Paul Hawkins (Vocals)
Ian Button (Drums, Production & Backing Vocals)
Kate Arnold (Violin, Dulcimer & Backing Vocals)
David Serra (Guitars)
Harvey Dodd (Keyboards & Backing Vocals)
Alex Templeton-Ward (MicroKorg, Samplers & Backing Vocals)
Jes Walton (Bass & Backing Vocals)
+ Occasional Cameos from Tom Mayne (Keyboards & Backing Vocals)
Influences
We're not deliberately trying to sound like anyone else but, if it helps, our music tastes are as follows:
Paul really likes Suede, Belle & Sebastian, Elliott Smith, Nick Cave, Hefner, R.E.M, Leonard Cohen and what he'd term "outsider pop music". If he's utterly honest he was massively into West End musicals as he grew up and that probably influenced him a lot too. He still thinks the music to Les Miserables is better than almost everything else ever.
Ian really likes 60s pop music and what he'd call "pop music that sounds slightly wrong".
David is a big fan of Guns N' Roses and the Mars Volta. In fact his Guns N' Roses obsession is such that the rest of the band attempt to avoid mentioning the words "Axl" and "Rose" around him for fear of a three-hour monologue on the said individual. Like Paul, he loved Suede when Bernard Butler was in the band. However (unlike Paul, who loves Coming Up and even really likes few songs on a New Morning) he isn't much a fan of the post-Bernard years. He also wants to make it known he really loves cats (as in the animals, not the Lloyd-Webber musical). Paul's a bit confused as to what this has to do with his music taste.
Kate has a fairly extensive knowledge of goth music, folk music and arabic music. Her favourite bands and musicians include Echo & the Bunnymen, Siouxie Sioux, Abdul Halim Hafez, Kalman Balogh and the Gypsy Cymbalom Band.
Harvey Dodd is a huge Divine Comedy fan. He's also a damn good performance poet in his own right, which isn't really anything to do with a musical influence per se but probably should be mentioned somewhere and here's as good as anywhere...
Alex's favourite band of all time are the Doors. He is also interested in noise music, especially stuff like Sunn O))) and anything that is so close to not being music that it is difficult to define it thus.
Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences started out in 2006 as a collaboration between outsider pop maverick Paul Hawkins and Death in Vegas guitarist turned underground producer Ian Button and have expanded into an exhilarating, eccentric and ever-evolving eight-bellied beast of a band.
Previously part of the same UK antifolk collective that spawned the likes of the Bobby McGees and David Cronenberg’s Wife, Hawkins’ work with Thee Awkward Silences has seen him develop into one of the most intelligent, charismatic and confrontational frontmen in the UK today. Meanwhile the band have subtly shifted from their beginnings as a modern twist on the post-punk/garage rock of the Fall, the Stooges and the Birthday Party to a thrilling, inventive and continually surprising combination of sonic experimentation, darkly entertaining caustic cabaret and driving rock n’ roll, all underpinned by Hawkins’ knack for crafting compelling narratives and uncompromising and unconventional pop songs. The band have been compared to the likes of Elvis Costello, Edwyn Collins and Nick Cave but "Hawkins sounds like no-one. Someone doing something truly on their own and making the rules up as they go along." (artrocker)
In 2008 Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences recorded a session for Radio 1, played the Swn and Latitude Festivals and released critically acclaimed debut album “We Are Not Other People” on Jezus Factory Records. In 2009 they are recording a new album have plenty of other tricks up their sleeve…
To buy Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences Releases Click Here here
Join us this November @ THE HOBBY HORSE, for the launch of our new weekly FREE Fridays. LAUNCHING 6TH!!
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Joining us this month are: Artefacts for Space Travel, Islington boys' club, Electricity in Our Homes, The Duloks, Man Flu and Ice, Sea, Dead People to name but a few...
Join us this FRIDAY 6TH NOVEMBER at our new haunt THE HOBBY HORSE, for the launch of our new weekly FREE Fridays. FRIDAY 6TH NOVEMBER. The Hobby Horse, 281 Kingsland Rd, DALSTON. DOORS 6PM. FREE ENTRY. LIVE// ARTEFACTS FOR SPACE TRAVEL http://www.myspace.com/artefactsforspacetravel ISLINGTON BOYS' CLUB http://www.myspace.com/islingtonboysclub DJS// THE STOOL PIGEON JAMES THEAKER (NME RADIO) THE BROTHERS GRIME ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Click on the flyer above for more details on our November listings. Also joining us this month are: Electricity in Our Homes, The Duloks, Man Flu and Ice, Sea, Dead People to name but a few... Cheers! Ed & Dan HTTP://WWW.CLUBTHEMAMMOTH.COM
Hey! I play "I've Had My Fun" in my November show for Dandelion Radio - The online radio station inspired by John Peel!
To listen, go to our website at dandelionradio.com and click on one of the "Listen Live" links on the front page.
You will be able to hear my show every day for the whole of the month! Plus a host of other shows playing an eclectic variety of new and unreleased music. See schedule on website for details!
Hey! We have just this minute added a new Demo of a new recording we have been playing called 'Little Lost Lamb'. We r excited to play you some new stuff so go go listen! x
The deXter Bentley Hello GoodBye Show returns to the airwaves on Resonance 104.4 FM this Saturday 5th September between noon and 1.30pm. Today's broadcast is in conjunction with PESTIVAL * With contributions from the Mosquito expert Dr. James Logan, an essay from the author Tim Burrows (on the subject of insects in rock and pop), plus live music from the London based alt/art duo Plug, who will debut new insect related material especially written for Hello GoodBye.
* PESTIVAL is a festival celebrating insects in art, and the art of being an insect. Pestival 2009 runs from 3rd-6th September @ The Southbank Centre and is jam-packed with insect-inspired talks and debates, as well as comedy, music, walks, workshops, installations and experiments. For further information, please visit: http://pestival.org
Just flew in from California and will be spending the next fortnight in London. I am glad I will be able to finally check you out live on the 15th. You are one of the highlights of my holiday.
hi! here's the flyer for your gig this friday at the dog house with pagan wanderer lu and dig for fire. will be fun! remember to tell all your mates... xxx
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