CD Shade: vocals,
JJ White: guitars, banjo & vocals,
MP Lehane: bass & vocals,
PD McArthur: drums, piano & vocals,
Influences
Eddie Cochrane, Buddy Holly, Hugh MacDiarmid, the Roberts Burns & Ferguson, Sidney Goodsir Smith, Woody Guthrie, Phil Ochs, Gil Scott Heron, Country Joe & the Fish, The Band, Muddy Waters, Lightning Hopkins, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Flipper, Blue Aeroplanes, Faust, The Go-betweens, Weezer, The Butthole Surfers, The Close Lobsters, Tom Waits, Penny Rimbaud and Arthur etc etc etc
Sounds Like
"..like Chumbawamba doing John Cooper Clarke in Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting..." The Daily Record
RADGE RAVINGS AND REVIEWS FOR MAIR LICHT ALBUM
THE LIST's 50 Best Scottish Bands of all Time.
No listing of Scots artists would be complete without Mouse Eat Mouse, an act with whisky in their veins and DNA woven from Harris tweed.
FATEA/CAMBRIDGE & BEYOND AWARDS
Mair Licht album wins innovation award.
IS THIS MUSIC Alex Botten
I'm not even going to give this record a score out of five as the breathtaking width of the band's vision transcends such frivolity.
THE HERALD Rob Adams
...there are refrains and choruses that given exposure, might well stand every chance of reaching the singalongalips of the masses.
GLASSWERKS
....the most astoundingly original album I have ever heard...Mouse Eat Mouse is impossible to define, difficult to understand and impossible to ignore. It..s safe to say that there..s no other band like them.
WAX LYRICAL
Mouse Eat Mouse deserve a statue built in their honour and furthermore it would deserve to be saluted.
DAILY RECORD
If Burns was alive he'd want to be in MEM. This is utterly uniqueand compelling debut album from Scotland's underground national treasures. It's like Chumbawamba doing John Cooper Clarke in Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting language.
UK MUSIC REVIEW
Something's going on that just gets inside you...
BLUESBUNNY
You just can't get bored with this album as there is so much going on that you have to keep returning to it in case you missed something. Even now, we don't think our review does, or even could do, it justice.
"Music with meaning that tackles social issues such as sectarianism and still succeeds as entertainment is rare indeed."
WAX LYRICAL
MEM prove it's not enough to be a band that has something to say, you have to be a band that has something to 'teach.'
Things get brighter the longer you stand in their shadow, their shade is a treat compared to the blinding hell of popular sunlight.
"You have no idea how exhausting it is to being part of the audience at your gigs."
IS THIS MUSIC
Mouse Eat Mouse are unique, almost impossible to describe and utterly essential. Are they folk? Are they indie? Does it matter? I dont want to lessen this record bycomparing them to anyone else, partly because it wouldnt be anything like them no matter what I say but mostly because it would cheapen Mouse Eat Mouse to mention any other band in the same sentence. Im not even going to give this record a score out of five as the breathtaking width of the bands vision transcends such frivolity.... this is a landmark record
in Scottish music.
TASTY FANZINE
'Mair Licht' is beautiful gentle and yet powerfully equipped to educate and entertain. Impressive!!
A
4 track EP, titled Call Signs, it provides the perfect introduction to
the band prior to the release of their debut album, Grappling Hooks, in
early 2010.
Hi, thanks for adding us to your group of friends!
Our UK autumn tour continues this week with three concerts in Scotland. Our show incorporates the whole range of classic Pink Floyd from Barrett, through Dark Side Of The Moon and Wish You Were Here, to The Division Bell This year's show celebrates the 30th anniversary of The Wall as well as featuring a special performance of the iconic tracks Echoes. All the atmosphere, visual magnitude and musical excellence of Pink Floyd, re-created live onstage by THINK FLOYD - THE DEFINITIVE PINK FLOYD EXPERIENCE!
Scottish dates in September...
Thurs 10th - GLASGOW The Ferry Fri 11th - EDINBURGH The Caves Sat 12th - GALASHIELS Volunteer Hall For full tour listings and booking info, plus soundclips, photos and Merchandise please visit our website. You can now also find us of Facebook and Twitter
Thank you for the support. It means a great deal - the past few months have been amazing. Great reviews, great shows up and down the country, airplay and interviews with Kerrang! Radio & Total Rock Radio, even a show at Alexandra Palace for Freestyle Festival has been confirmed.
Alexandra Palace will bring an end to our first major UK Tour. The tour leads up to the official release of our first EP proper, 'Guerilla'. This will be available everywhere on November 2nd.
If you're not too familiar with us yet, there are some reviews below and you can pick up some free downloads from our Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/NIXA/8798900727).
Here are the dates (more to be confirmed).
See you out there x
"NIXA possess a quality that sets them apart from other front runners on the alt/rock scene with perfect dynamics and incredible song craft. They bounce between gentle and aggressive in a single beat, tied with soaring harmonies and mesmerising stage presence. This band will find themselves being listened to by a wide audience, no doubts in both the alternative and commercial rock scenes" TOTAL ROCK
"...done very, very well. Deep, powerful voice, BIG music and just the feeling that something very professional is happening -I don't mean in a clinical way, just in that way that, when you find out they're unsigned, it's a bit of a shock!" XFM
"The absolute epiphany of my weekend was London based Nixa. Everytime I see this band, I fall in love a little bit more. Their performance was stunning and it was definitely the climax of the night as things petered off afterwards. Their Biffy Clyro-esque style, gorgeous vocal harm
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! :)
Online Now!
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