Mansions of Glory was formed in November 2004 by the three of us with the sole intention of providing Newcastle with a straight up punk rock band (and by punk rock band we don't mean Simple Plan or Good Charlotte or some other cheese like that).
We wrote a bunch of songs, got rid of some, wrote some more and played our first gig in February 2005. We thought it went pretty well. We've played 30+ shows with bands like Stinking Lizaveta, Lafaro, Fiya, Red Monkey, The 101, Brown Owl, The Archie Bronson Outfit, Josh T Pearson, Black Cougar Shock Unit, Former Cell Mates, Narhwal, Smackdown, The Mercury League, sWord, Rituals, The Dauntless Elite plus all the local show pony's (Written From Negative, This Ain't Vegas, Lake Me, Drawn By Lines, BEAK, Free Diamonds, First Flight Home, etc.).
The two songs on here were recorded at our practice room in November 2005 and are available along with two other new songs on a nice, shiny cd with a lovely picture of an angel by Paul Dolan and a photo of us by Adam Gilleshpy.
We always respond well to encouragement, toys, tummy rubs, alcohol and snacks.
Bit of an update as of Summer 2007 - Jack Block is now playing bass in MoG after the departure of Angela to sunny Preston. Jack also plays in Gut Care. Check them out in our friends below.
Other nice people have said this about us:
www.warrenellis.com
Straight undiluted half-coherent clanging garage guitar the way proper humans like it. Approved. OFFICIAL.
Gig Review from 161 Collective:
MAY 20TH Drawn By Lines//First Flight Home//Mansions of Glory
Whoop! Mansions of Glory brought their garage punk rock a la' Hot Snakes to our fine City for the first time EVER. they were amazing, straight up, balls out (ahem) rock n fuckin roll. an amazing set by MOG, they were thoroughly nice chaps and chapettes.
Those nice Black.Glass fellows have this to say about us:
Mansions of Glory take the hardcore blueprint drafted by bands like husker du and mission of burma and update it in a way that would make walter schrieffels and bob mould proud.
Future Killed Cassettes web review from the Music Beats Poverty show we played 19/11/05 with The Mercury League and Written From Negative:
Apart from the warm feeling one gets from giving money to a good cause, somehow a sweaty night of loud music feels more gratuitous than a sitcker from a guy in the street shaking his money rattler thingy to grab your attention and make you feel bad for not giving him you spare change.
Anyhoo, tonight was quite simply Rock and fricken Roll. Mansions of glory rocked my world to the point of wanting to crack out my denim and leather set up for old times sake. Chunky riffs of power and shouting vocals to the bursting blood vessels point make me wanna rock the hell out all night long, It felt like 1974 (the year of rock 'n' roll so Im told). Songs about evil women and credit card debt, what more rock 'n' roll issues can there be?!
Another lovely review from Future Killed Cassettes Website from our show with BEAK and Lords on the 3rd of March:
Snow, Snow, Snow, what a crock of shit. It should be Spring, Spring, Spring, now we're in March, but.... in typical Sunderland fashion, we still manage snow, but so did the rest of the country i guess, so all is not too bad. What's the best cure for Snow, Snow, Snow? Rawk, Rawk, and some more Rawk, hell yes.
The first dose comes from Newcastle 3 piece Mansions of Glory. QOTSA drums and Black Flag guitars warm you up a treat in this weather. Riff heavy from start to finish, power chords and wailing solos left, right and centre, thick dirty bass, what more, quite literally could you ask for?! They managed 'Hell Again' this time which was a treat to say the least.
