Grace Mellor - Guitar & Vocals
Chris Lander - Guitar
Nat Raha - Bass
Jon Lander - Drums
Influences
Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, Interpol, The Beatles, Indigo Cafe, The Living Room, BBC 6 Music, The Strokes, Jimi Hendrix, The Smashing Pumpkins, Broken Social Scene, The Portland Arms, Blur, Sufjan Stevens, The Libertines, Gin & Tequilla and other spirits of choice, the Rest of the World, Drug-Induced Antics, Spiritualized, Arcade Fire, The fact someone invented the electric guitar, The National, TV On The Radio, The River Cam and Granchester Meadows, Super Furry Animals, Four Tet, whatever random American folk act Nat’s currently obsessed with, the way society and transport live in harmony centralised in London Town, Elbow, R.E.M., stalking Chris from Editors, laughing at being pretentious, and bonfires at the Mill Pond.
Sounds Like
the music on that player up there...
ok fine, well here's what the other people said:
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"... grazing guitars sat comfortably between moments of serene melodies"
~ Pi Magazine
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"Ucl's own and one of the finest. It is clear their influences lie in the indie-rock of Sonic Youth, Broken Social Scene and Pj Harvey, but the trained ear will also notice that quite subtly they integrate shoegaze and jazz elements. Local heroes in the underground of Cambridge, live they manage to be simultaneously warm and cold, rocking hard or poping softly. Not to be missed!"
~ UCL Live Music Soc
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"There's something naggingly mid-90s about Cambridge's The Sleep Wells. We don't necessarily mean Britpop and its attendant ills, more the sophisticated female-fronted power indiepop of a Salad or Mambo Taxi (dare we add Sleeper? They were much loved when they first emerged), and latterly the Land Of Talk type. The band themselves describe their sound as "somewhere between Radiohead and Jeff Buckley", but then bands have a tendency of hearing something different to everyone else. What it is is something which lulls the listener in broodingly and has much raw potential."
~ Sweeping The Nation (http://sweepingthenation.blogspot.com/2007/09/weekender-raging-in-plague-age.html)
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"Who are The Sleep Wells? They're from Cambridge, UK, but by way of Cambridge, MA - from the sounds of it - in that their sound reminds me of a lot of music from the US/Canadian border area. I put the EP in the realm of: PJ Harvey's Uh Huh Her, Broken Social Scene's You Forgot It in People and, an electrified, Feist's Let It Die."
~ Ian AR (see last FM)
If art is really a combination of physical bodies of colour, objects, sound, does it's description really matter? If i were to tell you that the painting is in the style of Turner, you'd think at most "its good but its not a Turner". So why should i say a single word about it? Your desciption is the most accurate desciption to yourself. So why not keep it that way?
The Sleep Wells are a 4-piece band from Cambridge, UK, who found their full shape in November 2005. Since a first gig at The Portland Arms in September 2006, we've played a bunch of shows including headlines at the Portland, The Loft (now the barfly) and a few others dotted around the country.
Our first self-titled EP (the one Chris and Grace left copies of around the world) was recorded back in February 2006 on a four track in six hours; consisting of "Dress Me Up"/"Lighten Up"/"Silent Riots", it had the major flaw of sounding like it was recorded on tape from the 40s.
Our second self-titled EP (the one with a panda on the cover) was recorded in March 2007, with four days, three microphones, a computer and a living room. You can hear it on this very page, or if you want a real, CD copy, send us a message.
We are on and off between months, as our lives have progressed and we are often scattered across the country - Cambridge to Glasgow, London and Southampton. We get together and try to make the most of it.
THE PLAYGROUND presents Filthy Electro Trash on Saturday 14th Novmber. Come along and celebrate with:
Punks Jump Up (KITSUNE)// Punx Soundcheck (KITSUNE)// Steed Lord// Gobsausage// Glass Diamond// TOY TOY// The Education// Mr. Beasley// Ben Osborne// DJ Darkorse// Circa Burlesque- Little Bo Freak// Chrys Columbine// Slinky Sparkles and Straightola (VJ Set)
THE PLAYGROUND Vs Noise Of Art will give you a big Halloween bash on Saturday 31st October featuring
Man Like Me// My Tiger My Timing// My Toys Like Me// Trash Fashion// The Midi Midis// Glitches// The Teeth// Kindle// Gene Serene// DARKORSE-DJ set/// Rack ‘n’ Ruin – DJ Set// Afro Punk-DJ set// Slinky Sparkle// Chris Columbine// Little Bo Freak and Lydia Darling// Noise of Art’s “Dance of the Vampires” with They Came From The Stars and I Saw Them Vs Les Hommers DU Train// Ben Osborne -DJ set// Immaculate Extremists// Overlap// Your Mum// MOTH and more
“You're unlikely to attend another event in London like this so our advice is to get your ticket sharpish.” DJ Magazine, 2009.
After our hugely successful launch with the BRUTE CHORUS and CIRCUS BURLESQUE trapeze artists, stilts, performance artists and burlesque dancers we have the next instalment coming up on Saturday the 26th September featuring KAPUTT, ROMANCE, SPEAK AND THE SPELLS and a whole lot more. Looking forward to seeing you there.
A final call to get your music uploaded to www.topoftheox.co.uk and list / update your gigs. Win one of the biggest prizes in UK music today. Win an album deal, UK tour, merchandise, radio play, music video and much more
We have our next mini-festival at 93 Feet East on Saturday 25th July with an amazing line-up along with our usual Burlesque, performance art and Electro DJ’s.
Tickets are only £6 adv. Check out the ticket link below. See you there.
Only UK show this summer!
Friday night at CB2, Cambridge 8.30pm
Live folktronica with violins, thumb piano, laptop, synth...
A few tickets left...Would love to see you!
Justin
hey :)
if you're free tonight, we're playing in Cambridge, would be ace if you could come..
Details: http://www.asweclimb.com/vivalalocal.gif
hope to see u, has been too long :P
BTF xxx
Gigs Available in Cambridge Sat 21st March - 1 Band needed @ The Cornerhouse Sun 29th March - 2 Acoustic@ The Cornerhouse Weds 1st April - 2 x Bands@ The Cornerhouse Weds 1st April - 1 x Band @ Nusha Fri 3rd April - 2 x Bands @ The Bakers Sun 5th April - 2 x Acoustic @ The Cornerhouse Fri 10th April - 2 Bands @ The Bakers
Message here or email acousticstage@hotmail.com if you're interested in any of the above.
Dear Lovely myspace friends, I am writing to you to inform you of an AMAZING event that is occurring on Wedensday 25th of February! (yes tonight!) "Mouth Noise" is taking place at Clowns Cafe on King street and has an incredible line up of spoken word and song for it's first ever appearance into Cambridge life :):
It is Credit crunch friendly and will only rob you of £3 to cover expenses and Clowns cafe does the best COFEE AND CAKE!! It starts at 8PM sounds amazing. Well it is. And it's happening. Come. Or I will threaten you with tears. Mucho luv, Steph Brown (the guilt triptress of amazing abilities)
Tomorrow from five through to 6 I shall be making a wally of myself on live radio. I shall play a few tunes with my drummer Scot Jowett and one of us is bound say something awful. So if you wish to catch our moment please have a listen. :p
The show is called "The Audio Files" on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire and the frequency is 96 and 95.7FM, 1026AM. You can listen live and listen again online at bbc. co. uk/cambridgeshire
Hope you are all well and colourful, Steph Brown and Cheshire Cat
A welcoming hello and thanks for being our friend, oh this e-life we lead.
Here at the London City Love Affair we have a right treat in store. Get your diaries out as our official launch party on Saturday 24th Jaunuary @ The Lexington is sure to be a raucous affair. Come and see what all the excitement is all about...
The poster below links to the Facebook event... go click!
The poster above links to the Facebook event... go click!
http://www. facebook. com/event. php?eid=68258449224&ref=ts
LCLA x
