Dan 'Sir SingAlot' Mount - lead vocals & acoustic guitar |
Katy 'tralalala' Wynne - backing vocals |
Lawrence 'I read the Economist' Mount - electric guitar |
Matt 'I'll treat ya right girl' Avery - bass |
Max 'MadmanMcSkinz' Roache - drums |
Influences
John Spencer Blues Explosion, The Cardigans, Belle & Sebastian, Supergrass, Kings of Convenience, The Magic Numbers, Coldplay, Radiohead, Led Zepplin, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, U2, Black Sabbath, Rage Against the Machine, Nine Inch Nails, Guns'n Roses, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Corrosion of Conformity, Green Day, Robert Johnson, Elmore James, Lightning Hopkins, John Martin, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lynnrd Skynnrd, Eurythmics, Dave Grusin, Flanders & Swann, Counting Crows, Interpol, Ed Harcourt, Stone Roses, Turin Brakes, Blur, REM, Ben Harper, Johnny Cash, Ben Fold Five, Cake, Sublime, Muse, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Boy Kill Boy, Beck, Prince, Simon & Garfunkel, Aqualung, Nina Simone, Janis Joplin, Scott Joplin, Fiona Apple, Blind Melon, Death Cab For Cutie, The Dears, The Killers, Jeff Buckley.
Sounds Like
Supergrass meets The Beautiful South at a masked ball and have their wicked, wicked way with her (whilst Elvis Costello looks on smoking a packet of lucky strikes).
Record Label
Hmm...I know the answer to this one...er.....none!
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"Fucking awesome...this London band have got themselves some fantastic reviews, and from the tracks ..ion here I can understand why...’Love is a Cruise Missile is a great track...’When The Wheels Came Off’ has a gorgeous chorus...’Self Help’ is just lovely...definitely a great band..." - MORPHINE NATION
"Nicely spangled and smartly worded...too well-formed erudite and mature for the indie kids...and too tough, too smart and too spiked for the foot-tapping, chin-stroking Time Out crowd...I look forward to their debut album." - UNPEELED MAGAZINE
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AND NOW IT’S TIME FOR A STORY:
Doctor Von Deaths laugh echoed cruelly around the walls of his villainous stronghold high in the Bavarian mountains. The sun sank across the reddening sky, its last desperate rays bathing the towers of Castle Von Evilstein with an ominous crimson glow. In the great hall of the castle special agent Dan, resplendant in his elegant Saville Row tuxedo struggled against the restraints which tied him to the reinforced titanium platform suspended above a custom built industrial water tank his punishment for attempting to oppose the Doctors vile plans. Und now Meester Dan his arch nemesis pronounced you will die like ze miserable meddling cockroach that you are! his prosthetic metal hand twitching ever closer to the lever which would condemn our hero to certain death. Meanwhile the ravenous hammerhead sharks jostled for deadly pole position in the waters below. You wont get away with this snarled Dan defiantly your kind never does. Das ist nonsense my friend the evil doctor purred I think it iz as how you say in your country? - that I hold all ze cards in zis particular ball game! With all due respect, I think youll find that cards have nothing to do with ball games Mr. Death Dan angrily retorted. Ah yes. the deranged quack smugly responded, Und you are in no position to criticize mein use of ze mixed metaphor. The crazed demagogue paused momentarily and focused his dark bloodshot eyes on his captive. Zoon you will be dead, und zer will be nothing any one can do to schtop my nefarious plans!
A hideous smile then crawled across Von Deaths face like a particularly loathsome spider By the next full moon I shall unleash my army of brainwashed clones upon ze music industry. Zey will swarm like locusts devouring every component of its marketing und distribution until all its commercial tentacles have been subordinated to ze promotion of my zombie-like manufactured product. Within weeks my victory will be so complete zat every mann, vomen und child will be enslaved to my derivative melodies, saccharine lyrics und mein cod-hip-hop uber-funky beats.
The maniacal medic paused to wipe the spittle from his cold grey lips, Und zen, Meester Dan, society will experience a new dawn..a new cultural era vitch vill place me at ze zenter of its slavish celebrity affections.
I vill be worshiped by ze masses as a living GOD. In much ze same manner as Michael Bolton, James Blunt or ze mighty Richard Marx are worshipped today
And with that Dr Von Death convulsed in a bout of particularly savage laughter as his claw like hand activated the lever controlling the platform, safe in the knowledge that his flawless plan would shortly result in his idolization by countless millions....
Having found my way back to Myspace, and reading a very old comment I had a thought. I heard that some kindly gentleman donated a bag of human organs to a hospital. Now, he was thanked for this, I wonder why no one thought it odd.
Hope you are well, glad to see I am still at the top, even if undeservedly so!
Well hello! I've been a horrible myspacer lately...How does this find you? Well, I hope. And playing lots of shows!!! :) I still do play your cds now and again at work.
Please prepare yourself as I have a task. Meet up with Clearfield 12th Oct with puckered lips ready to devour several vessels of golden liquid freshly squeezed from the nipples of the beer god.All this with music provided by Staightjacket. Do you accept the challenge?
hey guys, i heard about you from my friend mallory, whom is actually in your top friends! And i think your music is brilliant! my favorite song is love is a cruise missile.
