Sounds like a mixture of everything you've heard before to make something and fresh and new. Ideas and fun are the name of the game. Intelligent idiocy with a snare that sounds like a slapped marrow.
Alopecia (2003) BUY NOW - £8.99 CD/UK BUY NOW - £7.99 ITUNES Wig! Big Man Said to Man..., Three Days in the Pit, The Bathysphere Song, The Lonely Newstand,Puzzles For Monkeys, Gilly's Weapon Vs Stooler's Wheel, Scum, The Silas Log
Burgers (2005) BUY NOW - £9.99 - CD/UK BUY NOW - £7.99 ITUNES Retirement, Werk Jerk, Burgers, Ninjas, Mad As A Snake, Callin' the Boss, Fuckin', Real Men Say 'Thank You', Peepers, Sally Was A Sailor, Open Water, Pork Rinds, Naastee Gurlz and Naastee Boiz, Stinky, Oh No, Fly Boy, Donkey Punch, Sing A Song/Burghers, Chef's Twenty Minute Snack Track
A Mixture And A Solution (USA ONLY) (2006) - BUY NOW $12.97 - CDBaby White Russians, Three Days in the Pit, Peepers, Werk Jerk, Fly Boy, Puzzles for Monkeys, Big Man Said to Man, Calling the Boss, Fuckin', Real Men Say 'Thank You', Gilly's Weapon Vs Stooler's Wheel, Sing A Song/Burghers, Yo Mamma (live), Fly Boy/Gilly (live), Ninjas (live)
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CAROLINE'S CAPUCHIN - 'For What?' (2006)- BUY NOW £5.00 + pp "Chilled out, funky, dubby, latino goodness oozes from the first full length album from Caroline's Capuchin. Great for getting you ready for a night out and perfect for the morning after! Sexy, brilliant and triumphant!" - Omar@SneakyPeeper Karl teams up with the extraordinary talents of Aidan and Rob Hampson and his brother Sped to play wonderful Jazz/Funk/Fusion - YOU MUST CHECK THIS OUT!
Grant Sharkey - HANDS (a novella)- £5.00 + pp Hugo Mitts' mother never paid much mind for detail - fortunately her clumsiness resulted in the greatest PR gimmick a singer/songwriter could dream of. A twisted view of your greatest tool. ORDER NOW. "What's a novella? It's too long to be a short story and it's too short to be a novel. This makes is undesirable to publishers until after your famous and or dead. Stephen King still gets grief for writing novella length stories. So this one is getting the self publishing treatement. Hope you enjoy it!" - GS
To see videos and hear more free music from Toupe go to www.toupe.co.uk
SOME THINGS SOME PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR THE MUSIC PRESS SAY:
"..musically on form with dark catchy melodies and funky bass solos. Best Track - Three Days In The Pit." KERRANG!
"There's certainly no formula here, slipping from some laidback jazzy moments to headfuck with ease, and sounding pretty damn cool." Rock Sound
"you know what we're most reminded of by this album? The first endeavour from Mike Patton's mercurial Mr Bungle. Yowzah! Twangy, troublesome and triumphant, Toupe have weaved a thing of wonder." Iain Moffat - Playlouder
"(Toupe) are the musical equivalent of Tim Burton, telling stories of dark and eerie characters in strange situations with a moral tale behind it all, I can't wait to see what they dream up next." BBC On-Line
"two performances in two nights, both completely different and both benefiting from their ability to feed off the audience..." "Grant, Karl and Jay are ridiculously talented musicians. At times thunderously loud and heavy funk, instantly broken down into quiet jazz breaks or little riffs from Karl, many of which are used to feed off Grant's ad-libs. Jay is a phenomenal drummer, making the incredibly difficult look stupidly easy. Watching these guys in full flow is one of the best sights I've ever seen live, they never fail to blow me away"BhOne.co.uk
"I've heard great things about this band - their virtuosity and their live show; Toupe, so the rumour goes, are “the shit”. Although, I’m wondering how half an hour of what is essentially slap-bassed funk (see what I did there?) will hold up. First song ‘Fuckin’ is enough to allay anyone’s fears; salacious, innuendo ridden and tight as you like, it’s clear that these guys are the shit. Chaotic and wild, yet utterly precise, their reputation is totally deserved. Buzzing with energy, not a single person in the room is still during their set and by the time the band are called on for an encore the rest of the night might as well not have happened. Despite one or two problems, all in all tonight feels like an affirmation of local talent. Towards the close of Toupe’s set we are presented with a semi-tragic spectacle; at the side of the stage stands a member of TSN, mouth agape, transfixed by a band streets ahead of his own. It tells us one thing: we witnessed magic tonight." The Fly Wessex
"Now here's something different! Toupe, from Southampton, essentially comprise two bass players and a drummer. See, that's different for a start. They write and play outrageous songs that'll please, offend and entertain all at the same time. This is one AMAZING piece of work!!" ToxicPete.co.uk about Burgers.
"All together this could well be the must-buy album of the year especially as I can as good as guarantee that you won't own another record like this (unless Toupe knock out another album starting with 'C' some time soon - and I've already thought of a great title for that one!)" The-Mag.co.uk on Burgers
To see videos and hear more free music from Toupe go to www.toupe.co.uk
If you like Toupe be sure to check out Frank Zappa, Primus, Skindred, Caroline's Capuchin, Mike Watt (The Minutemen, fIREHOSE), Tool, Stanley Clarke, Ben Folds Five, Captain Beefheart, The Presidents of the United States of America, The Cat Empire, Tism, Clatter, Bucket, The Psychodots, The Bears, The Gay Army, The Bensons, Stout, Betika, AFI, Paul Went Home, Cake, Moeker, Pearl Jam, Schlomo, Dreadzone, Desmond Dekker and the Aces, The Goose, Man from La Mancha, Jerry Springer: The Opera, Chuck Palahniuk, Simon Singh, Molotov, Monkey Boy, 311, Toto, Steely Dan, Simon and Garfunkel, Bill Hicks, The Muppets (especially Beaker), Alicia Rhodes (porn actress), meeting new, briliant folks every day and Fishbone....to get less than 1% of the influences they have.
To see videos and hear more free music from Toupe go to www.toupe.co.uk
Available at/from: Gigs: YES (see show dates) Myspace: YES (see below) CDBABY.com USA/Canada: YES iTunes: YES Talking Heads, Southampton: YES Square Records, Bournemouth: YES Number 19, St Peter Port, Guernsey, CI: YES
Click the button below to order - £9.99 + £2.50 p+p (sent 1st class in UK) Link takes you to PAYPAL - all major credit cards accepted. CHAT! LINKS: (reviews, interviews and news as Toupé let Chat! out on to the world...)< BhOne Review of Chat! "Toupé's best album yet!...8.5/10" Interview w/Grant on Chat!BhOne:Describe 'Chat!' in three words...GS: Terror on war. The-Mag.co.uk Review "They had to travel across America to write it, but it was worth the effort!...8/10" ToxicPete.Co.Uk Review "Toupé cross boundaries that most outfits don't even realise are there! ...Unputdownable!...10/10"
TRACK LISTING: The Thermodynamics of Hell - 3 Boiz - Big Ones (a true story) - We Need A Bag - UA6885 - Haircutz - The Karlsmos - The Science of Stuff - Yo Mamma - Villains - White Russians - You Fell Over - Terms and Conditions - Join the BNP - The International Anthem - Uraniborg - Yo Mamma (reprise)
CHAT! will be available on iTunes for downloads worldwide and CDBaby.com for CD purchases in the US in August as things catch up. The album will be available from all Toupé, Caroline's Capuchin, Kids Can't Fly and Grant Sharkey comedy gigs from August onwards. Not to mention, a select few independent record shops across the UK and Europe. Full details on these will be published soon.
FINALLY, NEW MUSIC! "The Art Of Broken Glass" (EP), click myspace.com/mrjmedeiros and take a listen! Available on itunes or directly from my site. New Mr.J songs to add to your profile! WORD!
You can also follow on twitter.com/mrjmedeiros for free music.
To re-cap,
PSYCHOCANDY: bh one's weekly DJ night
WHERE: The Metropole, 2 Holdenhurst Road, Bournemouth
WHEN: Thursday 9th April, 8pm-1am
FREE ENTRY : DRINKS PROMOS
We're going head-to-head and DJing a one hour set each - Mr vs Mrs!
We’re releasing Stay Up Late/We Love George Michael as a single on Monday 16th March Support the Stay Up Late campaign - fighting for the right to party Help Heavy Load become the first learning disabled band to get into the Top 40! You can download your copy at iTunes, Amazon, HMV etc.... or gift it to a mate! Thanks for your support, lots of love Heavy Load
My new double A side single LITTLE DAN / STARS IN THE WATER which has been heard on Steve Lamacq's R2 and Janice Long’s shows recently is out now AND AT NUMBER 3 IN THE CHARTS.
Hi how you doing? If your free this thursday 12th please come and support my band Voodoo Vegas who are headlining at Mr Kyps, with support from Club Le Shark and Black water Junction, hosted by Si Genero, hope you can make it, would be cool to have the support and hang out and stuff!! You take care now luv Merylina and voodoo vegas x
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On the 6th of March the 2-Disc Jurassic Mark compilation CD is being released. This CD contains over 40 bands from the City who have offered their best tracks to promote Southampton music. The tracklistings are released next week!
At the launch night, Jurassic Mark is trying to get a massive publicity photo of as many Southampton bands together as possible. We are being covered by all the local media as over 400 people are involved with the project, and we are inviting all bands and acts to meet at the Talking heads at 6pm on the 6th of March for the photo shoot. Please arrive promptly as we can't wait around or it'll get too dark!!
Please feel free to make banners, posters or wear what you like for the photos and stick around for some food and a few drinks.
At 8pm the launch night is kicking off with performances from Dlugokecki, The Vision, The Queue, Todays Eden & Strange without Medicine. There are DJ's until 2am and 200 of the compilation CDs are going to be given out FREE!!
So come on down, let's have a massive party and be proud of ourselves!! Music is awesome, and so are rusks!
On behalf of the Vale Earth Fair & Collective, we wish you a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR full of joy throughout 2009. Thanks for EVERYTHING you have done & been for us...WE LOVE YA VEF x
