Gabriel on bass/vocals
Will on guitar/vocals
Joe on drums
Influences
"The Customers somehow retain a peculiarly British restraint which enables them to just about avoid any unfortunate over-indulgences. It’s this talent that marks them out from the rest of the overwrought crowd. In truth, The Customers would probably sit uncomfortably in a genre which at times seems to pride itself on a lack of originality or invention. They exhibit enough nous and imagination to ensure that they’re destined to escape any musical straitjackets they may ultimately find themselves forced into" speakerspushtheair.com
Sounds Like
UNPEELED.CO.UK - We like this band and we like the latest offerings from their messily productive rock-pop palette. "Black Water" being a weirdly compelling thing that combines a shambolic Beck with a hybrid Ray Davies and Steve Marriot to batter an altogether too together Blur into a Camden collapse, but… "Every Time I Hear Your Name" is the killer, it shimmers, strolls, spangles and glides so effortlessly into it’s graceful balladeering style, "I got my pound of flesh" indeed. The Customers are genuinely excellent and I can think of a dozen 'name' and a gross of 'buzz' bands who might be slaughtered at their feet to clear a way for this lovely stuff.
THESTEREOEFFECT.COM - The Customers have the vocal lilt of a particularly jaded Stephen Malkmus, but that’s where the Pavement wires are cut. The rest of the song is a storm of indie riffery that travels from the dark recesses of "bedroom music" to a distorted guitar fest of feeble noise and absolutely entertaining guitar solos that sound like a strangled violin
SOUNDSXP.COM 'Black Water' escalates into crashing waves of squealing electronics and loopy feedback that are expertly kept in step by short, sharp riffs.If ‘Every Time I Hear Your Name’ sounds like the title of your usual heartstring-yanking that’s because it is; Mogwai-esque guitars come across like a de-tuned string section and the melody sounds like it’s been penned just to be howled drunkenly up at slammed windows.
The Customers have been working together in various constellations since 1996. Will met Gregg over a cigarette on a sun-soaked Devon day while in a neighbouring village Gabriel and Joseph began playing together under the same southern skies. Some years later with Gregg as a remote, travelling lyricist and with a move to Brighton Joseph, Gabriel and Will became The Customers.
This Wednesday 15th July is gonna be a busy one for us! We've got a FREE acoustic show at The Western Front at 9pm. Then, we're doing a full electric show upstairs at The Pav Tav at 10pm.
Would be good if you can come to one, even better if you can come to both! :)
If you send an email to: info@lostaura.co.uk with the heading 'EP', and pop along to the gigs, tell us your email adress and we'll give you a free copy of our EP! Sweet!
Yo Was wondering if you knew anyone that plays synth/drums in the London/SE area? I have a backlog of London/Brighton/Midlands gigs and I'd much rather do them with a permanent live band. Any word would be appreciated.
Brightons Finest presents Q Music / Glastonbury Emerging Talent Finalists The Mojo Fins Live at the Latest Music Bar Sat 9th May plus special lunchtime acoustic performance from 1pm
Hullo there,
we finally have an album to put out there, and will be selling pre-release copies and playing a free show at Resident Records in Kensington Gardens at 6pm on Monday 17th November (that's next week). Please come along and celebrate if you're free
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If you'd like to come to our next gig, we're opening the nights music @ The Freebutt, Thusday 2nd Oct. We're supporting The Chapman Family who played at Glastonbury so its gonna be a great night! Further support Gentleman Starkey, and Kept By Casino
Doors open @ 7:30, we'll be on at 8 so dont be late!! Ticket link on our page - £5.50 Let us know if you need any more info :)
'Best way to make money!' is now to be released following reviews in Q, Rock Sound, The Fly and NME. It’s available online at Amazon and itunes If you get in quick on Amazon you can get the cd half price.
As a backslappin’ Cheers! to all myspace friends we’ve put up 4 downloadable songs on our space so get 'em now! …it’s been a long time coming.
Two of our most exciting events of the year come to you back to back, this Thursday and Friday.
First 070808:
Released Sept 08' but brought to you in advance by Not For Resale, the new compilation release from Brighton's Toy Soldier Records gets it's rightful release knees-up (and in yr face) at NFR in August.
'1:18th' - 18-Track CD compilation featuring: Jonquil, Revenge of Shinobi, Bats, Sons of Noel and Adrian, Everyone to the Anderson, Lebanons, Little Trophy, Who Owns Death TV, Epideme, Laish Quartet, Sunshine the Werewolf +++ Many, many, many more
Then FRIDAY (080808 – YEAH!) brings you this:
The NFR club night in full effect - future disco, mutant indie, guest djs and bands. A ridiculously decadent night of neon insanity.
Starting off with ex-My Rhino man matt’s new Overwatch outfit. A meshing and mashing of Warp style IDM electronics and crushing Relapse guitar riffs and textures www. myspace. com/httpwwwmyspacecomoverwatch
Second up is Londons one and only 8-bit one-man thrash metal band. We’ve been playing him for months and are very excited to bring you his debut Brighton performance. The immense Kkasio-dooom-wave-thrash-tech-getto-core of Iron Pirate is primed, under orders and ready to ravage!!! Get his album now and see what’s in store for y’all come Friday www. myspace. com/ironpirat
Finishing you off will be Brighton’s P For Persia with their psycho-jungle-comes-alive inter-galactic no-wave, ex-grunge de-fib un-tuned diskko sludge www. myspace. com/pforpersia
.....This gig is going to be one of the most incendiary off the wall events you will EVER see.
we're playing the great escape in brighton in a couple of days. its gonna be a great atmosphere down there whatever happens, but if its still this hot, its gonna be out of this world.
the festival organisers asked us to make a video message for their site, so we did one on our myspace blog.
what happened next? comment on the vid and we'll make a video of our favourite. don't stitch us up though ;-)...
see you at the great escape!
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