Me: vocals and guitar
Alex "Billy Notes" Wilkins: guitar
Sam Tarbuck: bass
Sean Talbot: drums
Influences
Mark Mothersbaugh, Low, Jon Brion, Talk Talk, Pat Metheny, Cats Power and Stevens, Elliott Smith, Jim O'Rourke, John Fahey, Leo Kottke, Yo La Tengo, Brian Wilson, Mark Kozelek, Wilco, Carole King, Frank Zappa, Soundgarden, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Mice Parade, Bill Frisell, Broadcast, Will Oldham, Gravenhurst, Carl Newman, Ned Oldham, Bob Dylan, Cara Dillon, Calexico, Keith Jarrett, Ash, Rose Kemp, The Beatles, Bert Jansch, Ben Folds, Neutral Milk Hotel, Tom Waits, Blur, Davey Graham, Brad Mehldau, Laura Veirs, Television, Serge Gainsbourg, MF DOOM, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band, The Magic Band, Van Morrison, The Kinks, Crowded House, Davids Bowie, Byrne, Darling, Pajo, Grubbs and (I'm not ashamed) Gray, Nico, Neko Case, the Wainwrights, Eric Matthews, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Richard Thompson, Jackson C. Frank, Manic Street Preachers, Gillian Welch, Joanna Newsom, Kates Bush and Rusby, John Renbourn, Derren Brown, The Roches, Paul Simon, Nirvana, The Magnetic Fields, Dave Collingwood and Simon Grant
Outer Dark, the new album from The Allender Band is released on 16 March, 2009. Pre-order it now from the Dreamboat Records website.
In the Grip of Light, an EP from The Allender Band was released on Dreamboat Records on May 26, 2008! Buy it now from the Dreamboat Records website or from iTunes. Tracks from the EP have been played by Gideon Coe, Steve Lamacq and Radcliffe and Maconie on BBC 6 Music and BBC Radio 2. The Allender Band were recently interviewed as 'Featured Artist' on Steve Lamacq's BBC Radio 2 show.
Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2
A really interesting sound […] Allender is an extraordinary guitar player.
Steve Lamacq, BBC Radio 2
Just gorgeous.
Cosmo Lee, Stylus
[The Bird and the Word] evokes both English folk traditionalists Fairport Convention and electric revisionists Steeleye Span. [...] Though Allender's wordplay is sharp, his picking is sharper; it has the immaculate detail of Nick Drake's.
Julian Owen, Venue (Bristol)
With his forthcoming long player he’s already reached a level that the majority of singer-songwriters could spend a lifetime approaching but never truly nearing.
Amy Granzin, Shake Your Fist
One of the best young guitar stylists working in Britain today.
Nightshift (Oxford)
Bristol lad Robin Allender may have a tender voice but it really is only accompaniment to the real show stealer here — his ability with an electric guitar. Mellow, soothing and technically dazzling, Robin wows a packed audience whose deathly silence gives due credit to the set's wonderful ambiance.
Welcome to my MySpace space. My name is Robin Allender. I am a Bristol-based singer, guitarist and songwriter.
I played in the band Azalea City Penis Club with Simon Grant and Dave Collingwood (former drummer with Gravenhurst of Warp Records). This band is still theoretically in existence, although Simon is currently in Manchester training to be a doctor. In December 2004, Simon lent me his four-track and I started writing and recording some quieter more acoustic-based songs. You can download these songs here. I enjoyed playing the songs so I started doing a few open mic evenings around Bristol. My first solo performance was at a pub called The Full Moon and they didn't have a PA. It was a baptism of fire alright. Around this time my friend Michael Williams and I decided to set up a record label to promote my music, as well as that of the Penis Club, and Leeds-based remixer and producer The Rollercoaster Project. Dreamboat Records was born.
In the summer of 2006 I began recording my debut album, The Bird and the Word, with Simon. This was released via Dreamboat on July 9, 2007.
In late 2006 I assembled a band to accompany me live and in the studio. This band features Alex Wilkins on guitar and Sam Tarbuck on bass. Dave played drums for us, but left the band in 2008, to be replaced by Sean Talbot. We played our first gig together in January 2007 and have since been playing regularly in Bristol and London. The Allender Band has recorded an EP, In the Grip of Light (released on May 26, 2008), and an album, Outer Dark (released on March 16, 2009). Tracks from both the EP and the album have been played on BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music by Gideon Coe, Steve Lamacq and Mark Radcliffe & Stuart Maconie.
From early 2007 to mid-2008 I played bass and keyboards for Gravenhurst. Since April 2009 I have been playing guitar with Yann Tiersen. This has involved touring the US, the UK and China. Keep an eye on Yann's MySpace for tourdates.
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Well I saw about half of Dizzee Rascal's set then had to move off to see something else. I thought he was great. I must catch the whole set on TV, if it's there.
Good to catch up with you at Glastonbury. The mighty Tap rock!
We’re playing "Green Wound" and plugging your upcoming Croft gig on BBC Radio Bristol Introducing this Saturday morning between 1-4am (repeated on Sunday 1-4am). Hear it “live” or online on the i-Player anytime in the 7 days after broadcast, there’s a link on our myspace profile.
hey y'all come and check these guys out from baltimore. way to get loose on a friday night! + i play alone but still bring the dirt pop glistening with noise sprinkles x A
Fresh from their show at Barcelona's Primavera festival, Teeth Mountain will be unleash their heavy concoction of new-wave tribal psychedelic sounds on Cube, using driving percussion like other bands use guitars.
Deep, thick layers of rhythms and overlays of ambiance, from the gritty to the sublime, this eight-piece outfit create a controlled mayhem of weighty neo-tribal trance music, part Indian, part African, part Balkan, and part Baltimore, that transforms consciousness and carries the group and their listeners to higher states.
The Wire magazine recently praised their 'refusal to acknowledge any kind of destination point for their jamming, achieving a convincing state of suspension throughout, helped by some engagingly forceful drumming.'
Teeth Mountain pummel with noise and drums but are always inviting and joyous, a new wave of tribal sounds in underground music. Be prepared to witness a heady, peyote-voodoo brew, getting you out of your seats and on your feet. Teeth Mountain will enthrall you in a rhythmic, musical spell.
"I don't know what god or gods you all are praying to but you're praying too fucking loud" Boston Police Department
Hey! Appologies if this is the second comment we've sent you recently...bit of a mix up in the bands communication :)
Anyway.. we've been a little quiet for the last few months but we are very pleased to announce our new EP is finished and up on our myspace! It's called Bright Lights and has four brand spanking new tracks to blow your mind. Please have a listen and tell us what you think and if you love it, buy it! :)
MONDAY 18TH OF MAY (POST ATP WEEKEND REJUVENATION EXPERIENCE)
Icy Demons is an experimental music project started by Bablicon's Griffin Rodriguez (credited as Blue Hawaii) and Man Man / Need New Body's Christopher Powell (Pow Pow). A project of various Chicago musicians, they have released three albums, Fight Back! on the Elephant 6-associated label Cloud Recordings. Tears of a Clone on the Eastern Developments Music, and in 2007 Miami Ice on Easel (Japan release only).
First release on Oxeyedaisy Recordings, in association with Grumpyman Records…
5 track CDEP, Green Leaves & Bare Branches, by Little Scratch. Limited edition run, with hand finished sleeves. Tracks can be previewed on Little Scratch’s myspace page.
“A rare sighting of the excellent Little Scratch, who produce a wonderful, slightly hazy pastoral sound… Psychedelic whimsy with distinctly melancholic overtones”.
Hi Thanks for being our friend Do you love George Michael? Love Heavy Load (To find out about the movie about us please see www. heavyloadthemovie. com )
FRI 20TH FEB - LOS CONIOS & MATT BEATPUNK & THE CLUB NIGHT. Body: FRI 20TH FEB - LOS CONIOS & MATT BEATPUNK
LOS CONIOS - Fantastic ’HIGH OCTANE’ performers make their Gimme Shelter! debut! www.myspace. comlosconios
MATT BEATPUNK - Solo set from the BEATPUNK frontman.
With the Gimme Shelter! club night , John The Mod and guests spinning 60’s Garage & Psych, Northern Soul, Freakbeat, Punk, Rock & Roll and Go Go! against a backdrop of vintage lights, films and projections.
www.myspace. com/gimmeshelterclubbristol
Takes place Upstairs@ The Hatchet, Frogmore St, Bristol 9.30pm-2.00am, Entry £3/£4(last entry 1. 00am)
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