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Oh, Atoms

Oh, Atoms Radio

General Info

  • Genre: Acoustic / Folk Rock / Pop

    Location London and South East, UK

    Profile Views: 98393

    Last Login: 8/4/2012

    Member Since 6/26/2006

    Record Label Lucky Motel

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    ................ Quickpost this image to Myspace, Digg, Facebook, and others! ...... ...."Atmospheric soundscapes are explored with Calexico-like confidence and a fetching Anglo twist. The planets may be a way away but this is still an impressive lift-off".. Uncut...... ...."This cutey-pie duo like to sing about confectionery rodents. Unsurprisingly, there is a sugary, sweet, bubblegum quality to their music. Meet the folk-pop Ting Tings.".. The Guardian...... ...."'You Can't See The Stars From Here' is a beautiful record better off without the fine tuning - fanciful, youthful, playful, vintage-tinged rural pop.".. CMU Daily...... ...."The hits just keep on coming on the second half of the album as well, with Lucky Motel, Silver Spoon, Little Victories and the title track You Can’t See The Stars From Here all really top notch. Don’t be surprised if they ‘blow up’ at some point this year, for now though ours and a few thousand others little secret.".. The Beat Surrender...... ...."Glorious folk pop with an undeniable commercial underbelly. Sugar Mouse is the sound of sunshine being let out of a jar on a rainy day. Wonderful stuff.".. Music Week...... .. ....Sugar Mouse is in a movie! .. .. .. .. .. .. ..Oh, Atoms came to be in the summer months of 2007. Formed from the ashes of The Feeling Good Conspiracy - a London outfit whose champions included ..Steve Lamacq.. at Radio 1 - it is the musical vehicle for one Gwen Atom and one Marc Atom, two multi-instrumentalists who share a musical past as varied as their music is sweet... ..Those of you ..really.. paying attention may well recognise Gwen from ..Psapp.., with whom she regularly shares the stage as a permanent member of their touring band. Prior to this her musical history includes time playing live with Menlo Park and live and in the studio with Flotation Toy Warning (for whom she played strings on their debut album). Recently she also contributed violin to the Klima album and sang a track called All Dressed Up In Dreams on DJ Downfall's latest longplayer, Bon Viveur. You can read about it ..here... .. ..Marc had played in various British bands before relocating to the US where he took his guitar and ever-growing book of songs around the Greyhound route, playing bars and radio stations from LA to Texas via the midwest. After months of this troubadour lifestyle he ended up in Austin, where he formed weird-alt-country outfit Guido Falls and was a regular live singer/songwriter performer as well as session guitarist with bands such as After 909. He also bakes a mean enchillada... ..As fate would have it, t'was in Texas where the pair's paths would ultimately cross. Gwen bumped into Marc in Austin's infamous Continental Club during a night off from touring the US with ..Jose Gonzalez.. and Psapp. The pair talked... the pair drank... the pair pondered.... and Oh, Atoms was born... ..Fast forward twelve months and much has come of that fateful meeting. Armed with a chestful of songs, written together in close collaboration and taking inspiration from 1930s tea dances, victorian darkness, dead film stars, suspicious circumstances and selected confectionery, their music caught the ear of the folk at Sony/ATV who swiftly signed them to a global publishing deal in May last year. The band's debut album is released on 2 February 2009... ..A limited edition seven inch single, featuring Sugar Mouse and Let's Go Away, was released on 19 January and is available at Rough Trade. You can also buy it at ..iTunes.. and ..IndieStore.com.... ..Right.... As you were... ...... ....nb. guitars, ukes, banjos, violins, pianos, mandolins, keyboards, glocks, dulcimer sticks, lapsteels and percussion, pots, pans and items of fruit are all played by Marc and Gwen..... .. ............Myspace Layouts.. - ..Myspace Editor.. - ..Image Hosting.... .. .. .. .. .. ......

  • Members

    ....Marc and Gwen.. - songs, instruments, vocals and cosmic glue.. ........ ....Management.... Nicola Slade: nicolaslade@yahoo.co.uk.. .... ....Booking Agent.... Gold Artists Agency: bob@goldartists.co.uk.. ....PR.... Republic Media: sue@republicmedia.net.. ....Live band members.... ..Guitar: Ben Clay.. ..Keyboards: Vicky West.. ..Bass: Iain Ross.. ..Drums: Miggy Barradas.. ..Brass and percussion: Michele Sarti..

  • Influences

    In no particular order: .. ..Wilco.. ..Blue icing on cupcakes.. ..these little fings.. .. ..Gillian Welch's sadness.. ..Maurice and ..The Phoenix.. members bar.. ..Studio Ghibli.. ..Morrissey.. ..Tom Waits.. ..Brian Wilson and his sandpit.. ..Elizabethans.. ..PJ Harvey.. ..Pixies.. ..Lost hair clippings.. ..Sonic Youth.. ..Sock monkeys.. ..Raskolnikov's guilt.. ..Underdeveloped photographs.. ..Bright Eyes.. ..Tickling sticks.. ..King Creosote.. ..Tabletops.. ..David Lynch.. ..4am Monday morning.. ..Regency housing.. ..The slow loris.. ..Formica.. ..Akira Kurosawa.. ..Knitting.. ..Violets and voles.. ..Assorted dead people.. ..Not forgetting all our musical chums who've joined in the fun both in the studio and playing live: ..Sadpaw..'s Phil Wilkinson, the lovely drum fella; Adrian Smith, Ben Muscat and ..The Memory Band..'s Stephen Cracknell, the bass boys; ..Dennis Hopper Choppers..' Banjo Ben Nicholls; Anne-Marie Kirby, Merlyn Sturt and Margit Van Der Zwan, the sublime strings; and Michele 'Pigeon' Sarti, the Sardinian brass player extraordinaire... we love you all..... ..

  • Sounds Like

    A candlelit evening in a dusty attic with a Victorian spectre and a drunken bee

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