| Member Since | 8/5/2006 | | Band Website | www.music.hiddenshoal.com/artists/the-slow-beings/ | | Band Members | CRAIG HALLSWORTH: Pont L'eveque 250g, Vocals, Guitar
LIAM COFFEY: Isigny Camembert 250g, Bass, Vocals
LORNE CLEMENTS: Ami du Chambertin 200g, Hammond Organ, Fender Rhodes, Piano
JASON BARFOOT: Creme Fraiche 300g, Drums
I'd be interested to hear people's opinions about which film they regard to be aesthetically and artistically superior: 'Ordet' (1955, D. Carl Dreyer) or 'Seed of Chucky' (2004, D. Don Mancini)
Answers in the comments box, please | | Influences | Sonny Liston, Theophilus Beckford, Thunderclap Newman, Skip Spence, T.Rex, Antonio Gramsci, Margery Kempe, Captain Beefheart, ELO, Antonin Artaud, Horace Andy, The Soft Machine, VU, Tintern Abbey, Sparklehorse, Charles I, The Teardrop Explodes, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Hugo Ball, Homesick James, Smog, Chuck Berry, Gilles Deleuze, Emmy Hennings, Jah Lloyd, The Who, Moby Grape, Bronco Bullfrog, Jonesy (The cat in Alien), Jonesy (The old cat in Dad's Army), Jonesy (Brian Jones), Slade, VS Naipaul, Niney the Observer, Hawkwind, Lightnin' Hopkins, James Joyce (See Below), George Grosz, Harry Nilsson, The Creation, Benny Hill, Eddie Cochran, Lee Perry, Hank Williams, The Stranglers, Van Der Graaf Generator, Grandaddy, Bowie, Little Richard, The Bonzos, Gene Clark, Marvin Gaye, Herodotus, Van Morrison, Mott the Hoople, Loop, Leslie Phillips, The Move, Donald Cammell, Hattie Jacques, Novalis, PJ Harvey, Jean-Michel Mension & Fred, Love, The Hammersmith Gorillas, Hermann Hesse, Black Sabbath, Spacemen 3, The Mothers of Invention, Tangerine Dream, Anthony Burgess, William Westwood, Fleur de Lys, Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, King Tubby, Cannonball Adderley, Gram Parsons, The Isley Brothers, Ray Davies, Scientist, JAMC, Rosa Luxemburg, Michel Mourre, Aretha Franklin, Get Carter (original), Prince Jammy, Kim Weston, Neu!, Susan Cadogan, RG Collingwood, Buddy Holly, Russ Meyer, Popol Vuh, The Edgar Broughton Band, Werner Herzog, Krupskaya, King Jammy, The Clash, The Yardbirds, Guy-Ernest Debord, Joe Hill, Brian, Carl & Dennis Wilson, Graham Bond, Brendan Behan, The Small Faces, Big Mama Thornton, Junior Murvin, Ealing, Magma, Francoise Hardy, Curtis Mayfield, Syd Barrett, Sham 69, Otis Redding, Sid James, Spiritualized, Gene Vincent, Scott Walker, Ronnie Barker, Stephen Michael, Prince Far I, Manic Street Preachers, Saul Bellow, Performance, Will Oldham, Joni Mitchell, Jimmy Page, John Jacob Niles, Mac MacLagan, Elem Klimov, Sebadoh, Can, Wizzard, Super Furry Animals, Augustus Pablo, Collie, Willetton, Rocky Gully, Serpentine. | | Sounds Like | "A field of stiff weeds and thistles and tufted nettlebunches. Thick among the tufts of rank stiff growth lay battered canisters and clots and coils of solid excrement. A faint marshlight struggled upwards from all the ordure through the bristling greygreen weeds. An evil smell, faint and foul as the light, curled upwards sluggishly out of the canisters and from the stale encrusted dung.
Creatures were in the field; one, three, six: creatures were moving in the field, hither and thither. Goatish creatures with human faces, hornybrowed, lightly bearded and grey as india-rubber. The malice of evil glittered in their hard eyes, as they moved hither and thither, trailing their long tails behind them. A rictus of cruel malignity lit up greyly their old bony faces. One was clasping about his ribs a torn flannel waistcoat, another complained monotonously as his beard stuck in the tufted weeds. Soft language issued from their spittleless lips as they swished in slow circles round and round the field, winding hither and thither through the weeds, dragging their long tails amid the rattling canisters. They moved in slow circles, circling closer and closer to enclose, to enclose, soft language issuing from their lips, their long swishing tails besmeared with stale shite, thrusting upwards their terrific faces..." Hidden Shoal Recordings Radio. Get this player. .. | | Record Label | Hidden Shoal Recordings | | Type of Label | Indie |
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