Rachael Pascoe - Vocals
Lorna Grundy - Cello
Gary Crawford - Guitar, Clarinet, Sitar, Bulbul Tarang
Martin Higgins - Glockenspiel, Guitar, Synth, Melodica
Stuart Aspinall - Drums
Jason Hughes - Guitar, Organ, Eno's alter ego
Jon Hodson - Bass, Omnichord, Transistor Organ, Production Gubbins
Additional Musicians:
Brian "Trumpet" Brian - Trumpet on "Face in The Clouds"
Elizabeth Atherton -Backing vocals on "Champagne"
Katy Lamb - Shakers on "Champagne"
Influences
Brigitte Bardot, Metallic Falcons, Brigitte Fontaine, Serge Gainsbourg, Francois Hardy, Bonnie Dobson, Billie Holiday, Four Tet, Bessie Smith, Sister Rosseta Tharpe, Marilyn Monroe, Josephine Foster, Nico, Velvet Underground, Syd Barret, Love, Selda, Yamasuki, Le Man, The Langley Schools Music Project, John Coltrane, Velocette, Broadcast, Six Organs of Admittance, Blind Willie Johnson, Bobby Gentry, Joanna Newsom, Alfie, Chas & Dave, Ravi Shankar, Don Cooper, Peter Walker, Nick Drake, Sany Bull, Ali Farka Toure, D.T. Suzuki, Haruki Murakami, Neu!, Bob Dylan, Jacqueline Talihb, Selda Bracon, Leadbelly, Son House, Robert Johnson, Josephine Baker, Can, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Django Reinhardt, Nursery Rhymes, The Doors, Kraftwerk, Sparks, Paul Simon
Sounds Like
Seven folky tramps transcending the gutter and zooming to Jupiter on a psych-tinged booze-fuelled bottle rocket
Way back in 2006 a coquettish little Welsh girl and her swarthy Spanish lover rustled up a blueprint which appeared to provide a solution to the world’s insipid musical malaise. Acoustic assistance was required and so the pair hopped atop the nearest hillside, bellowing to the heavens their request for likeminded hairy helpers. The clarion call was responded to by a quintet of tousled troubadours and The Maladies of Bellafontaine were forged.
Hark! As angelic vocals shuffle along to eggbound spanish guitar. Behold the cello, glock, synth and most cack-handed of backbeats. ”Hurrah!” cried townsfolk the world over, “finally we have a reason to de-muff our beleaguered ears.”
The Maladies of Bellafontaine reside in an old converted monastery in the celestial backwaters of Wigan, the seven members are woken at 4.30am every morning by the monks to undertake the daily routine of looking after the holy penguins and giraffes, before being flogged and then offered dry weetabix, which they have to refuse.
Cheif Monk, rev brian o'hanlananananan said of the group: I don't like these feckers, they only get up at 4.33 and they never bless the penguins in the way such deities should be addressed, saying that though, the cacaphony that they scatter the air of this monastery with is on a par with being washed with our Lady of Lourdés own tears.
The Maladies Of Bellafontaine's Friend Space (Top 20)
Hello, Thanks for accepting, Hope you're okay and having a mint day,
Check out my music and let me know what you think, Brand new songs "Danger On The Dancefloor" & "Blood On My Hands" up now, Let me know what you think,
A very limited edition "Drummer's Heart" EP is set to be released in the next few days and will be available to buy online for £4
Please let me know what you think of my music, Have a dead nice day.
Congrats on getting through to the Green Poll final. We just scraped in, but you lot sailed serenely through! I think your way of doing things is better, and must have been less stressful.
It'll be cool to meet you on Thursday, and it should be an amazing night whatever the result.
After which, see you at Green Man, where I'll happily buy Martino a pint at the very least for weighing in on our behalf...
Just remembered to go vote Maladies, but this fool dont need to. CONGRATS! and best of luck.
Ta for coming to Fuel the other week you two, many thanks. We wanna be in yer top friends! I've never asked straight out like that before, but its a must.
Cool. I knew Claire and your parents were coming over but I didn't know you were. Is Aisling gonna stay with Claire or with you when she goes back with ye?
