Instruments: Voice, drums, cello, guitars, bass, keyboards, synth, groovebox, e-bow, drum machine, melodica, toy accordian, percussion, mountain bike.
Sounds Like
According to reviews, etc; Broadcast, Cocteau Twins, Low, Stereolab, Yo La Tengo and Bang Bang Machine. 'Dans L'aide...' is "the devil's folk song", apparently.
We like it when people send us messages. Feel free to add us, but it would be nice if you stroke our egos first. It's only polite, and there's a greater chance of us actually accepting your advances. We're slightly old fashioned like that.
The A Forest are Cat, Chris, Eilidh, Ewan, George and Michael who between them play voice, bass, cello, drums, guitar, synth, groovebox, percussion and melodica.
We have played with some lovely bands, made some lovely friends and some of us are even getting married to each oter. Aren't civil parterships great!
Our debut single was a split 7" with Mercury Tilt Switch, released in the UK on September 2004 on Glasgow's Too Many Fireworks records. Our debut album is due for release in the Autumn on Pet Piranha Records. We've mixed it!
The A Forest have been told they sound "twinkly" and "sleepy", and were very pleased to be told that they sound like "Low having sex with Yo La Tengo and giving birth to Broadcast".
QUOTES
"if you like things all twinkly and nice then this is the band for you. They play lovely, stripped-down electronica" NME
"a bittersweet dreamscape of breathy Stereolab romance" The List - Single of the Week
"these guys and girls are like the soundtrack to a dream" Drowned in Sound
"simply a magnificent soundscape...it feels like a long time since a band from Scotland has created something so lovely in this genre" Stayfun
"a gorgeous vocal, stuttering drums, twinkly things, lilting and sad. a band that sticks out a mile from their local contemporaries; music for films and sweet dreams." Blowgun
"vocal lines that Elizabeth Fraser would kill for" Friends Of The Heroes
Hey how you doing? hope you good. Just a little bit info on whats happening with Yoshi, Hope you take a look @ our myspace for more details and to hear the tracks.
This is an invite to a one-off hot club in Dundee (normally in Glasgow) that is free by invite only (as it is secretly doubling up as a birthday party of sorts) - just come before 11 and say "mister no legs" at the door to avoid paying.
This is what it is...
PARTAKE IN SOME HOT SPARKLING SHADAZZ, WASHED DOWN WITH A SPOT OF MYSTERY JUICE!
A Hot Club Dundee Special...
WEDNESDAY 30 JULY 10PM
The Hot Club plays a mixture of rock'n'roll, rockabilly, doo-wop, psychobilly, garage, freak, fuzz, psychedelic, and so on.
Sparkling Shadazz are a demented surf band from Glasgow and Spain. Relative newcomers, they recently engulfed the Hey You Get Off My Pavement festival in a howling storm.
Mystery Juice are a sleazy Horror R'n'B and trashobilly outfit from Edinburgh, signed to Fence Records. Think Grinderman/Badseeds meets Uncle John & Whitelock. Sorta.
Hugo Paris is a DJ Based in London, running nights such as Bad to the Bone (rock'n'roll etc), Rattle Shack (disco and early house, chicago etc) and Nice Time (dancehall).
Marquiss de Merchant-o-Menace is also based in London and is in the Phantom Band (chemikal underground recs) and Omnivore Demon. He plays a bunch of far-out stuff.
cheers man im glad you like it , yeah you can get a copy of course ,its the only one thats near to finished but i ll let you here the others in the car when we go bowling he he he ,
@ Stills Gallery (Cockburn Street) from 7pm tickets £4 on the door / cheap beer!
The Declining Winter is a new musical project led by Richard Vincent Adams, co-founder of leftfield musical pioneers Hood - influenced by Low, The Durutti Column and York City FC.
Skip your tea for the magnificent, synth-laden 7VWWVW (aka MAMMAL), and Doogie Paul of James Yorkston and the Athletes upright bass infamy.
hey, Im putting up chapter by chapter my novel Arico Zanical - Spacechase on my myspace http://myspace.com/allanjacksonmusic... The album 'Cutting Loose' is intertwined through the novel so hope u dig the story and the idea... check it out ps like the tunes
Free Download for Burns night which is on 25th January by Comrade Down (Available to download from today MONDAY 14TH JANUARY)
Free download of my(Comrade Down) song “Scotch drink”, original lyrics and music inspired by the Burns poem of the same title. It is available now to download @ www.myspace.com/comradedown for FREE from Monday 14th January onwards to Burns Night on The 25th January. Also on myspace you will still find streams of 5 of the 6 tracks from my latest EP “What is for Me Won’t Go by Me” . This includes the song Take me To the Charles bridge which was last weeks unsigned track of the week on Steve Lamacqs 6 Music Show. The interview from the same show can also be found on myspace.
Hi friends! I hope you had a lovely New Year! Thanks so much for your support! I just wanted to let you know that my new e.p. “Paper Box” is available now on itunes. Drop me a line and let me know how you’re doing! Visit http://www.tunecore.com/music/gayleskidmore for a link to my itunes site. Cheers! Gayle Skidmore
The 200th concert review has just been posted on the Dead Earnest website (www.btinternet.co.uk/Dundee.htm). I'd just like to thank all the bands, musicians, venue owners, promotors and fans who've been so generous this last 12 months and had so many kind things to say, that, without all of you who I've seen many times to those having a bit of a hiatus, none of what I do would be possible and that, in my opinion, the Dundee Scene remains as the most accomplished, enjoyable and potentially commercial music scene in the UK right now. To all of you who I won't get to see tonight, who may read this now, who may read this nursing one helluva hangover in the morning, thanks for producing/featuring all the amazing music in 2007 and a heartfelt and seriously Happy New Year to all of you - may 2008 take you further up the ladder of success!!
Juliet Kilo would like to thank The A Forest for thinking we are no bad, ken. Juliet Kilo would like to respond to the aforementioned commendation by saying that they think The A Forest are also no bad, Kenneth.
Right, here is the dealeo. We have finally got around to mixing our 'new' EP. And we want you to listen to it waaaay before its released in 2008.
SO! In the next 7 days, we will be putting a different song up on our page. It might not change every day, but in the next 7 days all songs will be up at some point so keep checking back to listen!
Dont be shy to leave us a comment or blast over a message or something.
I'm quite keen to record a live video of the a forest doing a show, preferably somewhere nice like the dundee rep theatre. If we hook a mac pro laptop up to the desk with pro tools we can mix all the tracks afterwards. Two pro cameras would do the job. Interested? I could have it all done within two weeks, a lot quicker than your albums :)
In sharp pangs and dolorous hissings round Enitharmon's loins folding, the globe of our life blood trembles, branching into roots: fibrous writhing, pale and waving before our deathy faces! PSYCHOSEXUAL!
BULLET HELL! at THE HOT CLUB! SAT.27.OCT. NICE'N'SLEAZY. DOORS 11pm.
Hi, Just to let you know that the Dead Earnest main website now has the first of two interviews on it, with more to follow soon – the first two being from Page 6 and The Getdowns. But this is to let you know that we are opening the site to anyone with anything to review – bands can contribute interview-style articles, biogs, etc, fans can review concerts and contribute constructive articles/comments, promoters and venue owners and bar-staff with something to say can feel free to comment – just head to www.deadearnest.btinternet.co.uk/introdundee and you'll see where to go and what you can do. Look forward to hearing from anyone out there!!
We invite you to listen to DIAL-A-DIVA on Saturday 8th September. VOCAL PERFORMERS from around the world have signed up for a 24 hour arts extravaganza that's shaping up to be one of this year's cultural highl
