The Wailingest Cats
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General Info
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Genre: Experimental / Jazz / Rock
Location Bristol / London, Un
Profile Views: 13150
Last Login: 4/28/2011
Member Since 8/15/2008
Record Label Decorum Records
Type of Label Indie
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Bio
"The Wailingest Cats did their damnest to turn the Arnolfini's auditorium into a seedy den of jazz-noir. Despite their hepcat affectations, the slinking basslines and whispered vocals hinted at a palpable menace which frequently spilled over into eruptions of sax and brutal, disjointed drumming." The Wire, Issue 295 -
Members
Justin C. Clark, Nicholas Perry, Alexander Parsons, D. Broughton Cash, James A. Holland, Alumni and frequent collaborators: Tamsyn 'Honey Badger' Fallows (vocals), Brock 'Jesus' Bips (clarinet), James Woods (guitar) -
Influences
Jack Palance, Bernie Goetz, Gary Busey, The Collyer Brothers, Douglas Bader, Ray Chandler, Dashiel Hammett, Reggie Bannister, Bob Munden, The Duke, The Carrier -
Sounds Like
"It is a music of threat, and it is world music, meaning that a world is held within it....a lurching, swaying, uneasy melody begins in the saxophone section...these are noises that jump right out of the speakers and come towards you like a crazy father in the middle of the night. The piano utters nightmarish chords which are half submerged in the cacophony of the band, and at the end, the bass pads through the band like a burglar, like a sapper crawling towards our perimeter. It did not occur to us that there might be something deliberately theatrical, even comic, in all this menace."
