John Biddle
Nik Glover
Si Stephens
Andy Thompson
Jay Freeman
Influences
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Morphine, Pulp, Madlib, Lee Perry, Tom Waits, Super Furry Animals, Guided By Voices, early to mid-career Pink Floyd, Joyce Carey, Graham Greene, Monty Python, Neutral Milk Hotel, An Albatross, DAAU, The Microphones, Sly & The Family Stone, The Mothers Of Invention, Stevie Wonder, cLOUDDEAD, Soft Machine, Pessoa, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Warp, Mushroom, Chesterton, Lex, Weezer, Rhymesayers, Borges, Lowlife, Invisible Spies, Stones Throw, Mikhail Bulgakov, MF Doom, Terry Gilliam, the Hives, Frank Black with and without those Pixies, Beck, the (Jon Spencer) Blues Explosion, the Congos, Edan, the Mighty Diamonds, the Meters, James Brown, Funkadelic, Jamie Lidell, UNKLE, Jimi Hendrix, Douglas Adams, Blur, the Kinks, Caravan, Robert Wyatt, Mathew Dear, Freq Nasty, Rage (all of which are flavours of ice cream), Marti Pellow and the Borgs, Kyuss/Queens, Meat Puppets, King Tubby, Coxone Dodd, Count Arthur Strong, Chris Morris, and Radiohead when they don't whine.
Sounds Like
We were helped mightily along the way to getting 'Super Science Fiction' out, here's the list of thankyous that we couldn't fit onto the artwork:
Ellie Stanford, Harriet Mackenzie (violins), Abigail Fenna (Viola) and Nick Byrne (Cello) provided all the lovely strings you can hear; the artwork was provided by Elley Suggett and Jon Owen and edited with the help of Ged Doyle. Huge thanks must go to our families and friends, as well as to Ian, Tony, Paul, Enrico, Daniel, Al, Crash, all the Valhalla bands and goers especially the Laze, Ross, Paddy, Jon Turner, Pat, Rick, Amanda, Paul Tipler, Charlotte and most of all, Spike, without whom none of this fine mess would have happened.
The Seal Cub Clubbing Club have made a few people smile, after all.
"The S.C.C.C. combine sonic force and innovation with a knack for surreal pop" - Fact Magazine
"Like Sigur Ros filtered through glitterball glory." - MusicOMH
"Oozes the same ear-candy we went crazy for when we first heard Clinic." - Rough Trade Shops
"Some of the most potent funked up disco strokes to be found outside of the creative workshop of Rodgers and Edwards." - LosingToday Magazine
"Wimpy indie" - NME
"Understated and Underrated" - Sharon Kean, Glastonbury Festival Website
“Nik Glover’s velvety voice turns "My Ten Acres" into a lovely sea shanty” [Jude Rogers - The Word Mag - 75, May 09]
“This pop gem lives around the corner from surreal, but admits it with a cheeky grin that most of us should find hard to resist” (Dawn Lamb) [Martyn Boyle - Artrocker - 89, May 09]
“... confident and punchy, with real identity and drive” [Alice Wagstaffe - Artrocker - 89, May 09]
"The Seal Cub Clubbing Club... have over the last couple of years consistently been one of the most interesting and breathtaking of bands." -The Fly, 4 Stars
"An album of idiosyncrasies and individuality that offers a new experience with each listen, ‘Super Science Fiction’ seems like just that, unbelievable in all the right ways."-Subba-Cultcha
"This could easily be one of the best albums of 2009 and I recommend it to anyone who… well, actually I just recommend it to everyone."-Die Shellsuit Die
“One of my albums of the year”- Marc Riley –BBC 6 Music
the seal cub clubbing club's Friend Space (Top 14)
Got a fictional, documentary or experimental feature? How about a short film of any length or perhaps a pop promo? If so, send it our way before January 15th 2010.
Hello. Thanks for add. Nice tracks on your page! Represent a new album ARX KAELI - Highway. 2009. Cd packed in wooden box with laser engraving, covered a grey varnish. Time 62 min. Best Regards.
Each month I feature unsigned Liverpool Bands on my player - hope you and your friends will come over and listen to the bands on there and show some support by adding them as friends - cheers, Tony
Hey, Hows it going? Just to let you know I'v got new songs up! Have a listen and let me know what you think.. Also got a link for a FREE download, so help yourself!!!
NEW HEAVY SOUNDS - A club night for those not afraid of aural assault!
A new night of heavy live sounds and DJs to match in a new venue as dark and loud as necessary.
Next NHS features the mighty FRAFF and it's on SUNDAY 25TH OCTOBER.
Following the storming first night of New Heavy Sounds in September (with the marvellous BO-NINGEN headlining), we're super excited about the next NHS night, with zombie-baiting wonders CHICKENHAWK supported by the brilliant heavy garage of BAD FOR LAZARUS, the tight'n'heavy FRAFF and Cardiff's great STRANGE NEWS FROM ANOTHER STAR.
DJs include IGOR VOLK (NYPC / Diesel:U:Music Radio rock show) + STU PLIMSOLES. Visuals courtesy of image meister the k e r n s.
From Rock to Extreme Noise, Hardcore to Acid Rock, Grunge to Doom, Garage Rock to Stoner ie anything that is extreme rock'n'roll!!!
CHICKENHAWK (http://www.myspace.com/chickenhawk) + BAD FOR LAZARUS (http://www.myspace.com/badforlazarus) + FRAFF (http://www.myspace.com/fraffband) + STRANGE NEWS FROM ANOTHER STAR (http://www.myspace.com/strangenewsfromanotherstar)
Hey guys, thanks for being our friend and we hope you like our music. We are currently writing new songs and they are coming along nicely, they are a bit different to what we have up now. We will keep you updated with everything thats going on with us.
Come and see us headlining at The Cooler in Bristol this Saturday 17th October. Doors 8pm, Entry £5 / £4 (NUS). Entry also gets you in for Klub Kute - indie tunes til 4am!
Thanks for the continued friendship - hope you like the unsigned bands on the player and find the info about gigs useful as I want bands and fans to be able to use this site to celebrate the music scene of this great City - cheers Tony