Unsigned Bands Notes

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At The Lake                                                                                    These Days

Athtelake.co.uk 5 piece from London, sent me a couple of great tracks, probably play another soon.

Countryside                                                                                    My Beautiful Broken
                                                                                                Video Recorder

Myspace.com/countrysideland 4 piece from I reckon the west country who seem to have a thing about cheese and table condiments, although I may be wrong. They got more great songs on their site

Pablo Eskimo                                                                        Bunny Boiler

Pabloeskimo.com three piece from Glasgow with a cracking song.

 

Domingo                                                                                    Whatever Happened

Domingo, a two piece from albuequerque - myspace.com/domingotheband

Freight                                                                                    Inside

Freight myspace.com/freightmusic acoustic 2 piece from Edinburgh with some shows coming up

 

Belone                                                                                    To The West

Myspace.com/belonefanclub 4 piece from paris with occasional guests.

Call To Mind                                                                                    Breathe Part 1

Calltomind.co.uk 4 piece from Inverness I caught at the go north festival a while back there.

Shah                                                                                                Say What You Want

myspace/juliandrinkme sharp eared of you will notice it’s a familiar address, played his other project a few weeks back, drinkme. This is his solo outing, and well worth it.
           

The Displacements                                                            Lady Loss

4 piece from Leicester, the displacements.com with an ep king laugh out now.

Adventure Club                                                                        Bored of Things

Adventure-club.co.uk home to this 2 piece from Birmingham with a great sense of humour and style. Loads of good tracks on their page.

Blacktop                                                                                    Five Days (click here
                                                                                                To fall in love)
Myspace.com/blacktoprock  a 6 piece from uk with fans in the form of pete wentz from fallout boy, quinn alman from amen and gareth davies from funeral for a friend.
                                                                                               

Miss The Occupier                                                                        Short Sight

Then we heard from miss the occupier.com 3 piece from Glasgow who look great and are building a strong fanbase.

The Fighting Cocks                                                            lovesomebodyyesido

5 piece from uk  myspace.com/thefightingcocks Their line up has a hint of Go team but their music owes more to The Avalanches. 

Gaz Brookfield                                                                        Pretty High

Myspace.com/gazbrookfield came to my attention when I was getting involved in the city showcase, loved this. He’s just signed to fat fox records, so we should be hearing more from this 26 year old.

The Music Room Collective                                                Butterfly

Just about it, one more from a Essex 6 piece been together about a year. Myspace.com/musicroomcrew.

 

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Killola Barrel of Donkeys

www.killola.com LA based 4 piece.

Nathan Clarke Brandy In Your Smile
Myspace.com/nathanclarke82 for this impoverished Romford fellow, who says his music sounds like it does coz he needs new equipment.

Bono Must Die Trafalgar

Then a 5 piece from spooksville (which I guess is near London…) hiding out at myspace.com/mmmmonkey

Stanley Leave It Up To You

Myspace.com/iamstanley Saw them at Go north (podcast of that coming soon) and was blown away – flicking brilliant!

We Plan On Sleeping On A Jet

Myspace.com/weplanonsleeping is steven dias from Oregon who cites mogwai and spacemen 3 in his influences. What’s not to like?

Kolo Cambodia

Kolomusic.com 3 piece from Exeter with a very pro active online presence, quite shows our feeble gentle nudges and mildly designed pages up!

The Bleeps Dull Thud

Then we got a blast from The Bleeps (otter-recordings.com) a 2 piece from essex who’ve been gigging a fair bit recently….get in touch – show notes, archives and comments area on the web page, and obviously we have a myspace page – slash icast innit.

Little Name Orienteering

Littlename.co.uk is home to this gentle soul named lee in Liverpool, and as he’s also a designer, his site’s bloody lovely as well

The Very Robot

Two piece fromEdinbugh. Getting lot of love on all the Scottish stations, and looks set to translate all over. Album coming out late june. Thevery.com, innit

Law I Couldn’t Get It Up

Myspace.com/lawsofmusic houses this 3 piece from London. Only just started but already got a great sound building up and a tasty sense of humour as well!

Attic Lights Electric Beams

Atticlights.co.uk saw this band at Go North (podcast of that coming soon) 5 piece from Scotland, think Glasgow but could be wrong – guys? Any info get in touch via website comments….

The Fakrays Johanna

www.myspace.com/thefakrays two piece from Liss in Hamps, fill out to 4 piece for live set.

Jiezuberband Organ Song

Some prog heaven from jiezuberband a 5 piece from Kilmarnock who live at myspace/jiezuberband.

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The Bridge Gang - London Sky Tonight

www.thebridgegang.com

london 3 piece had a couple of 7 releases, with more activity imminent.

Dark Captain - Rainbows & Astronauts

www.myspace.com/darkcaptain

another london based 3 piece – heard their debut album and worth hunting down their page for more tunes.

Protokoll - Moving Forward

www.protokoll.us

is the cyber home of this allston, mass. 4 piece. With a uk deal looking likely and some radio support already.

Little Glitches - Smoc

www.littleglitches.com

a 4 piece from Sheffield who cite tony benn as an influence….

Chinafight - Sorry That’s All

www.chinafight.com

4 piece from reading doing plenty of gigging…

The Leisure Society - Pancake Day

www.myspace.com/theleisuresociety

is a lone figure, yet he plays with lots of bands, such as clayhill and christiansilva.

Cajun Dance Party - Amylase

www.myspace.com/cajundanceparty

is home to this 5 piece based in funland, London…..one of the trades got giddy about these guys, so expect a flurry of activity.

Beruit - Mount Wroclai

www.beirutband.com

another lone operator who yearns to perform with a full orchestra but in meantime makes do with doing it all himself. From Brooklyn via Albania, they’re signed to badabing in states (sons and daughters)

The Transisters - Ultraviolet On You

http://www.myspace.com/gloogleburg -

mystery outfit - put music up then disappeared…..is this an elaborate hoax? Who cares, good tune.

XFF - Boss Man

www.myspace.com/xavierfloydfirebird

4 piece from Southampton

Daylight’s For The Birds - Worlds Away

www.myspace.com/daylightsforthebirds

4 piece from new york, a lot more great stuff on their page

Dardanelles - Instinct

www.myspace.com/darnadelles

5 piece from melbourne, australia

Happy Band Of Japan - Don’t Go Down Too Easy

www.happybandofjapan.co.uk

Dan Scott’s project but is keen to put together a live band…get in touch.

Hey Gravity - Inside Out

5 piece from London on www.heygravity.com

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Betika Thunderstorm

www.betika.co.uk bournemouth based and the best use of a monkey face mask I’ve ever seen!

Satellite Dub Magnolia Lane

www.satellitedub.com craig brown and his technical canoodlings.
Glasgow based.

Monkeytribe Pull The Trigger
Once

www.monkeytribe.net featuring the not inconsiderable talents of female MC Soom t, worked with orbital, t rauschmire and jazzman dave Conway

Drinkme Manifesto

www.drinkmeonline.co.uk shortlisted for the o2 unsigned thingy.

TheDebretts Hole in the Head

www.thedebretts.com won some xfm comp and getting a lot of London love

Microfilm What Have You
Done To Its Eyes

www.myspace.com/microfilmusic and their new page will be up soon www.microfilmmusic.com
a two piece from Chicago and they’ve got some new tracks up now

No 1 Son Puppetshow

www.myspace.com/no1sontheband til they get main site sorted. Based in glasgow

Pocketgods World service

www.lemonrock.com/pocketgod is their home, as well as myspace, One mark lee, busily churning out some improving every day tunes.

St Judes Infirmary The Church of John Coltrane

www.saintjudesinfirmary.co.uk edinburgh based band, loads of great
tracks and an album out on sl records

Let’s Go Sailing Sideways

www.letsgosailingmusic.com is the home to this slab of beauty, the band is mainly Shana Levy over in LA, formerly of
Irvine

Eddyfink Sleight of Hand

www.myspace.com/eddyfink as their official website under reconstruction but they have a video here: http://www.spencerdoane.com/video%20clips/eddyfink.wmv

Cayto Morning

www.cayto.com glasgow based band….taken from marvellous and challenging album Blunderbuss!. Go see them live if you can…..

Out of Nowhere Scars

www.outofnowhere.uk.com 4 piece from Cambridge with some live dates coming up in the UK

Found Mullokian

Found was a three piece, but they’ve grown in the last year to a five piece!
www.surfacepressure.co.uk/found for more info.
releasing debut album themselves on Surface Pressure Records out on 29 May . . . the sleeve is a colouring in competition

Cobra Dukes Leave The Light
On

www.myspace.com/cobradukes 3 of them originally from Australia, they came over here, met a drummer as you do and I first got hold of their demo via my estate agent! It’s that arbitrary……