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  • Genre: Alternative / Indie / Psychedelic

    Location Middlesbrough, Northeast, UK

    Profile Views: 35630

    Last Login: 7/22/2011

    Member Since 1/4/2006

    Record Label Our Mam's Records

  • Bio

    New split single with The Bent Moustache from Netherlands - 7" vinyl old school - Shrug's contribution is a brand new recording, "Hood Street Gyratory" - TBM is "Mind Your Language Cock" - .. Costs £4.99 from Rough Trade, Piccadilly Records and hopefully all Independent Record stores of which there aren't exactly hods left so best support them. .. .. .... ..ALSO you can buy from us .."Shrug In A Quango" OUT NOW............Tracklisting:....1.Doggerland (Thrilled Skinny)..2.Last Train From Station Town..3.Wheres Stevie Gone?..4.Magic Ket!..5.Quango Fandango....Buy now for £4 (inc P&P); .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Shrug were formed by Robert Nichols, Richard Pink and sometimes Robert March in the summer of 1985 or thereabouts. October 2005 was the 20th anniversary of our first ever gig, upstairs at The Albert, Middlesbrough. We celebrated that 20th birthday week with a support slot for The Fall (lifetime ambition) and a headline gig for John Peel Day in Stockton's Georgian Theatre. Some week. .. We started out with no drummers, then co-opted a drum machine which wouldn't keep time! We being Kev Wall, Richard and Rob Nichols. Sarah O'Brien soon played keyboards for us. Eventually we bit the bullet and brought in some percussion, double trouble, with future Space Raider Gary Bradford and Richie O'Brien. .. We released an EP Nevil Wanless in 1988 - and album Septober Octember Nowonder a year later, rushing it out for a German tour - which included a gig in East Berlin and featured 3 drummers, Weg Hornby at 6ft 7" the tallest of our drummers. Carl Sims and earlier Michael "Monk" Sanderson also plied the sticks. Carl sticking (bad joke!) around till 1999. .. It's as a live band that most people know us. Whether it was for the 3 drummers drumming. Or me haring around the stage in loads of stupid costumes and masks or just that dynamic orange 60s organ. Oh and there's always the horses head! .. There were several more singles, Beardo Weirdo, Building Society and (Return) Mission From Todd and tours abroad in Holland, France, Belgium. A high speed van crash. Not good. Tours with Sebadoh and The Ex. TV appearances, and all sorts of stuff. Richard left, replaced by Dale and then Nathan. And the drummers eventually worked their way back down to one. .. We gradually wound down and Kevin grew older. No I'm lying the rest of us grew older, Kevin has a picture in the attic. Then in 2005 we got invited back, Richard rejoined and now we're back with plans for gigs and who knows recordings etc. Should be fun. .. We are featured in a new book and Cd out on Cherry Red called DEATH TO TRAD ROCK. The book is by brother John Robb and talks about the post post punk scene of the mid-80s. The compilation includes Van With Square Wheels along with contributions by The Ex, Membranes, Dog Faced Hermans - many bands we used to play with or promote in Middlesbrough and some we didn't. .. You can see a couple of very old interviews with us and a couple of tv appearances from about 18 years ago!! Type in "Crackpan" and "Shrug" on Youtube .. ..Beardo Weirdo Live @ The Hat Factory, Luton 2007.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..Donna And The Daleks (Tyne Tees 1989).. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..Sir Walter Raleigh's Fast Food Takeover (BBC 1989).. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..Egg And Chips Promo Video.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..Through The Iron Curtain - Look North - Jan 1990.. .. .. .. .. .. .. ...... .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
  • Members

    Rob Shrug - vocals .. Richard Pink - gtr .. Oli Heffernan - token youth gtr .. Kevin Wall - grumbling bass .. Richard O'Brien - drums .. Sarah O'Brien - keys .. (Nathan Stephenson - (in panto) .. (Ben Muriel - Occasional percussion - occasionally)
  • Influences

    The Fall for me. But lots of punk and post punk bands. Super Furry Animals, Swell Maps, The Nightingales, Marc Riley (and the Creepers), Thrilled Skinny, Gang of Four, Punishment of Luxury, The Damned, Joy Divison/New Order, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Ajay - Donkey/Bent Moustache, The Flaps, The Three Johns, Junior Elvis, Velvet Underground, The Stranglers, Half Man Half Biscuit, No Means No, The Ex, Wat Tyler, Sebadoh, The Membranes, Alice Donut, Thatcher on Acid, Dan, Chumbawamba especially for their dancing! Wilko Johnson, Sensational Alex Harvey Band. To be honest you drink it all in and hopefully spill out something fairly original and suitably worthwhile.
  • Sounds Like

    I don't know. Early Fall gone wrong. There's some Half Man Half Biscuit lunacy and word play in there as well. Inspiral carpet keyboard swirl. We take the anti love song and no guitar solo punk ethos and make a career out of it. We'd like to think people would SHRUG their shoulders here. But then again we would wouldn't we?

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  • Dara M. Cooper

    Hey!i love you music


    1 year ago
  • Dara M. Cooper


    Hey,how are u?

    1 year ago
  • Dara M. Cooper



    Hello,how are u?

    1 year ago
  • Kenyatta T. Clark


    Hello,How do you do?

    1 year ago
  • Dara M. Cooper



    Hello,how are you?

    1 year ago
  • Kenyatta T. Clark


    Hello,thanks add!

    1 year ago
  • Bitcruncher Media

    START SELLING YOUR OWN MERCH AT GIGS!!!


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    1 year ago
  • The Standards

    Thanks for having us Rob & Co.
    Hope all's swell
    XxX

    1 year ago
  • hey-Ø-hansen

    hey-Ø-hansen 
    next time 
    LIVE
    3000°festival
    sa.14.8. 22uhr
    see U there
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    1 year ago
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