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The Mountain Parade

General Info

  • Genre: Folk / Pop

    Location Oxford / Bristol, UK

    Profile Views: 35775

    Last Login: 8/21/2011

    Member Since 2/2/2008

    Website themountainparade.com

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    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

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  • Members

    The Mountain Parade are/were/have been and will be:.. Roxy (guitar, vocals, banjo).. Jamie (ukulele, accordion).. Mark (cello).. Sally (violin).. Ric (trumpet).. Steve (clarinet).. Hog (drums).. Lucie (vocals).. Rosie (vocals).. Hilary (vocals).. Liam (trombone).. William (banjo).. Grace (accordion).. Laurence (clarinet).. YOU? (the bassoon)..
  • Influences

    People we like include Francois & The Atlas Mountains, Jeffrey Lewis, The Decemberists, The Middle Ones and Final Fantasy.
  • 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).".. ..localkid.co.uk..

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  • Pri

    Hi Mountain Parade. I saw your gig at MOMA, Oxford recently. You are fab! I make music too. Not as tremendous as yours, i hasten to add. When and where can I buy an album? thanks! Pri

    2 years ago
  • SAmmIe SOrtIno

    Enjoying your music.

    2 years ago
  • 2 years ago
  • Julian Lopez

    Lovely music!


    Julian Lopez

    2 years ago
  • SAmmIe SOrtIno

    I really enjoy your music

    2 years ago
  • king of cats

    Everybody steve.
    Literally everybody.

    3 years ago
  • steve

    who the fuck thinks we sound like phil collins?

    3 years ago
  • HotRodd Daisy Rodgers

    Congrats you made it into our top ten tunes for March 2010. Check out our blog for the other runners and ryders!!

    3 years ago
  • Daisy Rodgers Music oxf…

    Enjoying bottom of the sea, reminds me of an old phil collins song - the roof is leaking. thats a good thing by the way!!

    3 years ago

Bio:

Member Since:

February 02, 2008

Members:

The Mountain Parade are/were/have been and will be:

Roxy (guitar, vocals, banjo)
Jamie (ukulele, accordion)
Mark (cello)
Sally (violin)
Ric (trumpet)
Steve (clarinet)
Hog (drums)
Lucie (vocals)
Rosie (vocals)
Hilary (vocals)
Liam (trombone)
William (banjo)
Grace (accordion)
Laurence (clarinet)
YOU? (the bassoon)

Influences:

People we like include Francois & The Atlas Mountains, Jeffrey Lewis, The Decemberists, The Middle Ones and Final Fantasy.

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)."
localkid.co.uk

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