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Grammatics

Ultimate Power, Maximum Life

About Me


Grammatics formed around April 2006 in a terraced house basement just outside Leeds city centre. We soon found that we share many mutual loves...argument, doing things in the most difficult possible manner and general pretentiousness. We are all deluded with grandeur. We write songs faster than we can learn them, rarely repeat song sections without warping them into something different and attempt to utilise any instruments we can find regardless of quality or tone. Grammatics are a stylistically diverse band and like to hop though most of the genres related to indie-rock. Maybe we are stylistically incoherent. Maybe we are self-indulgent. Hopefully we will please the ears of those susceptible to that kind of nonsense. Maybe you'll like our music...we don't especially care if you don't, otherwise it would hurt…The danger’s where you care...
We run and maintain the Myspace ourselves and try to reply to everyone so bare with us if it takes a while. Thanks.x
Management:
Debbie Gwyther
email: [email protected]
Live Booking:
Natasha Bent at The Agency
email: [email protected]
Press:
Sam Hinde at Freeman
email: [email protected]
Radio & TV:
Emily Cooper at Scruffy Bird
email: [email protected]

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/10/2006
Band Website: grammatics.co.uk
Band Members: Owen Brinley - Squeal, Jangle, Noise Box, Nana's Keyboard////

Dominic Ord - Big Tangerine Barrels////

Rory O'Hara - Grime Bass, Mutter////

Emilia Ergin - Cut-Throat Cello, Murmur////

This is the new video for 'New Franchise'. Directed by Matt Maude and produced by Left Eye Blind Productions (www.lefteyeblind.net).
Producer: Jamie Donoughue
DOP: Adam Conlon . 1st AD: Aurora Fearnley . SFX: Joe Costello

New Franchise

D.I.L.E.M.M.A
Influences: Cursive, My Bloody Valentine, Radiohead, Blur, The Dears, Low, Nirvana, Elliott Smith, Six By Seven, Craig Clevenger, Queens Of The Stone Age, Bowie, Arcade Fire, Suede, The Icarus Line, Hot Chip, Irvine Welsh, The English language, Idlewild, Les Guy Debords, The Veils, Douglas Coupland, Les Emites, The Give a Fucks, Bjork, Whale Hunt, Seminals, Kate Bush, Bat For Lashes
Sounds Like: Complicated pop music. Drunken macabre gypsy cabaret. Beautiful dissonance. Car-sickness. Arthritic fingers. Rheumatics. RSI. Post-Pop. Meanwood Road at night.

"Ambitious musical shape-shifters, Grammatics are a revelation." - NME

"Over-the-top strop pop... these kids are geniuses [sic]" - Artrocker

"Some of the most epic, intelligent pop music produced by a British band in an awfully long time. Pretty fucking special." - Drowned In Sound

"Wonderful... sit-up-and-listen strange and at once arresting" - The Sunday Times

"Spellbinding" - The Fly

"One of the country's best bands...If they keep this up, they won't be the new whoever, by the end of the year everyone will be the new them." - Maps Magazine

"Super dramatic guitar/bass/drums/cello/organ combo packin' the sorta songs Ian McCulloch can't write anymore and the sorta experimental wall-of-white-noise atmospherics Kevin Shields bankrupted Creation Records trying to perfect" - Talk Magazine

DISCOGRAPHY

'Verity & Reverie'
on CD (Japan only)
KLEP4

'Shadow Committee'
on limited 7"/download
DTTR038

'D.I.L.E.M.M.A. / Polar Swelling'
on limited 10"/download
DTTR041

'New Franchise'
free download - www.grammatics.co.uk
DTTR042

'Something I Learned Today'
on CD/iTunes (compilation)
DTTR028

'Out Of The Woods And Trees'
on CD/iTunes (compilation)
DTTR035

'On The Bone - Number Two'
on CD/iTunes (compilation)
OTB009

Record Label: Dance To The Radio
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

November single & tour.

Okay, I think I've just about recovered from Leeds Festival. That's one weekend of fun to one week of pure pain and misery. Not the best ratio in the world but worth it. I think!New(s)Thanks to everyo...
Posted by Grammatics on Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:10:00 PST

Leeds Fest Warm-Up Show!

Our good friend Mr Brown would like us to pass the following message on to you via the Web Of Inter -Leeds Festival warm up gig in..LeedsThis is basically a little low key and last minute warm up gig ...
Posted by Grammatics on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:02:00 PST

New Franchise - free download at www.grammatics.co.uk

Hello internetarians, we have uploaded a clip of our new single, 'New Franchise' for your listening pleasure. We are the waiter bringing you wine to taste, if you like, we'll have a whole bottle broug...
Posted by Grammatics on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:41:00 PST

Ive seen God, he says hi.

Oh, where to begin&     It's been a pretty intense couple of weeks in Grammatics. I had a near death experience on the way back from Beach Break Festival in Cornwall. I won't go in...
Posted by Grammatics on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:28:00 PST

ALBUM

Hello, We've just got to the studio in Bridlington on the East coast of Yorkshire where will be living for around 2 months (with trips out to festivals on the weekends) while we make our debut album. ...
Posted by Grammatics on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:30:00 PST

TNPS/Forward, Russia tour diary

After rehearsing solidly for most of March, April saw us back out on tour around the UK. First night in Cambridge was a confidence booster thanks to a very enthusiastic and excitable crowd.Following t...
Posted by Grammatics on Wed, 07 May 2008 07:07:00 PST

www.grammatics.co.uk

Hello hello, how’s it going? Good weekend? Yeah me too...Dom and I won BIG on the national, like 40 entire pounds (despite Rory’s wack-ass tip, that horse ended up getting put down! G...
Posted by Grammatics on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:09:00 PST

Devastating

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual &videoid=28246517 This is incredible. Laura has agreed to sing on our album...I couldn’t be happier... In other amazing album base...
Posted by Grammatics on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 06:20:00 PST

New Video & Single Pre-Order

Sorry for yet another blog, there’s just quite a lot to tell you about lately. If you want to pre-order the single that is now coming out on Mon 14th April you can do from here. As you may have ...
Posted by Grammatics on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:37:00 PST

First D.I.L.E.M.M.A / Polar Swelling Review online.

http://www.whisperinandhollerin.com/reviews/review.asp?id=54 37 Owenx...
Posted by Grammatics on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:30:00 PST