AND SO I WATCH YOU FROM AFAR: Don't Waste Time Doing Things You Hate (Smalltown America)
ROBOTS IN DISGUISE: The Tears
HANDSOMEBOY TECHNIQUE: Magnificent Mass BUY IT HERE!
OPPENHEIMER: Breakfast in NYC
FORWARD RUSSIA: Thirteen
CLONE QUARTET: Carousel "...all insatiable scratching and woozy beats providing the balm needed to soothe our savaged senses."ATL, BBC Radio Ulster "...a suitable comedown from the fury of the single."NoClarity.co.uk
SKIBUNNY - THE BAND / THE DJs / THE AWESOME PARTIES!
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For anything else email djs@skibunnyclub.co.uk
From John Peel faves to globe trotting DJs turned prolific remixers, SKIBUNNY’s Mark & Tanya have come full circle and now present their live band. With one eye on tunes and one on the dancefloor, the music is dark electronic pop with an uplifting heart, sitting somewhere between Joy Division, Fourtet and The Cure. As DJs, Skibunny have toured across Japan, Europe & UK and appeared at festivals like Glastonbury (Dance East), Oxegyn (MTV stage), T In The Park and Rockness.
As a live band, they’ve played alongside bands such as Holy F**K, Bonde Do Role and David Holmes (Tanya contributes vocals to 2 tracks on his recent LP The Holy Pictures) and they've released two sold out 7” singles.
As producers, they’ve remixed people like Tilly and the Wall, Forward Russia and Robots in Disguise and as promoters they have been responsible for the debut Belfast shows for bands like The Go! Team, James Yuill, & Kidda. All this has led to the NME calling them "Belfast's no.1 remixers, promoters and commotion causers, they do something pretty special to the crowd" NME (sept08)
In March 2009, Skibunny showcased at Canadian Music Week in Toronto, and were picked by the Toronto Independent Music Awards as one of the “must-see” bands of the festival. At SXSW in Austin, Texas, they played a massive 6 shows, yet still finding time for Tanya to do a bit of singing on stage with LA band The Mae Shi! Back in the UK, they played to a capacity crowd at The Camden Crawl, with Radio 1’s Huw Stephens twittering like mad about their performance.
As well as working on the debut LP, Skibunny continue remixing away and are included on new releases by Dag For Dag (Saddle Creek) and ASIWYFA (Smalltown America). Stay tuned for a full summer menu of festival appearances!
PRESS BBC Radio 1 Introducing with Huw Stephens For the second hot day of hot music busy-ness, I start with Northern Ireland's Skibunny; promoters, remixers, dj's and a mighty fine band. They make a kind of disco-shoegaze sound, exhubarant and exploding into feisty tunes that sound good. Later, General Fiasco and Fighting with Wire will play, showcasing the wealth of NI's current new bands.
The Irish Times, On the Record blog I’ve known of Mark and Tanya for many years as Belfast indie club DJs and promoters, but didn’t realise until recently that they were also two-thirds of a band called Skibunny. Fine, top-drawer crunchy electro-rock with big choruses which shout in your ear about a party going on in a house six streets away.
Belfast's no.1 remixers, promoters and commotion causers... they do something pretty special to the crowd.NME, Sept 2008
It's a good 'un. A sort of Daft Punk-lite affair, it's a playful, gentle, sparkly and spacey number that's one of those rare dance songs that would work equally well as a euphoric floorfiller or a blissful chillout number.HOTPRESS
4/5 It’s not often you hear a song that is both simultaneously laidback yet uplifting, but Skibunny have managed it with their new single Remote Control.... Everyone will like this, whether they’re looking for something relaxing to chill to, or a cute little number to get them moving.THE SKINNY
4/5 - Floating comfortably somewhere between The Orb and Four Tet, Skibunny’s ‘Aah Ooh’ hovers with an air of contentment upon a cloud of euphoria. GIGWISE
4/5 – fresh and breezy.DMC UPDATE
Delicate insanely catchy pop single that will kick into your memory banks and not shift, in the same way that bloody whistling song by those swedes, peter bjorn and john did last year, though thankfully, this song is lot more enjoyable.PLAYLOUDER
A deliciously danceable yet sublimely tranquil song….Aah ooh is the perfect song to listen to (and up very loud) be it in a club, alone in your bedroom or while roaming down the street on a horrendously cold morning or a sunshine soaked afternoon. You will be hard pushed to find fault in Skibunny’s dazzling new single.SEATWAVE
The calming Aah Ooh is perfect listen on these cold days as we look forward and daydream about the summer.AMELIAS MAGAZINE
Mark and Tanya offer up the coolest trance you're likely to hear this winter. Put it on and feel your arms gently rising up with the beats, towards that beautiful dry ice machine in the ceiling. More, we say, more please.MUSICOMH
They’ve swapped the turntables for a runaway-train snare drum, gently pulsing bass and high, dreamy vocals, St Etienne stardust sprinkled everywhere.REFRESHLITE
SKIBUNNY CLUB REVIEWS...
The groundbreaking and downright charismatic Skibunny: BBC RADIO 1
Absolute genius, I had a great night: STEVE LAMACQ, 6music
Skibunny has built a following among Belfasts hipsters. Recommended: NME
Absolutely wicked: ROB DA BANK, Radio 1
Edgy and optimistic...there's an ecited, sweaty, achingly cool atmosphere: THE LIST
Belfast's most reputable weekly club...has led to a to-die-for international career...have produced stonker remixes: HOTPRESS
Good times, good music, good vibe. If it’s good, it goes on is the philosophy, and we’ll all have a good time. The whole place tonight has an end of the world and we don’t care vibe. If that is the case, then we’ve found our DJs: BBC RADIO ULSTER
The spiritual home of Belfast's hipsters, SKIBUNNY is undeniably cool, laidback and has a party atmosphere most clubs would die for: AU Magazine
It's the best place to go out in Northern Ireland in my opinion: ACROSS THE LINE, BBC RADIO ULSTER
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Press Reviews:
"NIXA possess a quality that sets them apart from other front runners on the alt/rock scene with perfect dynamics and incredible song craft. They bounce between gentle and aggressive in a single beat, tied with soaring harmonies and mesmerising stage presence. This band will find themselves being listened to by a wide audience, no doubts in both the alternative and commercial rock scenes" Alli Hodge, TotalRock Radio
"...done very, very well. Deep, powerful voice, BIG music and just the feeling that something very professional is happening -I don't mean in a clinical way, just in that way that, when you find out they're unsigned, it's a bit of a shock!" Marsha Shandur XFM
"Gutsy, melodic, and totally credible, Nixa deliver that refreshing breed of British rock that will fly off shelves and download sites." Dave Grenfell, FeedMe Music, Promoter of The Year 2008 Indy Awards
"One of the top 10 unsigned acts in the UK" Metro National Newspaper
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