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Hailing from deepest, darkest Essex, Absent Kid are a five piece who play an energetic brand of indie-pop. The band began gigging around their native Colchester and soon earned favourable comparisons to Idlewild, Radiohead and Pavement. After a few ventures to London, the fledgling Absent Kid would soon get their first break after winning the Diesel U-Music Award for Best New Rock act. Some NME coverage later and the band were soon releasing debut mini-album ‘I Burnt Down the Family Business’ through legendary North London indie label Fierce Panda. They began playing gigs with the likes of The Subways, Art Brut, Kasabian and Queen Adreena and featured on both MTV2 and Radio One, as well as recording a session for XFM. ‘...a stratospheric amalgam of pop hooks and colossal guitars’ - NME “…A hugely inventive collection.” - 4/5 KERRANG! “…A cacophony of styles and volumes, spitting spidery guitar lines one minute, then violent whirls of distortion the next. The only thing that’s consistent is the quality.” - ROCK SOUND "Bloody Brilliant..." - DROWNED IN SOUND http://www.myspace.com/absentkid
In their short time together SISTER RAY have played many venues in London and hometown Bedford and spent time recording a host of material with producer Nick Mailing. Their inluences include David Bowie, Velvet Underground / Lou Reed, Radio Head, Beatles and Tom Waits. "There’s something smart, stylish and a little bit damaged about Bedford’s Sister Ray. This razor-sharp five-tracker comes on like a dead-eyed spiv, reeking of gin and the smell of a thousand dingy Victorian East End back streets, plus the ungodly funk of a teenager’s bedroom. But there’s no denying that it’s all darkly seductive. Frontwoman and songwriter Genna Marabese takes classic angst and puts it through a grinder of Elvis Costello, The Kinks and The Cure to create true sausages of sin. " - Overplay EP Review. "Quite simply, I thought their performance this evening was stunning in it's execution. This was certainly not a cutesy and diluted pop sound but a set full of feisty, spirited and iconoclastic songs. Guiseppe takes an assured back seat role as Genna stretches her vocal cords and veers from sincere tenderness to demented mania. Imagine her please as the love child of Kate Bush and Nick Cave!" - gig review at Esquires in Bedford by Martin Stapleton. http://www.myspace.com/wearesisterray
Their travels have seen them support many bands including The Maccabees, The Zutons, The Ordinary Boys, Editors, Maps and The Spinto Band. This is what has been said about them: "It’s a remarkably assured debut; a clear statement of intent." - The Fly - Levi’s Ones to Watch feature "...(Trailing Laces) make the sort of strident, urgent music which makes one feel good to be alive. Yes, really." - Drowned in Sound "I was twatted round the head by the noise that is Trailing Laces" - The Fly @ The Great Escape "The music is observational without feeling contrived as the band weave their obvious frustration with day to day life in to some fantastic sounding tunes." - This Is Fake DIY "Everything’s in the right place. There are no surprises, fancy noodlings or pompous introspection here. It’s three minutes of guitars, bass and drums." - BBC Weekender "Be sure to catch them at any future gigs, you’d be a fool not to." Small Zines Sink Ships fanzine. http://www.myspace.com/trailinglaces
Chris Letcher, a South African musician, singer-songwriter and documentary/film composer based in London, is the archetypal speccy geek with revenge and guilt on his warped mind. As the original four-eyed songsmith Elvis Costello might put it, he's a boy with a problem, his problem being that he can't stop writing fragile, fractured ballads, overlaid with ambient, electronic effects, about being "f**ked-up, f**ked-off or f**ked-over", as GQ wrote of Letcher recently. Forget James Blunt or James Morrison and their anodyne, saccharine ilk - if Letcher sang a song like You're Beautiful, it would be with an unsettling grin on his face and a knife behind his back. Think the nocturnal interludes from Big Star's Sister Lovers or Syd Barrett's madcap melancholia. http://www.myspace.com/letchermusic
Foundlings formed in late Spring 2007. Each individual
Foundling had played in other bands before finding each other,
but none had found a band able to combine a minor key with jaunty
rhythm in quite the way Foundlings can. http://www.myspace.com/foundlingsband
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