Lloyd - vocals, guitar, bass, keys & samples, mixed with words, a purveyor of all manner of ideas to veldt.
James - guitar, bass, keys & samples, well known for mixing sartorial savvy with kaleidoscopic sweeping sounds.
Mike - cello, keys & vocals, ostensibly a lover of both classical music and literature.
Veldt Press
"Simply peerless and perfect"- LosingToday
"A very impressive debut and a deep album that grows stronger with repeated spins"- Allmusic
"If the right music biz sort gets hold of it, has the potential to do rather large things"- Beatmag
"It's all beautifully beguiling"- Subba-Cultcha
"Spellbinding"- Glastonbury Online "Fantastic"- BBC6 Music
"A beautifully pained exercise in melodramatic sophistication, heartbreak never sounded so affecting"- CMU Daily
"Watch this band unfurl into something great"- The Source
"Capable of being enormous, impressive, showstopping"- Drownedinsound
Influences
John Barry, Roy Budd, Lalo Schifrin, Ennio Morricone & all great 60/70s film themes, 60s psych, The Zombies, Billy Nicholls, David McWilliams. Great singers such as Scott Walker, Elvis, Serge Gainsbourg, Francoise Hardy, Dusty Springfield to name a few.... and electronica, Stockhausen, et al.... anything that makes us sit up and listen
Sounds Like
Scott Walker being mugged by Portishead. Weapons supplied by Lee Hazlewood.
Based in Brighton on the south coast of England, veldt record and perform songs in their own unique style, with influences ranging from sixties film scores (Morricone, Barry, Budd) to the loops and samples of the darker corners of modern pop.
It's all there - sore throats, barometers, archaeology, homes and houses,
cavemen, fake plastic sandwiches, Elvis in disguise plus the J-SAS... If this
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Hi Lloyd I forgot to tell you that I noticed that the two young cute boys on the X Factor are called Lloyd and Joe! What a bit of typecasting, eh?! ;-) http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01495/X_factor_2_1495351c.jpg love Lesley xxx
*~*~* Happy Belated Birthday Lloyd *~*~* You fool! Why didn't you remind me on Thurs?! I'm usually good at these things, but thought you were after me, but maybe I'm thinking of Angie being same day as my Dad... Anyhoo, hope you had a fabulous day. Blimey, hasn't time flown since your 40th?! Hope the beard enjoyed the Birthday too, unless you've waved it goodbye. Whatever you do DON'T shave it off in stages! Corin did with his and kept taking pics - handlebars, full tach, Kraftwerk. Eugh, gross every one! Will give the new track a listen shortly - got Dame Shirley competing with you at the moment. ;-) love Lesley xxx PS Are you going out to Carly's leaving on Fri?
Hiya lloyd Remember, 1min 12sec, show Angie. http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=63213039 Hope you feel better soon, maybe if you wore long trousers you wouldn't get a cold... :-p Eat raw garlic too! See you Mon. love Lesley xxx
Hi Lloyd I'm still waiting! Turns out, as Warner Music revealed last night, that there are two versions of the video! One with Madonna, her dancers, lover and daughter, which was premiered today, and then the fan one - we have to wait another fortnight for! *sob* Been the longest six weeks of my life so far. (No wait, maybe morning sickness was worse!) The problem is, when the DVD comes out it will be the dancer video which is on it I'd guess, rather than the fan one. I'm back on Thurs, so see you in two more sleeps. love Lesley xxx
Hi Lloyd Still waiting... video is released on iTunes USA on Tuesday and should be on TV around the world same day... anxiously waiting! Snippets keep being released - type 'Madonna Celebration fan teaser' in to YouTube and there's a little 11 sec section of other fans, so it's this kind of thing I'm hoping to be in. *fingers crossed* How are you doing? Been off work much? I've been so busy I haven't popped in. Hope all's good. I should be back a week today... love Lesley xxx
Lloyd!!! I'm going to Barcelona in the morning to be in a Madonna video! I entered my details on her site as they're looking for wannabies and I got an email saying I've to go! :-) She'll not be there (though she is playing the stadium that night...) but still, I'm so excited! :-) Fingers crossed I don't end up on the cutting room floor!
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