Rebekah Raa//Voice//Korg Iain Pettifer//Guitar Mike Hyland//Bass Kit Godfrey//Drums
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Band //
strickencity@hotmail.co.uk Management //
david@adventuresclosetohome.com Live //
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amanda@freemanpr.net/sam@freemanpr.net Online //
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ewan@peergroupmusic.com
Influences
Bardou,A Catcher in the Rye,Harmony Korine, the Velvet Underground,Tom Tom Club,First Love,Spiral Scratch EP, Bow Wow Wow, Talking Heads, The Paranoids in the Crying of Lot 49, Richard Hell, Test Match Special,the Libertines,Ari Up, photos of the Beatles in Hamburg,Colosal Youth LP,Godard movies, Life Without Buildings, White Mice and Groucho Marx
Sounds Like
Lost Art // Directed by Sam Crack
Tak o Tak // Directed by Sam Crack
"There's not too much to get excited about in London of late (as if Londoners would ever allow themselves to do such a thing) but beaming through are the immaculate conception known as Stricken City. Full of wonderful - if odd - influences, like Life Without Buildings, The Sugarcubes and Bow Wow Wow, they shuffle timidly onstage and become complete, effortless pop stars. Led by a striking apparition known as Rebekah Raa, they make you feel a little bit sorry for every other band trying to get somewhere"
NME
"Loose limbed guitar-pop magic... manna to the ears and a ctrl-alt-delete on the musical torpor that is always so close at hand. Stricken City have a floppy, just-short-of-fully-formed form that is beyond endearing and reaks of tiny record labels, the Festive Fifty and musty record shops down back alleys. Tak O Tak effortlessly unfolds as a gorgeous three minutes of lens-flare pop, made all the more palatable by Raa’s voice, which achieves the perfect balance of being exemplary without drowning in its own excellence. Restore your faith in indie with this fab, slightly ramshackle four-piece. More please."
The Times
"In those innocent days before Pro Tools, click tracks and laptop recordings, the eighties produced a generation of studenty bands with a simple DIY ethic and only rudimentary musical skills who strummed away on effect-free jangly guitars and a simple hi-hat and snare rhythm. Stricken City are a splendid throwback to more innocent times where enthusiasm and the joy of being in a band counted for everything. Thankfully they also have some jolly tunes to back it up. Formed in the Midlands and now based in London, the quartet is fronted by the jittery, just-got-out-of-bed-haired goddess Rebekah Raa. Tak O Tak combines the yearning simplicity of The Sundays and touches of the Sugarcubes with Raa’s Bjorkish hiccups and the band’s C86-friendly indie guitar pop is tickled with vintage synth. Other tracks reveal some slowburn dynamics and Postcard-style pop nuggets."
Q
"We stumbled across London's Stricken City while doing our regular check up on Adventures Close To Home and had a hard time initially deciding whether we were going to get into them or not. Ultimately, lead singer/Korg-er Rebecca Raa's awkward dancing and rad voice led us to do believe that, yes, we will get into it."
The Fader
"Stricken City are the kind of band we'd forgotten could exist. Seemingly free from immediate influences, the songs tumble then soar kite-like from Rebekah Raa, with melodies moving - as she does - awkwardly but never uglily, against some of the most thrilling re-appraisals of Rhythm guitar (with a capital R) since Johnny Marr. (We really didn't mean that to rhyme.) If Stricken City aren't universally loved by the end of the year we'll eat all your stupid hats."CHANNEL4.COM
Our new 8 song EP will be released on 14th September on Puregroove Records, a gatefold CD/DVD package in very limited physical quantities. Pre-order your copy now here
SCANDALISM LAUNCH PARTY FRIDAY 17TH JULY 9PM-4AM. TICKETS £10.00 IN ADVANCE. SCALA 275 Pentonville Road, Kings Cross, London, N1 9NL 020 7833 2022
ROOM 1: THE MACCABEES DJ Set TOMMY SPARKS Live MARINA & THE DIAMONDS Live YES GIANTESS Live BLACK CHERRY Live QUEENS OF NOIZE SMASH & GRAB SET NEVERLAND DJS
ROOM 2: TELEPATHE Live PLUGS Live WOLF GANG Live STRICKEN CITY Live MAGISTRATES DJ Set ADVENTURES CLOSE TO HOME PEOPLE ARE GERMS
You use to have a song up, long time ago, that started with one of the guys asking, "Do you I have a cigarette?" I can't remember the name of the song.
Heyy,, how are youu?? you guys were awesome last nightt i was right at the front getting crushed against the barrier :L :D got loads of photos and vids of you guyss :) ly xxx
ahhh the UEA! you cheeky little blighters it'll be amazing =D it's got to be done, there's plenty to be done around our fine town we'll see whats happening
Looking forward to it, where are you guys staying?
Hey guys =D long time no see, hope you're all marvellous
nice one on maximo park tour, looks amazing! it seems an awful long time ago since we stuck bruce willis's head to your door in paris that night... Hope we get to do it again soon Love, The Kabeedies xxxxxx
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