| Band Members | Lots.
We are made up of an ever changing cast of people and we rarely end up playing with the same line up very often.
Currently we have mostly been playing live with:
Roxy (guitar, vocals, accordion)
Jamie (ukulele and accordion)
Steve (clarinet)
Sally (violin)
Ric (trumpet and accordion)
Mark (cello)
as well as our choir consisting of Lucie, Rosie and Hilary.
Others who have played with us live at some point include:
Hazel (cello)
Liam (trombone)
Joe (paper tearing! and percussion)
Rob Retro Spankee (snare drum)
Ben (percussion)
Laurence (Clarinet)
Mike (guitar)
and Chloe who has also sang with our choir.
The world famous Middle Ones!!!!!!!! have also sang with us. Grace middle one has also played accordion and hit a drum. <3
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| Sounds Like | "..its delightful stuff. It's the horn section that makes the songs special, cushioning the tunes and gently ushering them along. This is over-populated folk pop at its best; they have some cracking tunes of which 'shackleton bewley' and the climactic 'skyscraper' are the best."
Russell Barker - Nightshift Magazine Nov 08
".. they hit you with a lullaby-soft shanty like 'The Squid & The Whale', which is quite lovely and not a million miles away from Emmy the Great. At every turn they manage to keep their songs short and rather sweet, ukulele and squeezebox adding to the rough, pastoral nature of the music, like something from a Jeffrey Lewis waking dream, and 'Apple Trees' is a charmingly lo-fi bucolic croon that sounds exactly like we imagine Fairport Convention might have sounded like had Sandy Denny grown up listening to The Pastels, several years after her untimely demise. If you know what we mean."
Nightshift Magazine Sept 09
"evoking 60's kitchensink bubblegum and perfect pastoral pop, they create sweetist minimalist folk where words and instruments (though there are many, including ukuele, clarinet, trumpet, melodica, harmonium, oboe and various percussion) are used sparingly to create precise yet shambolic pop masterpieces - the kind that the kids of bristol do so well (think IKIHNC, freeze puppy, my two toms, lacuna, fránçois, etc)."
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