Marie sings and plays bass. Martin plays drums and guitar and sings. Phil plays guitar and keyboards. Mikie plays bass. We often play quietly through small, old amplifiers, although sometimes the amplifiers have to be a bit bigger and newer. We also have a very small Casio which we use for keyboards. Phil lost it last week, because it's so small he forgot he'd put it in his guitar case. We have several very nice fuzz pedals, thank you.
Influences
Umm...
Shack, New Order, The Fieldmice, Jesus & Mary Chain, Velvet Underground, Cinerama, Shop Assistants, The Popguns. Slowdive, The Bats. The Poohsticks. Loads of stuff. Sarah Records, Flying Nun Records, Mazzy Star, My Bloody Valentine, The Pastels, Pulp, Spacemen 3, Low, Liverpool circa '82, Factory Records, Steve Albini. The usual, really.
Sounds Like
Schmindie, apparently - at the first Stoliday gig, someone shouted out "why don't you just call yourselves the Sarahs?". We'd like to think he wasn't far wrong...
Stoliday formed about five years ago when Martin, Marie and Phil started writing songs after the glorious vodkasummer of '99 and the hideous vodkadeath of Candystore. Eventually, it seemed it was about time to get our arses in gear and play them to people. So we did. With Mikie. Have a look in the blog. Marie explains it all there.
Hiya, I have released a CD of Oh! Custer and it is limited to 200 copies and contains 11 songs. I wanted to let you know since you had a left a nice comment about their music before on the Series Two Myspace. If you are interested in obtaining their record, the release details are on the page. Chris
hi there, marie! thanks for your comment! yeah, i like your tunes! i received the 3" on cloudberry today! very nice stuff!! roque and cloudberry are sooo great, indeed!! all the best from madrid, david
Thank you very much for your appreciation. Very happy to receive demos and such. And very happy to hear from people that like my long influences list. Sometimes I hear bad things about it though. Glad you liked it!
Hello, we really like the cs5 too, don..t have the cs15 yet:) See you have a Cloudberry release comming out soon...very nice. If you are in London july 27th, we are playing gig... /RC&hc
hello. thanks for talking to us. even though we are shy, nervous weirdos who hang out in the classics section of waterstones, we can tell you that we like you.
Oooh I love Stoliday! And such a fitting name too! Drank far too much of it on Saturday night, dont know how I got home. silly me again! Got to stop this binge drinking lark now am an old woman! Ha ha. hugs and smooches. xx
