2009: William - drums
Christine - bass + vocals
Tim - guitar + vocals
2007-08: William, Christine, William, Tim, Amity, Aileen. Mark Thornton, via the internet.
Influences
Audience Quotes: "a Flying Nun band when loud and a K Records band when quiet" "Sonic Youth meets The White Stripes" "early 90s sub-pop"
The Wedding Present, My Bloody Valentine, Lush, Joy Division, The Pixies, Sonic Youth, Ride, Dinosaur Jr, Jesus and Mary Chain, Chapterhouse, The Chills, Unrest, Teenage Fanclub, T-Rex, Minutemen, The Swirlies, The Clash
the full moon bridges that sing
Sounds Like
A daydream...a nightmare..and everything in between.
Singing Bridges is loud. Singing Bridges is quiet. Fuzzed out guitars and solid rhythms create a familiar sound balancing feelings of dark heaviness with hopeful light. Singing Bridges manages to encompass influences including Joy Division, The Wedding Present, Sonic Youth, The Pixies.
We call Connecticut home - the “in-between state” that most people speed through on I-95. Our songs are hopes and fears of tenuous life. New England’s abandoned factories and pollution remind us of an idyllic past of plenty – boom times when war meant production, prosperity. Drive just a few minutes off the Interstate and see a beautiful forest, nature continues to press on, no matter what humans decide.
Singing Bridges echoes this push and pull. Our namesake is a balance between man and nature – steel grate deck and suspension bridges ease the flow of more and more people, but this design can also sing for us. Steel suspension cables, designed to be flexible and to adapt with nature, sway with the wind, eventually singing a symphony of harmonic noise.
With enough equipment for a few extra people, Singing Bridges piles on the amps for a big sound from a trio of guitar, bass and drums.
GOSH, THIS MUSIC IS JUST KILLING ME. I LOVE IT - KRAMER
Some reviews from our first EP, "Sunny Day, Rainy Day": @ Indie mp3
The band features William and Christine - the people who run the Skipping Stones Records label and who organise the annual Popfest now into it's 5th year. The Sunny Day Rainy Day EP is their début release.
The overall impression of the EP is that this is how The Breeders would sound if they played lo-fi indie pop. It's very harmonic and the shared female vocals, reminiscent of the Deal sisters, gives it a very strong focal point. As for the production you take the rough with the smooth here but I like the coarse sound of the recordings especially on the stand out track On Y Va which is sung entirely in French. At other points in the EP you hear traces of shoegaze, folk and echoes of long forgotten bands all which hopefully point towards the promise and expectation of greater things from the band. Pennyblack Music
If you're a true romantic, this harmony-drenched,breezily strummed four-song confection will have you smiling as you picture a young Brigitte Bardot freewheeling down a sun-dappled French country lane on her bicycle, blonde locks billowing out behind her.
The heartless misery guts, however, will envision a drippy trainee infant school teacher, staring out of her bedsit window and still yearning over a boyfriend who dumped her three years ago.
We laugh in the face of cynicism, so we're demanding you go for the the former. In between wondering, that is, what mood stabilisers a band needs to be on to make their happy tunes sound so pleasingly wistful and the sad stuff so candyfloss sweet? And can you get them on the internet ?
Hi there! We've got a new EP that we're especially proud of called Summer which is the second in our series of seasonal EPs this year. We'd love for you to listen to the EP online, and to do so, just click on the graphic below. If you like what you hear, we'd be very grateful if you'd support our efforts by buying the EP for €2.50 (around $3.20).
Hope all is going great for you. Thanks for being our friend!
thanx 4 the add,,,u rock,,,,,,im celebrating 2nite ive been dating the same woman for a year,,,everyone is happy for me,,,well not every one,,my husband is pissed...haha
WHAT!!!!!! I checked out this page, saw we're playing together and then clicked on pics....OH MY WORD! Why didn't you say something you sneaky mcsneaks! It will be so nice to see you again William and Christine! ha! ha! see you soon!
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