Nick Read: lead vocal and guitars.
Glenn Lewis: bass guitar.
Nigel Horton: drums.
Neil Jones: guitar & backing vocal.
Influences
Artists of Some Renown
The Byrds
The Standells
Love
Paul Revere & The Raiders
Green On Red
Orange Juice
James Brown
The Bees
Stevie Wonder
Beck
The Clash
Love On Board
The Milkshakes
Maximo Park
Gloria Walker
David Bowie
Isaac Hayes
Talking Heads
Lyn Collins
Elvis Presley
Aretha Franklin
The Go Betweens
Sir Douglas Quintet
The Temptations
The Counts
Blondie
The Jayhawkes
The Who
Warren Zevon
Bourgie Bourgie
Teenage Fanclub
The Bathers
Jellyfish
Burt Bacharach
Funkadelic
Lou Rawls
The Velvet Underground
The Staple Singers
The Bar-Kays
The Buzzcocks
Grace Jones
King Curtis
James King & The Lone Wolves
The White Stripes
Kings Of Leon
XTC
Kim Fowley
The Long Ryders
Soundtrack of our Lives
Hey! Elastica
24 Carat Black
Josef K
Herbie Hancock
James Carr
Ike & Tina Turner
Grandaddy
The Mooney Suzuki
Jamiroqai
The Go! Team
Curtis Mayfield
Isley Brothers
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
The Rockingbirds
The Fall
Jimmy Webb
Mercury Rev
Friends Again
Fontella Bass
Sly & The Family Stone
Rain Parade
Gil Scott-Heron
Dusty Springfield
Steve Walsh
The Stooges
The Beatles
Scott Walker
The Stands
The Beach Boys
The Meters
Television
The Weather Prophets
Divine Comedy
Bobby Womack
The Skullsnaps
Paul Weller
Fire Engines
WATCH OUT PLANET, HERE COME THE GLORY.
Okay so heres the facts.
The Glory write and play songs from their own world. A world where the Velvets are on speaking terms with The Meters, where Iggy is enjoying a late lunch with Bootsy. Pass the salt Mother Fucker! Where David Bowie is up for a borrow from Nile Rogers. Its a place where the line gets a little hazy.
It may seem weird that this is the musical heritage of a four piece from the Midlands and not the Badlands, but theres an almost primal instinct to fuse some serious personal subjects with an urge to dance. The kind of dancing where you dont care if somebody is watching.
The Glory are trying to create an otherworldlliness, they may even meet George Clinton there and play him some Voidoids, who knows. The Glory, going beyond the wall of sound.
All pictures by Alicia @ LYTBOX CONTACT
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We Start Fires play The Clapham Grand in London on Wednesday 6th June. For tickets go to
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=220573
The 7" single “Magazine” is available now in all good record shops as well as online.
The band will be supporting Good Shoes at:-
Sheffield Fuzz Club - 7th June
Liverpool Academy - 8th June
Hull Welly Club - 9th June
"Debut album from the incendiary new wavers. It sounds like Blondie doing
Elastica doing Weezer. Ace, obviously." NME
"Sludge-sleek pop songs with spiky guitars and ear splitting noise
freakouts. Ones to watch." The Guardian
"Like one of the Deal sisters in a cosmic deathray fight with Be Your Own
Pets Jemina." NME
The incredible 8 piece winners of Glastonbury Unsigned funkin’ hip hoppers ‘The Bellagios’ play Camden Green Fair on Sunday 3rd June in Regents Park at 5.30pm. Come down for the day…it’s all free!
AITBF are proud to announce our participation in London's new psychedelic summer fete, Field Day London. Please register with the NEW Myspace address for the festival for regular line-up updates, ticket sales and all the news.
The Glory
Hey! I'm back from the tour, and i made a little video of some of the highlights of 2006....complete with an encounter i had with a Japanese toilet!! If you get a chance....you can see it on youtube....click here to watch it. Anyway, take care and i hope to see you somewhere on the road....i hit it again in May!
Kevin
Wow......more sell outs this last week, and some great gigs coming up.
Unfortunately we did have to re-schedule our gig for the Sunday in Wigan which will now take place on Sat 19th May,please accept our sincerest apologies, it's not something we like to do. More details will go live on our site.
Here's a little ad for a good friend of ours "Twink", he was The Jam's official photographer and has put together a book of never seen before Jam pics.
Just wanted to let you know that Mount Republic.com is officially open!! Click on the image to go to the store.
Come on over and get yourself a new look. We've got top brands like Paul Frank, Soundgirl, Gentle Fawn, Crowded Teeth, American Apparel, 31 Corn Lane....
Spread the word!! & Thanks for all the support you've given us.
The Glory
Hey! Merry Christmas! I hope Santa was good to you. He was fairly good to me even though my behavior has vascillated this year at times!
I start the long drive to Scotland tomorrow to start the UK tour.......i hope i don't freeze my butt off!
Here is a little video i made of the guys in the band..for a little Christmas laugh!...the Shawn Byrne bit will crack you up! Click here to watch it. Anyway, take care and hope to see you soon! Kevin
will do mate.
on a totally unrelated subject I don't suppose you've run into jamie, calvin or sean lately? i only ask as hearing from you reminded me of days of old (getting all misty eyed now) and i was wonderng what the boys of Bedworth were up to...
Nov 5 2006 9:14 PM
Ha ha... WE DEFIN8LY will meet up for some rehab!!! I think I'm addicted to you guys!
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Here’s the playlist
1. The Fuzz - The Fuzz - Medicine (2:54)
2. Gundogs - Been Around (4:18)
3. Doctor Gonzo - California (6:00)
4. When Bears Attack - Women Are Evil (3:47)
5. thetrueface - fractions (5:18)
6. Nervaxis - Fuck 1488 (2:07)
7. Fade to Sepia - Fashion (2:42)
8. Prospect Lane - Ghosts (4:57)
9. Gary Nock - Troubled Blue Eyes (3:35)
10. Squashed Cob - Bigger When I Was Younger (4:30)
11. Kinock - Sound Bwoy (4:35)
12. Cracked Actors - Sentimental (2:52)
13. Captain Knave - ChickenBalti TheCubanHikers (2:57)
14. Phluxm - The Start of 2 again (5:06)
15. Cerwin - Fire Exit (3:50)
16. Slab - Cogumelo Blue (6:04)
17. The Mobsters - Breakdown (2:51)
easy nick.
good to hear from your good self. glad the "axe" is suiting you. nice to see you're still at it (its a shit business). stay off the poppers. i live here now but i'm gonna be around at new year, may bump into round then.
