OLLY HILL - FRONT MAN: rock 'n' roll extrodinarie, red wine drinking, Cliff Richard loving, currently legless, spending food money on scrach cards
LOGAN COUTTS - LEAD GUITAR: G-string sniffing, riffing, short bouts of mental spasms
OWEN PAKIRY-PALMER - BASSIST: on the phone, 'skills', guinness drinking, devils advocate playing, legend lookalike
NICK ("Chucky") SWIETLIK - DRUMS: not playin' games, meaning business
Influences
Primal Scream, Led Zep, Football, Happy Mondays, The Verve, Rolling Stones, Kasabian, New Order/Joy Division, The Clash, The Jam, Jack Daniels, Vitamin E's, Ian Brown, Stone Roses, NWA, Jimi, Beastie Boys, George Michael, Chemical Brothers, STAX, Beer, Cider, The Mighty Boosh, The Who, Pubs, Clubs, Porn, Chas'n Dave, St Agur, Death In Vegas, The Charlatans, Kenny Everett, Derek & Clive, Sam & Dave, Wu Tang Clan, Bowie, Floyd, Interpol, Oasis, The Specials, Sex Pistols, My Bloody Valentine, U.N.K.L.E, The 'Town, Blondie, The Stooges, Peter Kay, Supergrass, Fish Net Tights, We Are Scientists, Bob Marley, The Doors, Captain Beefheart, New York Dolls, some Fucking Good Weather, South, Small Faces, Campag Velocet, The Rifles, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Underworld, Super Strongbow, Spritualized, Cameo and Graeme Souness
SOL DEVIOUS have been packing them to the rafters and shaking the foundations at all their live gigs and unsurprisingly it hasn’t gone un-noticed.
Their raucous tune “I Gave Up Drugs (Mistakes)” features in the new cult British film "Bigga Than Ben". They didn't stop there either....
SOL DEVIOUS recently had air time on BBC 6 with Gary Crowley and XFM with Steve Harris.
They've supported The Rifles, The Twang, rocked the Camden Crawl, blew away festival crowds at Wireless and Secret Garden Party and squeezed in a four month residency at the legendary Borderline.
SOL DEVIOUS are masters of the London scene now, this indie rock’n’roll five piece take their inspiration from 60’s pop, 90’s indie, Factory Records and the Rave scene and squeeze these influences to create a fresh new super high energy sound. Get-your-ass-moving music!
Watch this space...the best has yet to come
Peace, Love and Sol Devious x
I GAVE UP DRUGS (MISTAKES) filmed on a Nokia mobile and featuring "Dennis"
Offset Festival Presents - at the Buffalo Bar, Islington each Tuesday until Offset Festival '09. Join the Facebook Group for information and event invites.
I'm moving to London in this summer 2009 for fourteen months. My band The Strawberry Mansion is just waitind for the mixing and mastering/ final cut to come back from Abbey Road within 8-10 weeks.0(I've heard they do a fine job.) I am beside myself about your efforts and will continue to look to Sol for inspiration now and forever! I am moving to London for 14 months due to my carreer in science. I will look you up at the end of August 2009 on the local rags. I shall see you live this year fellas. Listen loud and proud!!! Live is where it counts!
REVALATION is the best thing you've ever done. It struck me still.
How's it going? Hope you had a fantastic Christmas and New Year!
Anyway, hope you've told all your fans that Sol Devious feature in the first issue of FMS magazine and on the FREE CD that comes with it?? They're selling like hot cakes in store but are available to buy from our MySpace by clicking on the Buy Now button.
Now is that shameless promotion or is that shameless promotion?!
Like Led Zep meeting Deep Purple for a fight in the car park of Camden sainsburys, then taking a dirty little groupie over to Regents park to go fuckin' in the bushes. X
