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  • Genre: Alternative / Experimental / Rock

    Location Kent, Un

    Profile Views: 180815

    Last Login: 2/8/2012

    Member Since 9/6/2005

    Website www.upcdownc.com

    Record Label Field Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Upcdownc. are an instrumental Rock, Delay, Riff, Kick and Moog 4-piece from Medway, Kent who also indulge in a bit of singing and screaming. We have released in previous years, the following albums. 2005 – And the battle is won. 2008 – Embers (Uk and Japan) 2009 – Firewolf (Uk and Japan). We will soon be releasing our 4th album "Calaveras" on Nov 7th 2011 so keep your ears to the ground and your eyes adrift. People say…. Rocksound - Upcdownc's music deserves to be treated with a bit of respect. There are moments of drawn-out doom that tickle the spine, but "Firewolf" is at it's best when the catharsis gives way to sheer anger. It's an undeniably stirring offering. 7/10. Michael Copus The Silent Ballet - Upcdownc have progressed... An outstanding creation and prove that plenty of emotion can be released in a short span of time. Firewolf is an album that offers something different. Rocksound - 'Embers', the follow up to the band's 2005 debut 'And The Battle Is Won' cements their place as one of the leading exponents of underground rock music in the UK. 8/10. Kerrang!! - An ever-present warmth prevents Upcdownc from appearing too clinical and emotionally disengaged, while the quality of their tunes dismisses any worries about genre overkill. KKKK - Embers Drowned in Sound - It's the collision of two worlds, this is a rock that requires a wider audience, today. The Fly - Brutal and loud, yet melodic and almost orchestral Plan B - With riffs as big as fillet steaks and pastoral passages straight outta Middlemarch, And the battle is won is a symphonic sprawl of bucolic tinkering and prolonged colossal feedback that has me reaching for my mathematical dictionary to make sense of it all. Rocksound -Rarely has the skin been freckled by such tingling static and the soul shaken by continental plate shifting switches in volume" - Live review Kerrang!! - A lesson in musical architecture., creating high drama with guitars in new ways. Their future looks bright. – KKKK – And the battle is won

  • Members

    CHRIS GARTH - Guitar, keys, sing, shout .... GARY DIMES - Guitar, keys, sing, shout .... JAMES BRIDGES - Bass, keys, Moog .... DALE FORSTER - Drums .... Gig bookings - .... .... taylor@titanbookings.com .... ..

  • Influences

    We like Nirvana, Twin Peaks, Flight of the Conchords, Six Feet Under, Heroes, Patrick Suskind, Resident Evil, Grunge, The Prisoner, MSTRKRFT, Alcohol, Cats, 56 gauge, Halloween, Vinyl, Diagnosis murder, Apple, Fender, Gibson, Iceland, Yes, Converse, Music boxes, Skulls, Pumkins, David Lynch, Beards, Distortion, Orange, The Walking Dead, True Blood, Kent, Snow, Flann O'Brien, Ale, Cider, Analogue, Moog, Xmas jumpers, Wool, Dexter, Left 4 Dead, Wolves, The Carpenters, Soccer, IKEA, Mastodon, Humbuckers, Zombies, Bill Murray, the 90's and the 80's.

  • Sounds Like

    We are the sound of Helter Skelter, Milk it, Snow Blind, We've only just begun, Helicon1 and Jane Doe.

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Bio

Upcdownc. are an instrumental Rock, Delay, Riff, Kick and Moog 4-piece from Medway, Kent who also indulge in a bit of singing and screaming. We have released in previous years, the following albums.

2005 – And the battle is won.

2008 – Embers (Uk and Japan)

2009 – Firewolf (Uk and Japan).

2011 – Calaveras (via Field records/Uk and Europe)

People say….

Notts about Rock Live Review- The comment I heard from someone as they were leaving the show was “that has just rewritten the rulebook for how I rate gigs”. I think that says it all.

Rocksound "Calaveras" Review - "When UpCDownC put out another great album it’s no great surprise.” 8/10

Echoes and Dust - ‘Calaveras’, is a very accomplished album, showing off not only the spectrum of Upcdownc’s possibilities and influences, but also their dry sense of humour and simply – balls.

Glasgow podcart - Calaveras review-I’m looking forward to hearing this live, because I’m sure it’ll sound incredible.

Rough Trade - 'Calaveras' is the group's fourth long player and shows a growth in the dynamics of the instrumental interplay. a lesson in high drama, upcdownc take the traditional guitar band formula and wrench new emotional depth from the strings and skins. Rough Trade

Rocksound "Firewolf" review - Upcdownc’s music deserves to be treated with a bit of respect. There are moments of drawn-out doom that tickle the spine, but “Firewolf” is at it’s best when the catharsis gives way to sheer anger. It’s an undeniably stirring offering. 7/10. Michael Copus

The Silent Ballet - Upcdownc have progressed... An outstanding creation and prove that plenty of emotion can be released in a short span of time. Firewolf is an album that offers something different.

Rocksound - 'Embers', the follow up to the band's 2005 debut 'And The Battle Is Won' cements their place as one of the leading exponents of underground rock music in the UK. 8/10.

Kerrang!! - An ever-present warmth prevents Upcdownc from appearing too clinical and emotionally disengaged, while the quality of their tunes dismisses any worries about genre overkill. KKKK - Embers

Drowned in Sound - It's the collision of two worlds, this is a rock that requires a wider audience, today.

The Fly - Brutal and loud, yet melodic and almost orchestral

Plan B - With riffs as big as fillet steaks and pastoral passages straight outta Middlemarch, And the battle is won is a symphonic sprawl of bucolic tinkering and prolonged colossal feedback that has me reaching for my mathematical dictionary to make sense of it all.

Rocksound -Rarely has the skin been freckled by such tingling static and the soul shaken by continental plate shifting switches in volume" - Live review

Kerrang!! - A lesson in musical architecture., creating high drama with guitars in new ways. Their future looks bright. – KKKK – And the battle is won

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