Chris Cooper: Guitar/Vocals, Dave Cooper: Guitar, Dean Freeman: Bass, Dan Hayes: Drums
Influences
Sonic Youth, Death Cab For Cutie, Biffy Clyro, The Cribs, The Smiths, Mogwai, Pylon, Pavement, Arab Strap, Sigur Ros, The Beatles, British Sea Power, My Bloody Valentine, Teenage Fanclub, At The Drive In, Bloc Party, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Pulp, The Strokes, yourcodenameis:milo, The Velvet Underground, Dugong, Dartz, Bright Eyes, Pixies, The Cure, Explosions In The Sky, The Flaming Lips, The Rapture, 65daysofstatic...
The Whippets are a four piece band from Wakefield, the North of England's greatest city. Contact: chriswhippet@hotmail.com
'I at first of course imagined this to be a joke band, but they do exist!' (Steve Lamacq... Lamacq Live 06/02/06)
'The Whippets are an impressive embryonic band...which gets the most cynical listener screaming along' (This Is Fake DIY)
'It's lively and it's tuneful and they play with a smile on their face and a heart on their sleeve' (Vibrations)
'they have loads of energy, loads of tunes, and a seemingly intuitive gift for finding the right structure and dynamics for each song, there is something just right about them' (Sandman)
Saturday 20th September 3pm - 2am Taylor John's House ~ Canal Basin Coventry ~ CV1 4LY
£9 DAY ticket into ALL VENUES for ALL WEEKEND or £7 limited door ticket for Sonic Boom!
ANDY VOTEL is worldwide known electronic musician, producer and co-founder of Twisted Nerve Records and 'B Music'. Residing in Manchester this extraordinary musically minded man has been at the forefront of the DJ remix scene with releases since 1996. As part of his summer and autumn festival tour 2008, ATAM welcomes Votel to Coventry as he performs a DJ set dedicated to our own electronic legend Delia Derbyshire, composed especially for A Thing About Machines.
"Buys old records - makes new records. Teacher - triple label boss - graphic designer - acid-volk collector - microphone tormenter - bad-ass foreign psych DJ - snappy dresser." (Fat City Records)
"Everyone's favourite crown prince of psychedelic excess" (Boomkat)
The Peoples Music Awards is proud to announce the launch of our 2008/2009 awards for unsigned music artists. The website goes live on Monday the 8th of September and voting begins on the 29th!
We’ve already had hundreds of amazing entries, so if your one of them you’ll be hearing from us soon. For more information on the awards and to enter please visit our homepage at .. www. thepeoplesmusicawards. com
This is going to be amazing! 2 days of fantastic music on a beautiful site in the Lake District overlooking the southern shores of Lake Windermere, with a selection of excellent bands as chosen by us & the lovely people at Fell Foot Wood.
Passes for music and camping are a bargain at £16/person for the weekend or £9/day (vehicles are £2 per extra per night). Bookings with card payment must be made in advance by calling Barry at Fell Foot Wood on 015395 31014. There are only 170 spaces, so book early!
Described by Hydragenic as 'a subtle, widescreen sountrack for the bitter break-up of a relationship', London's Elks are unclassifiable in their unconventional brilliance, a band always evolving, taking chances and refusing to sit still. Following a successful string of European shows, the band are coming to Newcastle tonight, Monday 16 June. Also on the bill are Spraydog, Italy's Three In One Gentlemans Suit, and The Black Static of Summer. This one is at the Newcastle Arts Centre, entry is £4 and doors are at 8pm.
These United States/Vandaveer was one of our favourite shows of the year in 2007, so we're super happy to announce that they're both making a return to The Head of Steam, Newcastle on Sunday 22 June. This Washington DC outfit serve up country-tinged folk sautéed in electronic seasoning; along with artier neighbours Le Loup and Exit Clov, These United States offer melodic and amusing ideas to the post-Fugazi landscape, but they're still tied to thoughtful ones-in this case, mostly protesting heartless romantic antics - Village Voice. A co-promotion with our friends Ex-Libris Records, the bill also features John Egdell and Aaron McMullan. Doors are 8pm and entry is £4.
Koen Holtkamp is no stranger to producing beautiful music. Expect layers of warm organic noise and found sound combine to make pieces that are both gorgeously minimalistic and endlessly deep. He's making the trip over from New York to celebrate the launch of his new album on Type records, and you'd be a fool to miss him!
Gorgeously organic music that washes over you and through you - the best of all ambient music understands the importance of holding back, of understatement, of beauty - Pausal achieve this, and more. Stunning stuff for a night of pure sonic bliss.
Forest of Sound's favourite one man laptop genius, randomNumber, comes back to regale us with his excellent and deeply inventive brand of electronica. There's a reason that he's so energetic in his performance - his music is brilliant. Simple. As.
A Forest of Sound presentation. It’ll be £5 on the door, and doors are at 8pm.
Currently Sweden's hottest export, THOSE DANCING DAYS combine "Sweet as apple-pie pop" with a devilishly sassy Northern Soul and it's this unique combination that has the got the whole of the UK falling over itself and for good reason too!
The subtle dynamics in their songwriting of JOHN and JEHN and the balance between chaos and beauty and the mastery of heartbreaking melodies Expect beautifully skewed hymns in the key of Serge Gainsbourg. http://www. myspace. com/johnjehn
Wakefield's THE RESEARCH are makers of fun, but also write songs that are like punches in the stomach that knock the wind out of you but afterwards you agree that you feel much better for it. www. myspace. com/theresearch
Frank is coming to town. I Hope you can make it. Its gonna be a great night of comedy and music. Tickets are on sale as stated on poster or can be purchased through the link on my profile page. It will be possible to pay on the door but spaces are dependant on ticket sales.
our old friends THE LODGER new single / album out on Bad Sneakers with bouncing bass and extra jangle here is their new video which is reallly nice: http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=LGQ114DPvuY
finally.... there is a new issue of The Cuckoo Press coming out soon!! watch out for updates.. we have a couple of spaces left for nice adverts, so if you want one.. see you soon!!xx
Easily one of the most important bands of our times (and we don't say that lightly), Stars of the Lid are the highpoint of the ambient genre. Their influence on the music that really matters over the last decade has been huge, and we're incredibly honoured to be hosting them again in Leeds. This gig will be very very different, and very very special. Stars of the Lid have excelled at designing subtle, minimalist epics which sound like they're being played on a single multifaceted organic instrument. A wise man once described SOTL as "divine classical drones without the tedious intrusion of drums, or vocals. "
The Declining Winter is the musical project of Richard Vincent Adams of Leeds UK, the co-founder of the continuing group Hood and a full time stricken office worker. What does it sound like? Richard says "cassette tapes spilling out of the glovebox of a 1970's Datsun Sunny somewhere in the north of England, captured on Super 8 film". He's not far off. Live he is joined by a few more people to bring the beautiful pastoral feel to life. Wonderful stuff.
Hello! The voting thing of the pigeon detectives has even reached Holland ;) So even if youre band doesn't get to play youve had a great advertisement! Thanks for the add! With love, Marieke
Hilarious two piece free-noise instigators from NYC. Kevin and Matt. Together they make Mavin or Kett. Relentless mezmorizing drums and synths that anticipate each other. A free roaming cacophony of dense aural matter from which a storm brews and rhythms pour down, but in the end the sun shines through. http://www. myspace. com/talibam
Very creative and smashing lads who make nice challenging music. View their myspace to see why they are 'smashing'. http://www. myspace. com/stignoise
BILBAO SYNDROME Jagged rocks and perverted Mr Wimpy's going for a burton with unwieldy claymores on bracken. Death Metal Funk. http://www. myspace. com/bilbaosyndrome
