The Model Village

Hailing from the southern naval town of Portsmouth, The Model Village are ahead of their game. Fuelled with a healthy passion for truth, poetry and Rock & Roll, TMV can make a believer out of even the most elitist music listener. Fads, fashions and genres hold no place in TMVs heart and even though the sounds they make might not be something you've never heard before, TMV guarantee they'll be something you'll want to hear for years to come.
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Timeout London
"With influences ranging from Billy Bragg to Future Sound Of London, you can expect a strange mix of social poetry and urban atmospherics from Portsmouth's The Model Village, who are most often compared to Blur"
Madhouse Media
"We could listen to these guys all day, the seven tracks on their myspace page simply isn't enough. With catchy tunes and catchier vocals TMV live up to their guarantee and quench our thirst with some instantly addictive sounds"
Paul Coogan - Phoenix FM
“With the swagger of Ian Brown, the groove of Happy Mondays, crunching riffs to rival Noel Gallagher’s finest and a dash of Blur-esque quirkiness, Portsmouth’s ‘The Model Village’ are set for big things.”
Bugbear
"On the one hand embracing Parklife era Blur …but buried under loads of fuzz and ultra distorted vox. Heading towards the psychedelic, but via 80's analogue sample-ology."
The News
"Portsmouth has needed something like this for years"
Download.com
"Tight, sharp and sporting a heavy dose of classic Brit-pop melody, they have the same soulful stuff the best of the '80s mod revivalists had. Yet the MVs are a totally contemporary--as in modern--band"
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VENUE HISTORY
Black Bar
Chaos (south parade pier) - Southsea
Concorde2 - Brighton
Contented Pig - Portsmouth
Drift Bar - Southsea
Eastney Cellars - Eastney
Elmore Angling Club - Gosport
Enska Club - Portsmouth
Envy (Waster) - Portsmouth
EQ (the lounge) - Southsea
Express FM
Fat Fox - Southsea
Hampshire Rose - Widley
Happy Mondays Club - Portsmouth
Havana - Southsea
Joiners - Southampton
Kolebka - Southampton
Moneyfields - Portsmouth
Nambucca - London
Portsmouth Guildhall - Portsmouth
Power FM
Spitbank Fort - Solent
The Albany - Portsmouth
The Alma Arms (acoustic set) - Southsea
The Dublin Castle - Camden, London
The Fawcett Inn - Portsmouth
The Hobbit - Southampton
The Hope & Anchor - Islington, London
The Marquee Club - Piccadilly, London
The Nell Gwyne - Portsmouth
The Quay FM
The Talking Heads - Southampton
The Wedgewood Rooms - Portsmouth
Tiger Tiger - Portsmouth
Yates Bar - Portsmouth
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Fat Sue
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The Meladramas
The Light Divided
The Ramblins
Caspian Sea Society
Thomas Tantrum
The Elements
The Skies
The Gun Show
The Starrlings
Cosy Flashbak
The 47's
The Cartel
Rivers Of Sound
The Stations
The Way
Recreation
The Jamm
Sam McCarthy
The Racketeers
Rebel Ching
Revolution 74
The Idol Melinfoi
The Deads
The Levels
The Arkwrights
The Fret
Brannigans Law
Life With Max
Hardly Heroes
Blackfox
Somerstown
Ben Brookes
Rob Warman
Midnight Dance Party
Dr Joel
Cool Banana
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