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Genre: Indie / Pop
Location UK
Profile Views: 24462
Last Login: 9/30/2010
Member Since 3/3/2006
Website myspace.com/winterbirdrecordings
Record Label "Into the Black" is on Track & Field
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.."If you thought of the ideal elements for a band, Tompaulin would come pretty close. But you probably wouldn't imagine the chip on the their shoulder beneath their winsome charm.".... Betty Clarke, The Guardian ..(Read the review)...... Tompaulin formed in a bedroom in Blackburn, Lancashire in 1999. We loved records and wanted to make our own. Our first single was self-financed and released on a local label, Action Records. We had never even played live when 'Ballad of the Bootboys' sold out in a week. We borrowed some money and recorded another two singles with our friend Vinny Peculiar in Liverpool. 'Slender' and 'It’s a Girl’s World' also sold out very quickly. We were in the NME and all the music papers, and everyone contacted us wanting to sign, represent, remix and re-define us. We didn’t have a clue what was going on. Simon didn’t even have an amp. Vinny used to lend us all his stuff..... We signed to Uglyman Records in a pub in Blackburn. Guy Lovelady was the only person who came to Blackburn to see us and we were fed up with going to London every week. So we signed and made an LP, 'The Town and the City,' with him. It got good press and favourable radio play for the single, resulting in two Peel sessions and a gig at Glastonbury. More people came to see us live and we continued to receive great press and reviews, except we were surrounded by people who talked about units and strategies, features and angles and while all this was going on, the world went Strokes and White Stripes mad...Our manager told us we were finished... We didn’t feel finished..... We contacted Jim Reid from our beloved Jesus and Mary Chain records and went in the studio and recorded a new EP..... 'Give Me a Riot in the Summertime' did very well for us, the Guardian Guide said we were on to something and we thought so too. We compiled all our singles on a CD we called 'Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt.' Chris Roberts, writing for Uncut called it, "A revelation.".... With the money we made from that we bought a small studio of our own and recorded 'Into The Black.' We asked Jim Reid back, this time to sing on 'Seams.' The Clientele, Ben Lurie (JAMC) and loads of other people came in to hang out and help and we had a good time recording it, despite the downbeat tone of the record..... Mojo and Uncut gave it four stars and all the usual press loved it, except the NME who ignored it... The record label said, "Can’t hear a single.".... We were fiercely proud of 'Into The Black' and decided to start playing live after two years off. We toured Germany and Scandinavia to sold out shows and came home to headline a sold out 'POW! To the People' mini-festival for Track and Field at the Barfly in London... Then we split up..... Simon is the brains and brawn behind ..Soup Studio... His last recording was ..The Wave Pictures.. single. Everyone seems to love it..... He is also a member of .. Mathew Sawyer and The Ghosts.., has been in ..Darren Hayman..'s band and was a founder member of ..Hayman, Watkins, Trout and Lee.., a bluegrass band whose debut LP is out now on Fortuna Pop! If you've bought an indie single recorded in London this year, I bet you a tenner Simon recorded it or is in the band. ..Amos is the drummer in .. Fanfarlo..... ..Katie plays bass in .. Silver Springs..... ..Jamie sleeps a lot and sometimes does things. .. ..... Stacey is about to release her debut cd on the lovely winterbird label, she will be supporting Blitzen Trapper, Castanets and Great Lake Swimmers over the coming months....... ..Here's a link to ..Tompaulin's Last.fm.. page... -
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Jamie, Stacey, Amos, Katie, Simon and Giles.....[Blackburn-Manchester-London-Sheffield]....Honourable mentions: Ciaron and Lee.....Extra curricular help from Alison (the Eighteenth Day of May/The Left Outsides), Jim Reid (Jesus and Mary Chain), Alasdair (The Clientele), Rob (Silver Springs), Long Johnny Silver, George Phillips (Sister Vanilla), Abishek Joshi (Elmore), Ben Lurie (Jesus and Mary Chain) and Neil Wissink.....Never forgotten: Graham Melia -
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The Jesus and Mary Chain, Beach Boys, Neil Young, Felt, Dexy's, Whiskeytown, Throwing Muses, Lee Hazlewood, Clinic, Pixies, The Archies... -
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