People we have played with:
28.50: Nice, France-based
punishing minimal rock band, fanastic folks.
aMute: Both a one-man ambient electronic
haze and a full-on post-rock band. Belgium's finest.
The Angel Range: now somewhat better known with their new drummer.
Aparatec: Promising young
electronica wunderkind.
Audrey: Beautiful downbeat melancholic melodies, courtesy of 4 lovely ladies from Sweden.
Andy Bake & the Resurrection Men: Clambake singer plays hard & fast blooze and plays 'em tough.
Bardo Pond: the best drug haze band in the world.
Bearsuit: a fantastic mess of cuteness and unbridled ADHD energy.
Bilge Pump:
Probably the best band in the UK not called The Unit Ama. Gringo comrades.
Amazing people.
Carla Bozulich: a marvellous independent solo artist, now on Constellation.
Breaking Colts: fierce, pummeling drums 'n' bass aktion from Manchester. Lovely girls.
Burnst: recently resurrected, the best band in the North West this millennium.
Consolation
Prizefighter: Excellent Plymouth-based band that pack indie-rock tunes with a real wallop.
Crevecoeur: Amazingly wonderful people, who make better imaginary film soundtracks than any lousy film you could dream up.
Designer Babies: indescribable brilliance/mayhem in Nottingham. Gringo comrades.
Dialect: teenage electronica prodigy, on the mighty Resonant label.
Do Make Say Think: Legendary Constellation-based band, who are phenomenal (and phenomenally loud) live. Good people.
Donkey Otis: two men with the same name, one glass eye, a lot of blues, and no web presence.
The Dragon Rapide (R.I.P.): ridiculously fun bouncy jazziness.
The Edmund Fitzgerald (R.I.P.): dense, hyperactive complexo-rock, performed with vigour and style.
Elephant Micah: amazing singer-songwriter, otherwise known as Joe O’Connell.
Matt Elliott: otherwise known as Third Eye Foundation. Electronica/Bristol legend and very nice man.
Explosions in the Sky: some post-rock band from Texas. Kings amongst men.
Fell City Girl: Oxford’s brightest hopes?
Fly Pan Am: Fascinating Canadian band, part of the Constellation collective. Gentlemen.
From Monument to Masses: Inspiring and ever-evolving American political rock band.
Future Corpes:
Promising young London-based band, speaking bright melodic and math-rock
languages.
Gravenhurst: Warp-signed downbeat troubadours.
The Green Acre(R.I.P.): Evolved into the now-also-defunct Andy, Glenn & Ritch.
Growing: beautiful, evocative ambient soundscapes.
Half Asleep: lovely Belgian slowcore duo.
Gareth Hardwick:
solo ambient guitar maestro, who also runs Low-Point Records. European touring partner in '07.
Head Of Programmes:
Ever-changing musical interrogation from one man and whoever he's roped
into his latest project.
The Hysterical Injury:
Bath-based funtime band.
Jonquil: up-and-coming Oxford-based tunesmithery.
Kieran Hebden and Steve
Reid: Kieran also performs solo under the moniker of Four Tet and is
in Fridge.
Help She Can't Swim: herk-a-jerk Huggy Bear-style pop band, with a bunch of tunes.
Hey Colossus: lots of heavy riffs and shouting-based mayhem from ex-Stanton folks.
Hirameka HiFi: the guys who got Gringo started all those years ago, now long-defunct (R.I.P.).
Hrsta: musical outfit of the lovely Mike Moya, best known for his GY!BE/Constellation associations.
Kyte: Promising young Leicester-based
band, with a big future in front of them.
L'Ombre
de la Souris dans la Deuxieme Lune: ex-Rroselicoeur folks go guitar
loops-tastic.
The Lies &
How We Told Them: Kent-based moody rockers who do a fine line in swirling
songs. Good people.
Lionshare: Cambridge-based folksters, writing sparsely-populated but beautiful songs.
Little Girl With Cherries (R.I.P.): punishing mathrock peformed with grace and brutality.
Lorna: mesmerising beauty with real songs, melodies and everything.
Lords: Nottingham/Derby/Leeds' finest mashpup of ZZ Top and Beefheart. Gringo comrades.
Man Aubergine:
Quirky and inventive bluegrass-gone-prog, with 3-part harmonies!
The Mass: full-on metal with a saxophone from members of From Monument To Masses. Nice guys.
Mea Culpa: Bristolian experimental metalcore, who are making a name for themselves.
Migala: excellent Spanish miserabilists who are sadly unknown in the UK.
MP Inferno: promising young post-rock trailblazers from Dublin & Wicklow.
90 Day Men: fine and inventive art rock.
Nought: there may be none more prog today.
Our Beautiful Ridiculous Plan: lovely guitar and double bass scratchings from Manchester (R.I.P.).
OvO: Bizarre, perplexing and hugely entertaining outsider death metal, on Load Records.
Part Chimp: One of the most crushing, fantasticlly deranged live experiences you'll ever have.
Pelican: their website says,
"We're a fucking triumphant band".
Pram: dizzyingly good experimentalists, who should be legendary by now.
Projections: formed from the ashes of Cat On Form, promising experimental post-hardcore.
Red Jetson: extremely pleasant people from London, who are also post-rockers with songs.
Reigns: two brothers making dreamy ambientish niceness.
Reynolds: Before WolvesofGreece and Lords came Reynolds. Gringo comrades (R.I.P.).
Rroselicoeur:
France's premier post-rock band? (R.I.P.)
Rothko: whittled down from 3 bassists to one legendary gentleman named Mark.
Sailors: Excellent aggro-inducing post-hardcore from up north. Gringo comrades.
Samuel
Sharp: A band, not a man. A very good, extremely talented, band.
The Sea &
Cake: Minor legends of the Chicago underground/post-rock scene.
The Shipping News: famous members of too many bands to mention. Lovely people to boot.
Sika Redem: Coventry's
brightest hope for years. Taking metal to somewhere new and exciting.
Sincabeza:
Absolutely fantastic Bordeaux-based math-rock band who are wonderful people to boot. UK touring partners for '07.
Skill 7 Stamina 12: Another band featuring genius drummer Ash from Charlottefield.
Small Car Goes Fast: super-talented, super-nice guitar/drums duo from Manchester.
Some Tweetlove: Used to be called Tom Sweetlove, after FNAC Belgium's representative. Genius.
Stafraenn Hakon: Iceland’s finest proponent of post-rock. Also a good friend of Eidur Gudjonsen
Signuls: Up-and-coming post- and avant-rock explorers, from Leeds.
Stinking Lizaveta: crazy rockers with too many riffs for their own good, from Philly. Lovely people.
Stuckometer: fantastic improvising racketeers from Manchester, featuring Dave from OBRP.
Sunnyvale Noise Sub-Element: Oxford-based experimental gnashing and clashings, with some tunes too.
The Swarm: formed in Derby from the ashes of Terrashima. Lurching, uglyuglyugly rock. (R.I.P.)
Thee More Shallows: fantastic tunesmiths who have an uncannily wonderful way with words and rhythms.
Thoria: We're not actually sure if this Coventry band is still around in any form any more.
Tractor: Horrifically ugly lo-fi sludge, from Bristol.
Owen Tromans: ex-San Lorenzo songwriter and all-round lovely bloke.
The Unit Ama: - The Greatest Rock Band In The World. UK touring partners in '05.
The Workhouse: Excellent old-timers, who may know more about reverb than the Cocteau Twinsever did.
UpCDownCLeftCRightC+ABC: Post-rock/metal upstarts with a burgeoning live reputation/worst name ever.
You Judas!: Jay Dean of Dubrek's
bustling, howling maelstrom of a rock band.
Roland Volapuk:
Crazed one-man folk explosion. Inspired, unhinged, ragged genius.
Volcano!: Consistently inventive experimental rock band.
Vollmar: Charmingly naive and beautifully simple folks songs, sung Jonathan Richman-style.
Steve
Watson: York-based youthful acoustic guitar prodigy - this boy can play.
YouMeTheSwitch: London-based math-rock quartet. Fine gentlemen.
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