Bill Taylor (bass guitar/vocals); POSITION AVAILABLE (electric guitar/vocals) Jason Salvin (drums/percussion); Nick Watts (piano/organ/keyboards); Daniel McGlade (lead vocals/acoustic guitar); Ivan Mack (percussion/samples/vocals); Claire Gibbons (vocals); Sarah Niven (vocals); Lisa Mallaghan (vocals); Lucy Hind (vocals)
Influences
Early Queen, Bolan, Bowie, Muse, Placebo, Velvet Goldmine, Withnail & I, The Buddha of Suburbia, Lenny Kravitz, Jellyfish
Sounds Like
"A fabulous mash-up of high art and trash culture. The Sparks meet Supertramp played by My Life Story...epic kitchen sink sleazy glamour" (Rob Chapman, The HiFi Club, Leeds, 2004); "Like a three-way train crash between the Rocky Horror show, the Scissor Sisters and the Divine Comedy and bugger me if it isn't the most entertaining gig I have seen...The songs are wonderfully enjoyable, brilliantly performed and enticingly camp...There is nobody who entertains like Rent. I implore you to go and see them." (Stu Hudson, leedsmusicscene.net, 2005).
Delicate, dangerous and disgraceful...fusing lush, glamorous anthems with dark, decadent themes, and blessed with a lavish sense of theatre, Rent never leave the stage without delivering anything less than a full-blown show, a shameless musical romp through tenements and tea parties, mansions and maisonettes, palaces and portaloos...where broken hearts are mended by the degenerate and the damned.
We have 2 ace gigs coming up this weekend in Bradford. One at The Love Apple on friday and a 16+ gig at The New Beehive on Saturday. Also, check our profile for details on our upcoming BROMHEADS JACKET gig. Hopefully seeya down.
We are proud to be currently working alongside BAM (Bradford acoustic music), a new goverment initiative trying to promote musical talent in Bradford. BAM offer advise and help to up and coming bands and solo artists. They are currently helping two of Bradfords most promising up and coming bands get signed.
If you would like to be involved, please come down to one of our Live @ The Lounge acoustic and open mic nights commencing on the Wednesday 14th November and running every wednesday. Calling all have a go heroes... All welcome!
Come and support the Trouble at 'Mill night at The Burley Liberal Club this Saturday night which will include live music and DJ sets. Proceeds are kindly being donated to Cloth Cat so massive thanks from us for their help. It's £3 in on the door and open til late
Fantastic gig again tonight guys. You just keep getting better an better!
Thanks for the badge! It's been attached to my jacket from the very second you gave it to me. Well not the very second, but you get the idea!
Hi, thanks for adding me.
I know I may just be a crazy monkey hand-puppet, with a trilby and an obsession with bananas, but the 4 gals who help me with my page-thingy here also really love your music, and we can't wait to see you live at some point in the (hopefully) near future.
Hey thankx for the add and also the message...a band which communicates with its fans through myspace rather then just accumulating them, lush! Love Buffy its such an ace song!! Love,
i like the bit in the song where you talk about stuff.
No but seriously, it's quite a refreshing look on christmas i must say!
You won't see Noddy Holder singing that! To tell you the truth Noddy's a bit too ugly to be singing about that sort of thing. UNLIKE YOU QUITE ATTRACTIVE LOT!!!
Can't wait to see you live again. It's possible one of the most funky chunks of experience i've had in my short life. HUZZAH AND A MERRY, MERRY CHRISTMAS
Hey you guys and gals come and check out the new album Virtual Vera by Leigh Stothard - Eargoggles. Available on iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, Emusic, Sony Connect and Musicnet. Download some tracks I think you may recognise the odd guest on there.....maybe
hey ya! seems an age since i last saw yas in action - my totally packed social calander has oft prevented me from doing so - got any gigs planned? this message was brought to you with the letters b, e and the number 12.
oh when oh when will ps... be released? I want to shower you with money, but only for the exchange of the product which may or may not be contained on a compact disc.
Hello Dan and the rest of the rent collectors. I remember having the first comment on the original Rent site many moons ago. Having check out your songs i must say that the band is maturing very nicely indeed. I love the introductory vocal refrain to your Taxi song. Her ladyship sends her love and fondest regards..........duffy ...not tin tin, the other one..........
