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City Seventeen

About Me

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City Seventeen are a three-piece collective, hailing from Cambridge, in the sunny isles of the United Kingdom. They are lately tired of banging their heads against the brick wall of genre descriptions.

We encourage you to visit our shockingly sporadically updated official website , which looks much nicer (and blacker, to reflect the inner torment of your soul) than this one.

You can also stream the entirety of EP1 from our last.fm page , or you can buy it for the very reasonable price of £4.50 from our online shop . It looks like this:

But is much nicer, being printed using silver metallic ink onto charcoal grey gatefold card, with wonderful images from our friend Gareth. Each one is hand-assembled and numbered.

Also available is Petrodollar / Analysis (redux) single, a two track single comprising of a new song, and a drastic re-working of "Analysis". This is available for free download from our website . You can also purchase the 3" CD single, which looks like this:

The disc is stored in a 3.5" floppy disc case. Each one is hand-assembled and numbered. It can be purchased here .

We're not ones for blatent self-promotion, really, but if you like us and you're signed up for this kind of thing (we hear it's real popular with the cool kids) a little kickback via this here button would be appreciated:

Better yet, send us a message and say hi!

We also have a mailing list if you'd like to be kept up to date with happenings:

You may also wish to engage in some low-key stalking activity through the magic of our apparently de rigueur Twitter page .

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 18/09/2006
Band Website: cityseventeen.co.uk/
Band Members: Rhys Copeland plays piano, guitar and messes about with electronics; Chris Barber plays guitar and glockenspiel; Jon Callan plays the drums and sampler.
Influences: City Seventeen like "loads of shit": Do Make Say Think, Holy Fuck, Free Blood, Pixies, PiL, Taku Sugimoto, Efterklang, Future of the Left, Au Revoir Simone, Mia Riddle, Tom Waits, Talking Heads, Clutch, Neu!, Radiohead, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mogwai, Low, Lambchop, Deftones, Espers, The Fall, Dirty Three, Port Royal, Spiritualized, Molasses, Autechre, Color Filter, Can, William S. Burroughs, Old Skool Rave, Mclusky, The Velvet Underground, The Fall, Boards of Canada, Luke Haines, Stereolab, Cat Power, Squarepusher, Joy Division, Four Tet, Sonic Youth, The Jam & Girls Aloud
Sounds Like: All that Kranky/Constellation stuff, Mogwai, soundtracks to an unmade film.
Record Label: IFF Transponder
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

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Beautiful people of the internet! We encourage you to join our electronic mailing list, such that we can be in touch with you when we have interesting things to say, and so we can give you free niceti...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:57:00 GMT

Gig

Good news everyone! The IFF-Transponder Recording Company of Great Britain brings you, the masses, an evening of music based past times, featuring City Seventeen, the debut Thomas J live experience ...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:01:00 GMT

Administrative Error

Hi folks,There was a mistake! The two "new" songs (you know, the ones from last year) we posted had the wrong titles. Person responsible has been shot. Etc. Cheerio,Rhys
Posted by on Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:49:00 GMT

Spring Cleaning

In an fit of creativity, our page has been ever so slightly updated with pics and info and the like. Even more excitingly, the Petrodollar / Analysis (Redux) tracks have now been added to our player, ...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Mar 2009 09:42:00 GMT

Time Travel

Just so you know, we are aware that the offcial website has seemingly travelled back to the 1st of January 1970 and refuses to come back. We'll fix this as soon as we can.
Posted by on Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:28:00 GMT

EP2

There's a ringing in my ears. It's the remnants of last night's recording session. The one where EP2 was finally fully recorded. Wow. Just awaiting mixing/mastering/all that fluff. More later.
Posted by on Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:39:00 GMT

Petrodollar / Analysis (Redux)

Folks, I never thought I'd say this, but we have actually made a new record. We know; we didn't think it would ever happen either. But sure enough if you go to our online shop, you'll see it there in ...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:49:00 GMT

Radio Romania

Last night, the strangest thing happened. We were sat around in the studio, as we tend to do, when all of a sudden Chris' amp picked up a radio broadcast. We've heard it play the hits of the moment, R...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:20:00 GMT

Website Problems

I've been told that our official website is all mad, layout-wise, in Internet Explorer. Sorry about this. This is because Internet Explorer is pretty poor. We recommend Firefox for optimal eyeball ple...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:28:00 GMT

Progress Update (May Contain Vague Threats of New Material)

Hi everyone. Thought I'd give you an update into the goings on in our world lately. We're recording stuff at the moment, a followup to 2006's seminal EP1, the appropriately-titled EP2. Eagle-eyed read...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:28:00 GMT