Parts, No Man, Kustomized, Peer Group, Shellac, Rachel’s, and Crush Senior)
MEGACHURCH (bass heavy math rock; x-members of Machine Go Boom, McShitz, and This Is Exploding)
KID TESTED (long running Cleveland band playing noisy power pop)
MIKE ST. JUDE & THE VALENTINES (garage pop; x-members of Dreadful Yawns and The Volta Sound)
THE KYLE SOWASHES (indie pop from Columbus; x-members of Tom Foolery & The Mistakes, Sun God, Harlem Airshaft, Mystery Of Two, Home And Garden, Denovo, and The Handshake; We Want Action, Manup, and Bettawreckonize Records)
UNO LADY (spaced-out manipulated vocal acrobatics; ten song cassette tape due out soon)
FLOWERS IN FLAMES (proto goth post punk from Akron; have at times featured members of CD Truth and The Againsters)
NEON TONGUES (minimalist garage punk; x-members of Thee TV Oh Dees and Ponyta)
CHIEF BROMIDE (sludgy psych rock; members of Kong Sauce, Volcanoes Awake, Black Wolf, Humphry Clinker, Bella Sylva, and Rather Honey)
