Pedlars of Bombast
Self-recorded and self-produced debut CD-EP
1st March 2007
Tracklisting
1 - Fool's War
2 - (I'm Writing) In Reply or Ex-Lover Song
3 - Aquarium
4 - Good Life
SOLD OUT - Now available as a free download from Last.fm
Influences
The Dears.
New Order.
Hope of The States.
Genesis.
The Stills.
Pink Floyd.
The Who.
Delays.
Doves.
Magic Numbers.
Seafood.
Can.
Stars.
Arcade Fire.
Electric Soft Parade.
Thin Lizzy.
The Decemberists.
Muse.
Mystery Jets.
Editors.
Maps.
David Bowie.
Biffy Clyro.
Midlake.
Kings of Leon.
Cooper Temple Clause.
The Beatles.
Neutral Milk Hotel.
Chicago.
Led Zeppelin.
Goodbooks.
Digitalism.
Pete and the Pirates.
Guillemots.
Mars Volta.
Small Faces.
Blossom Toes.
Sounds Like
BritProg. Listen...and you will find the forests of your mind.
Buy £5 advance tickets for our Southampton show with The Northwestern...
Look up and one day we will disappear. We make music to release the frustration of an era with no conscience. Where the apocolypse will inevitably happen. Wookies are here to jump start your thoughts, whether by making you dance or just by screaming into the dark recesses of your soul. We aren't just a band. The Wookies are a movement.
Currently recording live favourite In The Forest to be released on vinyl, cassette and 8 track at some point in the near future. Keep a keen ear to the ground and a fierce eye on the horizon, and you may be lucky enough to experience aural gratification in and around you.
Live Reviews...
'What really made this band great was the ease and effectiveness with which they juxtaposed genres to create a constantly changing, and always interesting, sound.'
NWN.
'The Wookies sure know how to please... To be perfectly frank ladies and gents I blooming loved it! 10/10'
Maps Magazine. www.mapsmagazine.co.uk.
'....fantasmagorical... They are back to convert the world to the word of The Wookies.'
Blah Blah Magazine.
'They've been winning new fans and acclaim with their lush guitars and harmonies, which complement hard-hitting atmospheric songs.'
bbc.co.uk
'They play jazz-infected indie pop and they are here to save the world with some of the oddest pop songs ever.'
josaka.com
'English forward thinking nu wave prog for the kids. Think Pink Floyd having Sunday brunch with Rick Wakeman.'
Club Velocity.
"After seeing The Wookies at one of their recent gigs, I strongly recommend going to see them live."
NWN2
'Breezy eclectic pop with sun-roof-down-blasting-out-loud appeal.'
SUBBA-CULTCHA.COM (EP of the month)
"More keyboards than a Rick Wakeman wankfest."
-Swiss Concrete compere, Port Mahon, Oxford.
"The Wookies are a strange outfit, sometimes harking back to the seventies by purveying chops-heavy seven-minute prog epics, before lurching into yob-culture singalongs à la The Fratellis’ ‘Chelsea Dagger’. A prime example of this is the chorus of ‘In the Forest’. It takes five minutes of ADD noodling to get there, but the ride is worth it-it’s bloody good. I particularly enjoyed the swirling, bleeping keyboards which stopped it all getting too pub-rock on us. The playing was uniformly classy and precise and made some of the earlier acts look distinctly iffy."
If you would like a FREE MP3 please send an email to info@lostaura.co.uk RE: FREE MP3, and we'll send you one just like that!
We're making some finishing touches to our new EP, recorded at The Animal Farm London. Be sure to head back soon and have a listen :) Come by and say hello anytime.
If you would like a FREE MP3 please send an email to info@lostaura.co.uk RE: FREE MP3, and we'll send you one just like that!
We're making some finishing touches to our new EP, recorded at The Animal Farm London. Be sure to head back soon and have a listen :) Come by and say hello anytime.
Feeder, Ash, Gary Numan, The Blackout, Hundred Reasons, Cancer Bats, We Are The Ocean, The Ghost Of A Thousand, Attack! Attack!, Sonic Boom Six, In Case Of Fire & many more hit the Kent coast for a one-day alternative music festival this Summer!
Hevy Music Festival • Folkestone Seafront (CT20 1PU) Saturday 1st August 2009 • Gates 1pm • Tickets £48 www.hevy.co.uk
Hi, through JUNE AND JULY we are slashing our day time rehearsal prices. Between 10am and 5pm all our rooms are either £6 or £7 per hour including weekends. Making us one of the cheapest in SUSSEX. Plus If you buy 3 hours we will even throw in a 4th totally FREE. YES TOTALLY FREE.
OUR RECORDING RATES ARE STILL JUST AS AFFORDABLE TOO, FULL DAYS FROM £200 ALL IN.
So come and rehearse and record in one of the best equipped music complex's in the South.
hey guys how are you all? just a quickie q, do u do private gigs for weddings,i have some very good friends who are looking for a good band to play at their wedding, maybe do some covers and a bit of music for everyone style, may 2010 in reading, let me know if itd interest you at all?
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Club Velocity/BlahBlah presents Saturday July 11th 2009 at Plugnplay 35 Milford Road Reading RG1 Doors 8pm £5 door £4 advance www.wegotickets.com / flyer Bands TRIPWIRES Home coming show!Local living legends. Played Reading Festival in 2008. Championed by Huw Stephens/Tom Robinson/XFM/Steve Lamacq. A must see. Think Interpol/The Cure/Biffy WOOKIES Local answer to Pink Floyd fronted by Rick Wakeman. A Nu Prog wank fest. Imagine Pure Reason Revolution without owning any records by Justice. "To be honest ladies and gents, I blooming loved it," 10/10 Maps Magazine JETS AGAINST GIANTS Like munching disco biscuits, whilst drinking brandy. Best new local band in Reading who have played least than five gigs. JOHNNY ARROW ANT THE CHEAP DAY RETURNS Johnny was recently spottedt at the Oi legend gig Hardskin taking notes. Johnny reminds us when 'indie' was a dirty word. To us they are our Flatmates. See C86 was not that bad. Club Velocity djs
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Hey hairy wookie people. Good different stuff. Thanks for the request. Please come check out the tracks we have up plus exciting new recordings we should have up in the next few weeks of come see us at a show if we're playing nearby. Big love KC XxX
Date Friday MAY 29TH Venue Rising Sun Arts Centre 30 Silver Street Reading RG1Doors 8pm ALL AGES Tax £5 door or £$ advance www.wegottickets.com / flyerHUNTING THE SHY (Big Black/Leonard Cohen/Grandaddy) www.myspace.com/hunttheshyTHE BLACK HEART ORCHESTRA (Rapeman/13th Floor Elevators/Birthday Party) www.myspace.com/theblackheartorchestraTILEHURST CHILDRENS ARKESTRA (Explosions in The Sky/Slint/Mogwai) www.myspace.com/tilehurstarkestra This is a gig NOT a roast dinner
Club Velocity with BlahBlah presents READING ON FIRE (CELEBRATING THE BEST IN NEW LOCAL TALTENT) Saturday June 13th 2009 at Plugnplay 35 Milford Road Reading RG1 Doors 8pm Tax £5 door £4 advance www.wegottickets.com MIDIMIDIS (Two piece 8 bit punks, creating music like no one else. Championed by Eddy Temple-Morris/Frank Musisk/Your mother) MR FOGG ("Astounding," Tom Robinson 6 Music "Ace,ace,ace," Huw Stephens (Radio 1)) OM CORPORATION (Like no other band around. They may only have a cello, drums and an acoustic, but these guys rock HARD!) VIENNA DITTO ("Portishead doing a Taranito soundtrack," Huw Stephens Radio 1) Shitty Limits djs Bring yr mum!!!
The weather may be dull but I'm smiling because after a year of twiddling with video-game consoles, ill-tuned guitars and recovering from a broken heart, our Debut 5-track EP 'Mayuko.' is OUT TODAY!!
Its strictly limited to only 250 special copies with hand-made art, you can order it for £3.00 + P&P through www.MySpace.com/MidiMidis or email Marcus@MidiMidis.com
Alex! It was awesome hearing you guys and checking out that show. It was a treat! Keep up the beats, you guys are welcome in Minnesota whenever you want to... just go to NY- and head west some odd thousand miles.
Thanks for the add fellas, your songs are ace. Nice and upbeat but still a bit dark. I like it! Cheers for coming along last night and for checking my stuff out, much appreciated. Will be seeing you on the ninth of April! x
