Member Since: 29/09/2006
Band Members: The members of A Scandal in Bohemia were:Elizabeth Walling, Ed Briggs, James Barton, Maxwell Hallett, Thom Punton, Dan Leavers, Leo Piggott.
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Influences: White Tiger
Your Laughter
Elizabeth Walling
Hildegard of Bingen
Aphex Twin
William Byrd
Steve Reich
Animal Collective
Charles Ives
Talking Heads
Olivier Messiaen
Nina Simone
Squarepusher
Arvo Part
Edgard Varese
Pierre Schaeffer
P J Harvey
Bjork
Polar Bear
Portishead
Kate Bush
Prince
John Coltrane
Miles Davis
Radiohead
Thom Yorke
Joy Division & New Order
Beth Gibbons
Godspeed you Black Emperor & A Silver Mt Zion
George Crumb
Stockhausen
Xenakis
Beethoven
Efterklang
John Cage
Eric Dolphy
The Beach Boys
Grizzly Bear
Debussy
Sounds Like: "Best Brighton Group"
THE WIRE
"The most scandalous thing about this Brighton outfit is that they aren't better known."
BEARDED Magazine, Jan 2009
"Tracks which sound like someone searching for a station on a Thirties radio. Their jazz-tinged songs fade into each other and build gently before collapsing in a swirl of brass, scratchy samples, manic drumming and looped vocals." THE ARGUS, Brighton
"Taking it back to the sounds of the perfume garden" BBC southern counties radio
"A Scandal In Bohemia, their sound as moving, grand and as wonderfully pretentious as their name." FACT Magazine
"a trip to the Limits to hear A Scandal in Bohemia, who have previously appeared alongside better-known post-rock groups such as A Silver Mt. Zion. The five-piece band are young and formidably talented with obviously extensive classical training, each member able to switch instruments at will...with vocals provided by three different band members and superb drumming. The music itself has very strong contemporary classical elements alongside strong post-rock dynamics with a thrilling progression through many of the songs from delicate melodies to climactic walls of noise, and the overall effect is very powerful and an extremely impressive live spectacle."
Review by a Last.fm blogger http://www.lastfm.fr/user/northcape (on Loop Festival 2008)
LIVE PERFORMANCES
Record Label: none
Type of Label: Unsigned