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Mitch and Murray

The Bleak End Starts Here

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Mitch & Murray’s forthcoming debut album ’The Bleak End Starts Here’ has received recent airplay on Radio 1 and XFM in the UK, and on Aligre FM in France, and the band has also been featured on XFM DJ Jon Hillcock’s NewNoise podcast (http://jonhillcocknewnoise.com).
"The gentle riffs start to hypnotise, while low-key domestic dramas unravel in the lyrics....it’s reassuring to know that there are people like Mitch and Murray to feed your hearts and minds". Overplay.com
Dwelling more on the subdued and understated side of music- whether it be delicate acoustic pickery, throbbing Phil Spector harmonies or reverberating sadcore strum-alongs- Mitch & Murray continue to produce high-quality, lo-fidelity pop of the reflective kind.
The guitars chime with the fragrant delicacy of old hands like Galaxie 500 or Red House Painters, wrapped in plaintive vocals and pinned down by subtle rhythms. The lyrics wander from the mundane and the stoic, to the introspective and intimate- all garnished with the slight humour that can only come from a true sense of the absurdity of all things, but without distracting from their honesty.
Less is more, more or less.

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Member Since: 2/26/2005
Band Website: mitchandmurray.co.uk
Band Members: BENJAMIN JONES: Vocals, Guitars, Harmonica, Other.
PETER COULTHARD: Guitars, Vocals, Other.
MEL BALLAM: Bass.
PAUL PALMER: Drums, Vocals.
With occasional help from DAVID JONES: Piano, programming, other.

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Influences: Growing up, winding down, reading too much, doing too little, breathing and sleeping in the Black Country, with guitars
Sounds Like: Galaxie 500, Yo La Tengo, Iron and Wine, Kepler, Red House Painters, Low, American Music Club, Sparklehorse, Will Oldham.
Record Label: Regular Beat Recording Co.
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Benjamins Tour Diary Part 4: The Final Chapter (Birmingham)

The next two days were spent at home.  Our final date was in Birmingham and after that the Alaska crew would be off to Europe to soak up some fine culture and foreign languages.  All we coul...
Posted by Mitch and Murray on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:03:00 PST

Benjamins Tour Diary Part 3: London and dusted

I've only ever been beaten up once.  It was a proper inner-city beating too; I was beaten up for not looking at someone.  It takes a real hard man to give you a kicking for not screwing him ...
Posted by Mitch and Murray on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:18:00 PST

Benjamins Tour Diary Part 2: Liverpool and Mitch and Murray and a busker

It's not hard to culture shock Mitch and Murray.  I won't say that the whole band lives in a vacuum of sorts; we're a few miles from Britain's second biggest city, a growing centre of economic de...
Posted by Mitch and Murray on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 01:53:00 PST

Benjamin's Tour Diary Part 1: The Road Leeds to Nowhere

Tours are meant to be eventful.  You hope they are anyway because you're taking out a massive chunk of time and effort to lug around various places and be uncomfortable for long periods of time.&...
Posted by Mitch and Murray on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 06:38:00 PST

Mitch & Murray gigs confirmed

The dates are confirmed for our gigs with Alaska in Winter on the UK leg of their European tour. ..> April 8th: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds    33 Queens RoadLS6 1NY April 9th: View 2 G...
Posted by Mitch and Murray on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:36:00 PST

2008: New Year, New Tour, New Album (possibly)

Happy New Year!Yes, ladies and gentlemen, 2008 looks like it might be a busy one for Mitch & Murray as we venture out on a few excursions and make headway into a new era of musical adventures...
Posted by Mitch and Murray on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:18:00 PST

Album reviewed by A Decouvrir Absolument *Updated

http://www.adecouvrirabsolument.com/ If anyone reading is a decent translator, we would love to know what this means. A la lecture du nom Mitch & Murray plutôt qu'un quatuor néo-folk neurasthéniqu...
Posted by Mitch and Murray on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:09:00 PST

New album review

From www.tastyfanzine.org.uk Black Country gang of four Mitch & Murray (not to be mistaken for neither the telly star/author nor the mortgage company) emerge with stunning debut The Bleak End Star...
Posted by Mitch and Murray on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 04:16:00 PST

Collected reviews for The Bleak End Starts Here: July 07

  From www.losingtoday.com 'The Bleak End Starts Here' is a concise collection of nine songs that convey a brand of American folk as produced by a band from the UK midlands, and it has to be said...
Posted by Mitch and Murray on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:15:00 PST

Mitch and Murray News 29/06/07

* Mitch and Murray on Radio 1* Album release around the corner* Mitch and Murray interviews and reviews coming! *Sorry we didn't manage to get this too you sooner (much confusion on the listings part)...
Posted by Mitch and Murray on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:47:00 PST