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"A plane crash that never hits the ground, this is a magnificent aural feast that you wish would never end" KKKK - KERRANG!
"... Elevating the Telegraphs sound from a well trained house pet to a beast furiously bashing around in a cage. An intelligent, feisty debut that lives up to all the band's early promise." 8/10 - Rock Sound
"With Britain's favourite seaside haunt delivering another ace indie-rock band with yet more heart-exploding, emotionally pumped choruses, we're more than ready to hit the beach. And Telegraphs will friggin burn you." 8/10 - NME
“…a great big burning ball of fire straight at your record collection…. this is a ballsy twos-up of an EP that can only lead to bigger and better things.” 4/5 - TUNED MAGAZINE ‘Across A Wire EP’ Review
“…combines ice and fire, burning from the inside with steely confidence and lyrical suss” THE FLY
“…Telegraphs display both a rugged edge to their songwriting and a tenacity for absolute perfection on this 5-track EP.” Drowned In Sound
“We Were Ghosts is an immensely impressive, polished debut, full of high quality songs and, in particular, lethal choruses: more than that it is a significant debut in the world of British melodic rock and a worthy addition to fans of that genre’s collections.” 4/5 - God Is In The TV
“HUGE in places, We Were Ghosts continually builds songs dynamically towards soaring choruses and jaw-dropping closing moments” 5/5 Rock Midgets.com
Influences
Brand New, Biffy Clyro, Idlewild, Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Constantines, Jeff Buckley, Hope Of The States, Billy Talent, Oceansize, Muse, Reuben, Band of Horses, Saves the Day, The Get Up Kids, Thursday, Rival Schools, This City, The Xcerts, Heels Catch Fire, many many many many many many more, people who know the words, Dave Feringa, The Mary Whitehouse Experience, 'Give me two more', (our very own) Kevin Roland, derelict buildings, sound men who count the decay of cymbals to illustrate a point, 3, Meatspin, orange sparkley things, lions tigers and bears, being horrible to Aung, distortion, table football, Ahhhhh stay you, 'Can you play quieter please?', being very loud, carrying heavy things up and down stairs, the ocean, not have a 'the' in our band name: please take note, Bladerunner, 22x20, that girl standing behind you, sliding kick drums, bad skateboarding, chocolate milk, Kurt Vonnegut, our van Jean Claude, pole dancing, Shithead, Fasch, Meeting people like you, pink and yellow, saying 'youtube', free water, incredible graffiti, making cups of tea and forgetting about them, Meatspin, swingball, amazing japanese accents, Karl Bareham (shit beard), shit beards (Karl Bareham), Baggy Gammon, Daz Plops, Pregnant looking Hattie, Infinite pearls of wisdom, bad dancing, the word delicious, vodka and lilt- totally tropical totally smashed, hennessey, "can someone ring my phone?", fighting eachother, amazing wii characters, shitty spotface, get yer tets aut, Zebra Nicki nicki wild wild west, 24, sitting in Cardiff updating this, washout, brutal, vibe, a band called lights action , footlong subway, clumsy fills, Asian Logic, Arran Day, Lancaster Hospital, Toby Adam Smith, Call of Duty 4, side stage, back stage, on stage, reading these things, touching eachother (well, not hattie, she's well mingy), festivals, dirty late club shows, free ice cream, massive arguments in the middle of camden, phil harrison, very late taxis, being excited for no reason like when you dream its christmas, writing whatever i like in this box when its 3am, honda crx, playing new songs, falling over mid set, seeing our favourite bands play their best, seeing new bands that blow us away, rimshotting fingers instead of sticks, chasing people round fields in the pouring rain (like the end of Jungle Book), The Rock, Sean Connery, old hard bastards, Darcy singing out of time and making Sam look like a fool, not being let down, Germany, Autobahns, Jason Adelinia and his Camel, late night pizza mission through Stuttgart at 3am, DJ Mega Shark & Dj Giant Octopus, Resident Evil 5, Rampage, Gaffa Tape, Robert Kasel, Rounds One to Six, playing in caves where nothing can be heard, 10ft muddy stage jumps, 'i want you', kiss kiss smiley face, 'you're cool give me a call', general sharking fails, sleeping in jean claude, ruining german electro club nights with ridiculous dancing, hattie singing tits minge, really heavy pianos, Vitas, Spartan total warrior on xbox, burnout, darcy and hattie singing songs about eachother, really really loud drums, we do this because we love it, bye x
Hey guys just would like ta say that your album is brilliant. Saw you all in exeter and also thanks for signing the album for us.. Mite have ta get a second album as we keep playin it most days..thanks for the chat and inspiration to write our own songs too... Hope to see again to and keep it up...... sara said she wonts more and believes ya next album will be even better..... Allan n Sara. Devon
Hi guys, cheers for the add. I saw you guys live with Funeral for a Friend in Exeter and was really impressed! Wish I'd come and chatted to you because I've since bought your album and I absolutely LOVE it! I've had it on repeat most of the week! Such amazing songs, well done! Wish you all the best for the future, and will keep a keen ear out for any new music/tours! Cheers, Joe
Go to youtube, search "abbomusic" all our stuff (so far) is there and its free for your ears. It's all been made with blood sweat and tears, by us, and has cost less than a grand to make. Enjoy, and let us know what you think. Take good care. Much love, abbo
Thought you said you would be in Scotland round about now! tsk tsk, I am very disappointed! Hope all the touring has been going well! And not too exhausting, haha.
Pity your not doing the Junction I have got tickets for that one....Will look out for you somewhere else soon but living on an island it is expensive to go gigging
i havn't bought a cd for ages, and this is by far the best five quid i ever spent (with the shirt obv) cheers guys hope rest of your gigs go well! xxxxxxx
you guys were great at koko :D
my mother also passes on "compliments to the band", as she puts it :p
are you plaing the norwich show too?
cos i'll be there!
xo
i was in Manchester at the weekend, only saw the second half of your show cos of the ticket hassle, but well enjoyed what i saw. Bought the album after the show as well. Good stuff on it.
argh this sucks! im going to see FFAF a week on wedneday and i was totally excited when i saw that you were on tour with them but your not gona be playing when they come to scotland!! BOO!!! :( :(
hi guys, how are you all, you were awesome as usual friday night @ concorde 2, i had a fab time, it was really great chatting to you, good luck with the rest of your tour, take care, paula x p.s more brighton gigs pleaseeeeeeee
Hi Guys, What an awesome show last night, you were amazing like always. Thanks for dedicating a song to me Can't wait to see your next gig. Hopefully soon. Hope you had a great gig in Manchester and good luck with the rest of the tour. See and speak to you soon. Love Bex xXx
