Quadrophobe

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Yes! The rumours are true! Quadrophobe have a Facebook group! Do please have a butcher's, by clicking on the words 'Facebook Group', and join it! Invite everyone you know! Huzzah!


Check out our listing at Gig Guide UK!


Harking from a town where the only two major pastimes are forming bands or drinking, Quadrophobe began life as a culmination of both, but quickly escalated beyond being a minor diversion from the trivialities of small-town day to day life, into an all-consuming song and dance.

Since formation, they have written songs, broken genre taboos, ridden a piano through a small Oxfordshire village, gigged, and pioneered the Jazz Elephant; roughly in that order.

We've just finished our latest EP! We've named it Quixotic, after Don Quixote, since everyone's a little bit Spanish at heart. Ariba! It contains four of our newest and bestest songs, and will be available for only four English pounds! We recorded it with the mighty and multi-talented Adam Fox. Two tracks from it, Super Badger and Above Me, are up in the player above. We'd love to know what you think...




Things People Have Said:

My favourite new band... with ska-flavoured energy... I really hope 2010 is a big year for a band who could do big things.
..Paul Cornell..

I was immediately drawn in by the cheeky 2-Tone rhythms and mischievous brass section that are so well put together... Wonderfully infectious... [Super Badger]’s amazing in all senses of the word – amazingly original, amazingly hilarious and amazingly terrible, leaving you in equal amounts of bewilderment and hysterics. This lot are onto something, and I hope more will begin to take their silliness more seriously.
Josie Allchin, ..Oxfordshire Music Scene Magazine..

Quadrophobe; purveyors of songs about cult movies, not-quite-octopuses, and majestically inappropriate ska affectations of forgotten 80’s tunes.
.. Full Metal Waistcoat ..

[Super Badger's] a fine, fine song... The musicianship is amazing! Awesome.
.. Tim Bearder .. & David Gilleat, BBC Radio Oxford's 'Introducing' Show..

A hugely enjoyable set... So infectious was the music that this writer joined the band on the dance floor. I stayed for the whole set and thought to myself, yes that's more like it. I definitely recommend them.
.. Al Cane.., The Faringdon Folly Newspaper

Very musically accomplished... great personality!
The ..Jack FM 'Next Big Thing' ..Competition Judges..

...funky, scuffly harmonious and fun... Reminds me a little of the Coral (but a bit better and with some more ideas if I'm honest).
.. Bandman ..

Infectiously ditty like, you can tell these guys are all nuts. Would love to see them live as the tempo suggests an awesome party feel. If these guys can escape to the city I see great things!
Dave Chislett, South African journalist, publicist & author

I didn't know Kula Shaker were in town.
Random passer-by, Oxford

If Quadrophobe were a country, I'd be patriotic.
Christopher George Belcher Esq

I know where you all live and where your children go to school. Stop this noise at once.
Harry Glaubner

So good I forgot about my pot noodle
..Maria Ilett..

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Jimbo - Bass & Vocals, Funk Smith, Woodland Metrosexual (full time)

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Pete - Keys & Vocals, Heckler and Keeper of Small Dragons

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Adam - Trumpet, Tomfoolery and Owner of the Infamous Tickling Stick

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