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lakes

New-boy, mike, reckons he can have any of you lot!

About Me

Lakes started out cocking eons ago as a live side project to jamie and ross's electronic project 'photobook'. All play and have played in various bands together over the years, some you probably heard of, some you wouldn't of, that isn't important. What is important is that all are committed to playing music for music's sake, adhering as much as possible to a DIY ethic that seems obsolete to so many bands today. "my jacket stay stinking" and all that.
Thanks to the following awesome bands for having played showS with us, knocked us about, blown us away and had a laugh with: November Coming Fire, Cousin Scampi, So So Modern, Zettasaur, Mimas, Lavotchkin, Sky:Lark, Omerta, The Pluto, Sparrows and We Are Carnivores. forever pissing out of windows...
long live the punks!!!
5 track cdep available on signature tune:
12" comp on the lovely Scaredy Cat label with flora oh flora:
CD compilation on the legendary Unlabel with Capt. Fidanza:
split 10" with Zettasaur on signature tune:
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Member Since: 10/19/2006
Band Members: scott, ross, jamie & mike
Influences: Slint, Mevlins, Sleep, early J.R Ewing, Sonic Youth, Drive like jehu, Nirvana, The Enablers, Van Pelt, Fugazi, Torche, The Dirty Three, Radiohead, Small Brown Bike, The Babies Three, Shai Halud, Gorilla Biscuits, Botch, Shipping News, Elliot Smith, Orchid, Snapcase, The Get Up Kids, Hot Snakes, Fourtet, Bjork, Bonnie Prince Billy, Red House Painters, Neutral Milk Hotel, Jesus Lizard, Breach, Don Cabelero, Cap n Jazz and their dynasty, Quicksand, Far, Refused, Roots Manuva, Godspeed, A.T.D.I, The Smiths, The Cure, Magnetic Fields, Max Tundra, My Bloody Valentine, Aphex Twin, Wu Tang, Smashing Pumpkins, Stop It, Mission of burma, Joy Division to name but a choice few. Interesting/Intreaguing stories/accounts told by good writers like Bukowski to the geeky, shot in the darkers like Rowling, Lynch, The brothers Cohen, Wes Anderson, Cronenberg, Coppolla (Sr. and Jr.), Shane Meadows, Brass Eye, Nathan Barley, Curb your Enthusiasm, Twin Peaks, and meeting cool little shitbags like many of the bands we have played with and bringing them down to our Immature and Hedonistic level
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Record Label: signature tune
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

ZXZW FESTIVAL

Lakes are thrilled to be playing the ZXZW festival in Tilburg, Netherlands - check out this little spiel and some of the artists playing on the same day as us... ZXZW is the annual celebration of inde...
Posted by lakes on Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:01:00 PST

Lakes + Zettasaur split 10" out Dec 3rd

Lakes have recorded three tracks for a split with our mates Zettasaur from Brighton who are, for those who have yet to see them, fucking awesome! We've been recording wit...
Posted by lakes on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 04:26:00 PST

EP release

a CDEP containing five songs will be released on Signature Tune on monday 29th january 2007 all songs recorded by Dan Lucas at the manor. stirling job too. exciting.  ...
Posted by lakes on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 01:35:00 PST