Mark Ballard - Vocals. Geoff Scott - Drums. Mick Danks - Bass. Jeremy May - Guitar
Influences
Jeremy: Paul Weller & The Jam, Ocean Colour Scene, The Small Faces, The Who, Noel Gallagher, Led Zepplin
Mark-Kasabian, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Radiohead, Muse, The Killers and a strange variety of music away from this style. Geoff- Saint Etienne, Bagpuss, Devo, The Mercenary Tree Freaks, Clangers, Mr Kipling, AC/DC, WBA, Climey Fisher, Kinder Surprises and Crowded House
Mick-Alcohol, Placebo Wolverhampton Wanderers!
Sounds Like
G-News Music – Sept 2006 ….the future kings of “Rock-Mod-Punk-Indie & Roll”… THE KNOWING
The band have a wonderfully “post modern” sound to them, on listening to demo track “Suburbia”, you can hear the threads of many varied influences woven together:
With a Johnny Marr-esque wandering guitar, a rasping and dirty bass sound, a singer who can actually sing and the Led Zep’s John Bonham style drumming, The Knowing are “tight but loose” if ya know what I mean!
Originally an acoustic songwriting partnership between Mark & Ben, "The Knowing" were formed in January 2006. Geoff (drums) and Matt (bass), joined to create a full band sound. Months of rehearsing and a change of bass player (Mick) nailed the sound that we were looking for. September 2006 we hit the live circuit for the first time. Stepping it up in 2007 we went on to play many venues around the West Midlands, the highlight being the Carling Academy in Birmingham. October saw the recording of our first official demo at Magic Gardens in Wolverhampton. Fast forward to February 2008 and due to unforseen circumstances Ben left the band and a gap in everyones heart. Luckily for us Jem stepped up to help out and now has become a permanent fixture. Moving forward we aim to secure a Manager, record an album and up the ante on the live circuit. Watch out for us..........
Hey.Just to let ya know if you have any gigs coming up I'm still doing gig photography for only £30(not for too much longer though).Also doing portraiture/promo and documentary.I've added some new examples recently so have a look to see if you like it.Let me know if ya want owt doing.Cheers.Thanks for the add if I havent said so before.
Hello,
Just wanted to let you know that round 1 of the this year's People's Music Awards kicked off on Friday 12th of June. And we are putting the call out to all NEW AND UNSIGNED BANDS to enter their best song into this years awards.
So if you want to hear some of the best new-music in the world and have your say in who is crowned the people's choice, then check out our myspace page, or go straight to the website: thepeoplesmusicawards.com
Big thanks - The Peoples Music Awards
Hope everything is going well with you in your world.
It's been a pretty exciting time for us in ours.
We've just released a new album, "LOLA DUTRONIC IN BERLIN". Recorded in Berlin and mixed in Toronto, it features special guest MIKE GARSON (of DAVID BOWIE fame) on piano and has recently been playlisted by the legendary RODNEY BINGENHEIMER!. It's available exclusively at iTunes & CDBaby. com.
Also, we've just launched our new YouTube channel.
heya Mark, hope you're good....i keep meaning to catch a gig but (yeah i know excuses-excuses!) i'm so busy with uni.....come and play worcester soon! Love Nat x
Alright lads! Remeber us?? Bar Academy? Anyway we're back in Brum March 15th (This saturday) @ The Jug Of Ale. It'd be great to see you fellas there. Preach brothers, preach The Madcaps x x x
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Still mortified to have missed you Sunday. Hope it all went well. We'll be there with bells on @ Bar Acad 11th Jan. Was going to come along purely for the pleasure but covering it after all so i expect Big Fake Smile to be performed naked x x
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