The Red Pills
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Genre: Blues / Punk / Rock
Location Leeds, Northeast, Un
Profile Views: 23021
Last Login: 12/14/2012
Member Since 12/7/2008
Website www.theredpills.co.uk
Record Label Unsigned
Type of Label Unsigned
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The Damned, The Ramones, Anti-flag, Muse, Rolling Stones, Dead Kennedys, Manic Street Preachers, Beatles, AC/DC, Lou Reed, Led Zeppelin, The Smiths, Chuck Berry, The Offspring, Nick put GnR in here but I (Tom) took em out cos Axl Rose is an utter cock, Aerosmith, Jimi Hendrix, The Pixies, John Lee Hooker, Robert Johnson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Rage Against the Machine and several other hellraisers. -
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The insistent raucousness of dispossessed youth.
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Last night I dropped 187Gb of video (no, not porn) off at Sean's house and he had to clear a load of stuff off... http://t.co/PBZf4HzgQo
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Watching the rushes from today's recording session and crying with laughter. "It's a matter for the utmost discretion..." - Captain.
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If our faces were on credit cards, where would you swipe us?
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- Woodrose2 years ago
i love harriet's got herpes!!
- PseudoNympho2 years ago
AYUP!!!
we're an up and coming leeds based rock band who had our last profile deleted by accident. we had 9000+ friends, 30,000+ plays etc. and it all just got deleted :(
well anyway, sob story out of the way, we started from scratch a week ago, and we reckon you should give our stuff a listen. we dont have a special reason why you should, but as arguments go, ours is pretty convincing... "hey, why the fuck not?"
hope you see things our way, and hope you like the tunes too.
stay twisted, & peace out!!
x PseudoNympho x - The Swindells2 years ago
Cheers for an awesome night last night lads......
- Timeless Music Project …2 years ago
Holding a special SXSW and MIDEM briefing @ BRUDENELL CLUB, LEEDS. 7 pm, 1st September! Come along and meet representatives from both Festivals. Make sure you RSVP at: www.musicyorkshire (dot) com PS We've also got live music from 10 pm including sets from SXSW acts Middleman and Serious Sam Barrett.
- LIVERPOOL BANDS -A Bull…2 years ago
August 20th Liverpool Bands takeover The Leeds Fringe Festival at Carpe Diem - and my new player now has two songs each from The Temps, The Idles, Cupboard Wolves and Man Get Out who are appearing - just listen to what a great night it's going to be - 2 other tracks are from Chemical Casino and Pretty Silhouettes who are on the subs bench if anything unforseen happens - turn it up loud and tell your friends its going to be superb!!!
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The Red Pills took their name from the 1999 movie 'The Matrix.' In one particular scene, Keanu Reeves' character 'Neo' is presented with a choice of pills to ingest; a red pill or a blue pill. Each is a metaphor - taking the blue pill will allow Neo to continue to live a cosy, comfortable lie. Taking the red pill will allow him to wake up to the truth.
The band's live show 'has to be seen to be believed' according to Rebecca Atkinson of Leeds Music Scene and has been described as 'refreshingly bonkers' and 'bracing stuff.' Major Layoff describes this as coming from 'wanting to involve people in having a good time. I've seen so many bands just turn up and play without putting on a show. If you're in the audience, how do you connect with that?'
In order to work out what they wanted to play and to learn about the recording process, The Red Pills released 3 EPs - 'Awakening', 'Bigger on the Inside' and 'Missiles'. Now armed with experience, the lads are working on their first album; an episodic concept album that tells a personal story set in the theatre of the world financial crisis.
Captain Mayhem on the album: "We've been working on it since mid-2009 but it's still unfinished, although as each month passes we get a little bit closer. Lyrics come and go and are changed during ruthless editing, entire songs are relegated to B sides when we find something new that's really cool. One song has two different tunes and two different melodies - we haven't decided which one to use yet. But hey, it's a labour of love and we knew it wasn't going to be easy. If you believe in something, you keep going."
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We Are:
Tom 'Captain Mayhem' Hey
Nick 'Major Layoff' Shakhlevich
Sean 'Colonel D.Bugger' Craven
Jimmy 'General Ignorance' G
**DISCOGRAPHY**
Missiles EP - February 2010
Bigger On The Inside EP - November 2009
Awakening EP - March 2009