Dan Bradley - Bass & Vocals
Joe Edgard - Drums
Rhys Herdman - Guitar
Alex Hutchinson - Vocals & Guitar
Influences
+ things we like: Steveless (Rhys is also in Steveless), Mclusky, Help she Can't Swim, Pixies, Bearsuit, Mogwai, The Fall, QOTSA, Sonic Youth, Shooting At Unarmed Men, Liars, Nirvana, Melt Banana, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Joy Division, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Year Future, Shellac, Super Furry Animals, Lightning Bolt, 3HosTwoMexicansAndATinOfSpanners, Fugazi, Led Zeppelin, The Kills, Murry The Hump, Devo, The Edmund Fitzgerald, Husker Du, Yo La Tengo, Why?, The Locust, Bjork, Ivory Springer, Squarepusher, El Goodo, At The Drive-In, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Sage Francis, Four Tet, Big Joan, Slint, Dalek, Low, King Alexander, Radiohead, Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Beulah, Aphex Twin, Outkast, RATM, SJ Esau, PJ Harvey, Black Sabbath, Tom Waits, The Wildhearts, The Clash, Interpol, Deerhoof, The Wedding Present, Kyuss, Nick Cave, PiL, Snoop Dogg, Gravenhurst, My Bloody Valentine, Jon Spencer, Guided By Voices, Geisha, The Postal Service, Alias, Big Black, Broadcast, Death From Above 1979, Jim O'Rourke, Part Chimp.
After 7 years as White Trash Ambition, the time has finally come to put the beast to bed.
In the end, it wasn't so much choice as necessity. Dan is moving to Holland, and the rest of us wish him, Anna, Florrie, Addy and Marvin all the luck in the world, whilst also warning them that as soon as we find out where they live they might find it hard to get rid of us! Amsterdam look out!
It's been a massive amount of fun the whole time, and even with our procrastinatory ways we managed to produce some half decent music every once in a while. Along the way we got to play some cracking gigs and some shit gigs, made children dance and made children cry, got cabin fever in Geena-Beena (the legendary yellow camper), parned some Fleffyn, got stuck in Leeds ("...all the signs say 'The Fucking North'!"), got to play with a couple of our heroes, and managed to clear a room in London within one song. It was an 8-minute song mind, and we had a nice curry.
So, to mark the occasion of the end of WTA sound, we are playing our final gig at our favourite venue in Bristol (nay, anywhere!), The Croft. Playing with us will be some favourites of ours Big Joan, MyOwnFlag and Bullwhip. At the gig we'll have our final recording available for £1, which takes the shape of a 2-track split personality CD containing the tracks Action Beast and Oaf Juice. It's slightly demented. The gig is only £2 to get in and the awesome poster for it is below. Come along and share a final oaf juice with us and cry if you want to. We will.
Cheers all, it's been a fookin' pleasure. WTA xx
MUST TRY HARDER (2007)
1. Donald Campbell's Soup
2. Yokel! Oh No!
3. What Would Joe Say?
4. Cunting For Tips
5. The Ballad Of Phil Filth
6. Chudge No.1
7. Celebrity Spaz Plug
8. Words And Music By...
£5.50 (inc. postage) online £5.00 at gigs
Songs above:
From "Must Try Harder" LP (2007)
1. Cunting For Tips
2. Yokel! Oh No!
3. What Would Joe Say?
4. Chudge No.1
From "Does Anybody Like Madonna?" EP (2005)
5. Leave Them Alone Like The Scabby Bald Dogs They Are
Its been selling faster than we expected, and we currently only have around a quarter of our stock left - so we thought we'd better you all know that if you want a copy then now would be a good time to pick one up! If you buy it from the link above then you're buying it direct from us, the label aren't taking a cut - so its a bit like Fair Trade for struggling musicians.
International mail-order is available, just follow the instructions.
Thank you very much, and sorry for making a mess of your profile. If its any kind of consolation, we don't have a MySpace bot, so I'm leaving these comments the old fashioned way. Three -and-a-half thousand of them. My life is so exciting.
Hope things are good with you. Sorry that you are drawing things to a close. Good luck with future projects. We’re playing a couple of tracks of yours on BBC Radio Bristol Introducing this Saturday morning between 1-4am (repeated on Sunday 1-4am), and of course we'll big up the gig too. Hear it “live” or online on the i-Player anytime in the 7 days after broadcast, there’s a link on our myspace profile.
THE JELAS Straight outta Yate & Chipping Sodbury, The Jelas play experimental pop songs at breakneck speed for people with short attention spans. A strange and wonderful band.
IRON CREASE Debut show! Dr. Robbie Cooper of Geisha and Mr. Stevie Windows ex of Safetyword employ the ancient art of taking drum beats and adding guitar riffs to create ROCK MUSIC.
THE COLOR OF THE SUN Sample heavy guitar pop from this Bristol via California duo. More effects boxes than you can shake a stick at, and some damn good tunes to boot.
FREEZE PUPPY (acoustic performance) A rare chance to see this incredible songwriter and performer present his songs in an acoustic setting. Absolutely unmissable.
+OLO Radio DJ's & [aZa] RUMBOT on the decks.
FRIDAY 19TH DECEMBER, 8PM TILL LATE MOTHER'S RUIN ALL FOR A CREDIT CRUNCH BUSTING £2 ON THE DOOR.
