Music:
Member Since: 10/14/2006
Band Website: hm-p.com
Band Members: Vocals (Northern) – Matt ‘D’ Cheetham
Can’t sing for toffee. Won’t sing for toffee. Will yodel for fudge.
Once worked as a dancer for a well known recording artist on the European leg of their world tour before he retired following a mysterious whiplash injury.
Vocals (Southern) & Assorted Noises – Prole ‘Poncho’ Neumann
Should stick to what he’s best at – whatever that is. Unfortunately he doesn’t.
Worked as an army hairdresser after leaving school but was sacked, narrowly avoiding prosecution, after he was found to have faked his qualifications.
Keyboards – Dr. ‘Fingers’ Inglis
Transparently brilliant musician. Clearly miming.
A promising junior Bantamweight, and former regional champion, he gave up boxing to study music. Currently writing the world’s first Speech Impediment Opera.
Drums – Samantha ‘The Vixon’ Rixon
Will hit anything for kicks. Recently hit the north.
Travels around the world impersonating famous landmarks and confusing tourists – she recently won an award for her Ayers Rock and is currently perfecting her Blackpool Tower. She folds neatly away at the end of the day.
Influences: Bis, The B-52's, Joy Division, The Sugarcubes, Banana Splits, Siouxsie And The Banshees/The Creatures, Carter USM, David Bowie, The Muppets, Le Tigre, The Associates, Ray Harryhausen, OMD, New Order, The Fall, Giuseppe Tornatore, Sparks, Derek Jarman, Scott Walker, Madchester, Soft Cell, Buggles, New Fast Automatic Daffodils, Pulp, The Divine Comedy, Two Tone/Go Feet Records, Ken Loach, Martin Hannett, Morrissey, Factory Records, Terry Gilliam, Patti Smith, J-Rock, Vic Twenty.
Sounds Like: "That was fucking awesome!â€
Larry Love, walking onstage after Hicks Milligan-Prophecy had supported his band, Alabama 3.
“Wow … this starts out like some remake of an 80s Soft Cell tune then grabs a sense of urgency and disappears into a whirl of retro-futuro-synth rock … and I’m glad to say Pro-Celebrity Prostitution makes even less sense as it whirls in a flurry of keyboards and yelps … interesting, detailed, peculiar and fun.â€
Vanguard
"Their tunes are quirky and interesting; dark pop with guitars and plenty of electro moments... they sound a bit like an electro Franz Ferdinand on 'Monkey See, Monkey Lifestyle' with its catchy indie sound, which also has an 80s new romantic edge and an excellent bass line. 'King Herod's Baby Milk' is a quietly melancholy track with a dreamy, squidgy keyboard sound and the final track, 'Pro-Celebrity Prostitution' is an up beat, shambolic, jaunty tune with new wave tendencies. It's all hugely likeable and excellent stuff"
Room Thirteen.com
"...Fortunately, for all the wilful obscurity and curious angles, HM-P also bag a decent tune or three and wheel several of ‘em out for this EP. Opener ‘Monkey See, Monkey Lifestyle’ is a fizzy, synth-y indie disco workout with keyboards straight out of Space’s ‘Magic Fly’ and echoes of once hotly-tipped oddballs Tiger about it...‘Pro-Celebrity Prostitution’... is considerably more strident and reminiscent of Wire circa ‘154’: even down to the overheating Colin Newman-style vocals. This is by no means a bad thing, believe me."
Whisperin' and hollerin'
"They mix power thumping guitar sounds mixed with synthesised pop music to create a funky style of music-which reminds me of a modified version of Human League.
‘Celebrity Prostitution’ is a direct jibe at the Hello and OK! generation and their mad obsession with tabloid fame.
"This is a wonderful EP"
We Like Clubbing
"Hicks-Milligan Prophecy - The Good, The Bad & The Iceberg EP (Atomic Duster)
I’m not sure if this sinister disco music is supposed to be funny, but there is something really silly about it.... along with their crazy sound this rough and ready recording aesthetic really suits them."
Rockfeedback.com
"a good impression of OMD on crack and whizz whilst playing Pulp songs."
Manchester Music
"HICKS MILLIGAN PROPHECY, our least well kept secret of the year...a
sharp witty take on electro indiepop
Good for the dancefloor, good for the dancewhores."
ComeOut2Nite
“SINGLE OF THE WEEK… I haven’t been able to take this off the deck the last few days, as all three songs are so smeggin’ ace…Opening track 'Never The Bridesmaid (Always The Bride)' is totally fantaberoonie itself, though the second track - 'Gap Kids Make Cracking Crack Whores' - is sheer genius...And you’ve still got the punky racer that closes the EP, '9/11/73', which sounds like Ian Dury fronting Siouxsie and The Banshees.”
Playlouder
“…the best thing I heard in the [CD] pile.”
Steve Lamacq, BBC Radio
“...But hark! What’s this? Why, it’s the sound of a band mashing danceable post-punk influences with a bit of originality to go with it. Very, very dark pop. '9/11/73' is the Human League if the Human League hadn’t visited a cocktail bar and hadn’t had such a fear of guitars… Maaaaarvellous, as Mr Brittas would say.”
Drowned in Sound
“Mixing thumping guitar with the poppy sounds produced by the keyboardist…the songs here are so damn catchy…their recent airplay on Steve Lamacq’s 6 music show justifying this.”
Gigwise
“This could well be the reincarnation of Ian Curtis. Admittedly it paints a more cheerful picture of the man – perhaps jamming with the Inspiral Carpets – but he’s unquestionably there. 10/10”
Atomicduster
“An inspired mesh of early Manics and the Inspiral Carpets make for a great debut blast of indie-rock.”
Evening Telegraph (Peterborough)
Record Label: www.atomicduster.com
Type of Label: Indie
