Member Since: 8/14/2006
Band Website: last-man-standing.co.uk
Band Members: Andre 'Peppermint' Shapps;
Chris ''I-was-made-for-loving-you'' Cordoba;
Herbacious Keys,
Wylsie of Camberwell;
Max Vanderwolf: Professional Charlatan;
Lionel Hoops the sad-eyed elephant boy;
No-More-Nora (whore to the stars);
the binky twins,
philip seemore hoffman and his dancing hard-to-describe thing,
alpa chino, The Legendary Mr. Art Terry;
the toungue
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Influences: Max Bialystock, Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant, Mott the Hoople, Cab Calloway, Tex Avery, Nick Cave, Count Chocula, The Rutles, Gong, Barry Adamson, They Came From the Stars I Saw Them, Neil Young, Serge Gainsbourg, Skeleton Key, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weil, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, Buzzcocks, Neil Young, Ennio Morricone, Antonin Artaud, Patti Smith, Dmitry Shoshtakovich, Ernie Kovacs, Quay Brothers, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of invention, Fats Waller, Lord Buckley, Moondog, Rasputin, various assasins of the 1960's, George Clinton and Funkadelic, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Alice Cooper, the Chicago Eight, Ojays, Spinners, Philly Soul, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Egon Schiele, Lee Scratch Perry, T-Rex, Hank Williams, Duke Ellington, Bob Marley, Charles Mingus, Outkast, Soundtrack to Hair, Sammy David Jr., the Grateful Fuckin Dead, Wm S. Burroughs, Pete Townshend, The Specials, Sufijan Stevens, Spititualized, Mercury Rev, Joana Newsom, Can, Kraftwerk, George and Ira Gershwin, the Pixies, Cardinal, Super Furry Animals, Public Enemy, Igor Stravinsky, Biz Markie, Violent Femmes, Public Image Ltd., Tom Waits, the Banana Splits, The Byrds, Muddy Waters, John Zorn, Henry Mancini, Cat Power, Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, Howie Pyro, Danny and the Juniors, the Cramps, Charles Kaufmann's Films, Supergrass, Spike Jones, The Monkees, Black Sabbath, Carl Stalling, The Soft Machine, Robert Wyatt, Brian Eno, Air, Aphex Twin, The Arcade Fire, Badfinger, Barry White, the Beach Boys, Black Grape, Jan Svankmeyer films, The Pink Floyd, Divine Comedy, Dr. John, Flamin Lips, Little Feat, Gnarls Barkley, Incredible String Band, The Pretty Things, Thelonius Monk, Monty Python, Jacques Brel, Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Tenor, Joe Strummer, Velvet Underground, the Beat, Link Wray, Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Richman, Julian Cope, Yes, 13th Floor Elevators, Nina Hagen, Regina Spektor, Nico, Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, (girls in general arepretty spectacular lets face it), John Cale, David Bowie, Lambchop, Lemon Jelly, Haskell Wexler, Dennis Hopper, Mr. Bungle, Black Mountain, Leon Russell, The Polyphonic Spree, Gogol Bordello, Randy Newman, Rasputina, Rashaan Roland Kirk, the Residents, Richard Hell, Sparks, Robyn Hitchcock, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Scott Walker, Coen Brothers, Shangri-Las, Sigur Ros, Bob Dylan Beatles and the Stones.
Sounds Like: Four Stars- MOJO Magazine January Issue:
When did our capital’s rock scene last throw up a nonet? When, come to that, did it produce anything much besides Libertines wannabes and ‘’postpunk’? On both counts last man Standing are quite extraordinary. Their name derives from the embattled romantic life of their frontman, Max Vanderwolf. As signposted by the album title, his lyrical world is one of dissapointment and regret and unutterable sleaze, from which he emerges, song by song, bleary yet unbeaten. ‘’I’m so damnede depressed,†he yowls on the stomping Queen Kong, ‘’I just gotta rock’’. And rock his eight cohorts do, with a bredth of vision which encompasses the more ambitious end of glam (Aladin Sane, Bolans Zinc Alloy) and the cabaret splendour of Alex Harvey, even Tom Waits at his most theatrical. This blast of low-life pungency feels like a righteous breath of fresh air. - Andrew PerryThree Stars - UNCUT December issue
Max Vanderwolf’s band have a colorful ingenuity of Bowie’s 70’s floorshows and the wild spirit of Tom Waits- which means the are essentially rock theatre, but with attitude. Stylisitically they cram alot- sometimes too much- in, but the policy usually works. This collection of bedragled songs duly incorporates the cabaret angst of ‘70s Lou Reed, dustbowl Mariachi, and Steely Dan cynicism. Their vision of wild-hearted losers, misfits and a world in collapse somehow holds everything together. -Gavin Martin
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