Doves, A Place To Bury Strangers, Elbow, Meat Whiplash, Verve, The Field Mice, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Long-View, Radiohead, Editors, My Bloody Valentine, Six By Seven, The Warlocks, Slowdive, Joy Division, Her Name Is Calla, Puressence, The December Sound, Spiritualized, DJ Shadow, iLiKETRAiNS, Interpol, Exit Calm, Ride.....
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If it’s a history lesson you want then you’ve come to the wrong place. As Ian Brown once said so casually during those first strains of youth: “The past is yours, the future is MINE.”
And so the same can be said of Mint Ive. Nottingham as a city hasn’t exactly got the best reputation as far as bestowing up-and-coming musical talent on the rest of the world is concerned. Basically, you can count any worthwhile past produce on the fingers of one hand.
Mint Ive are aware of this as much as anyone, which is why now, after two years of steadily honing their songwriting and live performances around the city and beyond, they are ready to unleash their undoubted potential onto the rest of us.
This year alone has already seen them play a sell out JD set show with the Maccabees, three Drowned In Sound club nights alongside the likes of Komakino, Her Name Is Calla and Club AC30 stalwarts Air Formation, while inbetween all that they also became the first unsigned band to sell out the city’s Bodega Social venue in advance (Review).
Aside from that, critical acclaim has been pouring in from all quarters, with Nightfly proclaiming them as“the best band Nottingham has had to offer for some time”, Sandman describing their live set as“eerily haunting...yet delightfully menacing”, and Primal Scream’s Mani being so impressed by one of their shows he immediately offered them a residency at Manchester’s Blue Cat Café.
In the meantime they have been recording with Doggen (Spiritualized, Julian Cope), Chris Olley (Six.By Seven) and Chris Moore (Model Morning, Echoboy) while early next year will see them heading back into the studio to complete their as-yet untitled debut album.
Along with the likes of Exit Calm, Model Morning and Nova Saints, Mint Ive are taking the hallowed sounds of early 90s shoegazing to a new audience reared on grit-clenched songwriting and a passion for affluent characters amidst the current trend for faceless artists within the music industry.
Long time fellas, hows it going? Everything cool? Just dropping in to send some love. we should play notts together again sometime. Love yous J Kingsize XXX
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Oh ey it always is! u shud play again sometime, prestonia is where its at lol, alls good t'up north... so wot happened after eagle then, did that bloke let you kip at his?
Hear ye, hear ye friends. Calling all ye faithful and faithless, the Big Hand debut album is finally here and set to dazzle upon the main stage of life! Yes, its set for release, and its gonna blow your socks off.........
............ 14 tracks of the finest sparkling soulful zorbic ska ever heard for just ten little pounds, just a click to the left there. Get yourselves the remedy for the April showers, reach out through the ether and get yourself one today. Go on, you know you want to!
Hope you're all OK?? We have a few upcoming shows to tell you about so if you fancy popping along then do let us know and we'll arrange some form of free/cheap entry for you! The dates are as follows:
28th April - Liverpool Carling Academy, Supporting Envy & Other Sins
2nd May - Nottingham Bodega Social, Supporting Twisted Wheel
5th May - Cambridge Barfly, Supporting Twisted Wheel
6th May - Northampton Soundhaus, Supporting Twisted Wheel
24th May - Manchester Academy 2, Supporting Bob Mould
Thanks to everyone that has purchased our debut E.P 'THE RECOVERY' and a reminder to those who haven't bought it yet it is available from itunes and gigantic. com. We also have a brand new website at the address below where you can play pong!
Thanks and take care!!
+THE RECOVERY+ www. therecovery. co. uk www. myspace. com/therecovery1
Good to hear it went well, good stuff with the APTBS support too, heard they are nice and loud live. Be great to see you on any of the dates...see you're down in London in July, will make sure I get myself along to that one.
