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The Woodin Shades

full of lust and disco dust

About Me



The Woodin Shades are a four-piece guitar band from London. Violence-indie, space-fuzz, sneaker-rock, hooker-metal etc etc etc..
Have a listen, have look, have a drink, have a fuck.
We love you only so you'll love us. xxx

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/14/2005
Band Website: thewoodinshades.co.uk
Band Members: Dean "The Ram" - Vocals/Guitar
Daro "The Bursor" - Guitar
Tom "The Bomb" - Bass
Andy "The Duke/The Carthorse" - Drums
Observe our hypnotic dance:

Influences: Dark Rum. The Catcher in the Rye. Menthol cigerettes. Dark Rum. Cow bells. Guitar spinning neck scrapes. ElectroHarmonix Big Muff. Ultra-Hardcore Porn. Dark Rum. Boss "Mega Distortion". The Marathon superduper mega-chippy in Camden (five quacks).
Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, Neil Young, My Bloody Valentine, Veruca Salt, Guns n Roses.
Bongzilla.
Sounds Like: Happy boys with sad songs. Songs about dreams. Songs about the dead. Songs about hope. Songs about robot sex.
Atom bomb our frozen graves, the choices lost, on the long way down.
Record Label: Thermonuclear Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

!!!GIG POSTPONED UNTIL 31ST!!!

THIS SATURDAY'S GIG AT NEIGHBOURHOOD HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH 31ST DUE TO THE VENUE DOUBLE BOOKING THE PROMOTERS. ALL TICKETS BOUGHT ONLINE ARE STILL VALID. SORRY SORRY SORRY HOPE YOU CAN STILL ...
Posted by The Woodin Shades on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:11:00 PST

Press clippings....

Recent press stuff for people who are bothered:   ...PRESS.....:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />   The Daily Star - gig review, ..:namespace prefix...
Posted by The Woodin Shades on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:13:00 PST

Meckal Amma. Nar then.

If you weren't metal enough to pick up a copy of the UK's best informed music mag here is what our very metal faces looked like in there, thinking super tough metal thoughts about a post-apocalyptic i...
Posted by The Woodin Shades on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 05:58:00 PST

SMACK HITS!! OLD STREET LONDON.

SMACK HITS!! OLD STREET LONDON. Hi kids, we will be playing a multi-band extravaganza on Friday night in Old Street. We will be playing a couple of awesome cover songs about skag and then one juic...
Posted by The Woodin Shades on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 09:28:00 PST

22nd April Camden Flyer.

Inhabitants of our glorious London! Spring has sprung, the flowers bloom, the sweet resonance of birdsong rains down from the trees, the profound aura of love is in the air........ put this ain't Pari...
Posted by The Woodin Shades on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 04:52:00 PST

Dublin Castle Flyer etc etc

Cheers to beautiful crowd on Wednesday!Here's the flyer for the dublin castle, then its the Caenarvon Castle in Camden on a sweaty saturday night, and then that'll be it for a while until our EP com...
Posted by The Woodin Shades on Fri, 10 Feb 2006 04:26:00 PST

H&A Flyer - £4.50 entry.

Hiya, This flyer will save you fifty whole pence on the cover charge for the H&A show on 08/02/06! Woop Woop! http://www.thewoodinshades.co.uk http://www.bignote.co.uk ...
Posted by The Woodin Shades on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 11:50:00 PST

OXFORD pics.

Bit of a weird show. Thanks if you were there, enjoyed yourself and weren't paraletic and self-important. Met some cool people, Daro discovered how to play guitar with a cast on his hand (only to ha...
Posted by The Woodin Shades on Mon, 28 Nov 2005 08:59:00 PST

The Hope & Anchor Photos.

Thanks to all the crazy kids down at the Hope & Anchor last night! Here's some of the snaps...unfortunately the table climbing and guitar 360 doomswings were too fast for the camera's eye.... that's t...
Posted by The Woodin Shades on Thu, 17 Nov 2005 09:43:00 PST

August Gigs (fuck art, lets rock)......

Cheers to the millions of people who stayed around to witness the TWS steamroller knock the fuck out Clockwork in Islington the other night....especially gnome donny osmund and the led zeps....keep on...
Posted by The Woodin Shades on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST