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Released: Jan 29, 2009
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  • Genre: Acoustic / Americana / Blues

    Location Manchester, Un

    Profile Views: 7231

    Last Login: 3/24/2013

    Member Since 9/25/2007

    Website www.johnnywoodhams.co.uk

    Record Label Wooden Skeleton Records

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    The Hurtful Taunts are a ramshackle collective of god forsaken ne'er-do-wells, pick pockets and ex-circus performers led by junk artist, conjurer and hair collector Johnny Woodhams. Armed with only a vintage hat, a moulting chicken, his guitar and a suitcase full of rusted metal, Johnny booked himself into a bleak haunted Vicarage in late 2006, to record 5 tracks that had begun as an unfinished rambling novel in 2004. The characters from 'Spilled Milk' became poems that in turn became lyrics and 7 years down the line there are now somewhere in the region of sixty plus tracks gathering a fine dust in a gingham covered box next to a collection of photos of lost gloves and the skeleton of a harvest mouse. If there' s a dark story to be told we've written it...A deep-rooted love of early Americana,passed-on stories and traditional roots music permiates the songs embracing gospel, mexicana, flamenco, cow-punk and blues. The band have picked up anything that was around as well as their own beloved instruments, immersing themselves in the aged sounds of wax cylinders, scratched 78's and homemade instruments as well as channelling the screams and pleas of the criminally insane. Many of the tracks were recorded in one take and added to over time as friends old and new, hookers, beggars and a host of other charlatans came by to add their magic to the mix. An abundance of new material is now being recorded at Airtight Studios in Chorlton with failed gold prospector and bare knuckle fighter Tom Knott from the Earlies at the helm, who has also contributed trumpet, lap steel and pump organ. The well is deep and there's more bodies and to pull out... with every song having its own related artworks, costumes and attributed text, photographs, forthcoming film and striptease..... long may it continue.. <P.. OUT NOW AND ONLY AVAILABLE FROM PICCADILLY RECORDS & VINYL EXCHANGE IN MANCHESTER AND AT THE LAUNCH NIGHT ON APRIL 2ND IS THE 10 TRACK MINI ALBUM 'THEY CAME AT DUSK BUT WE WERE GONE'. STRICTLY LIMITED HAND-NUMBERED EDITION OF 100 ONLY IN HANDMADE SLEEVES WITHIN A SUMPTUOUS FABRIC BAG MADE FROM THE TUNICS OF DEAD CONFEDERATES WITH a BADGE to boot..it's a beauty...OR SEND A CHEQUE OR POSTAL ORDER FOR 10.00 GBP TO: JOHNNY WOODHAMS, C/O THE HURTFUL TAUNTS, 18 BANKSIDE ROAD, EAST DIDSBURY MANCHESTER M20 5GD..P> <P..NEW 5 track EP 'The dark summer of Bathsheba Jupp and other stories'...TRACK LISTING LAY MY OLD MAN DOWN/ I WISH I'D BEEN THERE THE DAY THE FLOOD CAME/ LORD UNBURDEN MY HEAVY SOUL/ WOODEN SKELETON/ SLEEPING....Lay my old man and I wish I'd been are newly mixed and mastered versions to the one's that appear above...OUT NOW....P> <P..Now finally mixing and mastering tracks for the forthcoming 'Spilled Milk' Album for Autumn 2011 ..)..P> <P..Track list for 'They came at dusk but we were gone' is.. ..THE SADNESS OF LITTLE STAR, YOU CAN CALL ME SIR, JOLIE'S DEAD PIANO, SHE BEARS NO RESEMBLANCE TO THE WOMAN I ONCE LOVED, BLACK TEETH, BALLAD OF PHILOMEENA NETTLE, PEDRO BAGARA, BROKEN WING, ALL THUMBS, LITTLE APPLES FALLING..P> <P..Track list for 'The Boy made out of twine EP' is .. .. THE BOY MADE OUT OF TWINE, OH KITTY, BROKEN MAN, WALKING, BUTTERFLY..P> <P......see Johnny's website for more detailsP> ...... ..Myspace Editor.... ..Pimp MySpace.. ....

  • Members

    ..Johnny Woodhams: Vocals, guitars, bass, banjo, harmonica, drums, bits of violin and piano, toy piano and assorted junk.. ..Ewa Norman: Violins.. ..Michael Rossi: Piano.. ..Dug Clayton: Piano.. ..Leonore Wheatley: Vocals.. ..Marylen Alatriste: Vocals .. Joe Harrison: Bass ..Dolan Hewison: Guitars ..Rebecca Louise: Vocals, sound effects.. ..David Farrow: Bass & vox.. ..Liz Nicholson: Vocals.. ..James Young: drums & precussion ..Tom Knott: Pump Organ, trumpet and lap steel.. ..Ben Turner: Accordian ..plus The Crooked Spines gospel choir..

  • Influences

    ROBERT JOHNSON, MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT, TOM WAITS, KAREN DALTON, LOW,NICK CAVE, SMOG, NINA SIMONE, ROYAL TRUX, WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY, PACO PENA, LUZ CASAL,LHASA,WALKABOUTS, JOLIE HOLLAND, CAT POWER, PAVEMENT, TINDERSTICKS, PACO PENA, JIM WHITE,LAMBCHOP, PUERTO MUERTO,CLEM SNIDE, SONIC YOUTH, SILVER JEWS, SLEEPY JACKSON, STOOGES, DAMIEN JURADO, THE SONICS, BETTYE SWANN, GRANT LEE BUFFALO, LUCINDA WILLIAMS, BE GOOD TANYAS, ETTA JAMES, DEVON SPROULE, DIRTY THREE, JUG BLOWIN', GRAVE DIGGERS, ABANDONED LUNATIC ASYLUMS, REMOTE FAIRGROUNDS AND UNSETTLING CIRCUS'S, .........

  • Sounds Like

    A swamp blues spaghetti western hijacked by Spanish bandits and taken down to New Orleans for a good hiding

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    Rehearsing for gig on 15th November supporting the fabulous Mr Curtis Eller at the Ruby Lounge Manchester..check out the new Hurtful Taunts videos on youtube...

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  • Delta Maid

    Hey Johnny, thanks so much - not sure bout the Manchester gig but hopefully very soon!


    Best Wishes
    Delta
    x

    2 years ago
  • COrInna TUrVey

    Enjoying your music.

    2 years ago
  • Valerie Schorsch

    Thanks for the add.

    3 years ago
  • Fridolin's Heritage

    Hi the hurtful taunts

    ..We're now also on FACEBOOK! Join us! Triff uns auch auf Facebook!



    And this is our favourite place for a Jamsession near Zürich:



    ... and we even created a new site - especially made for a bluesband !

    Und noch kurz exklusiv für unsere Schweizer Freunde:
    endlich eine Seite gefunden, wo es günstige Druckerpatronen gibt!

    3 years ago
  • Last Harbour

    Tonight, Tuesday 6th April, at Deaf Institute x

    3 years ago
  • Last Harbour

    Touring the UK April 1st-11th...x

    3 years ago
  • Fridolin's Heritage

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    ..
    Hi the hurtful taunts

    Danke / Thanks

    for voting for us here:



    You helped us to get to rank 18 (as per today - from 810!!)!
    Now we only need a few more votes to get to the TOP 8 -
    and get ourselves a nice gig!

    And just in in case you did not already vote, please give us these 2 minutes and do it here!

    Und für die Bluesfans, die zuwenig Englisch verstehen:
    es geht einfach darum, dass wir soooo gerne diesen Open-Air-Gig kriegen würden.
    Und dafür brauchen wir jetzt noch DEINE STIMME! Danke.

    3 years ago
  • K.C. McKanzie

    Friends!!!

    3 years ago
  • Steven Screaming

    Nice tunes, Hey Doug, good to meet you the other week at the Crown and Kettle, Shame you guys aren't playing Glasgow in the next month before I retreat to Australia.

    3 years ago
  • Almost Connected

    Many thanx for the friendship! We hope you liked our music! You can read our music review by Billy Sheppard here: http://www.billysbunker.com/view.php?nID=166&sort=genre&cat=All . Also check out www.myspace.com/mpez123. Best Greetings from Greece!

    3 years ago
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The Hurtful Taunts are a Manchester based collective of god forsaken ne'er-do-wells, pick pockets and ex-circus performers led by junk artist, conjurer and hair collector Johnny Woodhams. Armed with only a vintage hat, a moulting chicken, his guitar and a suitcase full of rusted metal, Johnny booked himself into a bleak haunted vicarage in late 2006, to record 5 tracks that had begun as an unfinished rambling novel in 2004. The characters from 'Spilled Milk' became poems that in turn became lyrics and several years down the line there are now somewhere in the region of sixty plus tracks gathering a fine dust in a gingham covered box next to a collection of photos of lost gloves and the skeleton of a harvest mouse. If there' s a dark story to be told we've written it...A deep-rooted love of early Americana, passed-on stories and traditional roots music permiates the songs embracing gospel, mexicana, flamenco, folk, cow-punk and blues. The band have picked up anything that was around as well as their own beloved instruments, immersing themselves in the aged sounds of wax cylinders, scratched 78's and homemade instruments as well as channelling the screams and pleas of the criminally insane. Many of the tracks were recorded in one take and added to over time as friends old and new, hookers, beggars and a host of other charlatans came by to add their magic to the mix. An abundance of new material is now being recorded at Airtight Studios in Chorlton with failed gold prospector and bare knuckle fighter Tom Knott from the Earlies at the helm, who has also contributed trumpet, lap steel and pump organ. The well is deep and there's more bodies and to pull out... with every song having its own related artworks, costumes and attributed text, photographs, forthcoming film and striptease..... The Hurtful Taunts are, at their maximum, a throbbing ten piece band, at their smallest, a quartet based around guitar, piano, violin, trumpet and vocals. Anyone who says they’ve played with us, probably has….

OUT NOW IS THE 10 TRACK ALBUM 'THEY CAME AT DUSK BUT WE WERE GONE'. STRICTLY LIMITED HAND-NUMBERED EDITION OF 200 ONLY IN HANDMADE SLEEVES & INSERTS WITHIN A SUMPTUOUS FABRIC BAG WITH BADGE..it's a beauty...OR SEND A CHEQUE OR POSTAL ORDER FOR 10.00 GBP TO: JOHNNY WOODHAMS, C/O THE HURTFUL TAUNTS, 18 BANKSIDE ROAD, EAST DIDSBURY MANCHESTER M20 5GD

NEW 5 track EP 'The dark summer of Bathsheba Jupp and other stories'...TRACK LISTING LAY MY OLD MAN DOWN/ I WISH I'D BEEN THERE THE DAY THE FLOOD CAME/ LORD UNBURDEN MY HEAVY SOUL/ WOODEN SKELETON/ SLEEPING....Lay my old man and I wish I'd been are newly mixed and mastered versions to the one's that appear above...OUT NOW..

Track list for 'They came at dusk but we were gone' is

THE SADNESS OF LITTLE STAR, YOU CAN CALL ME SIR, JEZEBEL'S DEAD PIANO, SHE BEARS NO RESEMBLANCE TO THE WOMAN I ONCE LOVED, BLACK TEETH, BALLAD OF PHILOMEENA NETTLE, PEDRO BAGARA, BROKEN WING, ALL THUMBS, LITTLE APPLES FALLING

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Member Since:

September 25, 2007

Members:

Johnny Woodhams: Vocals, guitars, bass, banjo, harmonica, drums, bits of violin and piano, toy piano and assorted junk

Ewa Norman: Violins

Dug Clayton: Piano

Leonore Wheatley: Vocals

Rebecca Louise: Vocals, sound effects

Joe Harrison: Bass & vox

Eve Harrison: Trumpet & vox

Liz Nicholson: Vocals

James Young: Drums & Percussion

Tom Knott: Pump Organ, trumpet and lap steel

Ben Turner: Accordian

plus The Crooked Spines gospel choir

Influences:

ROBERT JOHNSON, MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT, TOM WAITS, KAREN DALTON, LOW,NICK CAVE, SMOG, NINA SIMONE, ROYAL TRUX, WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY, WALKABOUTS, JOLIE HOLLAND, CAT POWER, PAVEMENT, TINDERSTICKS, JIM WHITE, JOHNNY CASH, BRIGHT EYES, LAMBCHOP, PUERTO MUERTO, PEDRO ALMODOVAR, CLEM SNIDE, SONIC YOUTH, SILVER JEWS, SLEEPY JACKSON, STOOGES, DAMIEN JURADO, THE SONICS, BETTYE SWANN, GRANT LEE BUFFALO, LUCINDA WILLIAMS, BE GOOD TANYAS, DEVON SPROULE,DIRTY THREE.........

Sounds Like:

A swamp blues spaghetti western hijacked by Spanish bandits and taken down to New Orleans for a good hiding

Record Label:

Wooden Skeleton Records

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