Aimee: Guitar/Backing Vocals. At least she isn't ripping riffs off Radiohead.
Ella: Singer/Piano Man. She couldn't rip off anyone's music, even if she tried.
HOW IMMENSELY TALENTED.
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Bomb the Music Industry! Black Flag, Morrison's, "Mr Anderson doesn't hate you. He looks out for you. He just thinks you should set yourself on fire...." - Mr. Willis, Making Out With A Stranger, Subway, Defiance, Ohio! The Descendants, The Distractions, Rise Against (WE GOT BEEF), Dig me now, fuck me later, Dead Kennedys, DIY Punk Soldiaz, jOpLiN and his Niggash, de Worms, Stoke Newington council, GOLD, The Challenge of the Cross, MORRISSEY! National Front Discos and boys with thorns in their sides, David Bowie, Big D and the Kids Table, Obscure Swedish bands, never, ever, ever saying Finnish, Joy Division not being cheesy, Gorilla Biscuits, Cyber-Shoegaze (Aimee) Dire Straits piano (Ella) People who steal riffs off Radiohead.
OH, AND THE MAYOR OF TURNPIKE LANE! BRAAAAAAAAAP!
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In the words of Against Me!... "Ya'll don't wanna step to dis."
As Allah once famously quoted David Bowie in the Bible, "Ashes to ashes, funk to funky." Showbeers! is an uncompromising new band that has risen from the dust, ashes and most importantly the funk of Lawrence & the Binmen. Joining a long list of bands with ! in the name such as Against Me! and Bomb the Music Industry! Demented Are Go! Hadouken! I Object! iForward Russia! and Panic! At The Disco (ermmmmmm) Showbeers! is one of the most promising new DIY Punk bands to ever hit Stoke Newington.
We should start from the beginning. "Rumours of our demise have been greatly exaggerated." Famous last words of Lawrence & the Binmen- although a smash success initially, they run into financial difficulty mid-1985. Despite the fact that living off one shared can of baked beans a week in the secret basement of Gladesmore gave them fantastic figures and luminous alabaster skin, it unfortunately also caused massive amounts tension. Their song writing suffered after they realised they'd never actually written their own songs and had subconsciously stolen them all of NWA and P "Somalia" Diddy.
The first to break under the pressure was Ella, around the beginning of 1997, when the band had only been together 3 years. After one particularly horrific philosophy lesson without her muse Ceren, Ella went on a ker-azy binge in Morrison's, smashing everything in sight and offending several white people near the bakery with her hoodrat credentials. Ella was eventually caught by the Pigs after attempting to run out of the 'entrance' door and knocking herself unconscious. The band decided it was time to take a break and Ella went to live in Turkey for a few months to dedicate herself to tin plane production, a hobby she took up in the '70s while the band were on their first world tour. While in Turkey Ella was joined by Jonneh who was taking time out from his band to recover after being attacked by a jilted ex-drummer, this made the time in Turkey interesting for a year until Jonneh was forced to go back and rejoin his band for voting purposes (Jonneh was not allowed to vote for his beloved Tory party while living in a vaguely Muslim land.)
Ella's shocking descent off the rails took its toll on Lawrence and Aimee. Lawrence attempted to distance himself from the controversy of the Morrison's incident by gaining dodgy immigration papers from the Israeli government, a favour rumoured to be from Prime Minister Ehud Olmert personally. Lawrence claimed he was in Israel at the time and could not have prevented it, although recent evidence suggests he was actually in Green Lanes buying crack tomatoes. This has yet to be verified and the police investigation is ongoing. Since the break up in November 1066, Lawrence has kept out of the limelight, preferring to play occasional low key gigs of his previous solo work in Cardiff bars to pay the rent and has since appeared on 'How Clean is Your House?' and 'Cash in the Attic.'
After Lawrence was forced to expose his relationship with the Israeli government, it was only a matter of time before Lawrence & the Binmen would end. Aimee, well known as an ex-Mossad agent, had tried her whole musical life to get over her treatment by the organisation and win justice after they underpaid her by a whole £1 in her last wage. While the band had previously projected an image of solidarity behind her cause, for example 1942's 'Rock Against Interest Rates' charity album was heavily promoted by Ella and Lawrence and on several occasions they worked with the Communist Party to organise a series of marches over Mossad's union-busting tactics. Aimee was too distraught to overcome this perceived betrayal and not only left the band but took Lawrence's right hand with her. After leaving the band Aimee moved to Chigwell to try and make a living painting and selling Morrissey portraits. Although blatantly a talented artist, her paintings did not sell well, and Aimee realised there was only one place for her in the world: in a really nang band. Aimee decided she needed to raise money to go to Turkey and sold her most prized possession: an ironing board signed by the Distractions. It sold for £463539276 on eBay. Sadly the eBay fees meant she only got enough for the ticket and an airport sandwich but it was a good sandwich which is all that matters in the end really. Upon arriving in Turkey she was reminded of the time she spent in a Turkish Concentration Camp, where she met Ella. Aimee got the short bus out into the sticks to Ella's shanty shack. The emotional reunion was captured by the paparazzi (below.)
Both Ella and Aimee realised they had reached their creative limit outside of music and decided it was time they returned to England. With a vow to create fresher, more interesting and varied music and to represent their brethren in that big space between N16 and N22, Aimee and Ella left NWA, Lawrence's hand and their passports in Turkey and flew off in one of Ella's expertly crafted tin planes (SALE NOW ON!) to work on their blossoming new musical project.
"They've lost control again." - Ian Curtis
"Tell Your Teachers You're Talking To A Naked Person On MSN" COMING SOON!
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'Talentless yet incredibly Stalinist' I think that would be a good one, hahah, but it MIGHT send out the wrong messages to people ;]. I had another idea as well, a picture of some yuppie flats and then HOW COULD HELL BE ANY WORSE?! (Jacked off Bad Religion).
I know, we really do. Yeah, I thought of some sticker ideas. There's the one I've already told you, YOUR MUM WORKS FOR FOXTONS, then I also thought FILTHY BABY-EATING ANARCHISTS HAVE COME TO CORRUPT YOUR CHILDREN! (but I don't think that will fit on a sticker...), GENTRIFICATION KILLED MY AUTISTIC SON, I still think that YUPPIES TO AUSCHWITZ has potential.
OMG there were the funniest people on front of me on the bus the other day. One of them was like 'People think dat jammin' in the hood is just fun, yeah? But it's serious buiznezz, you gotta get your moneyz up and get your face known!' And Ellie had to try and stop me from laughing and getting us shanked.
Yes :D Just found out the support bands for Big D. The Steal (good), Weapons of Grass Destruction (no idea, I thought it was an album by someone I can't remember) andddd HOT ROCKET TRIO! LOLOLOL PSYCHOBILLY! LOLOLOLOL111 They were going to film the zombie walk for their video, that's why I know them. (h) Psychobilly!
