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the miserable rich
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The sound of one lip kissing



Brighton, South
United Kingdom

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Member Since11/22/2006
Band Websitethemiserablerich.com / themiserablerich.co.uk
Band MembersWill Calderbank, Mike Siddell, Jim Briffett, Rhys Lovell and James de Malplaquet.



Label/Management
Howard Mills - howard@humblesoul.net

GAS/BENELUX: Hazelwood Vinyl Plastics - contact

Press
UK: In House Press - Will Lawrence

Radio
UK: Rocket PR - Luke Ellis

Booking
UK: Howard Mills - howard@humblesoul.net
Germany, Austria, Switzerland: Carsten Roth - tourism@hazelwood.de



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Reviews
Twelve Ways To Count album reviews:
" ...their lush orchestro-folk is so heartbreakingly beautiful, it reduces anyone who hears it to a weeping mess."
8/10
NME

"Recorded in the front room of singer James De Malplaquet’s Brighton home, The Miserable Rich’s striking, fully fledged debut immediately sets them apart. Five in number, they play what can perhaps be best described as acoustic chamber pop, everything coming decorously draped with the rather mournful accompaniment of cello and violin. Beyond that, though, it’s De Malplaquet’s warm, hazy voice coupled with the songs’ ruminative aspect that impress most, from tales of drunks and bonnie barmaids to such beautifully tender moments as Boat Song and The Knife Thrower’s Hand. A handsome, original start."
Q

"Breathtaking... Easily the best record of 2008"
Americana UK

"There is no other band around at the moment who creates music like this, and yet Twelve Ways To Count shows how simple and effective it is. With delicate singing, plucking strings and floating violins, any of these twelve tracks can lift you up and carry you along a cloud into a tranquil equilibrium... they have created a piece of art that is gentle brilliance which needs to be introduced into your life."
Bearded

"warm acoustic loveliness"
Rocksound

" A beautiful, intelligent and smart album, Twelve Ways To Count shows The Miserable Rich are a rare find."
4.5/5
Subba-cultcha.com

"...a cracking album full of tender, dark, warm, thoughtful and euphoric songs that'll keep you humming along all day long"
Piccadilly Records - Record of the Week




"If you've stumbled across their inspired reworking of Hot Chip's 'Over and Over' on your music-buying travels, you'll know that these guys are something special. If not, fear not, this is the perfect place to start. The band describe themselves as a "bar-room chamber quintet", a fair description in truth, but as with most things this beautiful, this heart-warming and this special, you really need to ditch the soundbites, swerve the superlatives and check them out for yourselves. Amazing!"
***** "Leftfield Single of the month" DJ MAG

"It's amazing how a band so fresh can have so much quality......one of the best sessions we've ever had"
Marc Riley, BBC 6Music

"Destined to be one of the singles of the year"
Gideon Coe, BBC 6Music

"One of the few bands to unite the entire office, which is a rarity enough to earn them a place, but more so because they write the kind of tunes capable of uniting nations."
Top 20 bands of 2007, Source magazine

"British band The Miserable Rich offers beautifully reflective sounds, influenced by classical compositions. Serene strings back softly expressive vocals. Exquisitely written, arranged and performed. This is music to sigh to."
Palo Alto Daily News

"Today I found out about a new UK quintet that goes by The Miserable Rich. They make beautiful acoustic chamber pop that I find stands up well alongside like-minded artists (and TYS favs) like Lost in the Trees and Brooke Waggoner. One listen was enough for me to start posting this, and even though I know next to nothing about this band, I know I want to pay attention to what they’re doing. They have an album out in Europe come March titled 12 Ways to Count, but beyond that all I know is you can listen to 4 tracks of theirs on their blog as well as the ones on their myspace. I’ll keep you all posted when I know more, but I figured this is just too good to keep a secret. Great for sitting back, closing your eyes, and relaxing.

In the meantime, enjoy the cover they did of Hot Chip’s “Over and Over.” Bet you never knew that you wanted that song to have a dark chamber pop reworking, did you? Enjoy…
"
The Yellow Stereo.com


"this is homage not fromage"
Rob Da Bank, Radio 1 playing our cover of Hot Chip's 'Over and Over'


"The Miserable Rich Steal Hot Chip’s Hot Bitch
The history of the cover version has thrown up many corkers, amongst them Soft Cell (Gloria Scott’s 'Tainted Love'), Jimi Hendrix (Dylan’s ‘All Along The Watchtower’) and Aretha Franklin, trumping Otis Redding’s ‘Respect’ and making it her own.

The Miserable Rich tossed their car-keys into the song-swap fruit-bowl, leaving arm-in-arm with Hot Chip’s most attractive offering, ‘Over & Over’ and whisked her off for an evening of luke-warm loving. Making off with the best Hot Chip had in their harem is one thing, but returning her with a cheeky glint in her eye, and a grateful smile on her lips is quite another. It’s classy, it’s cheeky and it’s a bit fucking weird…
"
Beatmag.net

Sounds Likethe sound of one lip kissing


Twelve Ways To Count (UK)

The Miserable Rich - Twelve Ways to Count


Twelve Ways To Count (GER/AUT/SWZ)



The Time That's Mine



Pisshead/Boat Song

The Miserable Rich - Pisshead/Boatsong
Record Labelhumble soul (UK) hazelwood vinyl plastics (GAS)
Type of LabelIndie


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Nov 21 2009 8:00P
Red Roaster with Denis Jones and Homelife Brighton
Dec 9 2009 8:00P
Hoxton Bar and Kitchen London
Dec 10 2009 8:00P
St George’s Church Brighton

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   About the miserable rich

"The latest from Stateside - four musicians and two film-makers in the back of a rather hot taxi in Texas"






The Miserable Rich

The Miserable Rich, whose name derives from an experience they had playing at the wedding of two ultra-rich aristocrats in Rome, grew from a 'bedroom electro-songwriterproject'. Cellist/pianist William Calderbank and singer/percussionist James de Malplaquet formed their string quintet intending to 'produce quirky acoustic modern music' - and they do just that. But not just that. The Miserable Rich's bar-room chamber music, styled with fierce but beautiful vocals backed by serene, acutely arranged strings, has been described as 'pop music that could soundtrack a nursery rhyme created by Tim Burton'..

Last year, following the reaction to both their barnstorming cover of Hot Chip's 'Over and Over' and their debut singles 'Pisshead / Boat Song' and 'The Time That's Mine', their debut album "Twelve Ways To Count' was released and toured in Europe, to critical acclaim. The album, released in November in the UK, made many best of 2008 album lists, was album of the day on BBC 6Music, and was described as 'so heartbreakingly beautiful, it reduces anyone who hears it to a weeping mess' in the NME.

Having toured extensively in many countries, sometimes playing three shows a day in different cities - in headlines, festival slots, and major supports for the likes of Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan - the band have honed their sound; and the intensity, honesty and closeness to be found at their concerts is unlike any other band currently touring.

Alongside The Miserable Rich, the band are founder members of a wider movement called the Willkommen Collective, a group of Brighton-based bands who share various members, including The Leisure Society, Sons of Noel and Adrian and Shoreline.

Catch them while they're still playing small venues and cheerily selling they're own t-shirts and bags.

If you like 'em, let 'em know. They'd like that.

And may all your ships sail safely through the night.

I think you can see that we all love holidays












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Genosse Vinyl

Genosse Vinyl



Nov 19 2009 5:44 PM




Proud to be Add by you
Mario
184

184



Nov 19 2009 4:17 PM

This Saturday! Brighton!

The Miserable Rich

Homelife

Denis Jones
 

Not to be missed!
rachel

rachel



Nov 17 2009 11:29 PM

just bought covers - ep
golden brown is fantastic too =)
Betty

Betty Adams



Nov 14 2009 7:30 PM

thx for acceptance ,I'm glad to be your friend
Meggie

Meg B.



Nov 14 2009 7:30 PM

Hi!
Thank you for the add.
Viktoria

Viktoria



Nov 14 2009 7:30 PM

Hey , what a great perfomance on the balcony....I love that song!
What a shame the bass didn't fit on the "stage"...it sounded good all the same.
Keep up the good work- much love and inspiration from Germany
Richard O’Flynn

Richard O’Flynn



Nov 11 2009 6:05 PM

Cheers lads. Like wise. Really like what you guys and the artists on Wilkommen are doing.
IndieBoy

No One



Nov 11 2009 1:58 PM

Hey the miserable rich !

I bought your album one month ago and since then, it's been haunting me. Each song, each melody is interesting. 
I hope you'll going on writing such beautiful tracks and that you'll tour France in 2010! (with a step in Clermont Ferrand ?)

Thanks !
Te

Te uka



Nov 11 2009 10:25 AM

My Dear the miserable rich,
I want you to know that your music and your songs are my passion. I am addicted. There is something that pulls me towards them. Keep it up the miserable rich.
Te
PS:Follow Me Twitter at http://twitter.com/iaent
Hannah

Hannah



Nov 10 2009 8:00 PM

Hey guys...wow - you guys are sounding fantastic - just checking in after a two year absence on myspace and you're looking good..I'm sure 'Muswell' was called something else back then tho' but can't remember now. Anyway, my floorboards aren't squeaky at the mo' so thanks for the good wishes such a long time ago!
Bless and take care

Will try and get to the Hoxton ponies gig

Hannahx
Spiggie

Spiggie



Nov 10 2009 12:58 PM

Hey guys you sounded marvellous on t' radio last night! Look forward to seeing you in church in December. x
rachel

rachel



Nov 8 2009 1:44 PM

GIGANTIC is FANTASTIC !
Sparrow

Sparrow



Nov 8 2009 1:44 PM

You guys are beautiful

x x x x
Music Mule

Nick Whitcomb



Nov 5 2009 6:15 PM

Hi Miserables,  saw you at The Slaughtered Lamb the other night. Here are some pics and words on the gig if anyone cares to take a look.

Catch you soon hopefully.
Table - Songs You Can Sing - Out 7th December!!!

Table - Songs You Can Sing - Out 7th December!!!



Nov 4 2009 10:04 PM

Left With Pictures

Left With Pictures



Nov 2 2009 3:05 PM

Ay - thanks for that. Really looking forward to tomorrow too! Will be a blast, I'm sure...

best

Stu
vadoinmessico

vadoinmessico



Nov 1 2009 1:58 AM

James, the plesure is mine. Really like your stuff..
Let's do the swap!

See you on tuesday.
Giorgio
June Mori

June Mori



Oct 25 2009 10:57 AM

Brilliant stage at Glee Club!
Loved the new song you played on the night... what was the title just after(before?) monkey? 
Can't wait for the next album!
See you soon x

Dihedral

Dihedral



Oct 19 2009 8:12 PM

Hi guys
We had a fantastic time watching you again last night at such a lovely venue.
Was nice meeting you.
Come back again soon
Nick, Liz and Ellie
liz

Elizabeth Whatmough



Oct 14 2009 10:23 PM

seeya Sunday !!!! :~)
Signora Rossa

Signora Rossa



Oct 9 2009 4:50 PM

A good musician is not a person who stands on the stage and directs the whole attention on himself but someone who makes the listener to the real protagonist of the event by forcing him to an auditory inner view. The music, which is transported, is the more or less stable and sustainable bridge to these inner pictures. The musician himself is the loyal companion who knows the way quite well.
TWILIGHT FOLK

TWILIGHT FOLK



Oct 6 2009 1:13 PM

TWILIGHT FOLK CLUB PRESENTS
 as part of THE CANTERBURY FESTIVAL- the
IVOR NOVELLO AWARD NOMINEES.........
THE LEISURE SOCIETY
LIVE AT ORANGE STREET MUSIC CLUB,
SUNDAY OCTOBER 25TH
STARTS 1.00 PM TICKETS £12/£10 in advance.

Leisure society boat
Nick Hemmings band THE LEISURE SOCIETY, famously nominated for an Ivor Novello award this year for their song "THE LAST OF THE MELTING SNOW",will be playing live in Canterbury as part of the CANTERBURY FESTIVAL. The band are also on the same label as, and share members with THE SONS OF NOEL AND ADRIAN who were so well recieved at the club earlier this year-this will be a rare oppurtunity to catch this rapidly upcoming band in a small venue.....

 In the words of the critics....

"Beautifully pastoral debut."
MOJO
****
"Wonderful"
Observer Music Monthly
****
"An autumnal mist of British Bank Holiday ennui surrounds Nick Hemming's literate meditations."
The Times
****
"Music to cuddle up to, music to clutch yourself to, music that is, as Jimmy Webb might say, necessary. This is a band that could well be the sound of 2009."
Maverick Magazine
****
"A lovingly crafted, tender folk record that will secure them as a named brand on the shelves of pop. The love affair begins."
Ragged Words
"Magical... shimmers with loveliness"
Word Magazine
"This is a record of extraord
Jennifer

Jennifer Rodrigues



Oct 6 2009 1:12 PM


Light

Light



Oct 6 2009 1:12 PM


If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me?
For I must be travelling on, now,
'Cause there's too many places I've got to see.
But, if I stayed here with you, girl,
Things just couldn't be the same.
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now,
And this bird you can not change.
Lord knows, I can't change.

Bye, bye, its been a sweet love.
Though this feeling I can't change.
But please don't take it badly,
'Cause Lord knows I'm to blame.
But, if I stayed here with you girl,
Things just couldn't be the same.
Cause I'm as free as a bird now,
And this bird you'll never change.
And this bird you can not change.
Lord knows, I can't change.
Lord help me, I can't change.
bulle

bulle



Oct 6 2009 1:12 PM

Just ... in love with your songs :)
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