D P Quinn - vocal, guitar, etc. Andrew Blick - trumpet, sound treatments. Merek Cooper - bass, synth. Laurie Waller - drums, but car got stolen. And now augmented live by James Weaver - guitar, backing vocals.
Influences
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"Quinn remains our best bet for a next-generation British cult figure likely to continue surprising us in 10, even 20, years... these are artists at work, and your applause is as the gurgling of a far-distant toilet." 5/5, Pop CD of the Week by Stewart Lee in The Sunday Times
"Odd as a bag of badgers, but very good."Four Stars - The Independent
"...like a less mantric Can, overlaid with suggestions of Miles Davis and ambient-period Brian Eno... The result is unaffectedly bucolic, alternately hazy and acute" 3/4 - Mojo on 'Isle of Grain'
"It's the Can-like trance-funk, woozy folk, Henry Cow-style chamber rock, Eno-era Roxy Music and the prog-jazz of trumpeter Dr Andrew Blick that makes this great" 4/5 - Uncut on 'IoG'
"One More Grain are a strange bunch" - The Guardian
"Post-punk with brass? Don't be scared - this London-based quartet mix sleek sounds with John Cooper Clark-esque wisdom" - NME
"A pheasant drive with laser guns... A compelling album." - The Wire
"This is psychogeography with trumpets and sumptuous locked down grooves... a ramble through the dales with accompaniment courtesy of New Orleans and Detroit." - PlayLouder
"Great English talent...4/5" - The Sunday Times on 'Pigeon English'
"Weird yet wonderful" - Drowned in Sound
"Go. Seek. Buy. This record feels like the start of something special" - Make Noise and Dance
"Pigeon English is the work of a unique mind... Pere Ubu and Can for a new generation" - 4/5 - The Stool Pigeon
"One More Grain perfectly pinpoint the wonder and disillusion inherent in these damp isles." - Plan B
"A band who provide Technicolor contrast to the Capital's current crop of dayglo dreamers" - Channel 4's 4Talent
"So special....fantastic and utterly unmissable" - Whisperin & Hollerin
"Punk funk jazz with story telling, it sounds weird but it's excellent, honest" - John Kennedy, Xfm
"This is One More Grain, it's called Having A Ball. It tickles us in the right place... One of the most catchy songs of the year we think. It's great." - Zane Lowe, Radio 1
"A woozy, modal stream-of-consciousness narrative of escape that displays them at their inimitable best." - BBC Collective on A Town Is What You Make It
Good luck Tuesday at the Social. If you'd like to have a track listed here to help promote your music, please send it to moosefactoryuk@googlemail.com or 223 Ramsay Rd, London E7 9ES. Cheers!
"...loose, Fall-informed drunkeness to their guitar-rock approach. They shout a little, grovel in riff-dirt a little, and sound happy to hoot while they shamble." - THE WIRE
"More than pretty damn unique, interesting...and, listen up - inventive. " - Sleazegrinder
"Stray Dog Cafe aren't a band that sound like anyone of their influences - there is more than enough Stray Dog Cafe here to make this LP a fine debut in it's own right. I, for one, want to hear more bands taking this harder edge to their guitars. Highly recommended." - Indie MP3
"Noise-pop trio Stray Dog Café have an admirable range of influences and leftfield ideas…self-mocking really underplays the impressive level of imagination on board. " - Manchestermusic
HUMAN BELL (THRILL JOCKEY) : Nathan Bell (ex-Lungfish) and Dave Heumann (Arbouretum, Cass McCombs, Bonnie "Prince" Billy) dispense sun-baked, primitive blues instrumentals.
C JOYNES (BO'WEAVIL) : English heavy, thumb-lead finger-picker salutes dustbowl country, ragtime ragas and the Takoma school.
FUZZY LIGHTS: Cambridge trio combine ethereal drone, brushed folk and quantised cacophony.
Other upcoming shows:
Tuesday 20 May, 2008 (in collaboration w/ Chaos vs Cosmos)
STARS OF THE LID Lichens James Blackshaw
St Giles-in-the-Fields Church, 60 St Giles High Street, WC2 8LG Doors 7.00pm ~ £12
tickets are available from: SECOND LAYER RECORDS, 323 Archway Road, Highgate, N6 5AA, 07855 140 992 ROUGH TRADE WEST, 130 Talbot Road, W11 1JA, 020 7229 8541
our old friends THE LODGER new single / album out on Bad Sneakers with bouncing bass and extra jangle here is their new video which is reallly nice: http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=LGQ114DPvuY
finally.... there is a new issue of The Cuckoo Press coming out soon!! watch out for updates.. we have a couple of spaces left for nice adverts, so if you want one.. see you soon!!xx
You are most welcome. I was exceptionally taken with the tracks. It was indeed Adam who referred me in your direction, bless 'im! I was very glad indeed that he did
Also interviewed in this ish: Cadence Weapon, Autechre, Crystal Castles, Nick Cave, South Rakkas Crew, HEALTH, Hercules and Love Affair, Nick Cave, Be Yr Own Pet, Gutter Twins, George Pringle and Young Knives... MV+EE do the tour diary (in free verse), No Fun's Carlos Giffoni offers a playlist and there's a profile of the Language Of Stone label.
Reviews inc. Diamanda Galas, Silver Mt. Zion, Channel U, Benga, Foals, Kelis, The Teenagers, Kelley Polar, Peter Brotzmann, Paal Nilssen-Love & Mats Gustafsson, Snoleoparden, White Hinterland, Morrissey, Action Beat, Cowtown, Meg Baird (Live), Rolo Tomassi (Live).
Impressed by the new LP. Stream of conciousness Pere Ubu Faust esque with brass and beauty and northern glory...Will endeavour to come and see you live soon..
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