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Mistys Big Adventure

We Will Break Our Legs For Money

About Me


The critically acclaimed last Mistys album 'THE BLACK HOLE' is still available on There's A Riot Goin' On Records [Cat number - TRGCD002]
Buy the brand new albumFUNNY TIMES released on the band's own GRUMPY FUN RECORDINGS [Cat number - GRUMPYCD1] HERE

MISTYS BIG ADVENTURE
A glorious 8 piece band from Birmingham in the UK, made up of brothers and sisters and twins and saxophones and trumpets and cute, weird dancers who produce the most uplifting, life affirming tunes you will hear since Louie Armstrong played with the Lovin Spoonful.
Dave from The Zutons loves them, so much so that he invited them on tour, twice and we were invited to support The Magic Numbers, The Guillemots and The Pipettes last year
If you wish to purchase any bit of Misty's merchandise such as T Shirts, CD's or finger puppets, then the best thing you can do is get yourself down to the MISTY'S LITTLE SHOP
YOU CAN CHECK OUT THE VIDEO FOR 'FASHION PARADE' HERE
It was made by Mark Locke and his site features other Mistys' videos including THE STORY OF LOVE and HEY MAN plus
you can still check out the debut album
'The Solar Hi Fi System' released on SL Records
"....the feel good album of the year..." The Independent

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/10/2005
Band Website: mistysbigadventure.co.uk
Band Members: Grandmaster Gareth - boss, vocals, anything and everything, 7 o'clock shadow
Hannah Baines - trumpet, vocals, (real) boss. .
Lucy Bassett - keyboards, jane fonda. .
Lucy Baines - saxophone, vocals, finger puppet queen. .
Sam Minnear - drums, percussion, small man-big heart. .
Matt Jones - bass, german-speaking, nurse. .
Jon - guitar, legs, party marsupial, forgettable last name. .
Erotic Volvo - the soul, the vibe, the nicest monster in pop. .
Sid - supersub, super guy..

also plentiful gratitude to:

The PRS Foundation - Their generous donation, thank you.
Mark Locke - herculean video director, thank you.
Noisedeluxe Recordings - For releasing our records in Germany, danke
Influences: Raymond Scott and screwy jazz, Julian Cope, The Beatles, The Specials, Sly and the Family Stone, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Joe Meek , Can, all Kraut rock, hip hop, 60's psych and psychedelic music in general actually, if you don't minddddd
Sounds Like: no one and everyone
Record Label: Grumpy Fun Recordings
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Happy New Year....

"Do you want to play in Amsterdam on New Years Eve?" said Matt Dodgy, our long suffering manager. What would you say? We said "Yes!"So on the 30th of December, Guy Gaylard and his minibus appeared at ...
Posted by Mistys Big Adventure on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 01:27:00 PST

Yuletide Blog

The last two weeks have been spent slowly slipping back into normal life. We have some time off at the moment, which is something we haven't had since January. Normally I'd have started doing some mor...
Posted by Mistys Big Adventure on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:55:00 PST

Fashion Parade Tour - Grand Finale!

Last Tuesday, I woke up to find a text from a journalist who had interviewed me the week before. He was texting to let me know that both The Sun and The Daily Mirror in Scotland had done big articles ...
Posted by Mistys Big Adventure on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 08:18:00 PST

Fashion Parade Tour - Week Four

Still going strong! Just about. This week is a good example of when touring gets hard! We started all very well in Nottingham. The crowd were lovely and it was a pleasant evening. Unfortunately, this ...
Posted by Mistys Big Adventure on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 07:32:00 PST

FASHION PARADE SINGLE IS OUT NOW!

Our new single Fashion Parade is out now on download and 7" record. You can download it from iTunes, HMV and Tune Tribe and the record will be in all good record shops. The record has Fashion Parade f...
Posted by Mistys Big Adventure on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:26:00 PST

Fashion Parade Tour - Week Three

A mental week of touring! When you start booking gigs for a tour, you do your best to make sure you play a load of gigs close together so for example, if you're playing Manchester, then stay North! Un...
Posted by Mistys Big Adventure on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 01:11:00 PST

Fashion Parade Tour - Week Two

It's a day off!In week 2 of touring, the brain begins doing strange things. However you don't really notice until you have a day off and then you realise it's become quite difficult to talk! So as you...
Posted by Mistys Big Adventure on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 03:53:00 PST

Fashion Parade Tour - Week One

After what seems like the longest stint ever in the recording studio, it has been nice to finally get in a minibus and start playing live again. This week we played in Cambridge, Newcastle and Birming...
Posted by Mistys Big Adventure on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:25:00 PST

THE FASHION PARADE VIDEO IS UP!

Hello,Well despite legal problems due to The Teats trying to get the video withdrawn, we've finally been able to get it up on youtube. The address is .....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxZ-n4Is684and...
Posted by Mistys Big Adventure on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 06:03:00 PST

Mistys versus The Teats

It's all kicking off. It's finally dawned on The Teats that we were taking the mickey out of them. I should explain......The Teats played a gig with us a while ago. They were awful. They're friends wi...
Posted by Mistys Big Adventure on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 09:16:00 PST