Tommy Haccou: Bass
Joel Agterbosch: Keys
?? : Drums +++ In search of a new drummer! +++
Influences
the Beatles, the Traveling Wilburys, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, David Bowie, Neil Young, Barry White, the Pixies, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Sean Na Na, the Elected, the Shins, the Decemberists, the Weakerthans, the Good Life, Two Gallants, Ben Folds Five, Elliott Smith, Songs : Ohia, Pedro the Lion, Neutral Milk Hotel, the Unicorns, China Drum, Faith No More, Violent Femmes, Green Day, Rilo Kiley, Ash, the New Amsterdams, Favez, Azure Ray, Ryan Adams, Hot Water Music, the Network, the Brandos, Metal Molly, Atom and his Package, Elf Power, Piebald, All, Face to Face, Lagwagon, Rancid, Limp, Bracket, Bright Eyes, Death Cab For Cutie, Hayden, Menomena, The Flaming Lips, Modest Mouse, Eels, Teenage Fanclub, the Jealous Sound, Iron and Wine, Arcade Fire, John Vanderslice, Boudewijn de Groot, the Muffs, Chixdiggit, the Mountain Goats, the Promise Ring, Maritime, Smoking Popes, the Allmighty Clueless...etc
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PAPER TIGER
While Medi puts on her jammies and a lullaby for bed / Sandy puts on her coat to hit town / a funny girl drinks shabby bar red wine / a little boy on the backseat changes radio channels / Jolien sings along with punk rock bands / Cynthia is sending question marks and Darrell gets some from Susan.
It’s in a living room in this nowhere town, with not a soul around, where Témy and Chris picked up the guitars again / to paint you a picture of everything they’ve come to be this year.
Right. So here we are with Chris (Regtop) and Témy (Phem). Two Dutch lads in their late twenties, who form a tight singer songwriter unit: Paper Tiger. They’ve known each other forever, went to grammar school together and are still closest friends. Although they started writing tunes at early age, the songs never really found a way out of their bedroom. How could they? At the time Chris and Témy put most of their time and effort in playing punk rock and indie bands. It was only for the last few years that they returned to their bedrooms and started writing songs again. Legitimate Paper Tiger-songs: strong yet subtle tunes.
Beep Beep, Everyone Here
Their debut album Everyone Here was released on Hecticrecs late last year. These fourteen tracks tie together bits of folk and rock with a great pop sensibility and some unmistakably punk rock roots. Paper Tiger manage to create a near perfect balance between upbeat and downbeat, extravert and introvert, catchy and, eh…, catchy. For references you might want to check out: Violent Femmes, The Weakerthans, Sean Na Na or The Decemberists.
Chris and Témy played most of the instruments themselves. Sometimes some of their peeps dropped by to play along. Recording this album was a domestic affair: Chris nailed most of parts in the comfort of his own living room. Their freshest outing, a song called 1995, is just released on a promo compilation by indie label Beep! Beep! Back Up The Truck.
Full-on or stripped-down
Paper Tiger enjoys performing and does so on numerous occasions. They bring it to you as a full on, five-piece band, but also stun as a stripped-down, acoustic two or three piece.
Since the release of Everyone Here, Paper Tiger has been playing 150+ gigs, among which support shows for Rilo Kiley, The Rifles, The New Amsterdams, Murder By Death, Snailhouse, The Wind Whistles, Hot Panda, The Unsettlers, Subtitle, Antennas and Air Traffic. They also performed on some of the bigger Dutch radio stations and played throughout Italy, France, Spain, Austria and Germany recently. In the winter of 2008 Paper Tiger did a 2 weeks tour through Europe with their dear friends Snailhouse from Montreal and last fall a 6 weeks 'coast to coast tour' across Canada with their Vancouver sweethearts The Wind Whistles. At the moment the guys are recording new tunes for a new EP and CD and booking new shows. Catch up with them. You deserve nothing less.
Meet Paper Tiger on the internet
Homepage: www.papertiger.nl
Label: www.hecticrecs.com
Community sites: www.myspace.com/papertigerholland & http://papertiger.hyves.nl/
label: www.beepbeep.nl
LiveXS
Waar Hectic Recordings zich eerder voornamelijk richtte op herrie uit de hardcorehoek, brengt het kleine label tegenwoordig ook alternatieve hiphop en indie uit. Paper Tiger is een goed voorbeeld uit die laatste categorie. Het duo maakt een ietwat gekke combinatie van van indierock en folk op deze debuut-cd. Everyone Here klink gevarieerd, soms ingetogen, dan weer lekker stevig, zoals op Juice. De band voert zelf uiteenlopende acts als Traveling Wilburys, The Decemberists, Violent Femmes en The Weakerthans op. Zeker de twee laatstgenoemden kan ik me in vinden. De verzorging van het geheel is uitstekend: goede kwaliteit opnames en een mooie hoes. Het enige probleem is naar mijn idee de lengte van de plaat: Met een speelduur van over de veertig minuten is dit voor een debuut-cd misschien iets too much.
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Of er een link bestaat tussen uitgever de Papieren Tijger en indiepopband Paper Tiger? Vast niet, maar de openingszin staat. Belangrijker, dit Utrechtse duo debuteert op Everyone Here met veertien uiterst vriendelijk klinkende pop-liedjes. Het multi-instrumentale duo speelt compacte deuntjes waarin stukjes The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Weezer en The Shins onder wisselende begeleiding van (akoestisch) gitaar, bas, drums, toetsen, mandoline en accordeon handig samenvallen. Niet-meezingen lijkt al snel geen doen. Soms lijken deze twee knapen vol van (spel)vreugde door de woonkamer te stuiteren - de plek waar deze charmant klinkende huisvlijt ook werd opgenomen. Op andere momenten wordt de upbeat indiepop teruggebonden naar klein akoestisch. Maar ook dan blijven de liedjes onverminderd catchy. Naar het einde toe misschien wel iets te catchy. Temeer er geen extra dimensie aan het liedboek wordt toegevoegd. Paper Tiger houdt het simpel. Met lekkere liedjes over Jolien, Susan, Sandy, Cynthia, voor jou en mij. Dank, zeggen we dan.
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Thanks, we are goin to check it . What i have heard is great already, so we will put you up into our playlist. You wil be on DreamFM this sunday and ready to be requested.
It was Awesome to meet you guys and an Honor that you joined us for dinner at our house........Thank you so much for the CD, I've been playing it all week.
Take Care, and I hope that you're able to take some Cheese Whiz on the plane home with you.......lol
Chelsy wird auf dem Sampler der Jubiläumsausgabe des Visions-Musikmagazins vertreten sein. Die CD wird der Aboauflage beiliegen und auf den Veranstaltungen des Anniversarys Ende Oktober in Dortmund gratis verteilt. Es wird auch ein kleines Feature im Heft geben.
Ein wenig Geduld noch was die Neuigkeiten über die Veröffentlichung unseres Albums, den upload des neuen Videos und die nächsten Konzertdaten angeht. Wir sind tüchtig am tüfteln!
