levenshulme bicycle orchestra

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Member Since: 9/29/2006
Band Website: levenshulmebicycleorchestra.com
Band Members: Matthew John AshworthZeke Samuel CloughHuw Caspar Turner WahlDavid Magnus Birchall
Influences: Pine cones, pound shop costumes, destroying bad records, recorder trade offs, kiddie smashers, chicken sausages, leonard cohen followed by crust punk.
Sounds Like: "As for the Levenshulme Bicycle Orchestra (drums, bass, vocals, overhead projector, post-it notes, CDRS and bicycle), it is beside the point to analyse with hindsight. Unrelentingly experimental, their performance was visual and theatrcial as much musical, embodying an almost Dadaist approach to spontaneous creativity which was child-like in its exuberance, playfulness and wandering sense of purpose" Student Direct
"The bicycle parts are brought out next; this is, naturally, The Levenshulme Bicycle Orchestra who also feature a drummer whose head is entirely wrapped in bandages and a man in an orange cat mask who is crawling around the floor. Even the open minded patrons of Wotgodforgot are sitting a little too far back for their frontman (of sorts), who commands that we stand up and step forward - we do, and are rewarded by having trails of old audio tape wrapped around us. Their sound is oddly like that of industrial futurists such as Faust, only more primitive, more organic - pre-industrial, perhaps? The bicycle rig proves to be a versatile instrument; its spokes bowed for odd metallic drones and mudguards beaten as percussion; Cat Mask Man hammers at a bass and throws himself around as if the ground beneath his feet is too hot to stand on. On the street below the balcony, passers by are looking up with that "what the fuck?" expression normally found in sci-fi blockbusters round about the time the mothership first appears overhead." Manchester Music
Type of Label: Major