So its been a hectic past 12 month. ...not much longer left.
Dianne got to No 16 on the indie chart and the new single Summer girls got to no18! The album has received brilliant reveiws and attention. Played some great shows etc.... ahhh wellll
They had a good crack at it, acheived alot over the years and produced some great records.
Thanks to everyone who helped the band along the way; long suffering familys, dear friends and girlfriends, The Nicols, The Hylands, The Addisons, The Milnes, The Forrests, Murry and Lindsey (Bad baby panda, did the ace videos), Wendy (rip), Vic Galloway, Jim Geletly, Frome Road, Gayle and Malks, Erin (sxsw), Moogie and Leanne, Lauren (ex hart), Ian Cheek, Ben (ex impressive), Nat (Born to run), BBC Scotland, Chris (stv) Jimi, Mike Hyland, Popup, Scottish arts, everyone who helped make the vidoes, Emily,Wayne Love, Caffy, Jen, Marc Lamarr, Phil Jupitus, all the bookers and promoters who’ve put em on, Aberdeen and Glasgow..lot and lots of other people, too many to mention but we thank you all for eveything.
Last gig is on Sat Decmeber 22nd in Aberdeen - Hope you can make it.
Thanks for the support.
IN SEARCH OF THE NEEDLES
Formed in Aberdeen, the band are Dave Dixon (guitar / lead vocals), Paul Curtiss (bass), Richey Wolfe (keyboards / vocals) and Johnny Wolfe (drums / vocals). They came together at the end of the 1990s as a means to survive the trials and tribulations of school together, they quickly became the biggest band in town... When we started out we loved Guns n Roses and Nirvana, but they were too complicated for us, explains wired singer Dave Dixon. Britpop meant nothing to us because we were detached from it it seemed like a London thing so we turned to the simplicity of the earliest rock n roll for inspiration. There was something quite sinister about Gene Vincent but tender too. There was an ambiguity there. Raw, exciting rock n roll made utter sense to us.
blah blah blah we had alot of crap about who the band supported, press stuff, radio and tv plays etc here but let the music make your mind up or not...
From the simplest of constituents, the needles have created a monster.
-NME
Sharp fizzles of punk power pop. Like an overly-excited Weezer covering Buzzcocks, being mischievously poked by Phil Spectorwith shockingly electric cattle prods ROCKSOUND
Fuzzy magic jem.
-Metro
Get yourself to a Needles gig youll jive to ace tunes, have a laugh and fall over on the tube on the way home! DISORDER
A wonky new york dolls stomp which gives way to unfathomable oompah
- Kerrang
Songs like dead or alive is every teenage cowboy fantasy in one pop gem flash of tambourine-dream brilliance
-NME
The needles are not just the needles, theyre the FU....ING NEEDLES.The needles rule, ok?
-Drowned in sound
Great, great band -Zane Lowe
Truly Impressive - THE FLY
The Needles deliver an excellent set that’s strong on melody and startling, imaginative instrumentation. - Music Week
The Needles sound
fresh, catchy and exciting - Stool Pigeon
bloody love this album-Record Collector
The Needles are what you have been searching for - Loud and Quiet
Frantic and poetic, furious and distinguished, weird, wonderful and a
cut above all those garage rock pretenders - Evening News
Another success for The Needles that leaves us
practically salivating - Gigwise
Dear Boys - SXSW was not the same without you this year. I couldn't bear the thought of chicken shit bingo without you, so I skipped it. I miss you like crazy! Hope you are all well.
Hey guys, I am still listening to in search of album and was looking forwad to hearing more of your stuff. it is a pain that you have called it a day, but all the best anyway! Cheers Scott A Fan
Hey Guys, Sad to hear that you've called it a day. Really good bands are hard to come by so it's a sad loss when they finish. We'll still be listening to 'In Search Of...' Was a pleasure to have the chance to play with you.
Some of you or all of you will be back with a vengeance. Please don't hesitate to tell me when you are.
I interviewed you boys for Whisperin' and Hollerin' (Dave and Paul) before a gig at Night & Day in Manchester. Your new record was just out, and your drummer was still on his way back from Sweden, after falling in love there. It was Friday, a dead sunny summers' evening, and we went to a bar where they sell pink/orange coloured house scrumpy. I remember Paul asking me for a Magniers, and him getting lager (nerves, sorry mate!) - we sat on metal beer kegs out the back to do the interview - I'm a shitty interviewer, but you were both cool, and threw in loads of quotes for me, despite being dead tired. Your gig was fucking ace.
On the way back to the venue you told me about pals of yours that were big chongers, whose heads were in semi-permanent meltdown. I thought that this was a wee piece of advice from y'both, or maybe that I reminded you of your chong-head pals?
I know how much you train travelled, and worked your balls off, and the music was tight, and full of quality.Your stage presence was brilliant: You entertained! I hope you had a brilliant farewell gig - if you are ever in Manchester, don't heasitate to let me know, I'll buy yis a bevy - If you hear any decent bands you would recommend to anyone, please recommend them to me.
If you FORM another group, or start another musical project, you must let me know about it.
All the very best to you all, and to Scott your manager, with whatever you do in life.
Good luck always
Mike Roberts Whisperin' & Hollerin'
P.S. I have an A3 sized poster for your album in my bathroom, like fans do :-)
such a shame yr calling it a day sirs! you really were one of the most exciting bands i've seen this year, and believe me, i've seen alot! look after those listen to the beach boys badges i gave you! joaura xxx
all the best for the future John, I'm sure you'll have some other tricks up your sleeve. Andy
...and if anyone can't make it to aberdeen...In the bleak mid-winter...THE so cold we're HOT CLUB! Its a(nother) Christmas Dancing Party. Come Hot!
and watch out for the 'HOT BONE' knees ups - where Glasgow and Dundee's Hot Club is teaming up with those cheeky gingers from London's Bad to the Bone - Boxing Day at the City Function Suite in Dundee and the 29th Dec in Sleazys, Glasgow. Yow! Do the Catwalk baby, aint I'm a dog!
I still live in hope of getting a Needles 5 T shirt. I am busy with Miss the occupier and a Strummer gig the same night as you, fit time are ye on?, I'll pop roon for a yap,gaes a shout if ye need a han wi your gear, cheers Biz
Oh no! So you are another band in the long line of bands I love that've split up in 2007... This year must have been cursed somehow! Anyway, you shall be missed. Shame I never got to see you guys play live. xx
Hasnt the Lemon Tree shut?! Is your gig still going ahead? If so, it's the megabus for me...
If it is shut then why dont you play your last ever gig in Glasgow then? Or, better still, just bin the whole splitting up shenanigans and play lots more gigs in Glasgow!
I feel as though my heart's been ripped out and stamped on 138 times. Please tell me your last ever gig is to be rescheduled or rehomed or I should just die. I'll ALWAYS love you!!!!! Dramatique? Moi? D x
Thanx 4 being friends.
Have a nice Day and enjoy the life!!
Greetinx
Tim
P.S.
Soularia performed their unreleased Track "Life Is Unbelivable"on a 2 square meter balcony on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg.
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