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South Street

THE COMPANY YOU KEEP MEASURES WHO YOU ARE

About Me

South Street formed in the winter of 2004, booking their debut gig for February 2005. Two months to write a set. But their story goes back much further than that. Formed in the minds of five mates at school it wasnt until the resurgence of British guitar music following the late 90s lull that they decided to follow their instincts. The group, aged 20-24, make music theyd want to hear. Ten minute tuning sessions dressed up as guitar solos arent their thing.A flurry of well received gigs quickly saw the band gain a reputation as one of the most exciting live acts in the region. Fusing spiky guitars, flowing basslines and thumping drums the music absorbs the groups influences effortlessly without being a pale photocopy of anyone. Comparisons to other bands have been so wide-reaching and obscure as to make them obsolete. Support slots with Field Music, Little Man Tate, Test Icicles and Good Shoes followed.The band then locked themselves away in their practise room, studios cost money you know, aiming to produce a demo capable of capturing their live dynamic. The subsequent recording received much interest and airplay from, amongst others, Radio Newcastles Northern Uproar and lead to a successful live session with Utopia FM.Its far too simplistic when describing a band to merely list a stream of influences and look-a-likes rendering any first impressions tainted and irrelevant. Why do that? Britpop, punk, post-punk, pre-punk, rock, garage rock, garage punk, punk-rock, pub-punk-pre-rock-post-rock. You decide.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/17/2005
Band Website: myspace.com/southstreetmusic
Band Members: Michael Brunskill (Vocals) Ryan Quinn (Guitar and Vocals) Jon Sams (Lead Guitar) Anth Gallagher (Bass) Sean Connelly (Drums)
Influences:Anyone and anything. People we love, people we hate. Music? Ah. Britpop, punk, post-punk, pre-punk, rock, garage rock, garage punk, punk-rock, pub-punk-pre-rock-post-rock. You decide.
Sounds Like: South Street
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

South Street on film...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jIMK6uUCc_Q&feature=related  
Posted by South Street on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:43:00 PST

South Street playing Orange Evo...

We're on the Orange Evo, Newcastle College (in main Orange Evo entrance then on your left) stage this Monday. We'll be going onstage at 2.45pm exactly...come come come. Think Amber Souls are on j...
Posted by South Street on Wed, 23 May 2007 02:00:00 PST

South Street 2 (second profile)

Alreet,  Since you can only have up four songs on your profile at a time we and we've been a bit lax on updating our official site (www.southstreetmusic.co.uk) we have created www.myspace.com/s...
Posted by South Street on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 02:45:00 PST

South Street on Radio 1

Anyone hear Steve Lamacq's spotlight on Newcastle this week? We got bit of a play and bit of a mention. The fame has went to Ryan's head though and he'll only eat M&M's if we remove the blue ones....
Posted by South Street on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 03:11:00 PST

Some more new reviews.

Review/DV records compilation check South Street out at Contactmusic.com! South StreetIntroduction Ten years ago guitar music in Britain was unheard of and the five members of this Newcastle s...
Posted by South Street on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:07:00 PST

NME Review

Like Oasis having a stab at a Buzzcocks song, there's a riotous fever at play within the faux yob clatter of this Newcastle five piece that earmarks them out as a very good thing indeed, especially cl...
Posted by South Street on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 03:00:00 PST

gigs gigs and more gigs

MONDAY 27TH FEBRUARYContinuing our new policy of playing anywhere but our home city (not really intentional) we played out first ever gig in South Shields. About 80 people there or so, well done to Ph...
Posted by South Street on Thu, 05 Jan 2006 04:41:00 PST