Sam Huxley- Singer. Guitar.
Anthony Lander - Bass extraordinaire.
Stu Harwood - Drums and ting.
Influences
In no particular order:
My Bloody valentine, Radiohead, Interpol, Pixies, Wire, Sonic Youth, Elliott Smith, Jeff Buckley, The Smiths, The Walkmen, Big Star, The Beatles, Love, Velvet Underground, Beck, Blur, Oasis, The Stone Roses, The Jesus and Mary Chain.
Playing the guitar, writing songs, and singing is what Sam does most. After toying with the idea of a band, Sam has decided to go it alone. Or, more importantly, he has got a new band, can't think of a new name and decides that he'll take all the glory.
Sam's agenda is to get rid of the likes of fashionistas that parade around on Shockwaves advertising boards and bands 'whose success is measured in column inches in NME, and what clothes they happen to be wearing in that article.......death to pre ripped jeans, and posers that can't play guitar. that isn't rock 'n' roll'
armed with an electric guitar, and an acoustic guitar that has seen better days Sam has played various venues round the West Midlands, including several prestigious dates at the Carling bar academy in Birmingham with hotly tipped artists such as Cathy Davey, Kubb, Surferosa, Special Needs, The Rocks, The Decemberists and a surreal gig supporting JimBob from Carter USM.
Now living in London and playing numerous gigs in the capital, Sam is going from strength to strength, impressing numerous people along the way, allowing for more people down the front at triumphant gigs.
Skeletons + Simon Finn + The Resurrection Men Saturday 14th March
As a co-founding member of Shinkoyo records, Matt Mehlan retains the label’s core ideals of collaboration, experimentation, and unpredictability with his Skeletons project. Beginning in Oberlin, Ohio as a solo act with help from an eclectic cast of collaborators (classically-trained trombonists, punk rock drummers, a junkyard boy’s choir), Skeletons has now settled comfortably into its adult body, having established the full-time band The Girl-Faced Boys (Seve, Johnny, Jason, and Carson) and forming an alliance with Ghostly. In addition to appearances at the 2004 CMJ and 2005 SxSW festivals, the group has lent live support to TV On The Radio, The Unicorns, VHS Or Beta, Animal Collective, Holger Czukay (of Can), Jackie O’ Motherfucker, and Twig Harper. A major US tour is planned for summer following the release of the LP Git.
alright sam and band, well done last night, if you get time- read our blog, we've some sad news to report that might be of interest to you, take care and all the best with the gigs, ste
Saturday 20th September 3pm - 2am Taylor John's House ~ Canal Basin Coventry ~ CV1 4LY
£9 DAY ticket into ALL VENUES for ALL WEEKEND or £7 limited door ticket for Sonic Boom!
ANDY VOTEL is worldwide known electronic musician, producer and co-founder of Twisted Nerve Records and 'B Music'. Residing in Manchester this extraordinary musically minded man has been at the forefront of the DJ remix scene with releases since 1996. As part of his summer and autumn festival tour 2008, ATAM welcomes Votel to Coventry as he performs a DJ set dedicated to our own electronic legend Delia Derbyshire, composed especially for A Thing About Machines.
"Buys old records - makes new records. Teacher - triple label boss - graphic designer - acid-volk collector - microphone tormenter - bad-ass foreign psych DJ - snappy dresser." (Fat City Records)
"Everyone's favourite crown prince of psychedelic excess" (Boomkat)
Hi To All Hitting you with some great News !!! Newsound Records are again putting out combo cd's from easy listening to punk, which will all go on sale on all major download sites, so if you have a track that you would like to add to one of those cd's then go to our page for more Info, From signed artists to the unsigned and unsure you are all welcome to have a crack at the whip of getting your music out there All the best Newsound Records
<KateGoes To The Teen Age; + Voluntary Butler Scheme, Tokyo Storm Warning + The Dead Fish
with records being played by Grandmaster Gareth and Teenage Projections from FilmFicciones.
THURSDAY 3rd APRIL
at the HARE AND HOUNDS BIRMINGHAM Kings Heath High Street, B14 7JZ
8pm - midnight £4adv/£5 door
Dress up as a teenager from any era. punks, hippies, teddy boys, goths, ravers, mods, rockers, bugsy malone, frenchie, the fonz, 80's kids, bboys, harry potter, any teenager etc
Best Costume wins a NEW KateGoes CD "Happy Dancing" exclusively available at FOPP music stores.
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