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The Ambush

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The Ambush formed when five very different individuals met in Manchester and found a way to stop music from ever being boring again. Described as "The Bees with attitude" with a dangerous sound of psychedelic indie-dance sweetened with barbershop harmonies, expect a live set full of endless frenzied energy plus random instruments like saxes, mandolins and kazoos. The driving force of the lead singer Steve Noir resembles Ian Curtis writing an upbeat song and dancing like it's his birthday. No two songs are ever the same with these five unpredictable lads. The band's manic gigging schedule has won performances with classic bands such as The Beat and The Specials, with invitations to support new acts such as Pete and The Pirates and Alabama 3.Get Your Own back - the Ambush live


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Member Since: 12/5/2006
Band Website: Contact us at [email protected]
Band Members: Steve Noire - Singer/harmonica Nick Oram - Drums/bleeding fingers Tim Fanning - Guitar/backing vocals Lord Kitchener - Bass/keyboard/sax Lez Paul Dennis - Guitar (what else?)/backing vocals
Influences: Love, Beatles, Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, CSN, Moby Grape, Jefferson Airplane, Richie Havens, Captain Beefheart, Gram Parsons, Nuggets, 13th Floor Elevators, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Small Faces, U-Roy, Big Youth, The Melodians, The Paragons, Pere Ubu, Patti Smith, The Clash, Deaf School, Ian Dury, New York Dolls, Stooges, MC5, Pentangle, Sandy Denny, Donovan, Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan, Kevin Coyne, Wade Flemons, Wilson Pickett, Parliament, Sly Stone, The Beau Brummels, Muddy Waters, BB King, RL Burnside, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Skip James, Skip Spence, Slim Harpo, Slim Smith
Sounds Like: The bastard offspring of the Phil Spector and PJ Harvey. In a good mood, that is. Hammering drums, funked up bass, a singer who also writes novels and a guitarist with better hair than you or me. We had to genetically engineer him. Oh yeah, and a doctor on saxophone.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Indie

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Check out this video: Ambush Live at M Club

Check out this video: Ambush Live at M Club
Posted by on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:56:00 GMT

Check out this video: Ambush Live at M Club

This is The Ambush. Have a look Check out this video: Ambush Live at M Club
Posted by on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:41:00 GMT

Latest News

Hi,a lot to say. We are fresh from supporting the Beat in the M Club in Crewe. That was a great gig. You can see the video on myspace, or by cutting and pasting this into your address bar www.innerdar...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:07:00 GMT

The Ruby lounge - a home from home

A pleasure to be back at the Ruby, where it all began for us only last late December (not 1963.) Despite no sound check (who needs 'em t hese days?) the PA was strong, the stage roomy and the whisk ey e...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:23:00 GMT

The Road To V

we're now registered along with hundreds of other bands on The Road to V!Please march onto that website (www.roadtov.com) and search for The Ambush. Listen, rate and review and lets get us on that sta...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:31:00 GMT

The Ambush are Chorley FM’s BAND OF THE WEEK!!!!!

Oh yes! We have arrived!! The mighty mighty Chorley FM have been in contact and are featuring us as Band of the Week on Wednesday night’s Flat Iron Show. Stop taking the p1ss Peter Kay! Thanks a...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:55:00 GMT

Too Hungover Stuntmen

Well what can you say about the Retro gig? Bands were dropping like flies, including the Hungover Stuntmen, who must have crashed too violently + felt they needed to pull the ripcord. Boo hoo - I'm te...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:49:00 GMT

The Whitworth Rocks!!

The Whitworth had a festive atmosphere with Xmas lights, cosy Ale-fuelled chuckling punters and the best music in Manchester that night. I mean it - The Rise & Fall of the Rockets were in tow...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:36:00 GMT

March ever onwards, O my brothers!

The Dry Bar was it’s usual inhospitable self with no bar staff, too many Vman bands and a smell that had it’s own signature downstairs. Luckily we were upstairs, but this didn’t stop...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:32:00 GMT

Blueprint Recording 17.02.08

Yes thats right. The Ambush will be marching into Blueprint Studios in Salford to lay down some funky tracks beeaattcch!They'll be uploaded as soon as..........................we just keep marching on...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:08:00 GMT