Matt Troy - guitars, singing
Jon Troy - guitars, singing
Melissa Collins - singing, glockenspiel
John Phelps - keys, claps
Dave Toole - bass, singing
Abi Scott - violin
Russell Scott - percussion, crazy vibes
Mark Freeth - drums
Influences
The Beach Boys, Felt, Pavement, The Magnetic Fields, The Velvet Underground, The Go-Betweens, The House Of Love, Belle And Sebastian, Smog, Jonathan Richman, The Sleepy Jackson, Orange Juice, Arcade Fire, The Butterflies Of Love, Galaxie 500, Gene Clark, Appendix Out, The Lucksmiths
Sounds Like
The Beach Boys, Felt, Pavement, The Magnetic Fields, The Velvet Underground, The Go-Betweens, The House Of Love, Belle and Sebastian etc etc you get the picture
The Hi-Life Companion are a Bristol indiepop band based around brothers Matt and Jon Troy. Jon has also drummed with Airport Girl; Mark used to be the drummer in The Mayfields. Dave is a notorious West Country Wedding Singer with a vast repetoire of Wedding Present and Abba songs at his fingertips. Mel will only sing for champagne and chocolate.
The Hi-Life Companion released a 3-track single through Cloudberry Records on September 1st 2008 — this quickly sold out. Songs have featured on a number of compilations including releases on Weepop!, Series Two and Eardrums. The band have received extensive radio play including Colin Murray on Radio 1, Tom Robinson on Radio 6 and Tom Ravenscroft, Channel 4 Radio. The Hi-Life Companion's debut album mixed by Rob Price from Airport Girl will be available later this year on Plastilina Records - in the meantime you can buy songs or the whole album on digital download at Itunes, Amazon and CD baby!
Hey! I play "In Your Heart, A Cathedral" in my December 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!
The 2009 Festive 50 will be streaming as part of our output from December 25th until January 31st.
We're playing at The Mothers' Ruin on Wednesday 11th November, soon after 8pm. Then two more great bands. Free admission so come and sample the Poundshop Life!
Big thanks to Jon and Matt for playing on Saturday it was totally brilliant and we loved having you on board once again! Hoe to see you soon XX Matthew and Heather
Hey, thanks for the album, I played Times Table on the show at the weekend. Cheers Richard
Bristol Introducing is broadcast on BBC Radio Bristol at 1am every Saturday, repeated 1am Sunday and available all week via the listen again button at bbc.co.uk/bristol or on the iPlayer.
Hi Guys - we're sorry that we can't make it to your August gig. In the meantime,Poundshop Life are playing at The Louisiana on Sunday 19th July 8pm. We'll try to catch you somewhere in September or October.
Online Now!
