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Film Extras

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Formed after the demise of the popular Saddleworth combo "the Fizzles", who fizzled out in the mid nineties, Film Extras have been writing top tunes and occasionally performing since. They released their first EP "Undercurrents" in 1999. This was followed up by a self-financed debut album- "Unsafe at any Speed!" (which was erroneously associated with British Sea Power by Mojo magazine; any similarity not extending beyond a love of taxidermy) in 2003. Since then they have been amassing a more eclectic mix of strange pop music for their new long player, entitled "Knowing When To Stop", which saw the band reunited with their long time collaborators Ed "phones" Mustafic, and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Jones.A compilation (entitled "Reduced to Clear") of their enduring pop numbers can be bought here:..mspobj enableJSURL="false" Beware of Cyclists

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Member Since: 9/3/2006
Band Members: Mark Acton (vocals, guitars, etc.) Ian Bardsley (vocals, bass, etc.) Steve Jackson (drums, backing vocals, etc.) Andrew Jones (keyboards, percussion, backing vocals, etc.) The band are augmented by the engineering and production skills of Edoardo Mustafic.
Influences: In no particular order:Kings of Leon, Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, XTC, Black Sabbath, The Who, Cocteau Twins, Orange Juice, Weezer, Mudhoney, Shudder to Think, Pulp, The Smiths, Jethro Tull, Husker Du, The Damned, Swell Maps, Jimmy Webb and Glen Campbell, Super Furry Animals, Pixies, Velvet Underground, Wire, Magazine, Flaming Lips, The Standells, Shadows of Night, The Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Count Five, The Del-Vetts, The Sonics, Captain Beefheart, The Creation, The Smoke, The La De Das, Them, The Downliners Sect, The Black Lips, King Khan And BBQ Show, Camera Obscura, Beach Boys, Beatles, Buzzcocks, Billy Whizz, Beck, Belle and Sebastian and groups beginning with the letter "b" in general.
Sounds Like: An original, new wavey, psychedelic painting as drawn by people who are marginally better at playing musical instruments than they are at actual painting. Except Andrew, who’s probably quite good at painting.
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

FilmExtras live in session. Tameside FM 31st March

FilmExtras live in session. Tuesday 31st March 7pm- 9pm BST on Tameside FM (106.3 or listen on-line)
Posted by on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:48:00 GMT

FilmExtras ARE ON iTUNES.

Yep. Check it out!
Posted by on Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:58:00 GMT

FilmExtras are now commercially viable!

We've now got proper distribution. You can buy our music for not very much from cdbaby. Please donate generously so that Ian doesn't have to keep making plectrums out of old crisp packets.Follow the l...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:46:00 GMT

FilmExtras drummer sacked.

In a sensational and ruthless act of nepotism the FilmExtras drummer has been replaced by a younger man called Robin. The former drummer slagged off his replacement calling him a "cheeky whippersnappe...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:29:00 GMT

FX XMAS GIG WW 27th DEC

After a successful barnstormer at the Witchwood the other week, Dennis Matthews has invited FilmExtras to support D.I.L.E at their annual Xmas shindig on Saturday 27th December (that's the weekend bet...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Nov 2008 07:23:00 GMT

Tameside Radio Unsigned- 23rd October.

We're playing the Witchwood on Thursday 23rd October. We'll be on 9.30 ish. Tameside Radio have organised it. They've got Cooking on "heavy rotation" thanks to Dennis. You'll need a flyer. Right click...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:50:00 GMT

FilmExtras are alive!

We're playing the Witchwood as part of an unsigned band thing promoted by Dennis from Tameside FM It's on Thursday 23rd October and we'll be on about 9. Contact us if you'd like a flyer/ticket. We thi...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:24:00 GMT

Facebook

If anyone is interested, we now have a Facebook group. So please come along and join us. The group can be searched by logging on to Facebook and searching for "FilmExtras"    
Posted by on Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:39:00 GMT

Found this old review of us playing "Night and Day"

Found this on tinternet! http://www.camera1.free-online.co.uk/film1.htm (It's not spam or any other thing myspace says it is-at least we don't think so...Just copy the link)
Posted by on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:50:00 GMT

Eurovision entry

We were too late with our entry for Eurovision, so we’re releasing it here! A *brand new* FilmExtras song: "Hand Me The Pointer" More new stuff to follow shortly. FX      
Posted by on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:29:00 GMT