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Cooties Attack!

About Me

"like an airfix kit put together by a six year old"

Cooties Attack are a bedroom disco punk band formed when Holly and Huw had nothing better to do other than write songs about superheroes, crushes, Harry Potter, and zombies.

Holly helped Huw with his library school homework. Or rather she made the cups of tea and pretended to understand cataloguing. Huw impressed her with his knowledge of more than one guitar chord. She gave up her supercasio way of life and they wrote a song and ate jaffa cakes and everything was ok in the world.

Melisa sang and played melodica with us for a while but she left to become a full time B Girl./P
Holly and Huw are also the magical wizard rock band Shrieking Shack Disco Gang.

We sing songs about superheroes, crushes, fragile egos, indiepop girls, Harry Potter, discos, queer scenes, and other such nonsense in a disco punk style. We do have a bunch of new songs, which we're gonna record once we can afford it this summer. and we've remembered how they go.

"iar “I’m Amazing” mi se pare una dintre cele mai bune ,,i mai distractive piese de pe luna asta" - Yeah!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 08/12/2006
Band Members:

Holly = keyboard + voice + handclaps + squib


Huw = guitar +voice + handclaps + muggle



Influences:

These things get our hearts racing... Cake, Discos, Rocking out, Bruce Campbell, Harry Potter, Batman, Irn Bru, the X-men, Varieties of Hummus sandwiches, Pancakes, Han Solo, zombies, Professor Lupin, Gore films, and copius amounts of loafing.

We also like these bands...

Yummy Fur, 14 Year Old Girls, Aislers Set, Best Fwends, The Bangs, Gene Defcon,Belle and Sebastian, Ash, Bis, Bikini Kill,Kimya Dawson,Harry and the Potters, Weezer, Gravy Train, Andrew WK, The Chicks, Urusei Yatsura, Green Day, Help She Can't Swim, Helen Love, Hidden Cameras, Hug Party, AC DC, Billy Bragg, Girlfriendo, Atari Teenage Riot, Town Bike, Puzzle, Kate Bush, Goxxip, Ste McCabe, Sleater Kinney, Dusty Springfield, Doris Day, Pete Green, Frumpies,Jonathan Richman, Jean Genet, The Specials, Zombina and the Skeletones, Mates of State, Public Enemy, The Organ, Camera Obscura, Draco and the Malfoys, The Cantina band, Atom and his package, The Icicles and Belle and Sebastian again cos Huw loves them so much

Huw supports Tranmere Rovers, Holly shouts for the Batley Bulldogs.


Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

If you make me a mix tape Ill be your friend

Huw did a bulletin reminding me that we actually have this myspace, I had completely forgotten about it! Cooties Attack are a lazy bunch, we've been on a massive break lately but are playing a gig as ...
Posted by on Mon, 26 May 2008 04:09:00 GMT

Revenge of the Cooties II

I always liked the fact that our band name sounds like the title of a monster B Movie which was nicely pointed out to us by Heena. I'm even happier than now we have reformed, the news of our renunion ...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 04:05:00 GMT

Londone

I had an AMAZING weekend. Trevlling on trains was fun. I set a new tetris record (175!) and started to read The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. Get me.London is far too exciting. I went to where Hol...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:19:00 GMT

London. England.

In the long list of "things that go wrong at Cootie gigs" me singing into a switched-off mic is pretty high up. What a dumbass! But anyway, we had a lovely time, hanging with the London Indie Kids...a...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:38:00 GMT

Princess Peach can go to hell

All is well in Cooties land.  Huw has been discovering new Hummus sandwiches and exploring the park opposite our house in the summer evenings looking for foxes and squirrels. I have been discover...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:49:00 GMT

We rock the party

So today we rocked the best can possibly rock despite my tendonitis in both wrists and arms (RSI - the ultimate geek affliction), and Huw's dislocated knee, because Cooties Attack are professional pun...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:02:00 GMT

We were rubbish on Thursday!

We went to see Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix. It was brilliant. We went to the Jamboree and saw Ste McCabe sing. He was wonderful. We went to the Jamboree and saw Puzzle play. They were aw...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:05:00 GMT

Wizards and Witches Muggles and Squibs!

Yesterday was the best! We went to Stockport and recorded our new record. Then we went to Toys R Us and I nearly bought a David Beckham but then lost the urge. Then we went home and ate far too much. ...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:11:00 GMT

Awesome with a captial AWESOME

Kimya Dawson is Awesome with a captial AWESOME. She rules,  I had so much fun playing last night. In fine Cooties tradition our sound wasn't too hot, I think this is our destiny from now on. Fate...
Posted by on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:32:00 GMT

Star wars facts and chips

Last night we played at Tears on the Golf  Course and it was all kinds of nice. Huw entertained me by reeling off all 50 billion new Star Wars facts he had learned that day, we got chips from Leo...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:34:00 GMT