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The Tonic

Officially No.1 in Croydon!

About Me


Welcome from THE TONIC!'The saviours of Rock 'n' Roll'. The Tonic hail from glamorous Croydon, South London, the musical heart-land which has given the world such Legendary artistes as Another Level's Dane Bowers.The band have gradually developed an arsenal of great songs with which we intend to take over Britain, then the world....and there's nothing you can do to stop us...Muha ha ha ha!!!

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Member Since: 11/10/2006
Band Website: the-muzic.com/members/1230/blog.php
Band Members: Lead Vocals - Justin Cress, Rhythm Guitar - Paul Coveney, Lead Guitar - Luke Edmunds, Bass Guitar - Dave Fleckney, Drums - Gavin Shirley,
Influences: The Jam, The Kinks, The Who, The Beatles, The Small Faces, Oasis, Stone Roses, The Verve, The Rolling Stones, Spencer Davis Group, The Troggs, Ocean Colour Scene, Blur, Pulp, Echobelly, Shed Seven, Charlatans, Primal Scream, The Smiths, Bob Dylan, Steve Cummins, David Bowie, T-Rex, Slade, The Beach Boys, The Ramones, The Strokes, The La's, Supergrass, Madness, The Specials, The Clash, The Buzzcocks, The Sex Pistols... etc etc!
Sounds Like:
Record Label: indiestore
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Drummer Required

The Tonic urgently require a quality drummer to start asap in the recording of our debut album. It’s the ideal time to join as the new man will be able to learn the stuff track by track as ...
Posted by The Tonic on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:18:00 PST

Its all happening...

Just an update for ya; After a year of pretty intensive gigging we're taking time out from the live scene to record our long awaited debut album! Half the album will be brand new, previously...
Posted by The Tonic on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:04:00 PST

Deep-London review

This months Deep-London Magazine features a review of our gig at The Brief, Croydon. The Mag is out on Monday 4th Feb but here's the review in full; In case you were wondering, this whole idea of...
Posted by The Tonic on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 10:55:00 PST

rocksellout.com on Kaleidascope

London Calling on rocksellout.com has chosen its top 5 tracks of the year and at number 3 was our very own 'Kaleidascope'. They had this to say; "After going through a hundred of my top tunes for...
Posted by The Tonic on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:50:00 PST

You like us! You really like us!!

Some words on THE TONIC.... "Kaleidascope, sound track to summer 2007!"       London Calling, Rock Sellout.com "Great music"       ...
Posted by The Tonic on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:55:00 PST

Download Car Crash & kaleidascope!!

Due to public demand, two of our most popular tracks, Car Crash and Kaleidascope are now availiable to download for the tiny sum just of 79p! just use the link on our myspace, or visit www.i...
Posted by The Tonic on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:03:00 PST

www.xfmuploaded.co.uk/thetonic

Who goes, you decide... Check out our new page on Xfm's website. There's a brand new version of our Indie-Disco classic 'car crash'. But we can't decide if it's better than the original!!! So ple...
Posted by The Tonic on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 12:33:00 PST

New Tracks Added!!!

Check out 2 new tracks from us on the site! Kaleidascope & Peacock Feathers have been widely received as 2 of our best tracks ever!! Enjoy, THE TONIC
Posted by The Tonic on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 02:27:00 PST

rocksellout.com

American Indie website rocksellout.com have done a feature on little old us. I knew we'd crack America!! Check it out.
Posted by The Tonic on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 04:14:00 PST

Wa Gwan?

If you've noticed things have gone a bit quiet on the gigs front it's because there are big changes going on in Tonic land. The bitter sweet news is we've parted company with the legendary 'chav king'...
Posted by The Tonic on Thu, 31 May 2007 02:10:00 PST