mike, pete, dayo, laura, stu (necessarily in that order)
for booking email: wholeschebang @ hotmail.co.uk
Influences
a random smattering of things/bands/people/places we like: Beta Band, Blur, Beck, Fleetwood Mac, Chad Mason, Richard Thompson, Sam Cooke, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Super Furry Animals, Highway 61 Revisited, Unhalfbricking, Vetiver, Popular Music, Woodbine, Broadcast, Edmund Gillingwater, Transcendent Songsmithery, Pentangle, Pavement, White Ace, Guinness, Disorientation, Friends and Lovers, the 70s 80s 90s and today, Laurie Bennett, smiles and frowns, norwich, verandas, courtyards, bananers. Feist, tunng, NRBQ, The Wave Pictures, porn shoes, panda bear, the byrds, did I mention Pentagle. Michael Hurley. Slippery slidey slopes. Abra-kebab-ara. Fleet Foxes, Caribou, Thom Yorke, The Mules, Adam Green, Hayman Watkins Trout & Lee, Nick Jones, celebration, grizzly bear, pete seeger, dark captain light captain, bjork, CSNY. Elliott Smith. The Walkmen. Johan the Angel. Department of Eagles. Herman Dune. The Inkspots. The Mills Brothers. The Singing Detective (soundtrack is ace). Jeffrey Lewis. James Blackshaw. Keyboard Rebel. Lambchop. Lloyd Cole. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Fairy Tale of New York (when tis the season), fela kuti, psapp, white denim, the science fiction masterworks series, john southworth, noisy lo-fi bands, east 17, kett's heights, fine ales, james jamerson bass lines .... etc... .etc...
Sounds Like
You can listen to more of our music and/or say hello on last.fm and facebook
This scheband was formed by Mike and Pete, two guitarists with a shared love of off-kilter pop songs and backdrops of vocal harmonies. Following lo-fi beginnings in noisy London pubs expansion soon beckoned... three more hearty singers and all-round musical folk (Dayo, Laura and Stu) joined the band so the songs could wander wherever they needed to.
We enjoy using a range of accompanying sounds, from flugelhorn and banjo to the delicate wheezing of a midget accordion. On record we've called on the wider schebang family and squeezed in a string section, a cornet and a synthesizer too - just to make sure we live up to our name. As a five-piece we're currently playing live as much as possible. If you like rousing acappela singing, harmonies and fresh lyrical flourishes then we might just be a band for you...
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some reviews:
"it’s a mini-epic… a tasty bitesize piece of whole schebang which might prove to whet your appetite for more. 87%"
The Line of Best Fit (29/1/09)
(Demo of the Week) "Really colourful, infectious songs... alternative indie/folk goodness that’s alive and wandering wherever they want to. Rousing reeling stuff."
The Organ (issue 291 - 22/1/09)
"(schebang's) tracks show real flair and a winning, winsome charm; ‘Hollow Feeling’ has a dark post-rock-meets-Gypsy-folk feel and puts me in mind of the very fine Fireworks Night while the Belle & Sebastian indiepop-doowop feel of ‘Singing In The Rain’ is a sugar-rush of harmonic goodness."
Sounds XP (22/2/09)
"charming vocal harmonies... embracing inventiveness... I'm smitten."
How Marvellous Blog (28/1/09)
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hard sell:
...If you're impressed/intrigued enough to part with a few bob you might like to purchase a physical copy of our EP via paypal for £4 by clicking the 'buy now' button below (includes all postage costs). That way you can hold it in your very own hand(s). Alternatively you could own a little digital piece of us in seconds by heading to itunes...
...Tracklisting is: 1) Stranger than the weather 2) Hollow Feeling 3) Singing in the rain...
Hello you Beautiful people you, check out our new Demo's Flying Machine and Charlie, We're putting on our own night at the Grove opposite the Tube in South Wimbledon this Friday (16th Oct). hope you can make it.
The deXter Bentley Hello GoodBye Show returns to the airwaves on Resonance 104.4 FM this Saturday 5th September between noon and 1.30pm. Today's broadcast is in conjunction with PESTIVAL * With contributions from the Mosquito expert Dr. James Logan, an essay from the author Tim Burrows (on the subject of insects in rock and pop), plus live music from the London based alt/art duo Plug, who will debut new insect related material especially written for Hello GoodBye.
* PESTIVAL is a festival celebrating insects in art, and the art of being an insect. Pestival 2009 runs from 3rd-6th September @ The Southbank Centre and is jam-packed with insect-inspired talks and debates, as well as comedy, music, walks, workshops, installations and experiments. For further information, please visit: http://pestival.org
Hey Whole Schebang! Our little homemade, self-released album is this week's featured album stream on the US Indie Amplifier Magazine's website! Go to www.amplifiermagazine.com, launch AMP3 radio & have a listen!
hello schebang! please check out the new band voynaru (they're in my top friends as i have fallen in love with their music). they are mind blowing live and the singer's voice is AMAZING!! i was just hoping that maybe one day you could put them in one of your nights as i am dying to see them live again asap!!
NoOneDied presents a FREE all-day micro-festival set in the shores of Highgate, featuring acoustic sets from Orphans&Vandals(Al Joshua solo), Allo Darlin', Loyal Trooper, Pop Martyr, Marcel. Plus DJs, facepainters & games (quiz, pin-the-cock-on-iggy-pop, CD lucky dip & prize draw). Bank Holiday Sunday 24th May @ The Boogaloo Highgate. xNODx Click image for facebook event
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