Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Sonic Youth, The Velvet Underground, Joy Division, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Talk Talk, Talking Heads, Gang of Four, The Fall, The Jesus and Mary Chain, early Manic Street Preachers, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Nirvana, The Ramones, The Dead Boys, Buzzcocks, Smashing Pumpkins, The Stone Roses, The Who, PJ Harvey, XTRMNTR-era Primal Scream, Big Star, Mogwai, early Verve, Spiritualized and Spacemen 3, My Bloody Valentine, Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Black Keys, Queens of the Stone Age, British Sea Power, Fugazi, Slint, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Television, Jeff Buckley, The Cribs, The Bradley Band, The Decemberists, The Black Angels, Maximo Park ...
Sounds Like
'A warm jacuzzi of sound' (Anonymous)
'Like supping on a bunsen burner' (Antony Rowland)
'A bit pretentious' (Badly Drawn Boy)
Covert footage of our first ever gig at the Crescent, Salford:
"If you rub the edges off music you really take away the music itself. The music is in the edges, it's in the rough bits. If you smooth it over there's really nothing left. You've got lots of notes left, but there's no music."
(Richard Thompson)
"Theft is the holy act
On a twisted path to expression"
(Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis)
"Rock 'n' roll = nothing/ everything"
(Ian Svenonius, The Psychic Soviet)
COMMUNICATION
You can "email" us at rising44@hotmail.com or you can send us a message on myspace.
Please join our "Facebook" group, Rising 44, if you want to be mithered with updates on upcoming "gigs" etc via the "internet".
We're pleased to announce that our XFM SESSION on PETE MITCHELL'S RAZOR CUTS will be broadcast this Sunday - Dec 6th between 10pm and Midnight (UK Time)
Its on air nationally in the UK so you can tune into your local XFM dial or listen online at http://www.xfm.co.uk if abroad
For those who can't wait till then there's a preview vid on our myspace of our time at XFM....
*** THE MANDIGANS ARE COMING BACK HOME - 20TH OCTOBER - MANCHESTER DRY BAR ***
We've spent the past few months away from Manchester gigging around the UK while writing our new album
You can hear all these songs in MANCHESTER at Dry Bar on 20th Oct - get tickets online from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/59016 or message the lads on myspace for them
*** NEW PHOTOS AND MYSPACE LAYOUT - CHECK IT OUT ***
Also check out the new photos on myspace and comment them so we know which you think are the best - they've been done by Karen McBride, the photographer behind iconic images of Liam Gallagher, The Ting Tings and Robbie Williams
We just thought we'd just drop you a heads up about some of the stuff we've been blogging about at IndieLab this month, hope you enjoy it. Keep us in touch with what your up to....
We're currently previewing some of our debut album on our page at the moment. Please drop in, have a listen and be sure to throw your opinions our way too!!
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